Comments on: A Condensed, Illustrated Argument Against Religion by Christopher Hitchens

By: Carl M

Carl M — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:07:16 +0000

Of course I meant it’s hard to argue that people have NOT done great damage in the name of religion …

By: Carl M

Carl M — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:07:00 +0000

Of course I meant it’s hard to argue that people have NOT done great damage in the name of religion …

By: Carl M

Carl M — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:51:34 +0000

Obama’s speech that you posted recently is a great rebuttal to the last bit of this. Hitchens is incredibly cynical (I saw him in a debate in Madison, WI years ago — he’s a brilliant speaker, but incredibly full of himself [Rumsfeldian arrogance] and incredibly cynical). He (Hitchens) implies here that religion prevents us from being what we can be as a species. While it’s hard to argue that people have done great damage in the name of religion, I think it goes FAR too far to imply that religion prevents us from reaching our full height as a species.

By: Carl M

Carl M — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:51:00 +0000

By: ncloud

ncloud — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:43:11 +0000

Absolutely. Many of his arguments are conclusions I came to after being steeped in Christianity for 20+ years. One thing to keep in mind though is that there are Christians who reject terrible doctrines like original sin, the omni-attributes of god, retributive atonement, etc. Before I left the faith, I joined their camp, but I soon realized that they were just trying to keep their Christianity and be honest with their own consciences.

By: ncloud

ncloud — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:43:00 +0000