D'Souza Challenges Dennett's Ridicule of World Religions

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Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative.

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[tsunami770]

@keoniili Hitler was a self professed Catholic and the rest... Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were evil dictators but you may never infer rightly that their killing was part of a secular doctrine or in the name of secularism as religion does. They wanted to be adored as god figures or father figures themselves so you are wrong and clearly don't know what you are talking about. Religion has the blood of far more people than you care to remember. Seculars don't need to lie against recorded history.

[TheoK444]

Yes, lets ignore actual evidence because we 'feel' it isn't true. A truly stunning assertion.

[keoniili]

@whoo689 The secular authoritarian regimes in the 20th century alone -- Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot -- murdered nearly 100 million of its citizens. It's one of the great secular lies that religion, Christianity in particular, has produced most of the world's violence.

[keoniili]

@whoo689 This is a ridiculous charge often repeated by the Left. Right-wingers advocate limited government and therefore cannot be authoritarian. They advocate moral positions in the society at large, but again they cannot dictate moral policy. It's the crushing regulations and taxation in the economic arena that ultimately affects your life and your liberty. Don't confuse conservatism with fascism.

[keoniili]

@Ematched The Right doesn't deride big government. it is frightened by big government. You don't amend the Constitution with big government -- the states have to ratify changes -- there has to be agreement across the society to do this. The Right merely advocates social policy -- it cannot dictate it. The Patriot Act had minimal impact, affecting only a handful of citizens' privacy. However, there was a lot of disagreement about it on the Right. And George Bush was not a true conservative.

[keoniili]

@whoo689 I don't know anyone on the Right who treats gays with distain, though I'm sure it exists. One of the consequences of same-sex marriage is that you will no longer be able to prefer that infants put up for adoption be routed to heterosexual couples. I believe that whenever possible, children have a right to a mother and father, which models for the child a male and female view of the world. This will be obliterated in an expanded definition of marriage.

[Ematched]

@keoniili My guess would be that the Right's derision of big government, at the same time implementing big government (Patriot Act, Defense of Marriage Act, plethora of proposed ammendments to the Constitution), reflect the circular logic inherent in the core religious ideology that supports the legislative agenda. The Left is honest about what it does, erradicating social blocks, and spending tons of money in the process The Right likes to restrict gay rights, and hump another dude in the dark.

[keoniili]

@whoo689 With all due respect, how exactly are right-wingers like D'Souza going to rule your lives? They believe in limited government by definition. The American Left believe in social engineering via the long arm of central authority, confiscatory taxation and regulation on a massive scale. Though the Right would like to see regulations on a couple of social issues, the Left's effect on citizen's lives is much more far-reaching in my view.

[kaduisaui]

I no longer take religion seriously. I was wrong to take religion seriously in the first place.

[mistereveready]

damn, dsouza is a fucking idiot. he might have been something intelligent w/o all that brain washing.