tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5053537650764362539.post7805332356296966652..comments2023-10-31T09:55:14.755+00:00Comments on Red Pepper Review: God is not greatRed Pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10680008177354361739noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5053537650764362539.post-19654152133685725662007-12-05T12:35:00.000+00:002007-12-05T12:35:00.000+00:00Hitchens is a brilliant polemicist and I happen to...Hitchens is a brilliant polemicist and I happen to agree with him about God, who most certainly is not great or he wouldn't have created human beings. But has Hitch ever persuaded anyone of anything? Like his less intellectual cousins on Fox TV, in Murdoch's tabloids or in mosques, temples, churches and bars everywhere, he's good at confirming prejudices but not so good at challenging them. A pity because we need people challenging prejudices, especially religious ones, now more than ever.Steve Platthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04258173355418446390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5053537650764362539.post-18081605039021338612007-11-27T07:29:00.000+00:002007-11-27T07:29:00.000+00:00Why don't you tell us then how lucky they are? So ...Why don't you tell us then how lucky they are? So here we have an alcoholic genocide-monger, an acolyte of that inimitable moral giant, Paul Wolfowitz, a scrivener for Murdoch, and an apologist for Cheney's war, telling us how we could lay all the blame for all the world's ills on God, who as a consequence is not great? And like trained seals, our 'secular' fundamentalists act on cue to set all moral compunctions aside and assume their cheer leading role? <BR/>Shame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com