RE: Critique of "God is Not Great" by Christoper Hitchens
January 24, 2016 at 2:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 2:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 24, 2016 at 7:15 am)phil-lndn Wrote: Can you please give me an argument for your truth claim that "Rationality is no cure for religiosity".-it's an observation, not an argument
And (if not rationality) what is the cure for religiosity, how have people managed to step beyond it?
And you seem to be arguing that Christopher thinks that Religion is a symptom of low levels of development ('low levels of development poison everything'), whereas I thought his argument was that religion was actually at cause here? ('religion poisons everything')
Which one causes which?
-"people" haven't
-turtles all the way down.
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