Christopher Hitchens on Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1/4)

[pogopogopogo3]

Proud to share Mr. Paine's birthday

[KITCHENOFDISTINCTION]

Wish the great Thom had stayed and stirred the sheep in the UK to rid us of the shameful embarrassment of subservient idiots who still think monarchy is acceptable.

[metrx330]

Thomas Paine. The most amazing and brave and dedicated men of the past 300 years. His work lives on in the minds and hearts of millions. His intellect and courage sowed the seeds of modern liberty. He almost single handedly ressurected the democratic notions of Ancient Greece. The lack of credit he recieves pains me even now. I urge everyone to read The Age of Reason. A book that despite being 200 years old, resonates with all who consider Reason supreme.

[thaoval123]

why are all these videos about enlightenment only watched by guys? where have all the gals gone?

[spiderman991]

Paine - a brilliant mind who questioned the state of the herd. Do not accept things the way they are, perfection is ever fleeting under our complacency.

[thepixieful]

his portrait is in the Portrait Gallery in DC and on line, he certainly looks like a man of the people, I can see him standing in a cobblestone alley handing out that pamplet, when you look up the picture you might see it too. a rabblerouser, and he was at French Rev too, how odd?????? Glenn Beck's impression is an insult maybe Robert DeNero in Great Expectations.

[thepixieful]

his portrait is in the Portrait Gallery in DC and on line, he certainly looks like a man of the people, I can see him standing in a cobblestone alley handing out that pamplet, when you look up the picture you might see it too. a rabblerouser, and he was at French Rev too, how odd??????

[xSilverPhinx]

Time for people to take responsibility for rights taken away.

Right to live my life. Right to my privacy. Right to not have people who do not have the right to be in my house. Right to expose the name of people who need to take responsibility for what they've done. Right to expose my family to people who have invaded their lives. Who are YOU to determine my rights and what are the rights of others and not mine?

[johnnondrowsyd]

Hitchens is great, but NPR sucks.

[LibertyAndLove1776]

thomaspainereturns. net

Have people become too complacent with modern living? Have people forgotten the tyranny of subjugation to a king? Have people forgotten the horrors of slavery? Will they wake up before it is too late?

[CarmineFragione]

HItchens simply wants the ignorant masses, the "commoners" to rise up against the Queen of England. The title

and power of the Crown as both head of

State and head of the Church of England

is the fly in his ointment. He wants a secularized, powerless state of Britain,

to join a neo-Fascist Secular world of European States. But the Sovereignty of

the Queen and the Church, is not acceptable to that Atheist Democidal

Union. So Hitchens must mock religion

to beguile for his outcome.

[CarmineFragione]

When Christipher Hitchens concludes that religiousness is evil, he practices the

technology of the religious, and makes a

comedy of it. If something was entirely evil, it would nullify itself and be undistinquished. If something was all

good, the same nullification occurs. The

fact is the God of the Bible is both, a God

of two hands, in a binary universe ,where

the human mind has two halfs, conception is by two sexes - Bible

speaks to good and evil, life and death,

heaven and hell.

[papasitoman]

I respect that there are many people in the world with many ideas and points of view and ways of looking at things. Multiculturalism is great. Countries like Canada, the US, Britain etc are a huge mix of peoples and they are some of the safest and most technologically adept nations in the world. However, when someone says something that is obviously, completely wrong, that is not culture or religion or anything else; it's a lie. It's ignorance. Its bullshit. That MUST be stopped with education.

[MopDMTBARTL]

agree papasitoman

for more knowledge, go here:

truthknowledge. com

[NaytronNeanderer]

DeistReality, your conspiracy theory is really unconvincing, and your statements totally unsupported.

[TheArcaneAvenger]

You should probably never speak again.

I would be so grateful if you would follow that.

[DeistReality]

TheArcaneAvenger

"You should probably never speak again.

I would be so grateful if you would follow that."

Don't worry your safe on this channel as I can see that my words have been removed for some reason?

[TheArcaneAvenger]

No, you were just rated down by a lot of people for spouting off things that were not in the least bit true.

[hollygolightly66]

Ah a Glen Beck fan who takes his version over Paine and his bastadization of Paine's writings.

[TheAgnosticAspie]

This is kinda one of the reasons why I think Atheists, Agnostics, and Deists get such a bad rap these days, because the overly religious overly zealous religious zealot type folks, see enlightening and non dogmatic ways of thinking dangerous for some reason. Because I think ultimately they are afraid of letting go of the comfort mechanism that faith and religious dogma provides at the cost of other peoples freedom of thought and liberties. So they seek to silence anyone going against them.

[lovecraftfan311]

no its evolution

the theory of evolution caused a strong social conservatism movement in the minority.

very comparable to the muslim cultures response to the physical science's. while the west was in the dark ages the muslim world was in a age of reason and science in the aristotle tradition. in fact the muslim scholars actually invented the idea of proving your theory with experiments, but these scientific revolutions sparked a conservative back lash and the zealots won out over reason.

[EmeraldAxe2]

A man with some historical understanding beyond the facts. You don't see enough of that.

[TheAgnosticAspie]

Normally I'm not a big fan of Hitchens or his abrasiveness but I agree with him on practically all his points on Thomas Paine.

[redmark2007]

Excellent post, thanks!!

[finchy633]

i've read the Paines the rights of man and I'm just reading 'common sense'. Probably the most enlightening things I will ever read.

[putittogether]

It takes about 20 years for the grade school and high school brainwashing to ware off, and realize the true genus of out Founding Fathers and their true vision of freedom and liberty, and far more important, the government structure to protect it.

[CoolDude8675309]

I love Christopher Hitchens and I love Thomas Paine.

[faustus999]

tom paine spoke the truth and refuted the accepted bullshit order...

as does hitchens. both bold and both great intellects.

[MarquisdeLafayette]

'a little malodorous'! I love Hitchens' command of language.

[sciencedoggy]

THE greatist Founding Father.

[johnclavis]

Paine died in a flophouse in New York City. There's a plaque marking the spot. His bones were lost in transit at some point, so he doesn't even have a grave. One of our greatest Founding Fathers, and he's essentially forgotten by our society. It's terribly tragic.

[sirgoodtimes]

Its a pathetic plaque sadly. His enemy william cobbett was the one that dug up his bones to give him a "proper" english burial. Six people attended his funeral because of his phenomenal works Age of Reason. What a great great man.

[majikninja07]

@johnclavis I personally believe that is on purpose the forgetting of paine, i am fairly known for my remembering of classes long after people forget and only seen Paine in two sentences in american history

[huddl007]

@johnclavis SOMEONE ROBBED THOMAS PAINE'S BODY!!!!

[ishikawaml]

@johnclavis He is not forgotten my friend, in fact his ideas are alive and quite healthy much to the chagrin of our current political system.

[hexag1]

Incredibly phat.

Thank you so much for posting this.