(February 12, 2015 at 1:37 pm)Dystopia Wrote:(February 12, 2015 at 12:25 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Hitchens supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.Hitchens wasn't the wisest person in every subject. If I recall correctly he professed a pro-life stance once.
I think Hitchens, much like Harris, was very focused on fighting Islam to the point he took the theory that Islam is a supremacist movement very seriously. Don't get me wrong, terrorist groups are most certainly supremacists and want to impose Islam on the rest of the world, but I don't think the majority of Muslims, immigrant or not, want anything to do with that and probably just want a peaceful regular life.
Um no, if you watch enough of Hitchen's debates you know he isn't saying "God is Not Great" solely as an Islamic political movement. He has videos debating Jews and Christians.
No he was not right about everything. I didn't know about his pro life stance, never heard about that. But he certainly was wrong about supporting the Iraq war.
He was attacking Islam's current climate. But even with that he wanted the emancipation for the east the same way Jefferson and Paine gave rise to secular common law.
He never once advocated violence towards non violent fellow humans. He had plenty of theist friends of all stripes including Muslims. He had a love of humanity in the context that it saddened him to see so many worldwide giving protection to a very divisive concept and he simply wanted humans to stop giving religion a pass.
