It’s enthusiasm time again. Let me know what you think via twitter at @JamieSmartCom, on my Facebook page, or on my blog below.
1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
It’s nearly 7 years since he passed away, and the world is poorer for his absence. There are many of his views I disagree with, but Hitchens seems pretty on point with this one (from one of his electric debate performances):
“The problem to begin with the: replacement of reason by faith the discarding of the one thing that makes us important and useful and different from other primates in favour of something that requires no evidence and just requires incantation is not good for you. If Dr. McGrath or anyone else could come up with an example of a society which had fallen into slavery and bankruptcy and beggary and terror and misery because it had adopted the teachings and the precepts of Spinoza and Einstein and Pierre Bayle and Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine then I’d be impressed and that would be a fair test on a level playing field. But you will find no such example..” Read More →
