(April 13, 2020 at 10:47 pm)Belacqua Wrote: So Hitchens attacks the easiest possible version of some big amorphous thing called "religion," which he never defines. He takes the worst examples, which anyone who reads books already hates.
Really, everyone already hated Mother Theresa?
You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Hitchens completely debunked Mother Theresa, he wiped the floor with William Lane Craig and so on, and all his clueless critics have to say is "he is just a journalist".
Mother Theresa is now the worst example of religion, as you say, but she wasn't back when Hitchens started unmasking her.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
