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"We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim" ~In Defense of Profiling : Sam Harris
Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:52 AM EDT ()
We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it. And, again, I wouldn’t put someone who looks like me entirely outside the bull’s-eye (after all, what would Adam Gadahn look like if he clean …
Christopher Hitchens's Memorial: Sean Penn, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, and Others Pay Tribute
Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:33 PM EDT (The Latest From VanityFair.com)
“To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off,” wrote the late Christopher Hitchens in his June 2011 column, “Unspoken Truths,” for Vanity Fair. Today, at a memorial service in the Great Hall of Cooper Union, …
Andrew Sullivan gets all militant about religion and creationism! « Why Evolution Is True
Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:46 PM EDT ()
can’t believe this: first we hear the guy is going to give up his blog and become a monk, and now Andrew Sullivan has become strident and militant against religion—well, some religions. In a Daily Beast post called “Creationists’ abuse of fossils,” …
Is Christopher Hitchens Atheism's Christ? ~ Video ~
Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:19 PM EDT
A moving tribute to the Late Christopher Hitchens. The film was created for the Global Atheist Convention, which was held over the weekend in Australia.
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Judas Saves ~ by Christopher Hitchens
Seeded on Sat Apr 7, 2012 8:19 AM EDT (Project Reason)
Now ask yourself, why did the church take so long to exculpate the Jews as a whole from the collective and heritable charge of “deicide”? It ought to have been simple enough to determine that the Sanhedrin of the time, whatever it may have done, could not have bound …
Atheists don't own reason - The Washington Post
Seeded on Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:01 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
The new atheists--participants in the contemporary anti-religion movement led by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, the late Christopher Hitchens, among others--are working overtime to tell the world that reason favors atheism, and atheism alone. Richard Dawkins leads his Foundation …
Islam and the Future of Liberalism : Sam Harris
Seeded on Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:00 AM EDT ()
we know that intolerance within the Muslim world extends far beyond the membership of “extremist” groups. Recent events in Afghanistan demonstrate, yet again, that ordinary Afghans grow far more incensed when a copy of the Qur’an gets defaced than when their o …
: The near-religious zeal that drives the godless - Howard Jacobson - Commentators - The Independent
Seeded on Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:03 PM EST (Independent.co.uk)
Of the unambiguous polemics for which he was revered, the least successful, to my mind, was the assault on God, though I don't doubt it's for that work that a whole generation (of men?) fell in love with him.
Free Inquiry ~ In Defense of Richard Dawkins ~ By Christopher Hitchens
Seeded on Sun Feb 5, 2012 8:58 AM EST (secularhumanism.org)
Dawkins is usually willing to accommodate debates with the “other side.” But he had serious misgivings about the premise of this one because Craig had set out an especially hard and brutal defense of the genocide of the Amalekites.
The Fireplace Delusion : "What we are up against whenever we confront religion." ~ Sam Harris
Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 7:16 PM EST ()
It seems to me that many nonbelievers have forgotten—or never knew—what it is like to suffer an unhappy collision with scientific rationality.
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