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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Wow, are we here again? This is precisely the argument that the Christian right was making against Hitchens ten years ago. He responded, of course; this was an entire chapter of God is Not Great.
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Whoa, if Hitchens said it then it must be true? He was an amazing wordsmith, but his opinions are far (FAR) from infallible.
I love Hitchens, and I'm not Christian, and not socially right-leaning. Appeal to authority doesn't really hold water here. It's not a discussion or a debate, it's what happened. Feel free to make the case that humanism was forced to evolve since rise and fall of Hitler (or that nazism distorted the intent), but it doesn't change history.
Nobody wants to be associated with nazis. But that doesn't mean they have a problem with slagging the SPL for calling attention to white nationalism and extremism as a problem, as we've just seen.
EDIT: That, or he didn't even look at the point of the post or the link itself and just had to add something negative about the SPL because... because?