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the Faith of Hitchens

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, November 5 2014, 15:09:42 (UTC)
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In almost all of his debates he distinguishes the scientific position as being evidence-based, not faith-based....scientists believe things they can test, things they see proof of....they don't engage in "wish-thinking"...and I agree with that position...which is the reason it's so shocking to realize that his views on the rosy future of Iraq, the welcoming with flowers of American soldiers, the new freedoms in an Iraq of the future and his ignoring of the actual facts of previous American wars and occupations against Dark People strike me as entirely faith-based...not a faith in god but faith in what Bush will accomplish...and based on what?

What actual evidence was there that America was going to war because of weapons of mass destruction? When the UN teams found nothing Hiitchens and other neo-cons engaged in the "wish-thought" that the weapons had been buried, or removed to Syria for safe-keeping, a complete wish as there was no evidence for it, just the "wish" that it might be true...."we'll find them when we get there", was the next wish-statement, which turned out also to be false and based on no evidence....like the existence of heaven, another wish but one which Hitchens doesn't share.

And then the mission changed to one of saving the Iraqi people, another wish-statement Hitchens put forward, again with no evidence....when did America go anywhere and spend billions to save anyone, except its own power class? And this wish-statement was made in the face of actual evidence that America was directly responsible for the murder of over 700,000 Iraqi babies...something Saddam, the man we were going to save those babies from, never did anything even close to...Iraqis had to be saved from AMERICANS...that's what all the evidence showed.

Hitchens, it turns out, had tremendous faith and engaged in wish-thinking of his own, not in religion and gods but in political leaders and their standard lies and pretexts, of which there are mountains of hard evidence...he turns out to hardly be qualified to rail against "faith-based" nonsense..and the same can be said, sadly, about Dawkins and Harris...they had nothing BUT faith in the "goodness" and "rightness" of American foreign policy.

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