A few years ago, I wrote an article criticizing Christopher Hitchens’ Razor. This morning, I found myself tweeting about the same topic, and I decided to post my string of tweets here. So now, without further ado, Christopher Hitchens’ Deepity… One of the best examples of a deepity (i.s. a pseudo-profundity) comes from Christopher Hitchens: […]
Hitchens's Razor
One of the dumber things Christopher Hitchens said
Christopher Hitchens was a master rhetorician. And like many a master rhetorician, he said more than a few things which are (1) memorable, (2) apparently profound, and (3) actually kind of dumb. Consider the following oft-quoted sentence from God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything: “What can be asserted without evidence can also be […]
