The Great Culture Debate: Christopher Hitchens vs. David Allen White

[KipBond]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]

Touches upon all the questions we bring up here.


[/ QUOTE ]

Good discussion, Hitchens was a slimeball only twice, probably a record for him in any two hour period.

[/ QUOTE ]

Hitchens seemed to have broken down when White confronted him on his faith that science will understand conscience. Hitchens had to explain his assertion by stating that it is certain due to an exponential projection of accumulated scientific work...in other words, "I don't know, but I'm really really hoping." That makes him very religious! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[/ QUOTE ]

I think saying, "I don't know, but I'm really hoping" is actually very unreligious. Take me for example, I'm an atheist, but at the same time I still hope that somehow I'll live on after this life.

[/ QUOTE ]

I think that qualifies you as a pantheist or some sort of immanent idealist rather than an atheist.

[/ QUOTE ]

I think that qualifies you as a ... nevermind. This is obviously wrong.