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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Fighting Words: Mitt The Mormon

    Christopher Hitchens and Slate's unabashed and shameless contempt for all things Mormon has been showing for months. So, today's supporting material –Mitt The Mormon -- for Hitchens nomination as ''Bigot of the Year,'' while disappointing -- as a rule, I happen to admire Hitchens writing -- was no particular surprise. Hitchens was right about ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by RB Scott on November 26, 2007

  • Racial superiority in Islam

    Hitchens in his article on Islamofascism writes: ''Technically, no form of Islam preaches racial superiority or proposes a master race.'' This is not entirely true. The notion of racial superirity was eliminated by Prophet Muhammad in his statements and also in the Quran, but within hours of his death, the doctrine of Meccan Arab superiority ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Tarek Fatah on October 24, 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

  • Re: God-Fearing Persons and the Incongruity of Jihad

    Hitchins does raise a point, however. I have read the Koran (in translation) out of curiosity. (It can also be characterized as falling under the heading of ''know thine enemy,'' given that the Islamist fanatics have read little else.) As religious writings go, it's no better and no worse than most. As with the Bible, you can quote anything in it ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Cyrano on July 30, 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