210a: Hitchens - Religion is the first chance to explain human nature and the natural order

“We were baffled by climatic and cataclysmic events: earthquakes, tidal waves, storms, lightning. All of this was to us terrifying. Religion works as an attempt, then, to make sense of things. We are pattern-seeking mammals, after all. It’s a good thing that we are, because if we weren’t pattern-seeking mammals, our curiosity would have no outlet and we wouldn’t be capable of the great innovations that have liberated us from so many things, including religion.”

SHOW NOTES:

“God is Not Great” https://ffrf.org/outreach/awards/emperor-has-no-clothes-award/item/11978-christopher-hitchens 

Hitchens books: https://amzn.to/3iGsX3S

Peterson-Žižek debate - Wikipedia

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson%E2%80%93%C5%BDi%C5%BEek_Debate 

Slavoj Zizek debates Jordan Peterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsHJ3LvUWTs

285: STRATEGY. How the Log Way Around is The Shortest Distance Between Two Points https://jockopodcast.com/2021/06/09/285-strategy-how-the-log-way-around-is-the-shortest-distance-between-two-points/ 

Caesar’s Messiah - Joseph Atwill https://archive.org/details/pdfy-9SJQolWByYI1w0U4 

Collision - Hitchens and Wilson https://amzn.to/3gS86IA 

Christopher Hitchens on Charlie Rose - A conversation about Bill Clinton (April 28, 1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_RqyXT5bt4 

Metal Mass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Mass

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