<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>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! <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:10 PM, Selina Davis <<a href="mailto:selinadavis@hotmail.com">selinadavis@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
And here's the link to info about the movie: <a href="http://www.collisionmovie.com/"><a href="http://www.collisionmovie.com/">http://www.collisionmovie.com/</a></a> 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): <a href="http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2009/10/23/70483.aspx"><a href="http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2009/10/23/70483.aspx">http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2009/10/23/70483.aspx</a></a> <br>
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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? <br>
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