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Christopher Hitchens: Rhetoric, Religion, and Ramadan

Decoding the Gurus

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The Importance of Historical Contingencies

I find it difficult to have any particular, I mean, my problem is with those ideological frameworks that people can use to justify what they do. But in the world that we live in now, the religions are not equally likely to murder you for profanying their profits. It might be true that one particular ideological framework might have been particularly at fault at this point in time but just pick a different time and you can find examples that that points somewhere else.

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