Fundie tells HITCHENS his anti-god thoughts derive from NIETZSCHE's syphiliptic delusions

[UTUSN]

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/05292007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm

Hitch Kicks Up Ungodly Furor

CHRISTOPHER "Hellbound" Hitchens has just finished a wacky, hick-state tour for his best-selling atheist manifesto, "God Is Not Great" - and he had no trouble whipping up hundreds of furious churchgoing folk and cheering nonbelievers who flocked to debates in Georgia, North Carolina and Florida. As confrontational as ever, newly minted American citizen Hitchens, during one heated discussion, invited an Orthodox Jew who got in his face to step outside, The Post's Kyle Smith reports. Later, during a phone-in interview with a family-values radio station, Hitchens was asked, "Are you familiar with the work of Nietzsche?" Hitchens, amused, said he had heard of the man. The interviewer continued, "Are you aware that when Nietzsche wrote some of his strongest anti-religion books, he was suffering from the effects of syphilitic delusions?" Hitchens replied that he'd heard the claim but was skeptical. The interviewer gently continued, "Might there be a medical explanation for your book?" Score one for the hicks! Hitchens, laughing, said, "At least they almost pronounced Nietzsche's name right."

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[hobbit709]

1. My medical explanation of the Book of Revelations

is that was written by someone on some bad acid. Of course, that's just MY theory.:rofl:

[UTUSN]

2. LOL

:thumbsup:

[Richard Steele]

3. Well, I believe exactly the opposite.

That was some very GOOD acid, IMHO!

[hobbit709]

4. Speaking from personal experience

it had to be bad acid. Good acid never made me see demons and things.

[Richard Steele]

12. Also from personal experience: Acid doesn't work on everyone.

Some of us have to make do with good weed
and the book of Revelations! :evilgrin:

Cahp 4:
3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone:
and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats:
and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting,
clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

[TrogL]

13. Probably ergot

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0703.htm#ergot

[Nickster]

5. How long until the nutbars start trying to say Hitchens is a lefty?

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. Run-of-the-mill NY Post "journalism" n/t

[kysrsoze]

7. I'm sure he wrote it in a typical drunken stupor. Nobody likes him - and for good reason

[TlalocW]

8. Hitchens challenged someone to step outside?

Unless the man is some kung-foo expert, all you gotta do is stay out of reach and make him move to come get you. That would wind him enough that the lightest tap would send him to the mat.

TlalocW

[AlCzervik]

9. i'm reading his new book right now, something i never thought i'd do btw

and while i disagree with him on many things his book is very good, very well written and he makes his points cogently.

[poverlay]

10. He's like the Peter O'Toole of the political world:

Better drunk than many are sober...
Then again I like O'Toole far more than I do Hitchens.

[sakabatou]

11. People don't like it when someone challenges

their core beliefs. Things like this always happen.