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This evil man [Christopher Hitchens], who writes about how religion poisons everything (though his real target is of course Christianity), is welcome to publish in almost every “conservative†venue in America. Why? Because he supports President Bush’s supposed war on terror. Just wondering, but if Hitchens wrote a book called “How Free Enterprise and the Rule of Law Poison Everything,†or if he wrote a book called “How the Belief in Universal Human Freedom and Equality Poisons Everything,†or if he wrote a book called “How Civil Rights for Blacks Poisons Everything,†or if he wrote a book called “How Mass Third-World Immigration Poisons Everything,†or if he wrote a book called “How Homosexual Liberation Poisons Everything,†or if he wrote a book called “How Bush’s War on Islamic Fascism Poisons Everything,†does anyone think that FrontPage Magazine or City Journal would continue publishing his articles? ~ Lawrence Auster
Philosophically, all these neocons are liberal globalists, so they certainly would find a Trotskyite like Hitchens less offensive than someone actually interested in preserving Western man and his traditions.
Filmer on 24 Apr 2007 at 6:04 pm #
Auster would be alright if he would just get right on Lincoln and the WBTS.
Dmitri on 25 Apr 2007 at 1:55 pm #
I’m sure religion poisioned Nazi Germany and Communist Russia too. That’s why they killed millions, because of Religion…
The Neo-Cons make me sick to my stomach, I want to barf now.
J.D. on 25 Apr 2007 at 5:14 pm #
I agree with Mr. Filmer re/ Auster.
There was an interesting article & discussion about Hitchencs over at Touchstone Magazine Blog about a year or so ago:
http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2006/06/a_hitch_in_his_.html#comments
I think a big part of Hitchens’ good relations with the mainstream conservative establishment can be understood by viewing American politics less through ideas or competing philosophies and more through the lens of class structure: Hitchens is part of the same elite-class as Michael Novak, regardless of who dabbles in what religion or ideology.
Joe Redneck, on the other hand, will always just be one of the hoi-poloi — regardless of whether he goes to church every Sunday or not.
J.D. on 25 Apr 2007 at 5:21 pm #
It was rather nice how Mr. Piatak of Chronicles popped in and pretty much stuck a fork in that Touchstones discussion.
It was a nice conclusion that pretty much shut everybody up…
Ron on 25 Apr 2007 at 6:24 pm #
Christopher Hitchens is a militant athiest who see Islam as a threat. He is by no means a neoconservative. Rather, he is a left-liberal, who happens not to hate the the entirety of the West more than Islam.
Ron
PS. Lawrence Auster is a Traditional supporter of the war on Islamism.
Filmer on 25 Apr 2007 at 8:31 pm #
Auster is against the Iraq War, however. I think he was for it at first, but is against it as a crusade for democracy.