Watch: Atheism: A History of Disbelief, with Jonathan Miller. BBC Documentary - Open Culture
Christopher Hitchens destroys David Berlinski’s assertion that the Nazi party was Darwinistic or in anyway secular.
“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”
“I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.” —Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens By Tom Conger
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“What about Fraulein Fritzl in Austria? Whose father kept her in a dungeon where she didn’t see daylight for 24 years… and came down most nights to rape and sodomize her, often in front of the children who were the product of the previous attacks and offenses….imagine how she must have begged. Imagine how she must have pleaded. Imagine for how long. Imagine how she must have prayed every day, how she must have beseeched heaven. Imagine for 24 hours and no answer at all, nothing. Nothing! Imagine how those children must have felt. Now you say it’s all right that she went through that because she’ll get a better deal in another life? I have to ask you if you can be morally or ethically serious and postulate such a question. No, that had to happen and Heaven did watch it with indifference because it knows that score will later on be settled, so it’s well worth her going through it, she’ll have a better time next time. I don’t see how you can look anyone—ANYONE—in the face or live with yourself and say anything so hideously, wickedly immoral as that, or even imply it.”
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Politics, Myths and Science.
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![To the consternation of many of my fellow atheists, I often argue that the concept of “atheism” is unnecessary and misleading.
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But there is another way to see the problem with the concept of “atheism.” Consider [Ludwig] Wittgenstein’s clever disparagement of Freud’s notion of the unconscious:
Imagine a language in which, instead of saying ‘I found nobody in the room’ one said, ‘I found Mr. Nobody in the room.’ Imagine the philosophical problems that would arise out of such a convention. (The Blue Book p, 69)
“Atheism” is another version of Wittgenstein’s Mr. Nobody. When in the presence of Christianity, it’s Mr. Sorry-but-I-won’t-be-in-church-on-Sunday.
Being Mr. Nobody : Sam Harris](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/brooklynmutt/4253055945/1/tumblr_liylk11hT61qz80ps)
To the consternation of many of my fellow atheists, I often argue that the concept of “atheism” is unnecessary and misleading.
[…]
But there is another way to see the problem with the concept of “atheism.” Consider [Ludwig] Wittgenstein’s clever disparagement of Freud’s notion of the unconscious:
Imagine a language in which, instead of saying ‘I found nobody in the room’ one said, ‘I found Mr. Nobody in the room.’ Imagine the philosophical problems that would arise out of such a convention. (The Blue Book p, 69)
“Atheism” is another version of Wittgenstein’s Mr. Nobody. When in the presence of Christianity, it’s Mr. Sorry-but-I-won’t-be-in-church-on-Sunday.
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Christopher Hitchens destroys David Berlinski’s assertion that the Nazi party was Darwinistic or in anyway secular.
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Billboard: “You Know It’s a Myth”
A group called the American Atheists has paid for a huge billboard on Route 495 outside the Lincoln Tunnel in North Bergen, N.J., that is raising some eyebrows. The billboard shows a silhouette of the Three Wise Men approaching the Nativity, with the words: “You KNOW it’s a Myth / This Season, Celebrate REASON!”
