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To: Mikey_1962
I doubt he chose the man for his religious views, but rather his training skill and success as a physician.

Hitchens said religion "poisons everything". "Everything" includes physicians and medicine.

54 posted on 03/28/2011 9:28:54 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Hitchens said religion "poisons everything". "Everything" includes physicians and medicine.

Evidently you have little experience with hyperbole.

It is the rhetorical use of exaggeration for effect.

Your argument would make him anti-science because he is anti-religion.

This makes no logical sense.

56 posted on 03/29/2011 4:57:36 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President. He's shovel ready!)
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