RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
August 17, 2019 at 7:22 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2019 at 7:48 am by Belacqua.)
(August 17, 2019 at 7:14 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'All human values are derived from humanism and its perspective that the improvement of the human condition is the loftiest, most noble goal to which we can aspire. All values claimed to have originated from religions have, in fact, been hijacked from humanism.' - Hitchens
Boru
You'd like to believe that. But it's not true.
Since Hitchens made the assertion, he has the burden of proof. (I realize that anti-religion statements on this forum usually carry no burden of proof, but let's pretend.) What arguments or facts does Hitchens use to back this up?
His book on religion is so full of factual errors that it could never pass even the most casual peer review. He was not a scholar, he was a popular journalist.
Thinking people do not become fanboys, and only fanboys take Hitchens seriously. He was wrong about the Iraq war and other political positions, when others were right.
It's amazing that anybody even remembers him.