Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Fine column from @victoriapeckham Especially liked ‘birth, like death, feels like a glimpse of a secret dimension’. ‘Ritual isn’t rational but it tempers our grief’ https://t.co/m7UgdkBkVq — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

People should attend to their own beliefs and lives. It really is idiotic for Christians to go round telling other Christians they don’t measure up. How can they possibly know? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

So what? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@bvgroat I never ‘agree to disagree’ except on matters of faith or taste where the issue cannot be solved using facts and logic. I regard all offers to do so as white flags. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@johnsmith91234 . The existence of the universe itself is *evidence* but not *proof*. One of the most basic questions facing the inquiring, open mind is 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' Then there is the fact that the universe operates to very fine tolerances. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

WEll spotted. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I simply don't think this is a good metaphor. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Pickpricklypear: @ClarkeMicah Yer a walloper Hitchens but despite myself I like you — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@robertmurphy. I agree with you that it doesn't follow. It's a matter of choice, and therefore a matter of desire. If I can accept that atheists might be right, why are they so reluctant to do me the same favour? Some unexplained things are very important. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tonynewland12. I have been searching since my teens for an instrument that would enable to tell me which is the right side of history and which is the wrong one. No luck so far. I think one of my Great Aunts had one, a lovely thing of brass and oak. May I borrow yours? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The profoundly conservative and Chritain nature of monarchy - why republicans don't like it, and why I do. https://t.co/9F4GpFukbw — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A Youtube interview on the political implications of the new reign, the need to replace the police and the necessity of free speech for republicans https://t.co/JXtY8M5VtA — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@shaun_hutchings — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Category error, @hadfieldpam, their existence would not explain anything that we cannot explain. Whereas the very existence of the universe, operating to fine tolerances, remains unexplained. Einstein, though not a religious believer, was not an atheist either. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What the monarch is required to pledge at the Coronation. You can see why some people wouldn’t like this - and why I do like it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @kynohy: @ClarkeMicah 2/ “With this sword do justice, stop the growth of iniquity, protect the holy Church of God, help and defend widow… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, what *I* mean is that the statement ‘ I lack belief’ is an obvious evasion . Belief, on matters which are explanatory but cannot be settled by experiment etc, is driven by desire. @hadfieldpam — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@jprnyct. The monarch is Supreme Governor of the Church of England, not its religious head. The post exists to sustain Article XXXVII of the XXXIX Articles, which says 'the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) hath no authority in this realm of England'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @FrankWinfield5: 'It is not the function of the police to patrol our minds' - Peter Hitchens on free speech https://t.co/PiZUDOSFQc via… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @malverngibbous. There is a very good scene in Kingsley Amis's ghost story novel 'The Green Man', in which God appears to the central character, and (among other things) gives him a silver crucifix. It's a fierce illustration of the inevitability of material decay. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Perhaps @malverngibbous. But in the end, eternity has to triumph. When I was a child I was infuriated by the the hymn 'The Day Thou Gavest' because of its insistence that eartly powers all pass away. Now I just think it is true... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Goodness @oldak, that would rule out an awful lot of world leaders, especially if was extended back, say, to 2003. And if we banned leaders of *corrupt* countrues, too, the overseas gallery would be pretty empty. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@politicsjoe_uk I think this tweet should also mention that I say new local forces should be trained and established *before* this. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Frizelda still working very hard. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@gnotwoke. Your twitter handle aserts that you are not woke, but your argumnets suggest that you are barely conscious of your surroundings. In a constitutional monarchy, the King does not rule over you, and the power of the state is not enforced by either lords or knights. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hadfieldpam. It is a feeble dodge. Cowpats and lumps of rock certainly 'lack belief'. Great crested newts and cormorants *may* lack belief. I cannot tell. But every conscious human adult has considered the existence of God and has decided what to believe about it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'Surely a constitution which gives real executive power to Donald Trump is more primitive than one which gives ceremonial loyalty to a harmless hereditary man, while reserving real authority to an elected parliamentary government subject to law?' https://t.co/kDhwj1nr2d — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @InfovoreMatt: Great paragraph in a great article https://t.co/KW9nEHtO8E — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Because the law must be consistent with the existing body of law, because they must themselves obey it, because the revelation of personal interest or corruption in a lawmaker disqualifies him or her from the post. — PolitiTweet.org