under his party's control:
Posted on 11/19/2007 10:02:30 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
My new book What’s So Great About Christianity, just out, is already an amazon.com bestseller, a Wall Street Journal bestseller and No. 16 on the New York Times bestseller list. On Saturday C-Span broadcast my debate with God Is Not Great author Christopher Hitchens. Many people have commented that this is the best debate on the topic of Christianity v. Atheism that has yet been held. If you haven’t seen it, you can find the debate on my website dineshdsouza.com. Following the debate, AOL posted the video on its main page, and asked people to make up their minds and vote on who won. Modesty prevents me from disclosing the answer.
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, watched the debate and reported with some agitation that the audience seemed to be applauding more for me than for Hitchens. Dawkins commented on his website that the New York crowd must have been a "dopey" lot. But if you listen to the debate, you will see that both atheists and believers were well represented. The audience applause was initially stronger for Hitchens, and only as the debate went on did it trend markedly toward me. So is Dawkins suggesting that the audience was very intelligent to start with but became more "dopey" as the debate went on? More likely we are seeing evidence of the "Dawkins delusion," an unwillingness to use good sense and face facts when Dawkins' own belief system is called into question.
One of the most interesting questions in the debate was posed to Hitchens by a man from Tonga. Before the Christians came to Tonga, he said, the place was a mess. Even cannibalism was widespread...
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
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Filled the prisons.
LOL.
LOL again!
Given us congress.
Absolutely nothing that I know, except give Donahue some filler with angry evangelical atheists.
“The audience applause was initially stronger for Hitchens, and only as the debate went on did it trend markedly toward me.”
Evolution?
Choice of sparkplugs can obviously mean the difference between a reckless speeding DWI driver and a safe one.
Noooo. Does not follow.
Christianity is an entire car. Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, some politics. Atheism is just a sparkplug—metaphysics alone.
If you want to watch an EXCELLENT debate. Go to D’Souza’a website (address in article).
Hadn’t thought of it that way...Excellent point.
Its all nice and fine to argue that Christianity is better for people and society than Athiesm, but that says nothing about whether or not Christianity is true. There is at least one athiest here at FR that repeatedly posts that he/she is an athiest but wants society to be Christian because of the good that it does.
But Christianity is about individuals not societies, it is about each and every one of us making a decision to choose to have personal relationship with God. I think that Christian apologetics based on how good it is for society misses the point altogether. Even Athiests can believe in the “goodness” of Christianity.
I am glad Hitchens lost the debate, but I am not sure if Christianity won.
The Christianity car won’t run at all with Atheist “sparkplugs” in it.
Atheism put the state in charge of moral education. The result is nothing less than tragic: gay indoctrination, broken families, and the state raising children.
Atheism destroys liberty; isn't that obvious?
Ah my fave joke about Is there a God.
Scene set in a classroom.
Teacher tells students there is no way to prove their is a God and here is her reasoning.
She asks the students...
What color is the grass...green
What color is the sky.....Blue
What does God look like....don’t know if there is one as you can’t see him.
So one student anxiously waves her arm to be called on so the teacher gives the student the nod to go ahead.
His response was...
What color is the grass ....green
What color is the sky...blue
the kids were getting impatient then he asked How do we know if the teacher has a brain? We can’t see it.
Thanks for the ping!
Dinesh is spot on as far as sociological observation is concerned. But his writings are spiritually unsatisfying because they rest on a veneer of civilization that Christianity has left behind and is now in the process of rot. How if we were all Tongans? All Hindus? Not even that veneer would be present.
You’re not asking the right question. Atheism is pretty much ephiphenomenal. (Look up the word. It’s an important concept to understand.)
You should be asking “What have the causes for atheism done for us?”, and the answer there is, it depends very much on which cause we’re talking about.
God.
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