http://www.slate.com/id/2203120/
Dear Mr. Hitchens,
You are a twit. “Sarah Palin’s War on Science. The GOP ticket’s appalling contempt for knowledge and learning” should more aptly be named ‘Christopher Hitchen’s appalling contempt for knowledge and understanding”. The fear her religion drives in you is stunning especially considering you have never met the woman to discuss her actual views. And you are a world renowned writer???
Buck up, buddy and put on your big boy pants. You can be an atheist and she can be a Christian in the White House and the world is NOT going to fall apart. You mock her church and throw scurrilous charges that are not even valid in regards to how she practices her religion or how she has governed Alaska. It’s all stated just to scare the pee wads out of ignorant people to ensure they think she’ll start speaking in tongues to deliver us from abortion. Get a grip. Spiritual warfare is believed by many Christians across the world. It is a call for them to put on the armour of God to help them with their daily battles.
Ephesians 6:10-20 (Today’s New International Version)
The Armor of God
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. 19 Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.
Can you really be so frightened of a religion that promotes peace through prayer against spiritual attacks on us as individuals? Would it be so terrible to have a leader in the White House who prays that she will ignore temptations that will come to her? That she will pray additionally for her enemies and for the strength to speak the truth in love? You, my dear sir, have far more to be fearful of than Sarah Palin in the White House.
You don’t mention that, while she has stated that she doesn’t believe global warming is man made, she has stated that something needs to be done and is supportive of John McCain’s policies. You also don’t mention that she thinks that creationism can be taught in school along with evolution but that she is not doing anything to promote it. Your article is fear mongering at it’s finest.
I can only conclude that you are voting for Obama because of the irrational fear you have of God and that Sarah Palin has come to personify Christianity to you. Rest assured Mr. Hitchens, that the Lord loves you just a truly as he does the rest of us!
Brian Simpson
streetwise_IT
Dan Spencer
Jim Kelly
Caleb Howe
Irrational Fear or Real Hate
OneAmericanChristian Tuesday, October 28th at 12:52AM EDT (link)He and the other militant atheists either have a bad case of Christianophobia or truly hate the gospel of God’s love. (Or Both).
God Bless <><
I fail to understand...
Chemical Sam Tuesday, October 28th at 1:45AM EDT (link)how, even to this day, people can confuse a belief system which is the basis of a religion, with a method of reasoning, which is the basis for science.
Hitchens confuses the presence of religion with the absence of reason. More precisely, he implies that religious belief precludes reason altogether; religion is absolutely unreasonable.
It is to laugh. Reason and religion usually have nothing to do with each other. Except on those rare occasions…
Albert Einstein absolutely believed in God. Thomas Jefferson and Washington, as Deists, believed in an Almighty, and can be considered among the most forward thinking, or pragmatic, of the Framers.
Gregor Mendel, Charles Darwin, Leonardo Da Vinci, Johannes Kepler, Jeremy Horrox, Frances Bacon, the list goes on. All of these people were deeply pious, religious men, who found through science a deeper understanding, and a greatly satisfying enhancement of their religion and belief in God.
It’s an old, obnoxious, argument that the religious have no reasoning skills. It’s usually resurrected (forgive the pun), when someone with whom opponents have a political disagreement are getting to be too attractive for the masses.
Governor Palin has not burned books, has not recommended or advocated the banning or censorship of any books. Ms. Palin has not imposed her religious convictions, as opponents have claimed she has, by suggesting that creationism be mentioned in public schools. She has done nothing against so-called feminists, except decide to carry and bear fifth child, despite a test revealing trisomy 23, leading to the probability of Down’s syndrome, of some unknown degree of severity. She has done nothing to overturn Roe versus Wade, which is essentially a moot law at this juncture anyway.
She has done nothing to threaten the advances of reason, or science, or religion, in word or in deed, anywhere as far back as anyone can see.
With the exception of one religion of course, and that is Marxism.
thus spake Sam
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I should also say that (if I may Kowalski)...
Chemical Sam Tuesday, October 28th at 1:56AM EDT (link)I am a doctor of chemistry for too many years now. As a professional scientist I find nothing about her views on religion or science or reproductive issues alarming or concerning.
I find Sarah Palin a very admirable and level-headed woman. She reminds me of many women in my family, except for the political/gubernatorial part. Right on down to hunting for food, and shooting weapons for sport.
She is more admirable than the sum of all the opposing tickets combined, and you can throw in most European leaders while you’re at it.
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Hitchens misses what even Gibbons understood
Alberta Tuesday, October 28th at 12:10PM EDT (link)Gibbons was no friend of the christians, often labelly the religioun as just so much hokum, superstition, ect.
But even Gibbons is forced to admit that one of the only institutions in the world that kept the light of science alive through the dark ages was the Church.
If Gibbons, consumate enlightened european, hater of all things based in faith, could understand that there is no exclusivity between reason and religioun, you wonder why a guy like Hitchens, a little iratant compared to the genius of the historian, fails to grasp the concept. Oh wait…
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln
Darwin!
bigfoot Tuesday, October 28th at 12:30PM EDT (link)at one point had faith in the almighty. He was raised by a religious family. However, as he aged it became clear that faith, if any within him remained, was of little importance to him compared to proving his theory.
What’s interesting is that Darwin himself said his theory would be proven false if fossils couldn’t substanciate gradualism. 150 years later not one single transitional fossil has ever been found. However I digress.
“To believe in nothing is to believe in everything. To believe in everything is to believe in nothing”