I am finding their back and fourth exchange to be very enjoyable. Both men are good writers and thinkers. A Christian might say that Hitchens is not a good thinker due to the fact that he is an atheist (they would say the same about us!) but we should be quick to remember (if you take the Bible seriously) that being a Christian has much less to do with thinking about facts than is does divine calling from above. James implies that demons know more about theology than I ever will, but the problem is that they hate what they know.
Here is my favorite portion of this current posting:
When another atheist makes different ethical choices than you do (as Stalin and Mao certainly did), is there an overarching common standard for all atheists that you are obeying and which they are not obeying? If so, what is that standard and what book did it come from? Why is it binding on them if they differ with you? And if there is not a common objective standard which binds all atheists, then would it not appear that the supernatural is necessary in order to have a standard of morality that can be reasonably articulated and defended?
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