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Roger Marshall

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Christopher Hitchens
« on: June 20, 2007, 10:42:36 PM »

I would like to see Dr. Craig debate Christopher Hitchens regarding the arguments made in Hitchens' book "God is Not Great."  Dr. Craig would be the most effective opponent for Hitchens.  Could an invitation for such a debate be issued to Hitchens?  Thanks.


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Bill Maloney

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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2007, 01:04:23 PM »

I have not read Hitchens book, but from looking at the table of contents on Amazon, I don’t know if the subject is an area that WLC usually debates.  It seems much of the book is taken up by arguments concerning the evil influence of religion on the world.  The book also contains “evil of the Bible” discussions.  From the table of contents anyway, there seems to be just two short sections on the existence of God.


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travis

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« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2007, 07:11:20 PM »

Douglas Wilson already did and Hitchens looked below par.  


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Roger Marshall

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« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2007, 09:38:03 PM »

Thank you for pointing me to Hitchens' online debate with Douglas Wilson.  Wilson did a superb job and made many of the points regarding an objective basis for morality that Dr. Craig makes in his debates.


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Drm970

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« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2007, 10:48:03 PM »
Hitchens' stuff is very standard. I don't see this being troublesome to Christians, or any other religious person, unless they are especially vulnerable to talented writing rather than good objections. In the end, even if religion does poison everything, that really doesn't imply anything about whether the propositions of any religion are true or false. You can't make an argument valid just by stating it in a more appealing way. Of course, nonreligious people, predisposed to a militant hatred and opposition of religion, will emotionally feed off of his book and, I would assume, be inspired by it.

Then again, this book is a production of the unholy trinity of Dawkins, Dennett and Hitchins. It shouldn't be too surprising that all three books are little more than militant atheist propaganda. I'd prefer to see Christian philosophers of Craig's ability debate atheists of greater ability than Dawkins, Dennett or Hitchens, and in the area of religion, pretty much every atheist is of greater ability except, perhaps, in the area of being talented writers. Fortunately, Craig does debate the more gifted atheists.