Christopher Hitchins and the Ten Commandments
I’m back. Sorry for the protracted delay, but I’d lost my enjoyment of writing almost entirely for a spell. But I think that’s mostly passed, and I’m feeling more comfortable with what I’m going to write about and why I’m doing it.
I’ve recently had confrontations on Twitter with creationists and other religious extremists and nutjobs, who believe that they are only (in their minds) good people because they are religious. This delightful video has Christopher Hitchins breaking that argument into smithereens:
It’s a wonderful argument, not allowing Christianity (or any monotheistic belief system) take any credit whatsoever for morality, even hinting outright totalitarian intent behind even some of the Ten Commandments. I get incensed when the devout (who have an alarming tendency to behave in discriminatory ways) insist that they are better than others because of their blind belief in hocus pocus. It’s intellectually retarded to suggest morality can only come from religious instruction - I’m sure numerous children who are branded as witches in Christian communities and then abused would agree, as well as all the other victims throughout the ages of religion-incited violence, abuse and murder.
I’m going to try to vary my writing style in the blog from time to time to see what fits with people’s interests and enjoyment levels. More than anything what I’d like is discussion. If you think my argument’s hogwash then say so. If you agree with my viewpoint then add your own please.
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Hey Jason, I just wanted to leave a mark that I’d been here.
Arguing with the various Twitter nutjobs would be more enjoyable if any of them actually engaged with any of our arguments – it’s annoying to see people like Joe just spouting the same dogma over and over again regardless of having had it demolished three times in the previous 24 hours!
On the other hand, as I said to you on Twitter, I think it is vitally important that we contonue to engage them, permanently keeping them on the defensive. As soon as we stop our apparently pointless fight their ideas will gain more and more traction!
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