Thursday, February 26, 2015

Oh, Hitchens.

Hitch, I love you, even when you bitch and when you're wrong. There's pretty good evidence that your criticisms of 1930s Catholicism [ask me about this, I'll provide you sources] and your generalizations of contemporary Islam are not as complex as most things that are in reality, which ought to be a warning sign that you're wrong. And your false dichotomies on faith and reason are nonsense. I pity the Sufi Muslim who should have known better than to ask you that sort of question. If you know Hitchens, why would you ask this? Douglas Wilson, who is a Calvinist, a system I strongly disagree with, and who I have some other issues with, asked a question, and elicited a response, from Hitchens, which left Wilson stunned -- not because Hitchens provided a good answer, but because Hitchens was unaware of how inadequate his answer was, and Wilson was shocked at how poor the answer was and was incapacitated by despair. Love, Me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sEcBzxoMB8

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