An atheist in Georgia! How’d he ever get in?
May 22, 2007 at 4:45 pm by Joeff Davis in Scene & HerdHITCHENS AT MITCHELL HOUSE: “Wait, I’m thinking … nope, I still don’t believe in God.â€
Contrarian author Christopher Hitchens visited the Margaret Mitchell House last Thursday to promote his new book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. The main attraction: two invigorating intercourses between Hitchens and Emory Christian ethics professor Timothy Jackson. The subject: the existence of God and the worthiness of religion.
The two men covered a lot of ground, including the bombing of Nagasaki, Adolf Hitler, evolution, the Ten Commandments and religion in politics. Hitchens, as expected, lobbed a couple of rhetorical bombs. He called the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who had died the previous day, “a big tub of crap.†He questioned Martin Luther King Jr.’s commitment to Christianity. And he mocked his debate opponent’s professorship, calling it a “very modest†job.
Hmmm, do you think Hitchens undermines his arguments by being such an asshole?
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:11 pm
There are assholes in every aspect of philosophy, even the militant atheist area. Nothing more than a classic case of “Better than you” syndrome.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:01 am
I look at Hitchens as nothing more than entertainment. He’s fun to read, fun to watch, and sometimes right (though, it seems, less and less with each passing year). Too bad that penetrating, and rather critical, profile of him in last year’s New Yorker is no longer available online. Revealing stuff.