Christopher Hitchens vs Doug Wilson on Dennis Miller [3 of 4]

[mokenkeke]

I think human decency would order us to still be civilized, productive and caring, even if we new that within 1000 years our species will cease to exist. We are graceful, communal and very powerful. Would you chose to degrade your quality of life just cause you know your life might end soon?

[libertarianjury]

Mother Theresa preyed on the mental weakness of the poor, and set up a "home for the dying" in Calcutta, in the place of actual hospitals and medical treatment. She used the immense sums of money directed to her, not to build modern medical treatment facilities, but to erect new nunneries so that young women's senses could be blinded to reason. ...How immensely evil!

[emuholic]

douglas wilson is a very wealthy & ignorant man

[alphacause]

The first caller obviously hasn't encountered any atheists who actually think about their position, and are who well versed in the philosophy. Atheism, in its most basic form isn't the contention that we can KNOW that there is no God, or that we can disprove God. Rather atheism is the position that we have no reason to believe in God because no convincing reasons have been proffered by the apologists. In other words we are NOT proving a universal negative. It is the default position.

[salvatos1]

@alphacause

Your run of the mill everyday atheist is not a philosopher - anymore than your average religious person is.

Most atheists walking around are hardly agnostic - they positively state that there is no God. That is what the caller was addressing.

Atheists who take the tack of Hitchens are obviously on much more solid rational grounds.

[tattypatty]

the last 10 seconds this is insulting as fuck to me.

[cfibb]

I'm with you on that. What a rotund load of shite Pastor Wilson attempts to square by "metaphoricalizationing".

[rollsthepaul]

God exists but is completely unrepresented on Earth. Christopher is absolutely correct about the false nature of all Earth religions. Earth religions were created by our oppressors to divide us, control us, confuse us and prevent our engagement in critical thinking.

[CognosSquare]

Its certainly been used that way. But it would get created anyway I think. We all know a douchebag who would start telling semi-delusional crap just be suddenly elevated and important.