Critique of "God is Not Great" by Christoper Hitchens

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I want to ask why we should not mock and ridicule the beliefs of others, and what interest any of us should have in sharing a planet with people who are prepared to blow themselves up to appease their imaginary friend? You call the enlightenment obsolete, and perhaps there are elements of enlightenment thinking that are, but when was the last time you saw an 18th century humanist blow themselves up for their art? Or indeed a 21st century egalitarian behead someone? As Cato asks above, why is it obsolete? Why is a movement that effectively gave rise (along with some Protestant reforms) to the modern west obsolete?

I agree we all live on the same planet, and ideally we should all get along. But why should we sacrifice our values to appease those who would subscribe to a quasi-primordialist perspective of world politics and social constructs?

As a constructivist, I reject that even being a 'thing' mind. I view the current instability in certain areas of the world as the result of poor mismanagement from a variety of world players and, it must be said, the inherent skill some people have to capitalize on a poor situation to make themselves greater at the expense of those with nothing to lose anyway.