Originally Posted by BOWSINGER
“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think—though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one—that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything



Seems to that “philosophy” was advanced long before science. These writers from 2000 years ago were not just ignorant sheep herders.

Further,,,, what about Plato, Socrates..... .... were they examples of the “ bawling and fearful infancy”:of our species?

Hitchens sounds like a petulant child, angry that the pablum he serves up is not gobbled up by all.

Look at what he actually says.... look at how he tries to characterize people of the past, No, they were not stupid and intellectually dense.

This Hitchens quote is a pure miss on many levels.

Last edited by TF49; 06/20/20.
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