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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I suspect that the reason Hitchens would have been obliterated in a Bible debate with a biblical scholar is because he is an amateur possessing only a fraction of understanding of the disciplines required to accurately handle ancient texts. It seems like a pretty safe bet to me.
As for more specifics regarding his arguments, these depend entirely upon the topic of debate, but I expect that he likely would have been owned on his poor perspective of historical and cultural contexts, his misunderstanding and misappropriation of ancient perspectives of literature, and the anachronistic problems with his own hermeneutic.
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To be certain, Hitchens fight was with those whose belief that the religious tomes by which they aspired was the word of a God. The fact that scholars know better would remove that arena from Hitchens scorn.
Hitchens battled the ignorant on their ground.