Christopher Hitchens on Christian Masochism

It is not enough to "have" free speech. People must learn to speak freely. Noam Chomsky remarked in the sixties about the short-life ultra-radicals on campus who thought that Marx should have been burning down the British Museum rather than writing and thinking in it. The less political descendants of that faction have now tried to reduce life to a system of empowerment etiquette, and have wasted a lot of their own time and everyone else's in the process. But the real bridle on our tongues is imposed by the everyday lying and jargon, sanctioned and promulgated at the highest levels of media and politics, and not by the awkward handful who imagine themselves revolutionaries.

The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.

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@viridismonasteriense

You're BUNCH of Fools

TESLA invented the Modern AGE.

Everything, the JET engine, the Car, TV, radio, computer, all the lights + satellites, audio & video, includ. the Motion Pict. Camera sold to the Lumiere's by Edison,the first tel. (of course based on Morse's telegraph), YT vid.Tesla Invents Telephone before Meucchi & Bell

After he died ALL the tech.advances came FROM his 36 crates confiscated by the FBI in his room, stolen from us the SERBS,co-beneficiaries with sisters.

[viridismonasteriense]

@CatBornAgain Nikola Tesla, though awesome as he was, didn't invent everything, nor did he ever have sex, married anyone or have children. Gay? Not necessarily, but it would be so very ironic for you.

Hitchens is named Christopher and that proves god? Fuckin silly.

Nikola was christian, therefore that means god is true? Retarded.

It required the abandonment of bibilical values before the sciences could really thrive. Christians used to burn scientists, torture them, persecute and kill.

[viridismonasteriense]

@CatBornAgain gay people can't invent things? Seriously, that's your claim? What about all the muslims that invented mathematics etc. The Chinese. The Carthaginians. The Romans. The Greeks. The Japanese.

You're an ignorant homophobic piece of shit.

Look at Stephen Hawking, look at Einstein, look at Voltaire, Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, Bertrand Russel, Carl Sagan, Gene Roddenberry.

Look at Stephen Fry. His very existence makes your argument invalid.

[Blakeontape]

@CatBornAgain right cuz inventing technology proves god exists. you silly monkey.

[CatBornAgain]

1. Is Hitch GAY ? Are you an Edomite-Khazar, never mind that Chris NAME ??

2. How do you explain that the whole of Today's Technology has been the mainstream of a CHRISTIAN Serbian Orthodox & the World's Greatest Inventor of ALL Times, Nikola Tesla, behind ALL our MODERN AGE ?

Christian Vegetarian Nikola Tesla behind the JET engine, TV, radio, computer, all the lights & satellites, endless ALL this Awsome Tech, you thought ATHEISTS invented it?

THEY ARE INCAPABLE of Invention, esp. GAY sort.