The Contrarian Delusion: How Hitchens Poisons Everything
Update: KKK paypal and friend of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, Tony Perkins, has orchestrated the hacking of this post. In doing so, he has drawn greater attention to his links to and ideological support for white supremacists. The photo of Christopher Hitchens posing with the Family Research Council’s Witherspoon Fellows was scrubbed from FRC’s site today out of fear that I would link to it again. Not only does the FRC want to suppress Perkins’ links to white supremacists, it wants to suppress its own association with Hitchens. This begs the question: who embarrasses Perkins more, the Klan or Christopher Hitchens?
Christopher Hitchens has made a career out of offending polite society. Among his greatest hits are his observation that women aren’t funny, his pooh-poohing of the Haditha massacre, and his defense of the jailed Holocaust denier David Irving, who he hailed as a “great historian.” More recently, Hitchens has volunteered himself as the licker of Wolfowitz’s comb, claiming that the corrupt World Bank president “did nothing wrong.”
Hitchens has cast these seemingly untenable positions as “contrarian,” lending himself not only an air of intellectual bravado, but a veneer of integrity as well. Despite his myriad personal flaws and political contradictions, Hitchens has managed to appear principled by trafficking in opinions that consistently outrage conservatives and liberals alike. He poses as a maverick, an intellectually macho literary gun-slinger who loves nothing more than provoking the indignant howls of the madding crowd. For Hitchens, everything is sacred, and therefore, everything is fair game.
Those who have followed the trajectory of Hitchens’ career knew it was only a matter of time before he set his sights on religion. What better way to piss off (and on) the masses than to unleash a full-frontal assault on God himself? So to great fanfare and perhaps nobody’s surprise, Hitchens has produced “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” an atheist manifesto intended to supplement Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion,” and (New Age torture fanatic) Sam Harris’ “The End of Faith.”
Hitchens spares no sacred cows in his latest work. He blasts religion as a form of child abuse, claims Jesus Christ never lived, and declares that those who give their children bar mitzvahs are “planning your and my destruction and the destruction of all hard-won human attainments.” The requisite attacks on Islam, so satisfying to his newfound neocon pals, are also featured at length.
Hitchens’ book might be mean-spirited and even bigoted; little more than a barely legible screed larded with predictable arguments and a scattershot of pretentious literary references, but who can say its author is unprincipled? This is contrarianism, right?
Please.
“God Is Not Great” represents little more than the disingenous posturings of a certified fraudmeister who has openly cavorted with the most reactionary elements of the Christian right. If Hitchens had any principles at all — if he truly feared the cultural and political consequences of the encroachment of religion into public life — he would have used his still-considerable influence to support organizations and causes that shore up the wall between church and state and which defend the rights of non-believers. Instead, Hitchens has done exactly the opposite.
In the Fall of 2005, Hitchens gladly accepted the invitation of the Family Research Council to speak before its Witherspoon Fellows. Hitchens subsequently regaled an audience of young Christian right cadres with excerpts from his book, “Thomas Jefferson: Author of America.” For attending Hitchens’ lecture and participating in several similar events, the FRC’s Witherspoon Fellows received academic credit for study at Pat Robertson’s Regent University, a school that has placed 150 of its graduates in Bush administration posts.
Presumably Hitchens was aware of the mission of the James Dobson-founded Family Research Council. How could such an intellectual giant be unaware of the FRC’s charge to “promote[] the Judeo-Christian worldview as the basis for a just, free, and stable society?” How could Hitchens have missed the FRC’s many “Justice Sunday” rallies staged at mega-churches and telecast across America to advance the confirmation of George W. Bush’s most theocracy-minded judicial picks? (To my knowledge, these rallies occured well after happy hour). And how could Hitchens have been ignorant to the FRC’s vitriolic crusade to ban abortion and undermine gay rights?
Regarding FRC President Tony Perkins’ ties to white supremacists, I would like to paraphrase Scripture and say, forgive Hitchens for he knows not what the hell he is doing. My well-publicized report detailing how Perkins once purchased the phone bank list of former Klan leader David Duke for the price of $82,500 and how he headlined a 2001 fundraiser for the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens had only been out for a few months. Maybe Hitchens was too busy dancing with Wolfowitz to read it.
