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  1. Robert J. Hutchinson _ The Politically Incorrect

    Harris's basic arguments are hardly original, but they have an unfortunate pedigree. For more than three hundred years, from the French philosophes to Marx, Lenin, and the "death of God" theologies of the 1960s, we have been assured that, freed from the superstitions and imbecilities of organized religion, rational secularists could make the world into a utopia. The results have invariably been horrific-from the Terror of the French Revolution to the terrors of Nazism and Communism. Contrary
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  2. Robert J. Hutchinson _ The Politically Incorrect

    In fact, many of the most famous anti-Christian polemicists of the last 200 years-who sought to use science to justify their unbelief-never themselves set foot in a laboratory or conducted a single field observation. That includes the Marquis de Sade {a writer}, Percy Bysshe Shelley {a poet}, Friedrich Nietzsche {a philologist by training}, Algernon Swinburne {a poet}, Bertrand Russell {a philosopher}, Karl Marx {a philosopher}, Robert Ingersoll {a lecturer}, George Bernard Shaw {a playwright}, Vladimir Lenin {a communist revolutionary}, Joseph Stalin {a communist dictator}, H. L. Mencken {a newspaper columnist}, Jean-Paul Sartre {a philosopher}, Benito Mussolini {a fascist dictator}, Luis Buñuel {Spanish filmmaker}, Clarence Darrow {a lawyer}, Ayn Rand {a novelist}, Christopher Hitchens {a journalist}, Larry Flynt {a pornographer}, George Soros and Warren Buffett {investors}, and Penn and Teller {magicians}."
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