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user-inactivated · 4335 days ago · link · · parent · post: How Christopher Hitchens proved that nothing is sacred - Salon.com
I wish he was still around too, for his turns of phrase. My point was, if you purport to be an intellectual atheist, you should be above trashing fundamentalists. It's too easy, and most "regular" Christians will agree with you anyway. So it cheapens your argument, and causes rational Christians to ignore you. The Bible is not held literally by very many Christians anymore, only those who happen to be most vocal, and arguing with people who think the world was created in six days is a supreme waste of time. EDIT: this basically came up in the discussion you linked, I guess, with the pastor calling his arguments "infantile." At least in God Is Not Great, I might agree to an extent.