210b: Hitchens - Eschatology is inseparable from religious faith

June 30, 20211h 27m

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"Remember again part of our charge against religion, our belief that it is fundamentally wicked and antihuman, is precisely its eschatology. Religion is predicated on the idea that our time here is short and should be shorter, that our job is to bring on the end of days. This is just a veil of tears and guilt and shame. This, the only life we have—the only life we have that contains music and art and literature and solidarity and sex and love—all of this should be swept away. We can't wait for the end times to come. That's what they all have to believe."

SHOW NOTES:

"God is Not Great" https://ffrf.org/outreach/awards/emperor-has-no-clothes-award/item/11978-christopher-hitchens

Hitchens books: https://amzn.to/3iGsX3S

Peterson-Žižek debate - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson%E2%80%93%C5%BDi%C5%BEek_Debate

Slavoj Zizek debates Jordan Peterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsHJ3LvUWTs

285: STRATEGY. How the Log Way Around is The Shortest Distance Between Two Points https://jockopodcast.com/2021/06/09/285-strategy-how-the-log-way-around-is-the-shortest-distance-between-two-points/

Caesar's Messiah - Joseph Atwill https://archive.org/details/pdfy-9SJQolWByYI1w0U4

Collision - Hitchens and Wilson https://amzn.to/3gS86IA

Christopher Hitchens on Charlie Rose - A conversation about Bill Clinton (April 28, 1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_RqyXT5bt4

Metal Mass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Mass

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