This is pathetic. I’ve never seen anyone run away from backing up their claims in such a silly fashion. The fact that you won’t provide evidence for your claim that Hitchens was a “dishonest man”, proves that you are a liar and a coward.
Trying to change the subject again, I see. As a refresher, the issue was your absurd claim that Hitchens was “never dishonest”. This is a claim that spans his entire career as a “public intellectual”. It also involves a multitude of intellectual sins.
You evidently have no idea that Hitchens was once a Marxist and a Trotskyite. If you had any familiarity with those systems of thought, you would know that adherents have a “novel” concept of truth; namely, the “truth” is whatever serves the struggle, which is to say that they completely reject “bourgeouis” conceptions of “truth.”
What is your concept of truth? If you think a Marxist theory of “truth” is legitimate, then that might partly explain your postings. Of course, Hitchens later moved to some degree toward a more bourgeouis theory of truth, raproachment with capitalism, and abandonment of anti-colonialism, much to the consternation of his Marxist friends who accused Hitchens of selling out for fame and fortune.
That apart, here is Hitchens from his intellectually dishonest God is Not Great: ““Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.”
Here Hitchens is mainly taking a swipe at Christianity, his bete noir. The statement is obviously false with respect to Christianity, and Hitchens knows it to be false. The authors of the NT, for example, again and again state clearly that they are presenting evidence so that others may believe. Hitchens was entitled to reject the evidence, but he is not entitled to say that Christianity ASKS us to believe things without evidence.
This sort of distortion, along with omissions, exaggerations, and smears were a great deal of Hitchens’ stock-in-trade. For those familiar with his ideological haunts, the techniques are obviously the residue of his Marxist/Leninist allegiances.
While Hitchens gave up on socialism as an economic system about 10 years ago, he never, to my knowledge, stopped admiring Marxist theory or stopped thinking of Lenin and Trotsky as “great” men.
I can’t wait to hear from you again. I am coming to enjoy your spittle-flecked rants.
Bless your heart.