Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris: The Unholy Trinity

... Thank God.


What a great read .. I almost wet myself laughing while reading it!



by Robert Weitzel
http://www.opednews.com

Christopher Hitchens, contrarian atheist and slayer of all beasts fascistic and theocratic, will be in Madison, Wisconsin, this fall to present the keynote address at the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s fall conference. Anyone who is familiar with Hitchens’ substance and style will expect a speech that is irreverent and uncompromising and totally worth the price of admission.

Predictably, faster than a fart can make a tent full of Cub Scouts giggle, letters to the editor and op-ed pieces appeared bemoaning Hitchens’ upcoming visit and calling him a boorish bigot for his willingness to describe the emperor’s nakedness in all its scabious and purulent magisterial arrogance.

Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are not bigots. They are an unholy trinity of bestselling atheist authors who are fed up with having to tap dance around people of faith whose religious beliefs are as irrational as they are ubiquitous, and as potentially deadly as they are personally cathartic.

Wet yourself here ...



Of course, reading through some of the comments on the web site posted above, I can assure you that "faster than a fart can make a tent full of Cub Scouts giggle" is functioning quite nicely ... without even realizing how ironic their responses are.

1 comment:

Trudy said...

Thanks for the link! I will check it out. I've just finished reading Hitchens' new book "god is not Great" and loved it. Have also read Sam Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation" and loved IT for different reasons.

Posted my book review for "god..." a few days ago on my blog.

I'll be possibly linking to the website above, as well.

Again, thanks!

Trudy