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  • I have yet to see a religious comment at the top xD This certainly makes me feel good about humanity ;]

  • It's probably been said, but each person actually spoke for around 20 minutes. Unfortunately I can't post a direct link to the unedited versions because youtube doesn't allow U R Ls in comments but if you go to daily motion dot com and search for intelligence debate you will see them.

  • I always feel when debating against religious people they are trying to preach to me instead of having a thoughtful conversation.

  • The results would have been quite different if the debate we're held in front of an American audience, and for that I am ashamed. Credit to the UK and other countries who have won out against irrational thought and unjustified doctrine. I can only hope that the US will follow.

  • @TheBurninator50 It's strange that the USA, a world leader in many areas in the 20th century should be so far behind when it comes to this. It will change though, many young Americans I speak to give me hope.

  • @Key3812 Yes I feel the winds of change as well, however I think it will be decades until we have reached a point even close to many European countries. Thank you for giving us a good example to point to when we're trying to convince conservatives that atheism doesn't necessarily equate to total anarchy!!  :)

  • @TheBurninator50 I can't take credit for my fellow Europeans, I'm just as thankful to live in a relatively rational society :-)

  • @Key3812 The average age of Fox News viewership is 62 years old. In two or three generations, these types of people will have died off and all their dogshit religious ideas that were spread onto offspring will have died off as well. It's no joke that college-educated twenty-somethings are the primary atheist population in the U.S. Pretty soon, they'll be the old people.

  • @Key3812 Agreed, even if they are religious, the younger generations are usually pretty liberal and secular... this is mostly due to the information age and peoples ability to acquire vast amounts of information on many topics. Liberal societies are the breeding pool for free thinkers. Science, logic and reason will win; because it works.

  • Such a fail closing statement by the catholics

  • the fact that they employed anne widdecombe of all people for the defense of the catholic church doesn't say a lot.

  • Motion: Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens are a force for good in the world

  • @sirbinkalot i second the motion.

  • To the more emotionally susceptible,(nice way to say less logical) the "appeal to emotion" finishes of the catholic speakers would probably be very effective. Not a good venue for their preaching.

  • I appreciate the way this is cut.. if you watch all five you get to see the 'What are you FOR?' line twice.

  • @GypsyLeah That line physically hurt to hear even once. To hear it a second time just made me burst into tears. Oh, Stephen.

  • What is it? Leviticus 20:13? And one commits adultery even if one thinks it - it's the same. Those two together, applied, would suggest that homosexuality - the desire and act - are against Catholicism... and Christianity generally. They pussyfoot around issues and values they know that freethinking idividuals will find disgusting and immoral.

    Fry and Hitchens (RIP) FTW!!!

  • Did anyone else notice that 52 extra people voted in the second poll?

  • @QinGu9221 good catch, probably due to the fact that it is not electronically

  • @QinGu9221 lol i did the math after reading your comment , i guess people didnt vote when they first entered

  • @OldSkoolOnWeed I assume that some people simply came late, after the vote.

  • @QinGu9221 THey aren't extra, they are converters

  • Catholicism got well and truly Hitchslapped.

  • thats rich anne coming from a grotesque po faced virgin if her hymen popped it would be like a sonic boom lol

  • Anne Widdecombe could make the Pope become an atheist.

  • @mikelheron20 Also, Anne Widdecombe could turn Ron Jeremy celibate.

  • you can see christopher hitchens and stephen fry thinking "we're boss, no doubt!" there too cool

  • Holy shit. This was the most unfair debate I've ever seen! haha

  • Press 9 to see the PRICELESS look on Widecomes face.

    She looks like a Bulldog licking piss off a thistle.

  • 9:07 Done and dusted.

  • Love Hitch's smile when Stephen says "you never mention that I give my father a birthday present..."

  • Seriously owned so bad.

  • I do love this, but I feel a bit sorry for the motion for. They never stood a chance against Hitch and Fry. That being said, no two people in the world would be able to successfully argue against them both on this motion, it's a no-constest :)

  • Widdicombe is the most infuriatingly ignorant grotesque god awful shite, she defies articulation so i will simply express GRAHGRHGARHGARHGAHRGAHRGAHGHAR

  • @jabbott376 Hah tell me about it. She didn't offer an antithesis after Hitchens but instead just denied everything he said. She's a dumb bitch.

  • Hitchslapped.

  • @xxFortunadoxx won't be seeing anymore of those sadly.

  • @whylie74 He has sewn the seeds of doubt in so many minds that a new hitchens will come forth.

  • @xxFortunadoxx I bloody hope so, or we'll be drowned by a sea of deluded cretins.

  • @whylie74 Don't get me wrong. In the next 10 years or so we're going to see a huge infux of christian apologists due to increased attendance to bible universities.

  • WINNING

  • I love the drama that is going on here between hitchens, fry and that old woman. The african guy is a complete idiot, but that old woman is butthurt :) Completely slaughtered!

  • What the bishop said in the end, about the catholic church not claiming to be perfect; perhaps not, but they do claim that their leader is...

