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I like you. You're fun. So knew you were a religious person too.

I agree completely. I was actually using your graph but talking to MichaelRichards. Haha. I know you don't think it's a filthy stinking lie.

Do you think this graph is a filthy stinking lie? If so, on what grounds and with what evidence?

Do you think Bush blew up the towers?

I'm from a rank 400-something public school and I did well in the HSC, hardly an exclusivist elitist. I didn't say the 8 schools were representative of the whole of NSW public schools (read my post), but it is, I think, worth some note. Poor educational performance is in no way solely linked to...

You are absolutely clueless. Public schools are not a den of "insidiously" suppressed poor people. Although it doesn't necessarily stand for the whole of the public school sector, the top 8 schools this year were public schools. Educational superiority is not a result of financial superiority...

Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 minute thing?

About religion at least. But even that isn't entirely true. I liked the guy, but I don't apply to him any transcendental reverence. I was just looking for an informed discussion about him :)

Support for Darwin and his theories or not, the belief in an omniscient creator, the capstone of religion, is in conflict with science. Pointing to support for evolution etc isn't enough to dissolve that fundamental conflict. The humanism advocated by Hitchens in place of religion is what I...

There's no pathetic insecurity, existential crisis, void of meaning or hatred. You are not articulating your point clearly and it is the only thing preventing this from being a reasonable discussion.

Please elaborate. I'm trying to take you seriously and that is the only way it will happen.

No, he quite accurately represented your faith as dogmatic, irrational and opposed to science.

Misrepresentation of who in particular?

As well justifying the use of the word 'delusory'.

An uninformed summary does not do justice to anyone - neither Hitchens, nor you, nor me.

Sure, reduce that to an uninformed summary, go ahead.

That's disgustingly reductive. The bulk of his works don't even concern themselves with religion or proof. You're being ignorant and disrespectful.

Upset as I am about the death of a great thinker, I was hoping the thread would evolve into a discussion of his ideas and writings, rather than a stream of "caterwauling" about his death. He is gone, but his works and ideas remain. They are arguably great and are worthy of discussion in the...

You're kidding?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/british-writer-christopher-hitchens-dies/story-e6frf7lf-1226224201909 This fucking sucks SO hard.