christopher hitchens

So Mother Teresa finally gets there after lots of hurdles. I bet Christopher Hitchens is rolling in his grave. The Catholic Church has tightened up its rules so canonization is not so easy anymore. Just a well I suppose because so many saints have been made over the years Heaven must be...

Saw this today: http://religionnews.com/2016/04/20/dying-christopher-hitchens-considered-christianity-new-book-claims/ I haven't read the book yet, but reading the comment by the author and this article sounds to me like either a) this guy sold out the memory of his friend or b) he's revised...

Or evidence to the contrary, please.

Of course, anyone who's read Christopher Hitchens's Missionary Position know this, but it's good that the news is getting out more widely now... http://guardianlv.com/2013/10/mother-teresa-was-no-saint-says-study/

While Christopher Hitchens gave compelling reasons to doubt the saintliness of Mother Teresa, a new study seems to go further. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/uom-mta022813.php

I'm thinking about reading some Hitchens. What's the best starting point? I have watched some Youtibe clips, but not much more of him. I think an obvious difference between him and Dawkins is that the latter is a scientist asking for evidence for the truth of religious claims, the former is a...

At the moment it's selling for 99p on amazon.co.uk I have to munge the url as I've not posted enough, so add the www to amazon.co.uk/God-not-Great-Everything-ebook/dp/B0064M9WHK/ref=pd_sim_sbs_kinc_1 I don't know how long the offer will last, and I've already bought a copy, but it could do...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/christopher-hitchens-controversial-author-television-personality-dies/story?id=13214700

Hey all Thought it was about time we had a thread for this. Perhaps it is better suited to Community though? I love Hitchens - he is one of the few thinkers that, to my mind, is so clear in thought and communication that it is inspirational to those of us who use so many words to say so...

I'm a recent addition to this forum, and as I parse through the threads I notice more than one person posts a soundbite from one interview or another and starts heckling him and calling him wrong and bigoted without even bothering doing proper research to see if what he says has merit, or maybe...

I'm not finding a good source for Hitch's current condition, but it probably isn't good. Once again, can we all admire his intellect or his rhetoric? His thinking is SO acute, and pointed, and rhetorically spot-on. Not sure how his cancer is going, but because he's not on the Today show, I...

I just came across this article in slate.com http://www.slate.com/id/2293541/ Very interesting Chomsky's repeating of trutherlies, distortions and lack of research.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBOISElGEMg&playnext=1&list=PL74FD6EF56F9E286C This is a 20-1 countdown of clips. I wonder how people feel about the direction of religion worldwide in the near future, and is there any way we can improve on our effort for effective, science-based world building...

I was watching this video of Christopher Hitchens in which he describes the Rev. Billy Graham as evil. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1hl2jdfIiA&feature=related It occurred to me that the Rev. Billy Graham might also describe Mr. Hitchens as evil. It got me thinking about what it means...

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According to the Dallas Morning News, Christopher Hitchens debates William Dembski on 11/18 at a church hosted by a Christian school. The event will be streamed live here. Full: The Dallas Morning News From the Prestonwood's website:

Part of a book review. Iraq Through Night-Vision Goggles Slate :clap:

Hitchens' NPR interview, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130917506 click on "Listen to this story" I'm moved by Hitchens' response to his cancer and his situation. You can sense his depth no matter what he says, including talking about his current health. What a model...

Should be good. "A debate in Toronto in November will pit former British prime minister Tony Blair against fervently atheist writer Christopher Hitchens in a discussion of religion. The debate, scheduled for Nov. 26, is open to the public and will be streamed online."...

Glenn Beck's rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected—the Waterworld of white self-pity. Always wanted to see Hitch take on Beck. He sees the tea party as being linked to white fear of the loss of its majority.

This sucks. I'll be pulling for him. http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/an-update-from-christopher-hitchens.html

At the 2007 Atheist Alliance International Convention (video readily available online), Christopher Hitchens condemned Borders bookstores for pulling from its stores the magazine Free Inquiry because it reprinted the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. “I told my publishers,” he said, “I’m...

Has Christopher Hitchens ever debated a 9/11 Truther? He is one of the finest debaters out there, and feels very stongly that we must not give an inch religious theocracy (Be it Islamic or Christian) . Clearly he thinks the Truthers are absurd. Most truthers are such ignorant buffoons, I wonder...

This is from an interview in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/02/AR2010060204649.html Does anyone still take Mark Lane seriously, apart from this lady?

I was under the assumption Christopher Hitchens was an atheist- but he has described himself as an anti-theist. What's the difference? There is nothing quite as enjoyable as watching Christopher Hitchens debate apologists for radical Islam or Christianity, and tear them to shreds..

Although he may have expounded the principle earlier than 16 May 2007, Christopher Hitchens in a column from that date made an observation about speech and conduct that ought to be seen as shameful in its own right and the person who propounds it: The particular Reverend of whom Hitchens wrote...

Announcing a special appearance by Christopher Hitchens in Washington, DC on June 13th--sponsored by CFI-DC Title of Event: Christopher Hitchens LIVE--Hitch 22: A Memoir Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010 Time: 6:00 PM Place: Sixth & I Historic Synagogue 600 I Street NW, Washington, DC 20001 Sponsor...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7043911.ece Any guesses?

Amnesty International is evil and must be destroyed. Non-violently of course. It will be sufficient to starve the beast. Suspension of Conscience Christopher Hitchens in Slate

This is less about the facts or conspiracy theories (which wil continue to be debated ad nauseum elsewhere) than one of those almighty academic/journalistic feuds I'd pull up a seat and open the popcorn but I'm not sure how long Gore Vidal, who has yet to comment, has left.... More here...