Keywords: Christopher Hitchens
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 09 October 2009
20 Comments
It has been argued that if people do not believe in a God who will condemn them for bad actions, they will feel free to
act outrageously. The claims of Christopher Hitchens give pause to reflect upon whether ethical thinking needs to include God.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 09 October 2009
15 Comments
Christopher Hitchens appeared on Q+A last week with Frank Brennan and others to debate questions of belief. Hitchens was a sharp debater, relentless in pointing out the flaws in fellow panelists' arguments. But Brennan was a worthy opponent.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 05 October 2009
37 Comments
Hitchens, like The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins, views belief in God not just as quaint, but as a sign of intellectual
bad will. The age of muscular evangelical Christianity has been replaced by the age of muscular evangelical atheism.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 05 September 2007
4 Comments
Western Buddhism and Pentecostalism are sometimes criticised as self-indulgent forms of religion. Is Bishop Spong's Christian humanism any different?
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 13 June 2007
5 Comments
In God is not Great, Christopher Hitchens dismisses religion as the invention of hucksters and frauds. Although he has abandoned his leftist position, this is a straightforward reiteration of Marx’s own critique of religion.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 June 2007
10 Comments
The much commented-on recent books by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have reintroduced a broad brush anti-religious polemic. It has much in common with religious polemic against the secular world.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 05 June 2007
6 Comments
There can be no peace unless believers and atheists share an equal place in the public square of a free and democratic society.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 18 May 2007
26 Comments
The term “atheist” seems too respectable for the position occupied by commentators such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. They are anti-theists, opposed in principle to every last attachment to the divine, leading many to accuse them of a kind of inverted fundamentalism that lacks the core modern virtue of tolerance or respect for others.
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