But there is no excuse for Hitchens’ hypocrisy. With the release of “God Is Not Great,” Hitchens owes his readers an explanation for his appearance at the Family Research Council, the nerve center of a theocratic movement determined to weaken the foundations of constitutional democracy. Hitchens must explain why he accepted the FRC’s invitation to speak and whether he was paid for his appearance.
While awaiting Hitchens’ response, I will pray that in the future his version of the Straight Talk Express designates a driver.
Might want to change the image there, Max. I think the FRC is on to you…
You need to look up the term ‘hot link’ immediately (also NOOB).
Damn – pwned! On his own site no less.
Silly rabbit, the interweb’s not for kids!
Wow-how! What a douche bag you are Max! WTF?! How long will it take you to get the point thatyou’re being made an ass of?
lol, loser. hot link ftl
Max,
Nobody hacked your site.
Don’t lie to your own readers.
You did wrong.
Fess up and fix how you run your operation.
That’s all you have to do.
Collin
http://evangelicalperspective.blogspot.com
Max, call Al Gore, quick.
Ask him how this internet thingy works.
For Max’s education: hotlinking
Hacked!
Please explain how they ‘hacked’ their own site not your post.
Freaking n00b.
And they ’scrubbed’ their image so you coudn’t leach bandwidth.
It’s bad form to do this. Like using your neighbors water hose to water your lawn.
Max has a gift for packing a lot of nonsense into a short space so let’s separate it out and take it a little at a time:
First, for almost three years Max has been trying to peddle his nonsense about Tony Perkins being associated with David Duke and other white supremacists. In fact, he gets hopping mad that no one seems to pay attention when he repeats such scurrilous charges. The fact is that FRC has responded to that first claim about Duke back in 2005 and yet Max still repeats this lie. He also makes much ado about a speech before the CCC. It is true that when Perkins was a state legislator he spoke at lunch that was sponsored by that group. At the time he did not know of the groups racist agenda (be honest, have you ever heard of the “Council of Conservative Citizens?”). After he found out, he forcefully denounced the group. One question that Max never seems to ask is that if Tony Perkins is a racist, why do so many African-American churches and pastors support him?
Second, he claims that “Tony Perkins, has orchestrated the hacking of this post.” Get over yourself, Max. You’re not on a level where someone like Tony would take notice of you. My web editor Jared Bridges and I are the one who orchestrated this prank. We did it mostly because it would be fun and because we suspected you wouldn’t have a sense of humor (boy, were we right about that!). Also, “hacking” implies that we broke into your website rather than just changed a picture that you stole from our site.
Third, he says “In doing so, he has drawn greater attention to his links to and ideological support for white supremacists.” Stop and think about that for a second, Max. If your claims had any truth to them wouldn’t we try to avoid bringing attention to your article? Besides, since no one seems to have noticed what was going on it appears no one is reading your site anyway.
Fourth, he says, “The photo of Christopher Hitchens posing with the Family Research Council’s Witherspoon Fellows was scrubbed from FRC’s site today out of fear that I would link to it again.” It wasn’t “scrubbed” from our site. In fact, you are welcome to download a copy and post it on your site…if you ask nicely. All you had to do is ask, Max.
Fifth, he goes nuts when he says, “The Family Research Council is a paper tiger that fears me and employs juvenile pranks to attempt to silence me.” Was it a juvenile prank? Absolutely. And a pretty funny one, if I may say so myself. Also, how is linking to your posts (all four of them) an attempt to “silence” you? As for the charge of being a paper tiger, we just have one response: Meow.
The absolute best part of the post, though, is when he says, “Father forgive them for not knowing that I won’t stop bringing the pain.”
Why bring your daddy Sidney into this? And why should he forgive us? Oh well, I guess it doesn’t matter. We’ll be too busy hiding because Max is gonna Bring the Pain! Flee, flee, FRC, Max is gonna Bring the Pain!.
Dude, you are the biggest source of amusement I’ve had in years. Please, please keep it coming. You are a riot. Please bring all the pain to: 801 G Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001. We’re looking forward to it.
Ha! What a hoot. I’m no FRC fan, but Max, you’re a moron.
And I don’t mean for your silly guilt-by-association game,
I mean by your total ignorance of netiquette. Look up
hotlinking in wikipedia and maybe you’ll figure out
why so many thousands of people are laughing at your
stupidity.
Dork.
” … it wants to suppress its own association with Hitchens.>
Max. Dude. Did you not read my comment?
No one is going to be dumb enough to believe your tripe.
Let it go, man. You’ve gone beyond being petty.
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