(6 17) Intelligence Squared - We would be better off without religion - Hitchens Dawkins Grayling

[Minute158]

Neil and Carl would complete this circle and the whole universe would behold.

[SongsByTheBeatles]

dawkins = daniel radcliff

[blind999]

I feel like, given the opportunity of having such outstanding speakers together, they could have made their cases more directed to what is actually harmful about religion, but instead they seem to generalize and sometimes border on the question of existence. Of course, they still made very strong cases and I would like to see how the other panelists countered it.

[redryan20000]

it's funny watching how much better hitchens is at speaking and arguing than dawkins

[OpethNation]

@redryan20000 of course, dawkins is a biologist and hitchens was a journalist.

[TheSittingArchitect]

@OpethNation not to mention that in his youth, hitchens life practically revolved around debating at oxford and speaking at rallys.

[amers963]

I like Hitchens but Richard Dawkins will always be my absolute idol, because of him I am and always will be an atheist. I can't thank him enough for that.

[oODarkEnergyOo]

@amers963 ... same.

[oODarkEnergyOo]

Listening to Dawkins is like being injected with a syringe of pure wisdom directly into my brain. Who the fuck needs drugs when you have this?

[whysshitsocrazy]

@oODarkEnergyOo I do.

[oODarkEnergyOo]

@whysshitsocrazy ..... LOL

[BigFatHeretic]

Whoops! I meant to say, my suspicions were confirmed, not suspensions!

[BigFatHeretic]

. . . continued from previous . . . My mother taught me how to read before I even started school, and we had a house full of books. By the time I was only in the 3rd grade I was already reading at high school level. My mother encouraged my interest in science. Ancient religious texts describes a flat earth with the sky being a dome. Science reveals a far more beautiful and complex universe on a far grander scale than the boring ho-hum version depicted in the BUY-BULL!!!

[BigFatHeretic]

When I was a kid growing up, I was raised a Christian, and went to Sunday school. Back then, when I was only in the second grade, I could not buy into the Genesis account. It's just didn't sound real to me. Then I checked out my first astronomy book from my grade school library, and after that, I was hooked! I wanted to read more. My suspensions were confirmed. While I didn't stop believing in a God right away, I certainly stopped believing everything in the BUY-BULL!!! - to be continued . . .

[D0ug91]

Fantastic upload, but anyone else notice Hitchens spastic clapping?

[hossamgebeily]

@fusedchromosome lawrence krauss too!!

[NoRegretsForOurYouth]

@hossamgebeily

and Dan Dennett of course!

[jalopez270668]

thank you very mucho for the upload!

[freetheworldof]

@jalopez270668 Thanks, my pleasure.

[fusedchromosome]

I have to say the combination of Dawkins, Hitchens, and Grayling is practically a dream team. Toss in Sam Harris, Dan Barker or Matt Dillahunty and it's game over.

[freetheworldof]

@fusedchromosome 'Dream team'? more like a theists nightmare :)

[rpsmith014]

@fusedchromosome Nice touch with Matt Dillahunty, who new that a public television host could relay the atheist position so sincerely.

[fusedchromosome]

Dawkins was on fire in this one.



[bethnor]

a sad indictment of american culture that we never have anything like this on TV.

[freetheworldof]

@bethnor Thank heavens for Youtube :)

[preemptivestrike20]

@bethnor Who still watches TV?

[travissokol]

@bethnor consider it added to the countless other indictments on this topic

[freetheworldof]

@graemealee

How can they possibly offer a book as any form of evidence