The End of Christian America?

[Thorum]

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[Crossbow]

Ha, you have the biological right to be wrong, said Blackwell (the black Christian) to Hitchins and he assured he would defend that right. But it's all part of their mission when I'm not wrong, and they nourish the Pilgrim Fathers founding myth.
That was a good story of Hitchins, he made Blackwell stammer sometimes.

[Magister Eckhart]

ἐδάκρυσεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς.

[Psychonaut]

ἐδάκρυσεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς.

Ἁνάγκᾳ δ’ οὐδὲ θεοὶ μάχονται.

[Oreka Bailoak]

This news story is so biased. They pick the lamest Christian guy and have him go up against a very articulate atheist. As if it symbolizes the downfall of "outdated" Christianity.

MSNBC has such a leftist agenda. If the left was Christian based they wouldn't run this story.

Fox news, though it is biased towards the right, presents these types of stories with respect towards both sides.

I wonder why they never mentioned that Christians have LOTS more kids than atheists do?

This is more like a WWF rigged wrestling match than an actual debate. This reminds me of that southpark episode with the violent atheists.

[Magister Eckhart]

This news story is so biased. The pick the lamest Christian guy and have him go up against a very articulate atheist. As if it symbolizes the downfall of "outdated" Christianity.

MSNBC has such a leftist agenda.

Fox news, though it is biased towards the right, presents these types of stories with respect to both sides.

I wonder why they never mentioned that Christians have LOTS more kids than atheists do?

Faux News is no better than any other News corp.

The press to-day is an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and readers as soldiers. But here, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and war-aims and operation-plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows, nor is allowed to know, the purposes for which he is used, nor even the role that he is to play. A more appalling caricature of freedom of thought cannot be imagined. Formerly a man did not dare to think freely. Now he dares, but cannot; his will to think is only a willingness to think to order, and this is what he feels as his liberty.

-Decline of the West, V. II, 462.

[Óttar]

Let's hope that Hitch can stay alive. From the looks of things, total hair loss etc. it doesn't look good.

[Eldritch]

Let's hope that Hitch can stay alive. From the looks of things, total hair loss etc. it doesn't look good.

If he could find a way to cruelly criticize the nearly-a-saint Mother Teresa, finding humor in his own cancer is almost to be expected from acerbic writer Christopher Hitchens. But the fear of that disease stopping his writing petrified him, the Vanity Fair columnist and author tells Steve Kroft in an interview that jumps from funny to serious and back again.


The interview will be broadcast on "60 Minutes" Sunday, March 6 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.


It's been nine months since the often outrageous Anglo-American author and cultural commentator was diagnosed with esophageal cancer that has metastasized. It's stage four in medical parlance and there is no stage five, Hitchens points out. "I am a member of a cancer elite. I rather look down on people with lesser cancers," he says with a chuckle.


Asked what his life is like now, the tone grows serious. "I was very afraid it would stop me writing," he tells Kroft. "And I was really petrified with fear about that because I thought that would, among all things, diminish my will to live because...being a writer's what I am rather than what I do."


His father died of the same type of cancer and he says he is resolved to fight it, but acknowledges his dire situation. "But the statistics are five percent [survival rate], in other words, which are not the odds I would have picked." says Hitchens. Asked how far ahead he thinks, he manages to make Kroft laugh once again. "I hate it when people ask what the expiry date of my credit card is. I noticed it the other day, someone said, 'What's the expiration date?' I said, 'Who wants to know?'


Also in the interview, Hitchens. America's most famous atheist, discusses his career and some of his more controversial stances, such as his caustic criticism of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa.

[Cato]

It's time to stop believing that Jesus can deliver all of America's answers.

It's time to start believing ONCE AGAIN that the Constitution of the United States can, and will, deliver all of the answers.

Answers such as:

NO foreign wars.

NO foreign alliances.

NO imperialism.

etc.

American is using Christianity as an excuse. Rather than the divine right of the monarch of Britain, it is now the divine right of the President of America.. To spread mischief by decree.

The corrupt monarchs of Britain had their appointed toadstools at court, in Parliament.

The corrupt Presidents of America have their appointed toadstools in the Senate and House of Representatives.

America is better than Britain!

[Cato]

America is better than Britain!

Insofar as I can tell, the Founders had a strong aversion to what they called "European entanglements." They wanted to spread the idea of republicanism and constitutionalism to Europeans oppressed by aged monarchies and corrupt priesthoods which were little better than kingly appointees, but only "from the point of the pen" and not "from the point of the sword."

How quickly a grand idea is seduced and perverted!