Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Who cares what you think of Hitchens whether you think he is a "moron" or he is your favorite philosopher. Was there any once of truth to his statement? Unless you are willfully blind to what is going on in the world you would know what Hitchens was warning us about is true. However he was a moron for leaving out the part where the flaming liberals will roll out the red carpet for the islamists jihadists.

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Being blind necessarily does not equate to being ignorant. In the original sense of the word "ignorant", as in lacking in knowledge, awareness or perception. Not the more colloquial sense as being rude, being ignorant of manners.

Blind Willie McTell was blind, and he probably had done more reading of books than you will ever hope to achieve in your lifetime. Helen Keller wrote twelve published books, and she was blind too. How books have you published?