Posted on 07/25/2007 10:09:05 AM PDT by Thorin
If he’s so smart, why did he dangle that preposition?
You try being 16 years old and ordered to join the Hitlerjugend or be forced to leave school. Fortunately a sympathetic professor entered him on paper and he didn't attend meetings. He was eventually drafted towards the end of the war (like everyone else over the age of 12) but deserted. Would you have had the nerve to desert and risk execution? I doubt it.
Guess you didn't know that BXVI's father was a notable anti-Nazi who was persecuted and forced to leave town for his beliefs?
People never seem to tire of spreading lies about Catholics.
The evil Nazis proudly exterminated people by the inhuman and ghastly practice of withholding food and water until death occurred.............the Demonrats proudly exterminated Terry Schiavo by the inhuman and ghastly practice of withholding food and water until death occurred........
Terry was not brain-dead, not on a respirator, could swallow water and soft foods, could stay in a chair for extended periods without being strapped in, and could recognize people and display emotions...............
He said that in a recent interview at the Atlantic, which is online.
I too admired Hitchens writtings on the WOT.
I quit being a fan so much when I heard him say Bob Hope wasn’t funny.
Has Hitchens appeared in public with a gay lover yet?
mark
Excellent article. I put the mag it came from in my favorites.
One comment in the article caught my eye: “The twenty fifth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel is a more effective spur to charity than is Kant’s categorical imperative, much less a belief that human life is nothing more than a biological accident. Indeed, although Hitchens does not admit it, widespread charity was unknown in the classical world.”
I was struck a year or so ago when I learned that the Hindu belief in Karma did not lead to charity — it is the reverse. They feel that they interfere with that person’s Karma if they give to them; “it is their karma, I must not interfere” sort of reasoning. They must work out their own Karma. Just an interesting little tidbit regarding how easy it is to put your own cultures assumptions into play when dealing with another culture.
The Mayor of Ft. Lauderdale says not to use the term gay, because most homosexuals are dreadfully unhappy.
Hitchens isn’t really worse than Kant in many respects. He’s just Kant without the vocabulary.
atheist is short for autotheist
Such hatred often comes from persons who are under conviction for their sins. He’s not an unbeliever. He is trying to convince himself that he will not go to hell. The right person could probably reach this man. I pray that he will have a Damascus Road encounter with Christ.
Hitchens isn’t really worse than Kant in many respects. He’s just Kant without the vocabulary.
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Or the intellectual horsepower of Kant to think through a problem . . . Hitchen’s thinks highly of his own intellect but it is cleverness, connections, not deep thought, and he doesn’t check his facts carefully.
Well, facts can be somewhat inconvenient...
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“Mother Teresa spent her entire life trying to make that impossible. I would say that millions of people are much worse off for her efforts. On an Irish radio show on a recent Sunday morning, I said, “I wish there was a hell for the bitch to go to.”
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Ah, the deep thinker and moral paragon of athiesm! Hitchen’s has been blessed with discernment by the god “random chance” . . .
What a hideous thing to write. It is even worse than if he said it. This was written, re-written, checked by an editor, and then published.
Not exactly Voltaire is it? I fear for the civilization which considers this man an intellectual.
I wouldn’t ordinarily read a book like this, but I just might in this case because it sounds like it would be good for more than a few laughs. Kind of an ink and paper banana peel.
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