Hitchens had much good to say. Neither an authoritarian regime, or God. Yep, i'm with you that a general sense of optimism beats the other, along with extra-healthy ration of reality. Or, heh, at least a conscious attempt to get as close to it as we can.
"He had some pithy lines on that topic Like, "who wants to be controlled by a totalitarian regime, not me?..""
Yep, it's been a long evolution. Chuckle, yep, have checked on your "Check it out; 11k yrs to arrive at Beyonce + NFL" one, to get a clearer sense of what your 11k was getting at, so
Timeline of human prehistory
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* 11,600 years ago (9,600 BC): An abrupt period of global warming accelerates the glacial retreat; taken as the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch.
*11,200–11,000 years ago: Meltwater pulse 1B, a sudden rise of sea level by 7.5 m within about 160 years.
*11,000 years ago (9,000 BC): Earliest date recorded for construction of temenoi ceremonial structures at Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey, as possibly the oldest surviving proto-religious site on Earth.[32]
*11,000 years ago (9,000 BC): Emergence of Jericho, which is now one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Giant short-faced bears and giant ground sloths go extinct. Equidae goes extinct in North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_prehistory#Holocene --
To your link - The Jay-z NFL deal and the controversy around it is all news to me, and very interesting. This one, linked in yours was ended up a good introduction
Tearex, so-called Judeo-Christian values did not come out of thin air, was my reaction to your claim. No, America is not founded on Judeo-Christian values [...] America is founded on humanistic values that sprung from the 18th-century Enlightenment: https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124474319
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