Christopher Hitchens: Rhetoric, Religion, and Ramadan
Decoding the Gurus
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The Influence of Religion on Ideas
I definitely agree with you that religion like any ideological framework does have an influence like ideas do matter and to give a personal example there I had colleagues and very good friends that I worked with in Japan who were from Iran. One fellow in particular said one day he mentioned to me somewhat pretty casually actually that all homosexuals were child molasses and probably should be killed. It took him up on this and we spoke it in his quite embarrassed right because he didn't realize that I had gay people in my family. There's nothing about his personality that was filled with hate or intolerance or anything like that. He's like a gentle normal person I'm sure he's in favor of more democracy more liberalism all
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