United Muscovite Nations wrote:Neanderthaland wrote:I don't think it's even that. You'd never see Hitchens attacking Humanism, and in fact I've read works of his where he strongly defended theological studies.
Do you have a quote from that defense? I'd be interested in seeing it. I of course realize there's different levels, so you have a point. I've mainly seen Sam Harris, and he seems to be of a more extreme empiricism than the rest.
Well, for instance, the first minute of this:
https://youtu.be/uwGYl-mIbb0?t=92