Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@freddygray . Am I what? This person has blocked me, so I cannot see what he or she has said. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ukurbanite. You were not raised ‘without’ religious belief. You were raised to reject religious belief . It is comical that you have persuaded yourself you are ‘dispassionate’. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I hadcno idea proctology was involved. But in general I reckon people should stick to criticising their own country’s empires,or other people’s active current ones, rather than getting aerated about an empire that died 80 years ago. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

[email protected] bilge. ‘John’ is not a wild animal. He is a sentient human.A cowpat has ‘no belief’. A whelk probably has no belief. But no sentient human above the age of about nine has not considered the issue of God’s existence and either chosen a belief or become agnostic. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I fear for the effect Harry's drug abuse may have had on himself - and on society https://t.co/K0oA6C98Jc via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I not not think many Christian believers are crude Bible literalists, Much religious truth is expressed best in metaphor and parable. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ukurbanite What is the difference between the two formulations? Do you seek to claim that any sentient adult is unaware of the theist proposition, and has no opinions on it? Unless you are, these are two ways of saying the same thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Pompey in 1920 . https://t.co/1FkdhJwHka — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ukurbanite. Really? If you are so indifferent, why not also ignore it when it comes up, as I ignore conversations about cars and spor. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@falstaffbloom. Of course it is. If you thought for a moment, instead of locking your mind behind a wall of prejudice, you'd grasp it. Evidence is not the same thing as proof. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Central Liverpool in 1920 https://t.co/SBpr10mbuo — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

pre-Luftwaffe Plymouth, from Murray’s 1920 guide to England. https://t.co/UBZdvoAkdr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Einstein was not an Atheist https://t.co/XbQF3HtZYr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Anton_Af_Hjalm 2/2 As it is, the atheists struggles to explain the accidental existence of such a complex mechanism. The theistic explanation has the edge. See Einstein: https://t.co/XbQF3HtZYr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Anton_Af_Hjalm 1/2 A vast functioning universe operating to fine tolerances requires an explanation, and a possible explanation is an eternal deity. If nothing existed, there would be no need for any explanation, nor anyone around to seek it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@MaasNeotekProto Nothing in the tweet to which he responded so scornfully justifies his response. I gather that your opinion of the fficacy of face coverings, and of the proportionate danger of the virus, differs from mine. This does not entitle you to behave in this way. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Peking does not begin to match Moscow, not least because so much of its historic beauty was destroyed by Mao and the Red Guards. You must have visited the wrong bits of Moscow if it reminded you of Peking. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not really. The theist explanation is that God has never not existed. I can't see what the atheist alternative to this could be, given that there *is* a universe. Of course, if there *wasn't* a universe it'd be easy to dismiss the idea of an eternal God.But as there is, it isn't. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite so, @shaunwing, though the non-theist strugges to explain how a chance cosmic car crash could have produced a universe operating to such fine tolerances. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, yes, I do, .@mc77jimmy. Your tweet responds to one in which Icall for the application of reason, through the use of facts and logic. Why does this enrage you so? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@falstaffbloom. Religious belief deals with the *unknowable*, and is therefore a choice. But it is not made regardlsss of facts. There is strong evidence, most notably the existence of something rather than nothing, in support of a theistic explanation of the universe. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh, Moscow beyound al doubt the more interesting city. Petrograd is an artificial creation (melancholy and with a miserable dank climate).Moscow is the real frotier between Europe and Asia, vast, melodramatic and totally Russian. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have only visited one South American city, Caracas, and even so it is not in any way my favourite, .@gunnington — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

19th century St Petersburg, all innocent of its future as the scene of Lenin’s putsch in 1917, and of the starvation famine of the 1940s. And of how many times it would change its name. https://t.co/3jM0Jew5Vl — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This disintegrating map of 19th-century Moscow comes from a Murray’s guidebook heavily annotated by someone on a pilgrimage to see the battlefields Crimea. Distances given in Tsarist Versts ( almost exactly the same length as Kilometres, oddly) . https://t.co/R0b0kPPkDC — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1920 map of Oxford from Murray’s guide. As the city was never really bombed, much is the same, but can you find Titmouse Lane, now more politely renamed ‘Tidmarsh Lane’? https://t.co/wkCpGCmg2u — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

So @aylmer51 how porous is the weave of a typical face covering? How big are the gaps between mask edges and skin? How big are the Aerosols? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Never, .@capbeefhear69. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @shaunmwing: @ClarkeMicah @CurtainSilicon Oh no, joviality? Probably worth noting, Mr Hitchens has the Deutssche BundesStiftung fur Hum… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, thanks .@thelivingvote. I can see and read this. Who allocates the 'independent' constituencies? Who decides who can stand in them? — PolitiTweet.org