BEEN WATCHING THIS BEAUTIFULLY-CAST FORMAL DEBATE: DOES Religion poison everything? IS reason everything? NOT one of those So-and-so trashes an idiot videos. Moderator: Whats the best/most-troubling point the other made? SKIP the opening blather, start at 11:40. Yes, nearly 12 minutes in! Just know this: This was a public debate, held during the World Series in a synagogue before an audience of 750. It was paid for by a grant from a private donor [seemimgly a friend of the temple], the greater [New York] Jewish Community and Jewish Week newspaper. CAVEAT: Popular, scholarly atheist Christopher Hitchens speaks as if Rabbi Wolpe should defend Islam, the Pope, literal bible-reading and sin conceived of as thought crimes, whereas the Rabbi represents the tradition of Talmudic study, the root of ethics. LISTEN! Visuals unimportant, you can do other stuff at the same time. Unusual, memorable points made by both, who quote each others work and riposte with good-natured, sometimes laugh-aloud humor.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 03:25:12 +0000
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