D'Souzaphone

Dinesh D'Souza, the crank whose new book I'm told pimps the Ontological Argument for the existence of God, has many stupid things to say about Immanuel Kant, whom I know at least one of you out there has appreciated in the past...

I'm curious as to how grotesquely D'Souza distorts Kant's views. It's got to be pretty severe, as I'm given to understand that Immanuel Kant was not in fact a moron, and D'Souza's argument appears to have been cribbed from the Underpants Gnomes:

1. Kant observed that it is impossible to gain knowledge of the exterior world directly, but only through the mediation of our senses and thus our understanding of the phenomenological world will of necessity always be incomplete.
2. ?
3. God

The title of his article is "Why Atheists are Not Very Bright". Further comment would be superfluous, but let that not stop you.

Posted by aloysius at October 22, 2007 11:34 AM |