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A Tribute To Christopher Hitchens - The Anti-Theist
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RE: A Tribute To Christopher Hitchens - The Anti-Theist
July 2, 2012 at 6:57 pm (This post was last modified: July 2, 2012 at 6:59 pm by Tempus.)
FallentoReason Wrote:One can't wish for something to be so and simultaneously be relieved that it isn't so. If anything, that's a false sense of humility towards the truth, if that makes sense.

I think you missed the 'but' in the original quote Big Grin

"A noted critic of religion and a self described "anti-theist", he [Hitchens] said that a person [i.e., someone other than Hitchens] "could be an atheist and wish that belief in external gods were correct", but that "an antitheist, a term I'm trying to get into circulation, is someone who is relieved that there's no evidence for such an assertion."

Atheist = someone who could want theism to be true.
Antitheist = is glad theism isn't true.

I think that's what it's getting at.
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RE: A Tribute To Christopher Hitchens - The Anti-Theist - by Tempus - July 2, 2012 at 6:57 pm

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