RE: Critique of "God is Not Great" by Christoper Hitchens
January 24, 2016 at 1:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 1:38 pm by phil-lndn.)
(January 24, 2016 at 1:13 pm)robvalue Wrote: No, I don't know what you're talking about. Sorry.
I'm relaying a story. I'm asking if the story is true or not, in that did the events I described actually happen, or not?
We can learn about my motivations, perhaps. But that's not what I'm asking. It doesn't undermine what you've said if you just say my story is true, which is what you've been saying of all stories.
OK I can see from what you've reflected back at me that nothing I said made any sense .
I'm not sure if i can help very much, other than say that if any of this sounds even vaguely interesting I suggest getting into posmodern philosophy and psychology.
(January 24, 2016 at 1:18 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(January 24, 2016 at 12:55 pm)phil-lndn Wrote: OK, although I do like to keep my opinions facts-based, so with respect, rather than simply believing what you say is true, my opinion on whether or not I am "swinging at nothing" will be decided the basis of how much defensive behaviour shows up in this thread.
Actually I do think most who have posted have handled the challenge pretty well, but I think it would be incorrect to say that there has been zero defensive behaviour on this thread.
I'm sorry, I think you misunderstood what I meant by 'swinging at nothing,' or maybe I wasn't clear. Of course there will be some atheists here who will take a defensive position in regards to your specific post. There may be some atheists here who hate Hitchens and agree with you. There may be some who don't have an opinion one way or the other because they haven't read the book.
My point is, whether or not your critique of GING is founded has no bearing on the position of atheism in general. In other words, we don't worship atheist books or authors in the same way theists worship holy books, so criticizing one particular book about atheism is NOT a take down of atheism as a position. Hopefully I have cleared things up!
OK, although as mentioned I'll be making my own mind up on that. I don't just take people's word for things, I'm more concerned with building fact-based opinions than taking things on faith.
