23 June 2009
The Terribly Attractive Terrible Idea
It occurs to me that, in my Intro to Law course next semester, I should burn a copy of the Constitution while denouncing it as a pact with the Devil (as, of course, it is). I would also make clear that, simultaneously, the Constitution is the pinnacle of human intellectual achievement and that the two characteristics are intimately related.
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Instinctively, this makes sense.
Can you elaborate at length and in depth?
Good luck, Brit. David once opined that Hitchens's atheism was a Christian heresy, which I thought was brilliant. I begged for a distillation and I'm still waiting.
Peter: This didn't take care of that. Hitchens issue isn't that G-d doesn't exist, it's that he rejects (his understanding of) the Judeo-Christian G-d.
Brit: Working on it.
Hitchens issue isn't that G-d doesn't exist, it's that he rejects (his understanding of) the Judeo-Christian G-d.
Perhaps you haven't read the book.
He rejects all instantiations of god as false, irrespective of whether such a thing as a god exists.
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