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Sunday 21 November 2010

(1/2) Part One. Christopher Hitchens on ABC1 Lateline.

2 comments:

  1. You don't debate creationists. You laugh at them and make fun of how they believe in a fairy tale in order to comfort themselves as they approach death.
    Creationists are proof of no intelligent designer... No creator would make people so stupid.

    I'm convinced there is no god, never was. None can prove his existence...I now can say I'm spiritually and mentally 100% free to evolve as an induvidual...and GOD it feels great..

    I don’t like the idea of a father who never goes away, a king who cannot be deposed, a judge who does not allow a lawyer, jury or appeal. No Thanks.
    I don't have to accept or even believe in the superstitions of a bunch of bronze age goat herders, living on their flat world with their imaginary "friend"

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  2. The teachings of Christianity are immoral. The central one is the most immoral of all, that is the one of vicarious redemption: You can throw your sins onto somebody else, vulgarly known as scapegoating. In fact, originating as scapegoating in the same area, the same desert. We can't take your sins away because we can't abolish your responsibility and we shouldn't offer to do so. Your responsibility has to stay with you. There's no vicarious redemption, in fact there is no redemption at all.

    If we didn't have a social dimension - a bonding one - we wouldn't survive. We'd have gone by now. We wouldn't have made it out of Africa. The question is self-answering. You could call this morality if you want, but it's only really necessary to recognize that we have a kinship and solidarity and without it we're gone.
    Morality can't be dictated to us. It doesn't come in tablet form that we can swallow.
    Don't take that as a gift; look at it as the poison chalice that it is. Much more truth and beauty and wisdom will come your way if you do.

    Why do whales have hind leg bones? Because God wanted to test our faith in intelligent design with evidence for evolution.?

    Science flys people to the moon! Religion flys people into buildings!!

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