{"id":1859,"date":"2009-04-10T13:46:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T21:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2009-04-10T13:46:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T21:46:27","slug":"one-against-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/one-against-five\/","title":{"rendered":"One Against Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I sat through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tangle.com\/view_video.php?viewkey=175ad626166c55fdb819\">this whole thing<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 it&#8217;s\u00a0two hours, and not really my cup of tea. Hitch is always entertaining, but there&#8217;s really nothing new here if you&#8217;ve read his books. Must have been a slow afternoon. I confess I got the clip from far-lefty\u00a0science blogger P.Z. Myers.<\/p>\n<p>It speaks well of Hitch that he&#8217;d go up against five, count &#8217;em five, believers; though when you get into it you realize the competition wasn&#8217;t\u00a0all that fierce, and Hitch has done enough of this stuff on his book tours he can pretty much phone it in. \u00a0 Still, I though Hitch was nonplussed a couple of times.  His best moment was in\u00a0the question period at the end, when asked what he thought of believers who didn&#8217;t evangelize.<\/p>\n<p>I found myself thinking (and not at all originally, of course) that the Afterlife business is a <em>really<\/em> big divider.  If\u00a0you can swallow that, the rest of religion goes down pretty easily; and if not, not.<\/p>\n<p>Weird to see that one guy keep pounding on those Scholastic word-game arguments for the existence of God.  Is that stuff still current in theology\u00a0departments? I thought of young Bertie Russell in Trinity Lane, throwing his can of tobacco in the air and exclaiming: &#8220;Great God in\u00a0boots!\u00a0\u2014 the ontological argument is sound!&#8221; He&#8217;d just been converted (though very temporarily) to Hegelianism\u00a0\u2026 yet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/ontological-arguments\/\">this guy<\/a> says Hegel never put forward an ontological argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I sat through this whole thing\u00a0\u2014 it&#8217;s\u00a0two hours, and not really my cup of tea. Hitch is always entertaining, but there&#8217;s really nothing new here if you&#8217;ve read his books. Must have been a slow afternoon. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/one-against-five\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}