There was a debate in Toronto yesterday, between Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair on whether religion is a force for good in the world, and I think readers here properly predicted the results: Hitchens was dynamic, clear, and forceful, while Blair was a simpering, weak, maker of feeble excuses. It is resolved: religion is wrong and evil.
You can get full accounts from the BBC, the Guardian, and the New Humanist.
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So I was reading this thread on John Quiggin's blog when the discussion turned to Tim Blair's policy of banning any dissenters from commenting on his blog.
Tim Blair has a post where he has over seventy links to posts by John Quiggin that mention Kyoto.
In my previous post I noted that Tim Blair had posted: