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[Tom Hansen]

I simply write this whole debate thing off as some kind of theological
soap opera, Joe.

Holy Rapture, Batman!

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> Mutally respectful discussion from Hitchens and Wilson? You haven't
> really followed the debate, have you. Hitchens thinks that
> fundamentalists like Wilson are dangerous idiots. He also thinks that
> ALL Christians are fundamentalists. Thus, religion in general is
> nothing more than dangerous idiocy.
>
> Wilson, of course, thinks that Christianity allows for slavery -- that
> some slavery is permissable -- and has written -- well, at least wrote
> part of since the original work was partly ripped if from a
> discredited academic source -- a revisionist history of American
> slavery, where it turns out that the best race relations in the
> country happened when we kept blacks in chains!
>
> This is not an academic debate -- they have exactly one MA between
> them. This is a circus, where difficult issues about religion are
> glossed over in favor of insulting generalizations. Of course, this
> kind of crap has always sold well!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:10 PM, Selina Davis <selinadavis at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> And here's the link to info about the movie:
>> http://www.collisionmovie.com/
>>  and a link to Pastor Wilson with Chris Hitchens for an hour on the
>> nationally-syndicated Laura Ingraham Show today (haven't listened to
>> it yet): http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2009/10/23/70483.aspx
>>
>> It's always intriguing when someone around here gains a degree of
>> notoriety beyond our region.  Can we anticipate a showing and
>> spirited (yet hopefully mutually respectful) discussion at the Nuart
>> and/or Kenworthy sometime soon?
>>
>> - Selina
>>
>> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:41:30 -0700
>> From: rforce2003 at yahoo.com
>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>> Subject: [Vision2020] Local Media Celebrity
>>
>> fighting words
>> Faith No More
>> What I've learned from debating religious people around the world.
>> By Christopher Hitchens
>> Posted Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, at 11:21 AM ET
>>
>> This week sees the opening on various cinema marquees of the film
>> Collision: a buddy-and-road movie featuring last year's debates
>> between Pastor Douglas Wilson, who is a senior fellow at New St.
>> Andrew's College, and your humble servant. (If I may be forgiven,
>> it's also available on DVD, and you can buy our little book of
>> exchanges, Is Christianity Good for the World?)
>>
>> Newsweek's reviewer beseeches you not to go and see the film,
>> largely on the grounds that it features two middle-aged white men
>> trying to establish which one is the dominant male. I would have
>> thought that this would be reason enough to buy a ticket, but
>> perhaps she would have preferred the debate held in London last week
>> featuring me and Stephen Fry (two magnificent specimens of white
>> mammalhood) versus a female member of Parliament who is a Tory
>> Catholic convert and the Roman Catholic archbishop of Abuja,
>> Nigeria. It filled one of the largest halls in the city, and many
>> people had to be turned away. For a combination of reasons, the
>> subject of religion is back where it always ought to be—at the very
>> center of any argument about the clash of world views.
>>
>> Continues at: http://www.slate.com/id/2233586/
>>
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