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thenewgreen · 4575 days ago · link · · parent · post: "Genital mutilation is no joke"

Hitchens didn't have to "carry himself as a well-educated man", he was a well educated man. With that fact, there should be little debate.

very great evil has been done for profit and by the use of money. Does this mean that all money is bad, or simply that some people make use of money in harmful and destructive ways? The point that I've heard Hitchen's make a number of times is not that religion is without virtue but rather that the virtues it offers need not come from religion. Meaning that we don't need religion and all of the "human prescriptions of power" that come with it in order to have virtue and morality. Indeed, a world without the superstitions, fear mongering and disregard of factual knowledge that many religions espouse, embrace and encourage would be a good thing. Conversely, a world that truly embraced the teaching of Christ would also be a good thing imo. It's too bad the two have become intertwined. One is a byproduct of religion the other is the beauty of philosophy.

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