>>54720331>Are there any points Hitchens made in his book worth mentioning that we haven't already heard or seen for ourselves through the cultural enrichment of Europe?Absolutely no clue. I don't read that shit. Would that somehow make the book's points less sincere?
>A huge problem with Atheism I have is how purely arrogant some of them are, and I was no better as a 15-year old. In the interview Fry assumes that every thing that can harm a person must have been deliberately put there there by God like he were some prankster with a morbid sense of humor.They're British, they just sound like they have broom poles in their asses.
The argument is not that God necessarily "caused" the thing to happen. The argument is that he allowed it to happen, in spite of being omnipotent. You can try to bend this scenario any which way you want it, but the conflict between "God is good," "God is omnipotent," and "good people suffer," is still very much there.
>People desperately need to get over the idea that God is anything close to a person in terms of behavior, and that it's his job to ensure the total lack of any pain or harm whatsoever to every single person on the planet.I mentioned earlier that this particular definition of a god sounds oddly close to a nigger. Naturally, it can't just be that he's simply unable to help. No, he has to be an omnipotent sassy black woman. "That is NOT my job, child."
