Part 10 - D'Souza, Hitchens, and Prager

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The Christian God, The Jewish God, or No God. A Meaningful Dialogue with Dinesh D'Souza, Christopher Hitchens, and Dennis Prager.

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[mmnootzenpoof]

Is it possible that Jefferson chose to speak in terms of God because he was writing for his audience, who did believe in God?

[fouche1820]

in my country (mexico) you buy a dollar for 12 pesos, if we use the same measure, you would need 12 d'souzas brains to buy 1 hitchens brain......

[cjla1987]

@mmnootzenpoof Hey, waz up. How are you? Listen to what I am saying...Let me ask you, what is the relevance of miracles in Jefferson's values? What is the difference between miracles and values? It's self-evident. What if Jefferson gor rid of the miracles in the Bible? Doesn't matter. We get the values from that Bible. Jefferson said it in the Declaration of Independence. We got the value of liberty from the Bible. You and I got it from there. Jefferson said it in the Declaration. Yes/no?

[mmnootzenpoof]

@cjla1987 It's pretty clear that Jefferson was no Christian....in fact, he compiled his own "Bible" -- it had no miracles, Jesus dies in the end, and it was only 47 pages long. Since Youtube won't let us post links in comments, you'll have to search for it yourself. It's called the "Jefferson Bible"

[punnet2]

@skat1140 And of course if he had been born in Kashmir, he would be grateful that the Muslims had occupied his state.

[cjla1987]

@TheNinjaBoy7 Theology is theology, morality is morality, and values are values. We get the value of liberty from the Bible. If you disagree with my statement then you disagree with Jefferson's statement is the Declaration of Independence. We get the value of liberty from the Bible. Not from Humanism, nor from Secularism, nor from Buddhism, but from that Bible. What do you have to say for yourself now.

[cjla1987]

@mmnootzenpoof It is possible that Jefferson mispelled God backwards and what he really meant to say was the word dog. It is possible that Jefferson left the docuemnts on the table and someone write the word "God" and Jefferson did not notice it and submitted the documents as such. My possibilities merit as much trustworthyness as yours. No less. Prove it.

[Garro2]

I can't tell if Prager is dishonestly manipulating what Hitchens is really saying or if he honestly just doesn't understand the points he's making.

[skat1140]

Off-topic thought experiment: I wonder if Dinesh would have become a closeminded, neo-Con, chauvinistic Hindu, had he instead been born a few hundred miles away from his home town of Goa, where the Portuguese Catholics had influence over his religion, and then come to the US as a Hindu. He certainly shares the same anti-Islamic prejudice that his Hindu alter-ego would have had.

[Domzdream]

@mas03

-haha, facepalm! What's worse is you're asserting something exists even though you cant see it, smell it, touch it, (anything) it. But you silly christians KNOW that it exists.

Refer to my previous paragraph about the pixies and goblins. same applies to your god.

The funny thing is- you actually believe in Balrogs, cherrubs, wizards, dragons, etc etc, because it's all in the bible.

It's all facepalming material right there. The bible is pure comedy, when not being violent.

[Domzdream]

@mas03

Do you know of any fairies that exist? no.

What about dragons? no.

What about wizards, bassolisks,minotaurs, centaurs, pixies, leprechauns, goblins, and pink unicorns? no.

Hoo....oookayyy. We now have established that we have never seen, nor proven that such things exist on the account of a lack of evidence. We can clearly state that we know they do dont exist.

Now we turn to your crappy god. We have no evidence for this deiety, thus why you need faith in the first place, haha-

[mas03]

@Domzdream You said just " pretty much KNOW that he/she doesnt exist." If you KNOWN something doesnt exist it should be VERY EASY to prove it...Il wait