Showing posts with label The Pope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Pope. Show all posts

Lost in Translation

February 5, 2011

Free Inquiry, Feb/March 2011
By Christopher Hitchens

"One of the pleasures of trying to keep up with the twists and turns of the religious worldview is noticing the convolutions that this view keeps inflicting upon itself. Last November brought news of two small but significant developments of this kind, both tending to vindicate the essential atheist or materialist contention that religion is man-made."

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Hitchens on Louis Farrakhan & The Pope

November 5, 2010

Clip from the Afterlife Debate with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, September 16, 2010, New York.


A Call for Earthly Justice

September 13, 2010

Holding the Catholic Church accountable for its crimes.
By Christopher Hitchens

"Reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's extraordinary and limpid new work Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (a history informed by a general, if Anglican, sympathy for its subject), I came across the following passage from Cardinal John Henry Newman's classic statement of belief, his Apologia Pro Vita Sua:"
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Christopher reads from Hitch-22: A Memoir