Hitchens Archive

  • A Response to ‘The Delusion of Free Will’

    A Response to ‘The Delusion of Free Will’

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
    What Mr Broderick says in his article (or rather, allows Madeleine Bunting to say in hers without any cross-examination) is that free will is an illusion, and that humans are collective beings acting in a cosmos — that this justifies spiritual enquiry, and that Hitchens/Dawkins et al. are nasty for attacking 'god' as the vicious god of the Old Testament when 'god' is just a word used to describe the "infinite and transcendent merging of the individualised sense of awareness with the wider dimension".

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  • The Delusion of Free Will

    The Delusion of Free Will

    Posted on September 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
    Before it gets forgotten, here’s an article by Madeleine Bunting from last Monday’s Guardian. I want to draw attention to it because it is an instance of a mainstream article touching on an obvious fact that almost the entire human race is in denial of, especially the western intelligentsia, and most pertinently secular rationalists.

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  • Christopher Hitchens on Free Speech and Freedom of Expression

    Christopher Hitchens on Free Speech and Freedom of Expression

    Posted on May 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Hitchens on freedom of speech: “This speech is from a debate at Hart House, University of Toronto. Christopher Hitchens’ speech is in favor of decriminalizing hate speech, and why that free speech must include hate speech. The debate (and lecture by Hitchens), which included members...

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