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"Never be afraid of stridency"~ Hitchens
Richard Dawkins: One of my main beefs with religion is the way they label children as a "Catholic child" or a "Muslim child". I've become a bit of a bore about it.
Christopher Hitchens: You must never be afraid of that charge, any more than stridency.
New Statesman - Preview: Atheists Richard Dawkins interviews Christopher Hitchens
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Brilliant
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#1 - Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:10 AM ESTThe last interview Chris Hitchens will give. Dead @ 62. Cancer.
CH I have one consistency, which is [being] against the totalitarian - on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. And the origins of that are theocratic, obviously. The beginning of that is the idea that there is a supreme leader, or infallible pope, or a chief rabbi, or whatever, who can ventriloquise the divine and tell us what to do.
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The last interview Chris Hitchens will give.
Thankfully, he lived in an age of media and numerous mediums to preserve his erudite thinking and contributions to the advancement of thought and expansion of consciousness.
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One has to wonder how long religions would survive if they couldn't label their children as smaller versions of the same faith as their parents happen to be?
As an atheist parent I have made it a point not to label my children atheists, that's for them to decide not me they know I will love them unconditionally no matter their beliefs or lack of them.
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#2 - Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:37 PM EST
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