Part 10 of series: god is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens: A Response Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Christopher Hitchens loves science. Rightly, he understands that science has enabled human beings to understand our world in astounding ways. In many ways he sees science as replacing religion in human experience. For…

Excerpt The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. Psalm 135:15 Click here to read all of Psalm 135 Prayer O Lord, I don’t worship literal idols. I don’t have silver or gold statues of gods before which I bow down. But I am caught up in a culture…

Part 9 of series: god is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens: A Response Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Yesterday I began to express my concerns about Christopher Hitchens’s tendency to ridicule people with whom he disagrees, especially people of faith. I explained that, in my experience, a debater resorts to ridicule…

Part 8 of series: god is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens: A Response Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Christopher Hitchens is an engaging writer, a master of clever rhetoric. Please understand that I’m not using “rhetoric” here in a derogatory manner. I respect the person who is a master of words,…

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