Comments on: Wilson Handles Hitchens http://www.outbursts.org/2007/06/12/wilson-handles-hitchens/ Apologia kai Polemikos Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:33:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Suzannah http://www.outbursts.org/2007/06/12/wilson-handles-hitchens/#comment-66199 Suzannah Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:46:22 +0000 http://www.outbursts.org/2007/06/12/wilson-handles-hitchens/#comment-66199 <p>Hitchens has a history of wanting it both ways. Several years ago he used to describe himself as a socialist who lived in the U.S. because we have better stuff.</p> Hitchens has a history of wanting it both ways. Several years ago he used to describe himself as a socialist who lived in the U.S. because we have better stuff.

]]> By: Jeff Slater http://www.outbursts.org/2007/06/12/wilson-handles-hitchens/#comment-66198 Jeff Slater Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:23:38 +0000 http://www.outbursts.org/2007/06/12/wilson-handles-hitchens/#comment-66198 <p>Wow -- that is brilliant! Thanks for sharing it.</p> Wow — that is brilliant! Thanks for sharing it.

]]> By: Mike the Eyeguy http://www.outbursts.org/2007/06/12/wilson-handles-hitchens/#comment-66197 Mike the Eyeguy Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:42:18 +0000 http://www.outbursts.org/2007/06/12/wilson-handles-hitchens/#comment-66197 <p>Nice. Hitchens is about as articulate as they come, so I've been waiting for someone to take him to the rhetorical woodshed.</p> <p>I made a similar point regarding him during a recent discussion on my blog:</p> <p><em>"Christopher Hitchens wants it both ways.</p> <p>He wants to trash anything related to God whenever and wherever he can, but he also wants to live and thrive off the residuals of an Enlightenment and Western Civilization which have as their foundation the creation and preservation of knowledge made possible by the Christian church."</em></p> <p>It baffles me how someone as smart as Hitchens came be so oblivious to paradox. Yes, religion is poison (point granted). But, at its best (and I believe that Christianity, warts and all, is just that), it is also the antidote.</p> Nice. Hitchens is about as articulate as they come, so I’ve been waiting for someone to take him to the rhetorical woodshed.

I made a similar point regarding him during a recent discussion on my blog:

“Christopher Hitchens wants it both ways.

He wants to trash anything related to God whenever and wherever he can, but he also wants to live and thrive off the residuals of an Enlightenment and Western Civilization which have as their foundation the creation and preservation of knowledge made possible by the Christian church.”

It baffles me how someone as smart as Hitchens came be so oblivious to paradox. Yes, religion is poison (point granted). But, at its best (and I believe that Christianity, warts and all, is just that), it is also the antidote.

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