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  • Wow -- What a Rant by "Rage Boy" Chris Hitch Today

    I am perfectly content, really quite happy, about Obama's decision to have this mega-Church author, pastor, and cultural figure, Rick Warren, give the prayer at the January 20th Inauguration of our new United States President. I understand the apoplexy of ''Rage Boy'' Christopher Hitchens at the very thought of a prayer being said, let alone a ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard3 on December 29, 2008

  • GITMO Gets "U.S.", Not Them

    As an American Citizen who tries to stay informed, I can say these images of the military prison at Guatanemo Bay, Cuba are some of the first I have ever seen. I saw a video on TV once of a GITMO inmate strapped down to a wheelbarrow-like transport and being wheeled to or from a presumable ...
    Posted to Recycled by MichaelBernard1 on January 13, 2008

  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Western Civilization

    Whenever I read Christopher Hitchens, I learn a few lessons. In this case, Hitch upheld The Netherlands/Dutch as historically heroic for, among other things, offering refuge to Spinoza's family. Who knew? Unfortunately, when reading Hitchens, I always come across masterfully artful examples of his selective Polemics - (argumentative techniques.) ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on October 9, 2007

  • Hitchens-Craig-Restrooms

    Ok, so the only guy on the planet that could make this discussion from the top-of-the-mind would be Hitchens. But, I am still sick of reading, watching the awesome deadlocked media fixation on this guy's death spiral into the toilet, so to speak. Enough. My God, Do we have to all be drug down into the debasement of this guy and his toilet ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by shootist on September 1, 2007

  • Liberal vs. Liberation

    Liberal theology and liberation theology are two different understandings with distinct histories and views. Liberal theology did, indeed, grow out of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was the purview of European white males. Influenced by Darwin's theory of evolution, liberal theologians believed that humankind was continually making ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by ghiarev on August 20, 2007