Mos Def vs Christopher Hitchens

[phildwyer]

Made ever more amusing by the fact that the two main arbiters of the Iraq War are devout Christians.

You don't know what "arbiter" means.

 

[TheDave]

You don't know what "arbiter" means.

Meh, so I used the wrong word. Point still stands.

 

[Fledgling]

Maher, Rushdie and Hitchens represent the worst kind of smug, imperialist atheism. Good to see someone standing up to them for once.

Yes but Hitchens morphed into a character palying Hitchens a while ago, you feel he's trying to live up to something. They trot him out because he's "game for a laugh", guarenteed to say something. Classic case of too many talking head shows; he probably waits in the car park all day posting on Twitter hoping the scheduled guests cancel, "can always get Chris on you know".

I think sometimes he knows what he's talking about and he can write well but he can't let anything go gracefully, he's flogged his anti-theism to death and rarely strays beyond the same half dozen arguments. He's a self publicist and intelligent but too many people give the latter overemphasis. It's become about 80% salesmanship; you could have condensed the God book into about 2 chapters and put it as a preface to the atheist writings collection.