  • reazon won against superstition... sort of unbelievable to think you should actually debate in the first place if superstition is good.

  • I do not think that the debate changed any religious orthodox minds. It is sad indeed, but it is almost impossible to change a dogma in practice. In theory is impossible.

  • I love how Steve and Chris walk away at the end "Like a boss"

  • That ending just made my day.

  • amazing, now the pope must die

  • @MrMidnightcowboy1

    Screw you...he's done more good for the world than you ever will.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman ive never allowed the raping of children, makes me a better man so screw you

  • @MrMidnightcowboy1

    You have no basis for saying it's wrong. You have, however, approved of the explosion of a cathedral, so blow it out your ass.

  • Really, archbishop? You still can't see how the Catholic church is NOT a force for good? Are you sure your glasses are working correctly?

  • @TheSonorama21

    You mean Hitchens and Fry can't see how the Church IS a force for good?

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    I meant what I said. Please refrain from your immature chiding.

  • @TheSonorama21

    Then you're an idiot. I'll keep this up until you admit to it.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    I really need to stop feeding trolls... Have a good one, mate.

  • @TheSonorama21

    then why are you one, wanker?

  • Check out Hitch's shit-eating grin @3:43 on the left-side of the screen as Fry is likening the Catholic Church's dismissal of crimes to that of a burglar on trial.

  • Am I the only one that applauded out loud at the end?

  • @yersimapestis no not at all that ending was a kick in the bollocks for the catholic child raping dirty god fearing mother stoning war mongering bastards

  • Love Stephen Fry, so much

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  • HAHAHAHAA WIDDY'S FACE WHEN THE VOTES ARE READ!!!!

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  • I will say this: the Catholic Church could not possibly have chosen two less articulate and appropriate debaters. Even with both hands tied behind their back, Hitchens and Fry would "beat" them in a debate.

  • @DarkeningSkies1

    Too bad as far as factual accuracy goes, these two wiped the floor with Hitchens and Fry. Seems like Death hitchslapped Hitchens, doesn't it? Doesn't his own brother disagree and refute everything Christopher said? Why, so he did.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman To your "points", in order: 1) Your definition of "factual accuracy" would play a large part in why you felt this way. 2) Joking about Christopher's death seems like misdirected anger, and a feeble attempt at best. 3) Peter, being a theist debater, always refuted everything Christopher said- how does this make any of his assumptions any more accurate? I have nothing against you or your beliefs, go in peace and may your God go with you.

  • @DarkeningSkies1

    1) It is the main point, you idiot.

    2) What joking? He's dead. I showed no more mourn his death than I should a cockroach...that is, if we want to follow what atheism says.

    3) Peter's statements have turned out to make more sense than Christopher's. I could point out how much more accurate they were, but that would take us back to point one.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman Why are you calling me an idiot when you do not know me or how I feel about anything regarding this video but for my contention that Widdencombe & Onaiyekan were not the most articulate speakers the church could have chosen for a VERBAL debate. I did not say I disagreed or agreed with what they said, I was making an observation. Since I have an open mind, I actually felt that both sides had some interesting points. Why are you so angry? Calm down.

  • @DarkeningSkies1

    To me, this is all about which side was more accurate, and by that standard, Widdencombe & Onaiyekan won...period. You don't get to vote on what truth is. Why are you such an idiot? Think for once.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman So I'm a non thinking idiot for feeling the church could have chosen better debaters? You are assuming because of this point that you know me well enough to make those judgements? From three comments on a YouTube video? And you wonder why people outside the church see religious people as judgemental? Actually, you probably don't wonder or care how anyone sees you, because you are so certain you are right that God himself likely couldn't convince you otherwise. Have fun.

  • @DarkeningSkies1

    Isn't it interesting that I'm the theist yet I'm the one putting greater emphasis on the facts? And you wonder why atheists are viewed as hypocritical fools? If God didn't exist, how could God be able to convince anybody? You just didn't bother to think that one through.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman I don't wonder why atheists are seen as "hypocritical fools" by catholics because I am neither. If you had paid careful attention to my posts instead of jumping directly into attack mode, you would see that nowhere do I claim to be atheist or not to believe in God. I was making an observation that in verbal debate, the side with the most facts dosen't necessarily "win" in a staged format like this unless both sides are on equal footing, presentation-wise.

  • @DarkeningSkies1

    Atheists are at best fools and at worst intellectual thieves. If we are to take the intelligent route, as these series of debates want us to, we have to go with which is the most accurate, and the accurate side is not Hitchens or Fry.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    Well... They were 'accurate' in the sense that they accurately dodged questions.

