Originally posted by Proper Knob
Christopher Hitchen's has finally succumbed to his battle with cancer aged 62.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16212418
A few quotes to raise a smile (hopefully).
“Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and ...[text shortened]... That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.”
The person on earth who had the most to say about faith was Jesus Christ. At least what Peter, John, James, and Paul said about faith was preceeded by what they learned from Jesus Christ.
The impact of this man, Jesus, on the world was cataclysmic. What was the source of the power of that personality - surrendering up the mind from reason?
No, rather Jesus reasoned with God. Jesus included God in His reasoning process. Jesus left room for the power of God, the character of God, the possibility of God, the ways of God, the faithulness of God.
What God was was in the reasoning of Jesus in its inception stage, and throughout its process, and included in His conclusion. Jesus reasoning process included God at every stage.
I think Jesus is the most powerful man who ever walked the earth. He spoke a great deal about, and demonstrated faith in His Father.
“Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.”
But Hitchens didn't give up on
journalism because journalists cannot agree on everything.