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  • News Flash: Christopher Hitchens Seeks Catholic Confessional

    I was surprised to read Christopher Hitchens today, riding high on his moral horse as to the political, cultural and economic predations of Maximum Leader Robert Mugabe in his current Country of Residence, Zimbabwe. What people like Hitchens never seem to understand, is that morality is never just for other people, or leaders, or religious types. ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on June 10, 2008

  • Popery

    One of my 1st memories, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, was a parish priest preaching a sermon on the Vatican's treaty with Italy's Fasciasts & how it helped the RC' minister to a war torn world. The church was in the Arcdioces of Cincinasty. The Archbishop was an avid analiguist for & to Pius 12. He even named a high school for ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by larry278 on April 14, 2008

  • I agree- but...

    I agree with the position taken by the author that Mitt needs to talk more about his religion. Religion is one of those things that helps form the core of many people. Therefore understanding Mitt's religion can help us understand who he is and what he will stand for if elected. That being said, however, I fundamentally disagree with the manner ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by robtherobot on November 29, 2007

  • Is is not Ought

    I am often surprised by how many otherwise intelligent people fall into the intellectual error of presuming that ontological (or indeed epistemological) claims are ethical claims -- invariably moving from the general to the specific as they do so. Even granting that there is a theotropic instinct, that in no way implies that societies ought to be ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by quibblemuch on August 20, 2007

  • Hitch Hits It on the Head

    Once again, Hitchens has an excellent point. While we tend to revert to superstition and mysticism in times of stress or tribulation, we are increasingly overcoming that tendency in our day-to-day interactions. I take as my example not only my parents (who are now in their 60s), both of whom were raised with the mere forms of religion, but also ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by strive on August 20, 2007

  • Rage boy

    Hi All, Let me first start by saying that although I do not agree entirely with all that he advocates, I highly respect Christopher Hitchins' thoughtful and incisive views and the objective, factual relevance of his arguments; not just on this issue but in the majority of his essays and books. In this mass media, technology age the ability to be ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Speaker's Corner on July 5, 2007