Why All Religious Belief is Irrational | Christopher Hitchens

Former Trotskyist -and permanent alcoholic - Christopher Hitchens - was a leading light of the obnoxious " New Atheism ". His road show was all about trashing FAITH , but the criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq strengthened his faith in American imperialism and Israeli Zionism ( even with no belief in Old Testament stories ). As a long time independent democratic socialist I have suspected for years now that the Israel Lobby world wide was propping up the " New Atheism " . The WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party in " OUR democracy " is also a pillar of Zionism . Does the morality of the New Atheism support genocide in Gaza , Palestine ? Christopher Hitchens' book " God Is Not Great " - how religion poisons everything " is a classic of the New Atheism cult, an elitist snob cult not so much opposed to irrationalism that it opposes irrational capitalism and arrogant American imperialism together forever with Israeli Zionism in crimes against humanity. The former Trotskyist Hitchens might have considered that the biggest mistake of the old Soviet Union was not SOCIALISM - it was making itself an " officially atheist " tyranny. American author Gore Vidal had no use for Christopher Hitchens ( even after he proudly discovered that his grandmother was Jewish ( ? ) . Anyway ,Christopher Hitchens deserves a footnote in a revised edition of Leon Trotsky's " The Revolution Betrayed ". u/flintlock_biro avatar flintlock_biro • 11y ago • I was big into Hitch when I started to embrace atheism more, but the more I listened to him the more I realised that he has a lot of really colonial hang-ups. His praise towards the Iraq war is my best example, and I remember finding a lot of his rhetoric bigoted. Upvote 32 Downvote Share Share 38 more replies Infamous_Harry • 11y ago • Well, he simply just didn't think socialism could be achieved and that the era of socialism is over. I personally think he was just ideologically burnt out. Upvote 27 Downvote Share Share 1 more reply u/instantdebris avatar instantdebris • 11y ago • Hitchens: "Capitalism survived a number of its crisis and collapses, and has reemerged as a very dynamic and innovative force." Of course, he doesn't realize that one could say that for slavery. Upvote 6 Downvote Share Share 1 more reply u/Robertooshka avatar Robertooshka • 11y ago • I loved so many things about this man, but when he changed some of his views, I was disappointed. He got me into reading Orwell which really helped me. Upvote 5 Downvote Share Share 13 more replies trchttrhydrn • 11y ago • I've read his old essays on socialist topics and he was never a socialist in my honest opinion. An opportunist, a liberal anti-communist, a phony trotskyist, many things, but never a genuine socialist. I used to like him, like others here, because of his witty remarks on the absurdity of religion, but now I watch with glee as he gets absolutely destroyed in the debate with George Galloway (not that Galloway is perfect either), and I spit on his grave for his racist and colonial views. This is my perspective on the phenomenon of hitchens: he was a great prose stylist with quite an inventive wit, and the fact that he was more than once able to hit home runs when lobbed the underhand slow pitch of the biggest absurdities of religion is not surprising at all. Not that impressive, and not enough to overlook his bullshit. Upvote 7 Downvote Share Share OPINIONS ON CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS 1 more reply u/prematurepost avatar prematurepost OP • 11y ago • starts at 18:15 for mobile users. Upvote 5 Downvote Share Share [deleted] • 11y ago • He seemed to just make stuff up out of whole cloth without really thinking through alternative arguements whenever it suited him, that's all I see here. Fair enough he was outspoken against religion, but that does not a moral person make. He also wrote that Vanity Fair piece claiming that women aren't funny for biotruths reasons, which was maybe weird, and definitely unnecessary: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/01/hitchens200701 Upvote 2 Downvote Share Share 6 more replies