[Blue Highway]

Is this the same author that wrote “No One Left To Lie To”?

[Vision Thing]

Hitchens is terribly intolerant.

[padre35]

Narcissim is never a pretty thing to see, Hitchens falls upon the idea that somehow Atheism demands morality, or even common decency of it’s adherents, and that is simply not true, Atheism fills mass graves and cemeteries faster then any other philosophy of mankind that has ever been created.

God is indeed Great, it is mankind that is not.

[DaveTesla]

“infinite value of every human life”

The Rabbi is spot on.

The difference between the atheist / communist world
and the Judeo Christan world.

Here is what sets most totalitarian from Democratic society’s apart.

The communists have no respect for human life.
The Islamists appear to have even less.

[joebuck]

"Prof. Bently Glass, who suggested that the notions of good and evil be completely divorced from their moral connotations and redefined as what is good or bad for the development of a species?"

How do you know what is "good or bad for the species" without a definition of good or bad yet? In any event, "what is good or bad for the development of the species" is ultimately a philosophical question, incapable of being quantified. This is a pretty poor attempt to define good and evil.

[tdewey10]

Arthur Allen Leff >> Hitchens.

Atheists never consider the ethical and moral implications of a godless world. God provides the moral center to the Universe (along with everything else ;) )

[sirchtruth]

Unfortunately Atheist, because they are biblically illiterate by definition, can not possibly understand the spiritual element which is required to know God.

In other words they're totally blinded by their own arrogant willful ignorance.

[Zionist Conspirator]

When I saw the title of this article I thought I would find a response to Hitchens by Rabbi Danile Lapin or perhaps Rabbi 'Aryeh Spero. But Smuley Boteach??? I'm absolutely flabbergasted!

I've never been a big Shmuley Boteach fan. He's been "Michael Jackson's rabbi," has written a book on "kosher sex," and at one time attacked Fundamentalist Protestantism as having absolutely nothing in common while co-authoring a book with a "new age" personality on how much Judaism and the "new age" allegedly do have in common (in fairness, he later came to praise Fundamentalist Protestants for their defense of Biblical morality).

Boteach is a maverick, and I'm still not going to join his fan club (I suspect he's still going to come out of left field a lot). But I'll tell you this much: my opinion of him just when up a great deal!

For taking this stand, yeyasher kochakha, Shmuley Boteach!

[batmast]

“When a Man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.” -G.K. Chesterton

“I Don’t Believe in Atheists.” -Chris Hedges

[onedoug]

Hugh Hewitt recently hosted the Great God Debate between Hitchens and Mark D Roberts.

I was amazed that when science came up neither of them knew enough to be able to discuss it at any level.

That's a shame because this is where Hitchens' arguments break down.

Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay W Richards, The Privileged Planet

[tumblindice]

I’m reading his book now. Finished the intro. and the first chapter. It’s very good so far, as good as his `Why Orwell Matters’.
But his photo in the back could be a lot better. He looks slightly demented, or maybe it’s just a `lazy eye’.

[Christian4Bush]

bttt

[GiovannaNicoletta]

bookmark for later

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..Whereas the Bible establishes the infinite value of every human life, healthy or diseased, no less an authority than Francis Crick, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of DNA, suggested that babies should be considered alive only two days after birth, during which time they could be examined for defects. If defects were found that were sufficiently deleterious, the infant could presumably be eliminated with impunity because it had not yet become alive..."

This is horrific, but not much different from partial birth abortion. If one takes a purely logical and not spiritual and religious view of life a lot of people will need to die as a matter of convenience and efficiency and it does not take a Hitler to start the process.

[TypeZoNegative]

*Yawn* More logically fallacious “proofs” of Christianity’s superiority over “Evolutionism”. Let’s not forget that Christianity before Darwin held “Darwinistic” beliefs.