http://youtu.be/mQorzOS-F6w
"The metaphysical claims of religion are untrue."
It's been a sad and sobering day. We shall not see his like again.
Showing posts with label Christopher Hitchens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Hitchens. Show all posts
Friday, 16 December 2011
Monday, 10 May 2010
PEN World Voices Festival: Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie
Here we have an assessment of the state of free speech in the world today. Christopher Hitchens delivers the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture at the PEN World Voices Festival, and talks with Salman Rushdie. The latter, speaking of the fatwa calling for his assassination, has this to say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHGq_GhK080
Hitchens is his usual forthright self, holding resolutely to the primacy of free speech. More power to him.
"I would just like to point out, with regard to me and the Ayatollah Khomeini, one of us is dead.
"Do not mess with novelists."
Hitchens is his usual forthright self, holding resolutely to the primacy of free speech. More power to him.
Monday, 1 December 2008
The Resurrection is true because ... well, it just is!
I'm beginning to perceive a pattern in Christian theology, as manifested in some debates I've heard recently,* and that is the total reliance on the Resurrection of Christ. Both Wilson and Lennox placed ultimate importance and authority on the 'fact' of the Resurrection. Wilson, particularly, begged the question by saying, basically, that if you believe in the Resurrection you have to believe in all the other miracles in the Bible. But at no time in his debate with Christopher Hitchens at the Westminster Theological Seminary did he explain why he accepted the 'truth' of the Resurrection in the first place. (I strongly suspect that, if pressed, he'd claim it was true because it was in the Bible.)
Hitchens was genial but incisive, and on great form, though a lot of what he says in these debates is no longer new to me. Of the so-called New Atheists he's probably the most willing to debate anybody anywhere, and it's understandable that his thesis is familiar to anyone who's heard him debate on several previous occasions. Nevertheless, when his form is this good he's a special pleasure to listen to - literate, erudite and pointedly wry.
*Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson
(via RichardDawkins.net)
John Lennox and Michael Shermer
(via eSkeptic)
Hitchens was genial but incisive, and on great form, though a lot of what he says in these debates is no longer new to me. Of the so-called New Atheists he's probably the most willing to debate anybody anywhere, and it's understandable that his thesis is familiar to anyone who's heard him debate on several previous occasions. Nevertheless, when his form is this good he's a special pleasure to listen to - literate, erudite and pointedly wry.
*Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson
(via RichardDawkins.net)
John Lennox and Michael Shermer
(via eSkeptic)
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