Christopher Hitchens April 5, 2011

Letter From Chtistopher Hitchens April 22, 20011
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[theruler901]

@itsyoboydj No, he won "like every debate". Shame on you for being a slave to a falsehood.

[Arkalius80]

@Gericho49 "Judeo-Christianity" is a made up term to try to hide the centuries-long persecution of Jews by Christians. The one god of Monotheism was born in 600BCE. He was born of Yahweh, the Hebrew god of war, one god among the many they worshipped. They were polytheists until around that time. The emperor Constantine did Christianity its biggest favor by making it the official religion of the Roman empire.

[coleyman1]

@dansemacabre17 Wow! I don't know where you got the impression that nonbelievers would be lawless and vial! I assume someone else has impressed that upon you, for I surely didn't.I meant that I (me personally) would probably suffer some lack of inner fullfilment if I didn't have Christ in my life. I know and have known lots of people that are non-believers that are wonderful people. My point was to say that Hitchens could have been a great leader and spokesman for any cause in which he believed.

[dansemacabre17]

@coleyman1 So you would just start raping people and commit random acts of murder if you stopped having faith? I have yet to have any of those urges and I lack faith of any kind. It is possible for someone to create purpose in their own lives without wishful thinking and hoping that they are greater than they are. It just requires a little extra effort and a greater appreciation for the hear and now.

[coleyman1]

@dansemacabre17 You are almost correct! Faith requires courage! Courage to believe the transcripts of man,courage to believe that, reguardless of how we actually evolved or appeared on this earth,or how this earth got here to begin with,requires faith. I could not live without faith. I would shutter to think just what kind of person I might be if I could not believe in Jesus Christ and the opportunity to enjoy a life beyond this one. I would hope that we are not here just make fertilizer!

[dansemacabre17]

@coleyman1 You're right. I'm not a Christian. Yea but that is not the same as faith. Faith takes no thinking at all. You just believe it is so because you are told it is so and thinking is not a requirement. Hitchens has, taken all the evidence and surmised that a deity or religion just does not explain how everything came to be. The question of why is not needed. Purpose is not need for things to exist. Humans have a need for purpose and it's why they create it.

[coleyman1]

@dansemacabre17 You must not be a Christian, if you were you would not compare logic with faith. Logic is based on what one can accurately prove using one particular event or happening against another. Faith is just as it is. I have Faith that Jesus Christ was the son of God, born of the virgin Mary, walked the earth as a human, died on a cross, was buried, arose on the third day and ascended into Heaven to be with his Father. That is what sustains me and if logic sustained Hitchens so be it.

[dansemacabre17]

@coleyman1 From what I can assert, having read Hitchens and listened to him speak a number of times, is that he did not have faith or believe religions were myths. He looked at the evidence and wasn't convinced that they were held any real truth so he logically concluded that they are myths. Believing that they are myths or having faith that they are requires being told that they are and believing it without checking multiple sources and coming to any resolve with your own logic.

[coleyman1]

@dansemacabre17 Christanity is faith based. Faith is what you must to have to believe in the hereafter. Not so much with the existance of Christ, because we are finding things every day that verifies he was real to nonbelievers. I think what you mean is that Hitchens talked with reason based on what he strongly believed was the truth. Every man has a belief in which their faith, or the lack there of, comes from. Hitchens had a firm belief that all religions were myths and we are what we are.

[dansemacabre17]

@coleyman1 But you see, that's why he's so persuasive. Because he talks with reason based truth. It would be almost impossible to do the same while talking about Jesus.

[naegling3]

@iamblizzardandsocany STFU = shit covered dix my beloved, dearest friend. shit covered dix.

[coleyman1]

I wish I was as committed to my Catholic faith as Hitchens is to his atheist beliefs. I wish he had been a Christian because, with his gift for intellectual retoric, he could have brought a lot of people to Christ.