Christopher Hitchens on Mortality
"To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?"
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"To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?"
The late Christopher Hitchens had no shortage of objections to Christianity. But he reserved special contempt for hell — a doctrine he believed reduced faith to fear and the divine...
Caught on video in the back of a car, in which he was riding with pastor Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens said this about himself and his fellow atheists. Source
Christopher Beha, Washington Post Twenty-five years ago, I decided, in the self-conscious manner of late adolescence, to live my life as a skeptic. Having given up the Catholic fa...
Like an architect whose buildings fall down or a scientist whose drugs don't work, the Blair creature has lost any standing from which to criticise anybody or advise us to do anyth...
NotALot: Religion being humanity’s most disruptive force Humanity is humanity’s most disruptive force. But if you want to frame the discussion in terms of what leads us to kill...
NotALot: Religion being humanity’s most disruptive force Humanity is humanity’s most disruptive force. But if you want to frame the discussion in terms of what leads us to kill...
SOME very good journalism this week, as well as some of the other sort. Charles Glass has been reporting from the Lebanon for 50 years now. In that time, he has watched the country...
Selles: His enquiring mind is not in dispute. I didn’t suggest it was.
I have a visceral shudder-reaction to seeing Russell Brand's face, somehow always at the intersection of agape and rumpled like stitlskin
Most religious people seem in agreement that these ultra-Christian/Jewish/Muslims aren’t typical of their religions, but nevertheless it’s their extreme beliefs that are determinin...
Most religious people seem in agreement that these ultra-Christian/Jewish/Muslims aren’t typical of their religions, but nevertheless it’s their extreme beliefs that are determinin...
Kathleen Stock, UnHerd "I have always had an inner and unaccountable conviction that any religious expression of truth, however bizarre or uncouth, is more sufficing than any secu...
Porridge: which is everyone who isn’t a Muslim. Nonono, ahl al kitāb remember. True enmity is reserved for the būtparast etc. Which translation of the Qur’an did you read? It’s...
vero: it’s egregious to tar all Muslims with one brush just as much as all Christians Jews Hindus Buddhists etc. I like your post because of that, amidst a volley of ‘god has [p...
Top officials in the US government should be asking themselves what to do about Trump, whose recent behaviour suggests he may not be 'entirely with us', Hitchens argued.
I REMEMBER quite vividly Daniel Dennett’s voice when he assured me that, soon, no one could care whether computers were conscious; we sat in his car one evening in the spring of 20...
A ‘Christian Atheist’ joins Ross Douthat.
I WAS sitting in the GP’s surgery nerving myself for a routine blood test. Tedious. Desultorily, I picked up a glossy magazine without much lively expectation of finding anything t...
In the post–Civil War era, writes law professor Green, a “freethought” movement swept across the United States. It was never quite coherent, with many strains of dissent advocating...
Carl Trueman's latest book, The Desecration of Man, offers a powerful diagnosis of what's wrong with our culture. Can religious faith pull us back from the brink?
When Russell Brand published his 2007 memoir, "My Booky Wook," I bought it with no particular expectations. The lanky provocateur from Essex was already famous for his drug-addled,...
NOW that it seems the world has been rebooked from the Apocalypse Express on to the Apocalypse Replacement Bus Service, there is a moment in which to write about things of lasting...
I could say more on the subject, but much of it is in this fantastic conversation — "the toughest debate I've ever had," as Halper graciously says at the end. Source
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