There’s been a bit of shitty anti-Hitchensianism over at this postivist blog — causing a stir so it is…

Well — fuck them, and it, as well.

Giving it some welly for now (and will see what develops)…

I’m less than convinced by the veracity of this report. I’ve read and heard Hitchens say intemperate things that could easily be misconstrued so as to produce an account of the kind in the ’scienceblog’ post (and lets be frank here — scientists are — for the most part — fucking stupid cunts when it comes to matters politic). This is more convincing, since it relies more directly on words directly attributed to Hitchens, and is much less alarming.

I do think Hitchens’ resort to hyperbole inevitably gets him into trouble on this subject from time to time. The “God people are never good people” stuff, delightful and provocative as it is (oh it really is - because it is true) does tend to contradict his own utterances about “good people going about their harmless devotions” stuff elsewhere. It’s much less satisfying to say “Religion has the capacity to poison anything and usually does” than “Religion poisons everything”, but the former is more readily defensible, the latter is actually more difficult to defend- and indeed Hitchens himself goes out of his way to state a “whatever gets you through the night as long as you don’t force it on me” case elsewhere in his fine and gorgeous book.

At times he’s gone out of his way to insist that he has absolutely no quarrel or objection to people who rely on some religious tradition as a private affair, and has expressed sympathy for the religious who suffer the “phantom limb” after leaving their churches or mosques or what have you. Also, Hitchens is perfectly capable of maintaining friendships with “people of faith,” in his private life, and usually treats well-meaning God botherering fuckwits, in public debates, with the utmost respect, and even affection (which in my opinion he should not do).

What Hitchens is doing in Americayankland is far more important than what he fails to do sometimes with regards to nuance. And in the YanklandStates, it must grate on him terribly to be constantly and incessantly lectured and hectored about how American Christianists are just as bad, or as dangerous as Islamist nutbags, when they are clearly and demonstrably not.

If that was the point he had in mind, the point that atheists in America fail to sufficiently acknowledge the scourge of Islamist tyranny and theocratic fascists in the so-called “Muslim world” (and which may yet present existential threats to rationalist and enlightenment modes of thought and reality) then good for him. Really good for him.

Fuck the whiners, fuck the pussies and fuck the positivist church goers. Disgusting cretins and creeps of the highest order.

PS. if I had to spend 3 days with 700 self-styled freethinkers in Madison Wisconsin (an epicentre of self-satisfied, middle class campus radicalism tosspottery) I’d have been pissed the whole time as well.

Pass that Johnny Walker you tosser!!

Youtube here – really shitty quality — let us hope something better makes its way upwards towards the surface… first of four it is…