seen in the many debates between Atheistic and religious individuals about the implications of religious belief on morality. One of the most famous Atheists, Christopher Hitchens, asserts that religion is not only unnecessary for morality, but actually impedes it. In his work God is Not Great: Why Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens challenges religious believers to “name an ethical statement or action, made or performed by a person of faith that could not have been made or performed by
In his book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens dissects and criticizes the various claims of religions and the tragic events that have been caused by various religions. The title of the book sums up the arguments of Hitchens in this book in the fact that he makes many arguments of why “religion poisons everything.” The majority of the chapters in this book discuss why he believes religion to be a manmade notion that has led to more trouble than anything else in
Telling stories in great detail, whether verbally, or written down, has always been a part of human civilization among various cultures. Thus by knowing what our ancestors honored or thought to be entertaining, while passing down cultural values, we too are able to learn from them and put such knowledge into a modern context. Particularly dealing with the Christian religion/holy bible that was forcibly spread throughout the world with colonialization, many stories interpreted from it produces various
Other critical thinkers like Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and Michael Jordan have openly questioned this approval of violence by the bible and Jesus himself. According to Jordan religion has been used as an excuse for numerous acts of bloodshed and devastation in the world as evident in the prevalence of crusades and jihads from ancient times to present . He concludes that people feel justified to use violence from a religious standpoint and this is one of the reasons why religion is increasingly
1) “Does Science Make the Belief in God Obsolete?” by Kenneth Miller and Christopher Hitchens debate with no date of the discussion. 2) Biology professor Kenneth Miller’s central argument is that science should not undermine one’s faith in God. “Science itself does not contradict the hypothesis of God.” He makes this argument by stating that science explains the things that God has made and in doing so, trying to prove the existence of God through natural or scientific means does not
Christopher Hitchens the author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything uses his own personal experiences with religions and gives us an insight as to why he feels that religion is flawed. Throughout his book he uses arguments that is justified by modern science and social issues that uses religion as an excuse to execute unreasonable actions. His arguments are from the consumption of certain meats to the war against nations just for defending the righteousness of each religion. Hitchens
happened 5 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream Speech" on the Washington Mall 47 years ago, and Mother Teresa was born a century ago. Monday: Katrina; Tuesday: "I Have a Dream;" Today: Mother Teresa After spending a great deal of time on and devoting a good deal of space to the two previous subjects in this series on recent anniversaries, 2005 's devastating Hurricane Katrina and the world-changing 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I had looked
direct opposition with science and is a set-back in progress, and religion is a dangerous utility in the hands of influential fundamentalist groups and extremists. (The Root of All Evil- The God Delusion) Additionally, many other critical thinkers such as Sam Harris, Stephen Jay Gould, and Christopher Hitchens support and contribute to Dawkins’ ideas. Dawkins has made a clear and convincing case that religion truly does more harm than good, and the costs of religion greatly outweigh the benefits.
On pages 198 through 200, there are six claims that seemingly pander to religion. All of these claims are false because they all assume God exists. Ignoring this, however, I will attempt to give an honest, open-minded response to the best of my ability. Claim one, that, "if there is a God, good will win out over evil." If this is true to religious people, fantastic. I see nothing wrong with that. However, I believe it to be false. It encourages things like missions from Christian leaders. These
an annual retreat, she felt a tugging inside of her. She describes is as a “call within a call”. She says that the spirit told her that she was to leave the convent and “help the poor while living among them”. She treated it as a direct order from God saying that “to fail would have been to break her faith”. She began her missionary work in 1948 by venturing out into the slums and tending to the needs of the impoverished and starving. Her good works gained the attention of many quickly and even