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Christopher Hitchens the Anti-Theist
Christopher Hitchens calls himself an anti-theist, rather than an atheist and he defines the difference as such. He notes that he has occasionally met atheists, who actually wish they could believe in God, but simply cannot, because there is no evidence to support such a position. Hitchens on the other hand, denounces this atheistic position and qualifies his own, by saying that, not only does he not believe in God, he is glad it isn't true.
The Idiocy of Intelligent Design
In reality, the Discovery Institute have one goal... remove Evolution by Natural Selection from the science class and teach Intelligent Design as a scientific alternative. What this really means is: Replace a solid scientific theory with a pseudo scientific theory, that is fully grounded in religion and has no aspect in it's 'nature' that one could describe as scientific. Indeed, this is not just an attack on Evolution by Natural Selection, it is a direct attack on the scientific method.
Should England have Granted a knighthood to Salman Rushdie?
There is something extremely obscene and stomach churning, about public intellectuals who refuse to jump off the fence and who keep apologizing to religious fundamentalists, against words that may offend their precious sensibilities. ...Their precious sensibilities be damned. No such sensibility should ever be allowed to override an individuals right to speak up.
Is Society Becoming More Selfish?
Selflessness is believed to be a moral virtue. But the full extend of the meaning of selflessness, is self-sacrifice. Thus, in reality to be selfless is to be unconcerned about one's own welfare. From this understanding of the real meaning of selflessness, one should realize that by the false identification of self-sacrifice or selflessness as a moral virtue, then by holding this definition as true, one has defined morality out of existence. If one is fully capable of self-sacrifice then by what means could one be moral.
Christian Fundamentalism
Christian fundamentalism, is really no different to any form of fundamentalism. All fundamentalism really means is 'absolute truth' of one's position, whether that position is supported by evidence or not. Fundamentalism is the equivalence of literalism, one is a fundamentalist, because they hold a literal interpretation on any given issue and that literal interpretation, can and often does trump any external evidence, that could counter such a position.
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