Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Festival of Dangerous Ideas
This is a series of provocative talks coming up at the Opera House. Titles include, 'Democracy is not for everyone,' 'The old should pay for themselves,' 'Why we enjoy killing'. The impressive and articulate Christopher Hitchens is also speaking about how religion poisons everything. It would be good for Christians to go along to this to have our beliefs challenged, and perhaps to ask questions, if there's a question time.
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I used to like Hitchens -- found him refreshing and interesting in that blase academic way -- but in recent years he's gotten so vitriolic about everything that it's just tiresome. It's the fact that he casts himself as this objective, transcendent voice of reason amongst all these wacky theists that makes his spittle-flecked tirades that much more absurd.
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