RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
August 17, 2019 at 8:43 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2019 at 8:44 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Quote:What arguments or facts does Hitchens use to back this up?
The fact than human existence predates religion. This is a hard fact, and is not subject to reasonable objection. The notion that humans existed for tens of thousands of years and did not grasp that murder, theft, perjury, and so on were wrong prior to the advent (no pun intended) of religion doesn't warrant serious consideration.
As for the rest of your post, being a journalist and being a scholar are not mutually exclusive propositions.
Hitchens wrote more than one book on religion, so it would be helpful to know to which book (and which errors) you are referring.
I agree that Hitchens was wrong about Iraq - I disagree with a lot of his political positions, but that has no bearing on his critiques of religion.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson