following on from daniel dennett and richard dawkins, the hitch has also jumped into the pool with the splendidly titled, “God is not Great“.
There are four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking.
and he does mention profs dawkins and dennett,
My own annoyance at Professor Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, for their cringe-making proposal that atheists should conceitedly nominate themselves to be called “brights,” is a part of a continuous argument.
well, this is on my ‘to-buy’ list for sure. hitchens could write a book on bathroom air fresheners and i would read it. i had hoped to get my hitch-fix at hay-on-wye this year, but so far he’s not on the programme (despite having this book out). only thing i can think of (since he goes every year) is that they no longer allow smoking on stage.
update
hitchens on the jon stewart show talking about the book
hitchens could write a book on bathroom air fresheners and i would read it.
speaking of servility….
Comment by bar the damaged — April 27, 2007 @ 1:45 am
>speaking of servility….
ah, but he’s a false idol
Comment by rustle — April 27, 2007 @ 2:00 am