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The Debate at CT

Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2007Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

The beginning of the Hitchens/Wilson debate is now posted at Christianity Today and can be found here.

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CategoriesApologetics Tags"God Is Not Great"

In the Name of Reason

Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2007Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

In chaper twelve, Hitchens stops arguing fallaciously from the presumed origin of all religions, and argues briefly, but equally fallaciously, from the collapse of relgious movements. He makes this case on the basis of the collapse of one religious movement. “It can be equally useful and instructive to take a glimpse at the closing of …

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More on the Atheism Front

Posted on Monday, May 7, 2007Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

I have some fun developments to report on the ongoing atheism discussion. First, we are getting some good reviews on Letter from a Christian Citizen. Here is a short but helpful blurb from Phillip Johnson, a man who is doing more than his share to keep Darwinists on their toes. “Douglas Wilson provides a good-natured …

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You Have to Leave Wichita Too

Posted on Monday, May 7, 2007Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

As we continue through this book, it is becoming more and more apparent that Hitchens’ gods — science and reason — are really starting to let him down. In the previous chapter, Hitchens said in passing that “the argument from authority’ is the weakest of all arguments” (p. 150). And how do you know that? …

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On Mulberry Street

Posted on Sunday, May 6, 2007Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

In the first place, I think there must have been an editorial mishap in the assigned title of Hitchens’ next chapter. It was “The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell.” The chapter is about the former, and not about the latter at all. I can only conjecture that it was at one …

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Some Praise for Hitchens

Posted on Saturday, May 5, 2007Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

I live in the north part of Idaho, in the portion that looks like a rock chimney. I bring this up merely to lend credence to my next claim, which is that the lakes up here are pretty cold year round. When you are swimming, or water skiing, even in August, you are always in …

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The Need for Human Sacrifice

Posted on Saturday, May 5, 2007Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

I think I will treat the next two chapters together. Chapter Seven of Hitchens’ book is on the nightmare we call the Old Testament, and Chapter Eight informs us why the evil of the New Testament surpasses that of the Old. That which is good in the Old Testament is, according to Hitchens, not unique …

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Mucho Macaronic Mirabile Dictu

Posted on Friday, May 4, 2007Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

Chapter Six of Hitchens’ book is all about “Arguments from Design.” I have gone back and forth in my mind about how to approach this one. Should I do a slow inexorable build to the point in my last paragraph where I place the capstone of a fun quotation from this chapter, doing so with …

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Fully Accredited

Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

How do we know when someone is competent? How do we know whether they know what they are doing? Why, we ask to see their papers. Whenever we are not content with the word of God on a given subject, we do not have the option of remaining neutral, of doing nothing. The only alternative …

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsOld Table Talk Articles

But They Are Adapting

Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007Monday, April 20, 2020 by Douglas Wilson

“Muslims have assimilated brilliantly, at least when it comes to mastering the principal discourse of the advanced democratic state—the legalisms, victimology, and entitlement culture” (Mark Steyn, America Alone, p. 82).

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