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I'm pretty irreligious, but does this book offer anything novel? I am aware hitchens is based, but I can't be arsed to read something that is a redundant rehash /echo chamber of my views

>> No.5231652

>>5231643
>does this book offer anything novel?
No.
>I am aware hitchens is based
You were misinformed.
>I can't be arsed to read something that is a redundant rehash /echo chamber of my views
Then read the Bible or something for fuck's sake.

>> No.5231662

>>5231652
Tips menorah

>> No.5231683

>>5231643
No. I would advise reading actual philosophy books. Hitchens and Dawkins, along with Krauss, have few intelligent points and really attack what they have defined as "religion".

>inb4 guessing I am religious

>> No.5231701

>>5231662
>already irreligious
>doesn't want to read echo chamber of own views
>asking about an obvious echo chamber of own views
>gets told it is what it is
>acts like a dumb little shit in response

If you don't care for religion and want your views challenged, read some religious texts. If you want someone to pat you on the back and make you feel good about what you already believe, read this.

I'd be advising the opposite if you were some sort of religious person (that is, stop reading religious texts and pick up some polemic piece about how terrible religion is).

>> No.5231702

>>5231683
What would be their strawman

>> No.5231771

>>5231643
I felt the same. But I read through it bit by bit and it was an enjoyable and informative bit. Like a long magazine article. Keep it by the toilet maybe. On your phone, like mine, for bus rides or something.

>> No.5231773

The only militant atheist who's views aren't going to echo yours is nietzschet

>> No.5231780

>>5231701
sort of missing the point but whatever...

>> No.5231814

Hitchens is always fun to read.

>> No.5231827

>>5231773
>who's

>> No.5231835
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5231835

New Atheism is fucking cancer, stay as far away as possible.
>SCIENCE CAN SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS
>IF THERE WERE NO RELIGION, NOBODY WOULD EVER GET MAD
>I MAY NOT BE A PHILOSOPHER OR KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT PHILOSOPHY BUT LET ME TRY AND ARGUE OVER THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Plus, Hitchens was a neo-con fuck who wanted to invade Iraq probably because muh scary muslims or some shit

>> No.5231838

You have to appreciate his biting wit and ability to be sauced from dusk till dawn but as any man he had his shortcomings

plus he liked Lenny Bruce

>> No.5231845

>>5231643

Nah, it's not that good. Hitchens' books are pretty hit-and-miss and he tends to repeat anecdotes. Letters To A Young Contrarian is a noted stinker, for example.

>> No.5231850

>>5231835
confirmed for never having read anything by him. also, you're incredibly retarded.

>> No.5231854

>>5231850
confirmed to be Hitchen's angry pleb ghost

>> No.5231892

>>5231827
> autocorrect

>> No.5231897

no, the first chapter he freely admits he has a personal bone to pick with religion and the book is more about himself and his own irrational attachment.

>> No.5231907

>>5231854
lol u mad bro? ):D

>> No.5231911

>>5231907
nigga u probably mad as fuck because I'm not foaming at the mouth when I hear about religious people being dumb, unlike fans of Shitchens

>> No.5231924

>>5231854
>Christian rattle chains in the next room, in hopes we'll believe in ghosts again.

>> No.5231926

>>5231643
No it doesn't. It basically offers the same critique most people have noticed: extremists suck. This applies to all groups, religious or otherwise. Then it just roundaboutly concludes that religion ruins the world. It's as if I wrote a book saying how science poisons everything and talk about the nazi experiments or the scientists that connected vaccines to autism.

>> No.5231962

>>5231911
keep talking, some day you'll say something intelligent.

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5231970

>>5231962
>some day you'll say something intelligent?
You mean, unlike Hitchens?

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5232058

>Christopher Hitchens

*tips fedora*

How about you try a book that's actually worth reading. Being British is not really a requirement. It's relatable to any westerner.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Abolition-Britain-Peter-Hitchens/dp/0704381400
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tyixUGgVQE

>> No.5232069

>>5232058
>hurr read shit hitchens instead

Jeremy Clarkson for the middlebrow set.

>> No.5232096

>>5232069
This post is an absurdity and a moral outrage.

>> No.5232101

>>5232069

>preferring dead hitch to based hitch

grow up

your teenager is showing

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5232112

>Chris Shitchens thought the war in Iraq and Afghanistan was a good thing

top lel

reminder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI6Us5_BaVU

>> No.5232117

>>5231643
>I'm pretty irreligious, but does this book offer anything novel?

No.
>I am aware hitchens is based,

You're thinking of Peter.

>but I can't be arsed to read something that is a redundant rehash /echo chamber of my views

Then grow the fuck up.

>> No.5232124

>>5232096

No, it's another breathtaking example of political correctness stretched to insanity and the moral paralysis engendered by its no longer being the 1950s. One could scarcely concoct it as fiction.

>>5232101
>not preferring the witty raconteur to the humourless, mealy-mouthed reactionary-for-hire.

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5232132

>>5232112

http://jihadology.net/2014/05/17/al-furqan-media-presents-a-new-video-message-from-the-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-al-sham-clanging-of-the-swords-part-4/

>> No.5232146

>>5232124

>He's funny so he's better

epic

>> No.5232176

>>5232146

Not seeing the problem. I approach journalists and polemicists for their entertainment value. Are you honestly paying serious attention to a Daily Telegraph columnist? That's like, your moral centre, is it?

Wow.

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5232195

>>5232176

>All of my opinions and philosophies are formed entirely in my solitary mind

*m'lady*

He writes for the Mail on Sunday by the way, or were you being sarcastic?

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>>5231835

>> No.5232212

>>5232195
>All of my opinions and philosophies are formed entirely in my solitary mind

Em... no. Just not from tabloid columnists.

>He writes for the Mail on Sunday by the way

Oh, well that, of course, makes all the difference in the world.

>> No.5232213

>>5232176
Then read some Mencken at least.

>> No.5232226

>>5232213

I quite liked Minority Report.

>> No.5232250

>>5232212

Please enlighten me as to where you get your esoteric knowledge of the world from.

>> No.5232258

>>5231643
No, this book is worse than the god delusion in that respect. Hitchens has a nice writing style so even though it is devoid of content it makes for an easy and pleasant read. His athiest reader is probably a better place to start if you want actual content

>> No.5232268

>>5232250
>please name some people i can pretend to have read/heard of, that I may say dismissive things about them

How 'bout no? You read, and by your own account treat seriously, the musings of Peter Hitchens Esq. The odds against your having something interesting to say are stratospheric. I find you fascinating, which is different from 'worth conversing with'.

>> No.5232278

>>5232268
You're just butthurt that you'll never be able to rek anybody as hard as Based Peter.

>> No.5232296

>>5232278

Truly you have stared into the depths of my soul.

>> No.5232303

>>5232268

nice post

I like it

upboated

>I approach journalists and polemicists for their entertainment value
>I approach journalists and polemicists for their entertainment value
>I approach journalists and polemicists for their entertainment value

>> No.5232318

>>5232303

Are you another person who forms opinions based on newspaper editorials?