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"I don’t think someone is religious unless they have faith in what St. Paul calls the evidence of things not seen—in other words, the supernatural or supervising deity, presence, force who requires and expects certain kinds of propitiation. If that’s not in your mind, then I don’t think you’re really a religious person at all."
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Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.
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If in a seminar you were to argue that I’ve committed a well-known fallacy by not deriving my conclusions from my premises and I reply, “You don’t know what you’re on about, I’ve just given 10 bucks to a homeless person,” my answer wouldn’t be accepted.
Yeah, because no one would believe it.
Yet another unfunny and unclever contribution from FGFM. He is a relentless bore.
You don’t know what you’re on about, I’ve just given 10 bucks to a homeless person!
I salute my indefatigability.
Indeed.
Your creepy indefatigability is in the 99th percentile.
Your creepy indefatigability is in the 99th percentile.
And I don't even have cancer!
FGFM is borrrrrrrrrrrrrringgggggggggggg.
"FGFM is borrr...."
Read my comment in the Kissinger post about commenting before posting anything like this.
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