Christian author who said atheists ‘exacerbate evil’ was c***ting on his wife with two women
Sep 22, 2018 02:38:11 #
Gosh, and I've never once c***ted on my wife. I must be sick...
http://deadstate.org/christian-author-who-said-atheists-exacerbate-evil-was-c***ting-on-his-wife-with-two-women/
After the death of the legendary author, journalist, polemicist, and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens, Larry Alex Taunton wrote a book that claimed Hitchens flirted with becoming a Christian while on his death bed and may have even acquired a belief in God. The book was slammed outright as a farce.
In a review of Taunton’s book, “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist,” The Guardian called its claims “meretricious” and said the author was exploiting his relationship with Hitchens to continue the tradition of religion apologists applying false narratives to secular figures after their deaths.
There is so much wrong with this book that one hardly knows where to start. But its fundamental error concerns the nature of intellectual inquiry itself. For Taunton, there is only one such pursuit, and it is unidirectional: if you are interested in morality, you are, axiomatically, interested in religion – which, for a southern evangelical, means the gospels. When Hitchens observes that a child and a piglet are morally different, Taunton says that “this was unambiguous theism, as he well knew”.
Of course, Hitchens knew no such thing. For him, as for any atheist, morality did not need the framework of religion. Philosophy did not depend upon the supernatural, and ethics did not require a godhead to be worth discussing – a discussion that can be traced back at least as far as Socrates in Plato’s Euthyphro.
Taunton’s penchant for intellectual dishonesty aside, it turns out his Christian morals were lacking in the first place. According to a report from Al.com, Taunton resigned from the ministry he founded after “he was confronted about allegations that he had inappropriate relationships with two young women on the ministry staff.”
http://deadstate.org/christian-author-who-said-atheists-exacerbate-evil-was-c***ting-on-his-wife-with-two-women/
After the death of the legendary author, journalist, polemicist, and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens, Larry Alex Taunton wrote a book that claimed Hitchens flirted with becoming a Christian while on his death bed and may have even acquired a belief in God. The book was slammed outright as a farce.
In a review of Taunton’s book, “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist,” The Guardian called its claims “meretricious” and said the author was exploiting his relationship with Hitchens to continue the tradition of religion apologists applying false narratives to secular figures after their deaths.
There is so much wrong with this book that one hardly knows where to start. But its fundamental error concerns the nature of intellectual inquiry itself. For Taunton, there is only one such pursuit, and it is unidirectional: if you are interested in morality, you are, axiomatically, interested in religion – which, for a southern evangelical, means the gospels. When Hitchens observes that a child and a piglet are morally different, Taunton says that “this was unambiguous theism, as he well knew”.
Of course, Hitchens knew no such thing. For him, as for any atheist, morality did not need the framework of religion. Philosophy did not depend upon the supernatural, and ethics did not require a godhead to be worth discussing – a discussion that can be traced back at least as far as Socrates in Plato’s Euthyphro.
Taunton’s penchant for intellectual dishonesty aside, it turns out his Christian morals were lacking in the first place. According to a report from Al.com, Taunton resigned from the ministry he founded after “he was confronted about allegations that he had inappropriate relationships with two young women on the ministry staff.”
Sep 22, 2018 03:53:20 #
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