Author Christopher Hitchens in conversation

December 13, 2010

On his Jewish grandmother, his atheism, his writing—and facing his own mortality
by Noah Richler

"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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9 comments:

FGFM said...

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.

Anonymous said...

Yet another unfunny and unclever contribution from FGFM. He is a relentless bore.

FGFM said...

You don’t know what you’re on about, I’ve just given 10 bucks to a homeless person!

FGFM said...

I salute my indefatigability.

FGFM said...

Indeed.

Anonymous said...

Your creepy indefatigability is in the 99th percentile.

FGFM said...

Your creepy indefatigability is in the 99th percentile.

And I don't even have cancer!

Anonymous said...

FGFM is borrrrrrrrrrrrrringgggggggggggg.

Tom said...

"FGFM is borrr...."

Read my comment in the Kissinger post about commenting before posting anything like this.

 
 
 

Christopher reads from Hitch-22: A Memoir