Comments on: God IS Great: The Arrogance of Christopher Hitchens

By: Religulous? Really? « Kreitsauce’s Musings

Religulous? Really? « Kreitsauce’s Musings — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:33:34 +0000

[...] that Bill Maher’s film takes the comedic route to the same destination as Christopher Hitchens’ God is Not Great. In his book, Hitchens says that religion is “violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism [...]

By: Nitwit Nastik

Nitwit Nastik — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:38:22 +0000

@Kreit

I have never met hitchens in person and probably never will but whatever I have seen of him from debates on youtube, I agree with you that Hitchens does come off as arrogant and his comments are often distasteful. Although I would say the same thing of a few evangelists and christain apologists also – people like dinesh dsouza and pat robertson

However, I don’t see his arrogance as grounds to reject his opinion neither the opinion of dinesh. Pat robertson though is another story

Btw when are you going to hear him speak.

I plan to write a post on atheist morality sometime in the next few months (when i get to it, that is ) and I will send you the link to see what you think of it.

@Phillipa

It seems a constant repitition of Christains to blame atheists for killing milliions when they conveniently ignore the millions christians have killed. The USA with it’s christian values dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and nagasaki and killed 220,000 on the first few days not to mention the thousands killed later as a consequence. The american civil war between christian killed approx 620,000 people. The first world war between christian nations killed approx. 15 million…these are just a few examples and we can find more evidence if you want..so if you admit that atrocities have been committed in god’s name and also by people who didn’t believe in God..how is believing in God a better position to avoid future mass destruction?

“scientists have made incredible discoveries and can still praise their creator:”

I think hitchens is allowed to have his personal opinion just as many scientists have ther personal opinion in spite of the fact that majority of nobel laureates are atheists or agnostics.

Btw if going by your logic, I am sure you would agree that god is the reason people commit crimes because a 1997 survey of the federal bureau of prisons found only 0.21% of inmates to be atheists.

But I know that would be a wrong and unfair conclusion.

By: kreitsauce

kreitsauce — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:38:45 +0000

Philippa,
I thought it was also odd that Hitchens said that he would be happy to leave the faithful to burn down each others’ place of worship, yet he ignored the fact that those dictators you mentioned in your post went out of their way to wipe out churches. Apparently not all atheists think the same.

Thanks for the comment!

By: Philippa

Philippa — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:29:50 +0000

Yes, atrocities have been committed in God’s name, but also look at what people have done when trying to eliminate God – Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong-il, just to name a few. Millions and millions killed in an effort to deny religion. It’s not God at fault, it’s human nature.

And if Hitchens finds “scientific discoveries “more awe-inspiring than the rantings of the godly” “, he probably missed the fact that many noted scientists have made incredible discoveries and can still praise their creator: Copernicus, Sir Francis Bacon, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Isaac Newton, Boyle, Faraday, Mendel, Kelvin, Planck, and Einstein (while never coming to actual faith, he recognized the impossibility of a non-created universe).

I agree with you, that God IS great. It’s just a good thing He doesn’t need us to prove it.