RE: Does religion corrupt morality?
September 4, 2015 at 12:01 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2015 at 12:01 pm by Ben Davis.)
(September 4, 2015 at 10:29 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: Boy I sure wish I could hear that better. Anyone know a way to get more volume on a lap top (Mac).
*rough transcript of important bits
Hitchens' point: Religious doctrine makes otherwise good people do wicked things. Circumcision (genital mutilation) is his example.
Rabbi Harold Kushner Wrote:"Christopher, I've gotta call you down on referring to circumcision as genital mutilation. My son cried more at his first haircut than he did at his Bris!"
*some audience laughter
"...and statistically, the only long-term effect that it seems to have upon people is that it increases their chances of winning a Nobel Prize!"
*more laughter
Christopher Hitchens Wrote:"I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humour in that way. Or flippancy in that way...
...(circumcision) can be life threatening. We have the records, I can show them to you, of hundreds and hundreds, in the United States, of boy babies who've died or had life-threatening infections as a result of this disgusting practice. That a person as humane as yourself can sit here and think of that as a fit subject for humour shows what I mean. Religion makes morally normal and decent people say and do disgusting and wicked things!"
Sum ergo sum
