The Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens (4/12)

This is cool. I loved that they sat down to an unmoderated conversation and taped it for youtube!!

It's a degradation of Nietzsche to describe any set of values as "Nietzschean".

You say god made us all but you've no evidence yourself other than what your low paid, low intelligence minister says. You choose to ignore millions of pieces of evidence to the contrary. If your primitive beliefs are true why would god make stars millions of years before the earth? Why leave evidence older than 6,000 years old? Why claim mankind started with 2 people (which would cause an inbreeding disaster)? Why make several religions? Why would God make people so anatomically imperfect?

I love that they keep getting more and more loaded as the discussion continues.
Honesty.... bring it on.

That's like saying, don't judge your parents, regardless of whether they are assholes, drunkards or whatnot. Bung.

Hitchens challenges your ideas....sometimes venomously and viciously...and even rudely.




True bigots, however, are people who challenge your right to have them.

There is more to life than living and dying.

It largely depends on what you construe "living" to be.You may have a litany of expectations that far exceed any known experiential criterion to be a distinguishing scalpel between 'Living',and 'Being Alive.'Your prerogative ,sir.

You are right, fighting God is not the way to go but that is what all of the signs are indicating. People do what they do in (negative) response to what God says and does. That is just not the way to live your life. The best way is to follow the yellow brick road of science (and history/His story) to God.

As to Hitchens&God-Hatred---Analogy time:I can say that I hate Melville's White Whale.But that hatred will---perforce of being arrayed in fictive subtext----be no more than animadverting an author's creation.---Ditto,your Yahweh,who is but a myth.