what do you think of him?
2007-08-25 16:34:03 · 11 answers · asked by Cister 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
capn edib!! you still didn't answer my question. Great people in your list, but pointless answer. You could have your own question!! lol
2007-08-25 16:56:11 · update #1
He's pretty cool and not afraid to confront religious people about where they go wrong. He puts it bluntly and in no uncertain terms.
Here's a cool little tidbit...he was Devil's Advocate at Mother Teresa's canonization hearing. He kept her from being canonized for now.
atheist
2007-08-25 16:45:36 · answer #1 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Interesting character.
Supports the American fight in Iraq.
Calls himself a man of the left.
Loves to be the only one to say bad things about someone who just died.
He told how when Mother T. was nominated for sainthood, the Vatican embassy asked him to come in and give the other side of the story.
2007-08-25 23:44:35 · answer #2 · answered by hunter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He certainly tells it like HE thinks it is. Quite the pessimist really. You can always count on him to find the crass, base and just plain depressing side of whatever is being discussed.
He has interesting ideas, but frankly, because everything that he says is so negative I'm beginning to take what he says with a slightly bigger grain of salt. Its beginning to look as though he knows perfectly well that people come to him for the negative slant to whatever is being thrown at various talking heads to yammer on about. And that maybe he has other things to say but says only what he knows he'll be paid the most to say.
Not that this makes him any different from anyone else, but you always kinda hoped for better from him.
2007-08-26 00:05:24 · answer #3 · answered by jennette h 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
And what do you think of........
Edward Gibbon,
Henry Stubbe,
Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb,
Manabendra Nath Roy ,
Michael H. Hart,
Thomas Arnold ,
Marmaduke William Pickthall,
Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène),
Moses Gaster ,
Lothrop Stoddard,
Friedrich Albert Lange,
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr vonHumboldt
,Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb,
Philip Khuri Hitti,
John William Draper,
Turpin, etc..................
They all are greatest scholars world has ever produced and they had different opinion than Hitchens.
EDIT : What's your question anyway ? Can you be little elaborating, dear buddy ?
2007-08-25 23:49:25 · answer #4 · answered by ♪¢αpη' ε∂ïß♪ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Well,, Hello cister,,,
I havent said hello for a while, and Chris,well hes areal pirate,,ha dont know him but got a chance to say hello ,,lol<>R<>
2007-08-25 23:59:27 · answer #5 · answered by traylorrandy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He's extremely intelligent, I really enjoyed his book. I wish I could be as eloquent and informed as he is. I can't see anyone who reads his book not having a change of heart about religion, or at least having doubts.
2007-08-25 23:54:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I think he's an arrogant blowhard. He speaks as if his opinions are indisputable facts.
Some of those errant opinions have included "full speed ahead" on the invasion of Iraq and now he's saying Mother Teresa, of all people, discovered there was no God but she persisted in an atheistic charade.
CAN"T STAND HIM!!!
2007-08-25 23:47:29 · answer #7 · answered by Babs 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
He seems to be telling it like it is.
2007-08-25 23:40:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
pretty neat guy
2007-08-26 18:47:04 · answer #9 · answered by lfrets 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Smart, but lost.
2007-08-25 23:45:26 · answer #10 · answered by L.C. 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