Posted: Nov 30, 2010 9:58 pm
Jakov wrote:
Must religion keep losing the argument?
Paradoxically, Christopher Hitchens must be due for canonisation as a secular saint. In the broadcast snatches of his Toronto debate against Tony Blair on whether religion is a force for good, Hitchens assumed a kind of divine grandeur.Clearly, the social welfare argument is not working, so why not go for broke with sacred awe?
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... rgument.do
She's got no chance with awe. Looking through the Hubble telescope or contemplating binary star systems beats a burning bush any day.
But they have the baybee geezuz, and he strangled snakes with his bare hands or something like that