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: liveonearth (liveonearth) wrote,
2009-11-07 22:56:00

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2009-11-07 22:56:00

Catholics Lose Debate to Hitchens and Fry

Here find five links to youtube to follow a brilliant debate on the proposition "The Catholic Church is a force for good in the world." The Intelligence Squared debaters include Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry against the proposition, and Archbishop Onaiyekan and Ann Widdecombe attempting to defend it. Hitchens and Fry utterly devastate the Catholics, and I was frankly cracking up.

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Catholics Lose Debate to Hitchens and Fry

QotD: Life is like jumping from a plane

QotD: Don't Try to Answer Unanswerable Questions

The Problem with Democracy: We are Horny, Greedy and Cruel

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