Christopher Hitchens vs Al Sharpton 'Debate' - The Persistance of Religion

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[SardonicSkeptic]

Sharpton needs to be euthanized.

[ArchhereticK]

Wow Sharpton is vacuous and self-righteous. And talks so slowly. Goddam.

[Georgemikejus]

Hitch foreshadowing, "why did the best guy I know get cancer of the throat"?

[gnossticc]

@jimmydaneable Also, the reality that there are tons of things we do not understand and perhaps may never will understand are present everywhere. our own bodies are a mystery in many respects to science...can you imagine daring to make final judgements about what's out there? Einstein didn't make any vague and empty arguments, he was smarter than you and I together.

[jimmydaneable]

@gnossticc

I hope you realize that being a scientist doesn't make anyone an expert on the supernatural, or even on morality. I hope you can understand this and stop making vague and empty arguments.

[jimmydaneable]

@gnossticc

It took you two days, and many posts to "clearly state" anything. Congratulations.

Newton believed in god because he was a superstitious human being. Newton was a brilliant scientist, but dead wrong in certain areas: ie, he believed in alchemy. Your implication that "Newton believes, so it must be true/ good" is a logical fallacy called argument from authority. Newton is no more an authority on the supernatural than anyone else.

[jimmydaneable]

@gnossticc Einstein's distaste for bigotry makes no case for the validity of religion.

I despise belief systems that pretend to have answers when they really don't-- that includes most religions, but also irresponsible scientists.

I haven't twisted your words; your words were simply too vague to make a cogent point.

[gnossticc]

@jimmydaneable Google "Einstein Quotes on Atheism & Freethought" Read number 7.

I hope you finally understand and stop twisting my words.

[gnossticc]

@jimmydaneable There is also a quote by Einstein: "The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer."

Actually I'm not crusading for religion, in fact I dispise the hypocrisy in churches like Benny Hinn, or in the catholic church. In fact those things happened during christ's life. Science is not a solution per se. I hope you stop twisting my words. Science can also mean utter destruction in the wrong hands. Ask Nazi scientists.

[gnossticc]

@jimmydaneable No, I clearly stated that "Science is not our greatest tool but morality, something that many scientits do not have, else Einstein would've developed his theories furthering the creation of the atom bomb without any qualms regarding the consequences. Science is not moral by itself. Now, why do you think Newton believed in God?

[jimmydaneable]

@gnossticc

Actually, you implied it. I'm sorry you can't seem to communicate your thoughts effectively, but that's your own failing, not mine.

Einstein himself corrected your misconception in writing. He specifically wrote that he did not have a religion, or a belief in a personal god, and that people were misrepresenting that quote. He used "religion" as a metaphor for human philosophy: wonderment, curiosity, and goodness.

[gnossticc]

@jimmydaneable You are a book-case of air-headedness. Did I say that the US are the ggod guys? What I've sais by implication is that the US should get out his butt out of the middle east before anything really big happens!

Google this "einstein science without religion is lame" This is an explanation coming from a great scientists, in fact one of the most enlightened minds in scientific thought.