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Tag Archives: Christopher Hitchens
two shovels: digging for lazarus
The society of the spectacle to which we all belong treads a thin line between derealization and the ambiguous nature of our cultural code that straddles reality and kitsch. And if any place on earth becomes part of the spectacle … Continue reading
return on investment: kabul estates
The problem with the concept of the word evil, is that it resembles a black hole, a field that stretches toward infinity. The world is short of many things, but the supply of evil-doers and their willingness to act is … Continue reading
the mono men: back to me, myself and sigh
The Hawkins, Hitchens legacy… The atheist, too, would not dare deny himself a god and why not get personally involved in the god business; they have a god and it is themselves. You could say that the pagan, the idolator … Continue reading
muggeridge…punch for compass
Its always fascinating how people can make surprising unexpected transformations in their lives that leave one reaching for a guide for the perplexed. A classic case was Malcolm Muggeridge the fiesty agnostic editor of Punch, the irreverent British magazine, who … Continue reading
sailing against idiot winds
…Chris Hitchens would have disagreed, but the question can be posed nonetheless as to whether reason can accept Divine Revelation, the proposition that god can, and does communicate with the individual? To the believer, reason is no obstacle to the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anselm kiefer, Christopher Hitchens, Contemporary Holocaust Art, Divine Revelation, Donald Kuspit, Hoffmeier Israel in Egypt, Jon Levenson, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen Dance Me to the End of Love, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sam harris The End of faith, William J. Hamblin, Yvelyne Wood Holocaust art
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atheist camping guide: mapping divine revelation
Of course, one can’t be surprised that Christopher Hitchens made a handsome living refuting attempts to prove divine revelation. All the attempts are sterile unless there is agreement on what would be considered valid proof. And, the initial burden of … Continue reading
he won all the battles and lost the war
Of course Christopher Hitchens won every debate. “Can you prove it?” being the standard parry thrown at Revelation, which is in itself an elusive concept, one that is insubstantial, unpalpable, unfamiliar to common human experience, something outside esthetics and utilitarian … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism debate, Christopher Hitchens, Cultural Agnosticism, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo Moses Sculpture, Sam harris The End of faith, Sigmund Freud Moses sculpture, Torah Divine authorship, Torah Revelation Sinai
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waugh: enjoying the little box
Phantom voices.Evelyn Waugh was a strange bird: the sort of upper class British snobbism that has been washed away; the reactionary conservative with an almost paranoid fear of the “other” with particular emphasis on Jews, who, based on his own … Continue reading
darwin: missing links on those facts
…Huxley made the famous retort, in response to Bishop Wilberforce’s gibe, that he would prefer to have an ape for a grandfather than a man “possessed of great means and influence” who used his influence to bring an important scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged alan bullock, Bishop Wilberforce, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Christopher Hitchens, David Klinghoffer, Frantisek Kupka, Hannah Arendt, Hugh Miller geologist, Leslie Stephen, Richard Dawkins, Sir Richard Owen, Sofonisba painter, T.H. Huxley
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