(February 20, 2015 at 10:15 am)Dystopia Wrote: Brian I agree, and let me add this:
Whats worse is that theists think his bluntness was a form of bigotry when it really was his love for humanity that he knew humans were much more capable than the bad logic they employ to justify such absurdities.
Sometimes there really is no polite way to tell someone else they got it wrong. Hitchens, if theists and even PC atheists would study his history and views it was hate of bad logic, not hate of his fellow human beings. He was merely cold water on the face of bad logic. Nothing more than "HEY WAKE UP".
He had a long history of travel and friends in all religions worldwide, but the one thing he insisted on from his believing friends is not for anyone to expect him to sugar coat what he thought of their claims.
He is a boon to the value of reason, a very Jeffersonian view in lack of fear of questioning anything and everything.