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hitchens.....

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, December 25 2013, 15:38:21 (UTC)
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...I just went down the list of some of the people Hitchens has debated religion with...and he is most famous for these kinds of debates.

They are all divines, that is, people who believe someone walked on water...I mean just that, just that belief alone should disqualify one from a debate that pretends to be about reason and logic...it can form the subject of a sermon...but a debate...really? How do you "debate" that? What evidence can you give that anyone can verify, or challenge, or even see? In reality, I don't think any of these performances qualify as debates.

Can you "debate" alchemy? Can you "debate" the shape of the earth...or where the sun goes at night? No. You just walk past the person who says the earth is flat...you can't have a debate with such a belief.

Would it be a debate if Hitchens went up against someone who believed in Zeus? Would he even bother? He would if everyone else believed in Zeus...but that still wouldn't be fit matter for a debate....in fact, that's precisely why he does so poorly in his debate with Galloway, because Galloway does bring in facts, which no priest can...and the odd thing is that in THIS debate, which is the only one I've seen that can fairly be called a debate, it is Hitchens who brings in the fairy dust, the faith-based beliefs that the war on Iraq will result in good things and "already has"...and that's why Hitch comes across so poorly, like you've never seen him before, because he is going up against REASON, logic and FACTS, and it's something new to him...this time HIS faith in neo-connism is the one being challenged and he sputters and mutters and mumbles and goes off on tangents and calls on smoke and mirrors, like any wonder-medicine selling peddler.....

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