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  • Hitchens lets his passion undermine his point

    These rants from Hitchens have entertainment value, I suppose, but as with all of today's opinion-driven media they must be taken with a grain of salt. A lot could be written, but I'll just focus on one point here: Hitchens is mistaken to think that a failure to conflate Mormonism with Christianity indicates bigotry. The teachings of Mormonism ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by ricodetroit on December 21, 2008

  • Religion VS God

    The one major flaw in this study is that religion and God have absolutely nothing to do with one another. Instead of choosing random people and priming them with spiritual thoughts, instead go down to your local church and pick up a few ''religious'' people. Then you will see that religion does far more harm than good in a society. Spiritualism, ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by My*Thoughts on November 7, 2008

  • Vintage Hitchens destroys Gov Palin's remains

    Mr Hitchens warns us of his ire with the 2 year campaign in his 1st sentence which goes far from being soured gastric juices. A manufacturing chemist who works daily with the most toxic compounds will identiy the composition of Mr Hitchins's 1st sentence for us shortly. I wish to be enlightened. Sarah Palin's remains, political & earthly, ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by larry278 on October 28, 2008

  • Hitch On Helms like White on Rice

    Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008

  • Ilk or Actuality?

    I have to question the premise of Hitchens' argument. It seems he prefers to remain among those who feel they haven't heard enough renunciation and distancing in Obama's ''handling'' of his ''pastor situation.'' The senator actually demonstrated integrity treating the Rev. Wright and his comments with more seriousness than a mere political ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Tom Driscoll on April 7, 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

  • blatant prejudice

    Perhaps, if one is going to write a piece on an individual with a specific religious affiliation, one should not be ''anti'' that religion. Making such petty attacks upon the LDS church only decreases the author's credibility, which was shaky enough due to factual errors about this faith. The autho states that Mormons believe that a ''skin of ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by le_danger on November 27, 2007

  • Hitchens' Hate Speech

    Frankly, Hitchens remarks are every bit as offensive as those which got the likes of Don Imus and Jimmy the Greek fired. Hitchens equates membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (which, by the way is not the ''so-called Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,'' even Hitchens must know that) with membership in the Ku Klux ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by cjcampbell on November 27, 2007

  • So bigotry is now journalism?

    I am appalled that the editors of Slate chose to publish this exercise in bigotry, prejudice, and ignorance. Since when is it acceptable journalistic behavior for a public intellectual to insult and ridicule people's religion? To begin an article with a bald statement of prejudice? What happened to research, insight, explanation, ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by brent3600 on November 26, 2007

  • Re: Respecting religion vs enforcing it.

    The problem with Hitchens is that he's sloppy. For instance: this statement is wrong and plays right into the hands of the most common misconception about the Pace University crime. ''a student in New York City has been arrested for an expression, '' --- NO Hitchens, the student was arrested for committing a CRIME: vandalism and larceny. The ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Rileey on August 5, 2007
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