Tonight I sat up for this debate of October 22, 2007 between Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and Dinesh D'Souza, author of What's So Great About Christianity. They debated at The King's College on the topic of "Is Christianity the Problem?" Now, having watched all sorts of debates on the Internet, I was ready to drag the time slider as I usually do to skip the boring bits.
Well, there were no boring bits this time--every minute of it was as revealing of D'Souza's calm use of the tools of logic as it was of Hitchen's fundamentalist ferocity against the very idea of God in general and salvation through Christ in particular. Also, an interesting linguistic comparison between British-born Hitchens and Mumbai-born D'Souza--who's the "native speaker" here?
If you'd like to watch this 90-minute debate, click here.
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