[Vision2020] Local Media Celebrity

[Selina Davis]

Naw, I wasn't expecting a mutually respectful debate on the screen.  I meant a mutually respectful discussion among those of us in the audience afterward.  I'm familiar with Chris Hitchens' work and his persona as a conservative, boozy intellectual/writer given to throwing rhetorical bombs.   That's his charm.  It sounds like the film might be entertaining and fodder for good discussion, though.

 

I enjoyed the Newsweek religion editor's take on it ... but I expect that I will feel compelled to watch the movie anyway.  http://www.newsweek.com/id/219009

 

- Selina
 
> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:59:43 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Local Media Celebrity
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: philosopher.joe at gmail.com
> CC: selinadavis at hotmail.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> 
> 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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