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Christopher Hitchens has CANCER CANCER CANCER (not anymore)

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Pseudo Propaganda		#81	[-]
Posts: 15450 03/07/11 07:48 PM Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I wish the rapture would just fucking come and take CN already.
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jubal		#82	[-]
Posts: 7339 03/07/11 08:25 PM I took his head...cold Reply Quote More Recent Posts	The gist of that quote appears to be lost here. The idea of believing in the abrahamic God is just as silly as believing in Zeus. Only history and habit prevent this from being universally recognized. But of course, history and habit can only last so long.
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Posts: 3792 03/07/11 08:51 PM Reply Quote More Recent Posts	well JeFa, when you have a more intelligent and strategic enemy that was crucifying all your club members, I can understand the reasoning behind considering this superior enemy as deities.
Screerider		#84	[-]
Posts: 33331 03/08/11 12:18 PM Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	And they don't believe in the Roman gods now, right? Hence, they're atheists.
Je Fa		#85	[-]
Posts: 15823 03/08/11 12:24 PM Reply Quote More Recent Posts	And that's what the Romans used to call them. I'm just saying that they story isn't that straightforward.
Screerider		#86	[-]
Posts: 33331 03/08/11 01:06 PM Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	The quote isn't about a story, though. It's about a person not electing to believe in god x, but electing to believe in god y. They're an atheist in regards to god x, and a theist in regards to god y. The idea to the have them consider the reason they don't believe in god x, in order to understand why someone else might not believe in god y.
Je Fa		#87	[-]
Posts: 15823 03/08/11 01:08 PM Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Yet it doesn't hold true for all religious people, and almost certainly gives them more credit than they deserve.
Screerider		#88	[-]
Posts: 33331 03/08/11 01:11 PM Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I don't believe there is a single religious person who believes in god a, god b, god c, ... god infinity. There's gotta be one they don't believe in. Just one. Flying Spaghetti Monster, perhaps. That's all it takes. Just one.
Je Fa		#89	[-]
Posts: 15823 03/08/11 01:27 PM Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Okay so here's my pet peeve of the day about religion. Religious people are always saying that atheists can't disprove God's existence, even though the burden of proof is really on those making positive truth claims. But having said that, most of them then ground their faith on scriptures or traditions that are manifestly corrupt. Holy cognitive dissonance Batman.
Licorice		#90	[-]
Posts: 15869 03/08/11 01:27 PM Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Did you see his confession on 60 Minutes that his attack on Mother Teresa was just an experiment in pushing the limits? Or so he says now. What a bastard.
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Je Fa		#91	[-]
Posts: 15823 03/08/11 01:31 PM Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Oh shit I forgot to watch, I wonder if it's online. Anyway, I actually dreamt that he died eta: what's wrong with pushing the limits, he didn't make it up or anything Last Edited By: Je Fa 03/08/11 01:35 PM. Edited 1 times.
Driv		#92	[-]
Posts: 6576 03/08/11 01:35 PM Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	ya mother teresa is still one of the worst humans to ever live
jubal		#93	[-]
Posts: 7339 03/08/11 07:47 PM I took his head...cold Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Licorice wrote: Did you see his confession on 60 Minutes that his attack on Mother Teresa was just an experiment in pushing the limits? Or so he says now. What a bastard. Who gives a fuck what his motives were? The primary focus should be on whether what he wrote was true.
factoryhurl		#94	[-]
Posts: 28088 04/25/11 07:04 PM Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Amis on Hitchens: 'He's one of the most terrifying rhetoricians the world has seen' Martin Amis hails the peerless intelligence and rhetorical ingenuity of his exceptional friend, Christopher Hitchens http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/24/amis-hitchens-world
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Posts: 3792 04/25/11 07:22 PM Reply Quote More Recent Posts	factoryhurl wrote: Amis on Hitchens: 'He's one of the most terrifying rhetoricians the world has seen' Martin Amis hails the peerless intelligence and rhetorical ingenuity of his exceptional friend, Christopher Hitchens http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/24/amis-hitchens-world On the Chaucerian summoner-pardoner Jerry Falwell: "If you gave Falwell an enema, he'd be buried in a matchbox." On the political entrepreneur George Galloway: "Unkind nature, which could have made a perfectly good butt out of his face, has spoiled the whole effect by taking an asshole and studding it with ill-brushed fangs." The fact he hates Gorgeous George that much, makes me even more of a fan.
jubal		#96	[-]
Posts: 7339 04/25/11 07:32 PM I took his head...cold Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Great article, fh. As challenging as Hitch himself.
factoryhurl		#97	[-]
Posts: 28088 05/12/11 08:08 PM Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Christopher Hitchens opens his diary I abhor the idea of taking a mobile-phone call at the dinner table but my friend Douglas Brinkley, eminent historian and editor (of Ronald Reagan and Hunter Thompson alike) has three small children and when his wife calls he rightly answers. So on Sunday night in Houston, Texas, at the home of the bountiful Michael and Nina Zilkha, we got an early notice that the President would soon be on the air. I have lived in Washington long enough to know that presidents do not break into weekend TV to bring bad news: only to react to very bad news, or to claim credit for something worthwhile. I can therefore claim to have guessed right away that either Osama bin Laden was in custody, or had achieved his goal of martyrdom. http://www.spectator.co.uk/politics/all/6916608/diary.thtml
Sunnie		#98	[-]
Posts: 2761 05/12/11 08:14 PM Reply Quote More Recent Posts	quit getting me all excited that he's DEAD DEAD DEAD.
jubal		#99	[-]
Posts: 7339 05/12/11 08:14 PM I took his head...cold Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Everything he writes is fucking gold. Sunnie, please hold your breath for a month or two. tia
9RedWing19		#100	[-]
Posts: 4805 05/12/11 10:53 PM Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	That's 38 points in the death pool that I'm counting on.
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