  • @TheSonorama21

    So when the archbishop mentioned the Vatican served as asylum for jews during WWII, he was dodging the question? Nah, bullshit.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman you are so weak man so scared get a grip and enjoy yourself for once in your pathetic life

  • @MrMidnightcowboy1

    I am...that's why your ass keeps getting beaten by me.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman i could argue with you for ever and win every time but your weak and immature, and the fact that you would only dodge my questions to you on god and religion ill leave you alone

  • @MrMidnightcowboy1

    You can argue and get beaten like you've been doing, so why it doesn't dawn on you that you've lost, I dont know. I have dodged nothing; you've just made crap up.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman your mistaking me for someone else you knob jocky i've never asked you anything or got into an argument with you i dont lose arguments on religion or god

  • @MrMidnightcowboy1

    Quit having your head up your ass, you glorified pant load. Atheists ALWAYS lose arguments on religion and God...no exceptions.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman your so funny you sound and type like your about 10-maybe 12 at most ask  me anything nutrub and ill slam you ill tear your fucking argument to pieces you dirty fucking catholic cock sucking priest obeying wanker go fiddle with some choir boys bum

  • @MrMidnightcowboy1

    You type like you're five, with all the errors a REAL adult would not make.

    Open your mouth and I'll shove it up your ass, you fifthly atheist corpse fucking, dictator worshiping scum.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman Open your mouth and I'll shove it up your ass is this meant to mea something your dodging the questions again fucknut

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    THE TRUE WORDS OF CHRISTIAN!!!!!........ i thought you lot were meant to be at one with god, forgiving and understanding... not with an attitude like that.

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    THE TRUE IDIOCY OF AN ATHEIST!!! I thought you lot were logical and a stronger grasp of the facts...guess not on both counts!

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    I was trying to make the point, that YOU....are christian, yet you have started swearing and being downright offensive to people.

    how very christian of you.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman you low corrosive lump of feacal horror, you maniac bastardly turd, i would rather drink stale urine from norman fowlers arse pit than spend another second reading your text, your filth your cack your the ooze of a burst boil, i abominate you, you towering mound of corruptive slime, your every uttering is like the slivering hiss of a fat maggot in the putrid gut of a decomposing rat, you are more foul than the unwiped inner ring of satans rectum. have a nice day

  • @MrMidnightcowboy1

    Blah, blah, blah...clearly I have broken you....;)

  • @MrTrilliondollarman still no questions i see thats cause you know i will beat you every time numb nuts

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    Atheists always lose?... what about the video above? i think the atheists won...

    Maybe you didnt watch it..

    Click play you fucked up american retarded asshole of a redneck

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Here I thought truth was truth no matter how people vote. Will two plus two always equal four no matter how the people vote? If no, then truth is relative and no one really won this. If yes, then Hitchens and Fry lost this one since the other's stand was more factually accurate. There are no other options.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    There are other options you dumb fuck... At the start they did a vote.... at the end they did another vote... the voting concluded that hitchens and fry won...

    THERE IS NO REFUTING THAT AS ITS ON THE VIDEO ABOVE NUMBNUTS!!!

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  • Fossils.

  • OH and thats the King James Bible....which was written nearly 1700 years after christs death..... talk about a reputable source.

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Too bad that Bible has translation errors. Thanks, I'll stick with D-R.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    Translation errors from Hebrew to English.... I wonder how many more there are that havent been figured out yet..

    I wouldnt want to base my religion or my passage into heaven on a load of translation errors.... shithead.

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    None really. Most of the supposed translation errors are either variations on location spellings or transliterations, you know, that little word you keep stumbling over?

    Instead you choose a viewpoint that's based on horseshit and the crippling of education...limey twat.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    What is the worlds fastest growing "religion"?f...... (its Atheism by the way)

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Wrong again. According to the World Fact Book, it's Christianity.

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Kicking your ass has been so much fun, but now that I have another example of how atheism kills knowledge, I have no further use for you.

    Be gone, stupid troll. You're blocked now. Just don't damage the world any more than atheism already has.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    Im a scientist.... we only move things forward...

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    except you took your intelligence two centuries back.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    Pussy, please stay IN america, dont leave... that way ill never have to encounter your fat ass

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    I will go wherever I please and atheist eurocrap like you can't stop me. In fact, I'll help spearhead the movement to bring England back to Christianity.

    Ok...now you're blocked.

  • @Catapultandclingfilm No, please take him. Please? Please?

  • @hathi444

    What do you mean by that? take who where what?

  • @Catapultandclingfilm Take that ignorant pillock out of America. We have quite enough crackpots to be getting on with as it is. :-) Just not to the UK; I'm moving there this winter. :Þ

  • @hathi444

    haha, i agree!! if ever there were a good time to use the word "crackpot", its at his expense. I shall stick to my word when i say " the best americans, are the ones that have left american soil"

    I wonder how many people will have to tell him he is a crackpot, before he decides that

    A - he IS a crackpot

    or

    B - The rest of the human race are insane compared to him...

    I dont care what he does, so long as it has nothing to do with me or anyone else.

    +1 manpoint to you.

  • @Catapultandclingfilm Indeed to all points, though I do believe I deserve at least two more manpoints!

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    Given your infantile responses and your penchant for claiming everything while proving nothing, I'm given to believe that you're either trolling, a psychotically narcissistic fundamentalist or both.

    Either way, it's not worth discussing anything with you - intelligently or otherwise - and everyone would be better off just blocking you and getting on with it.

  • @viresinfinitum

    Given how you obviously suck at psychology and mind reading, I'm going to assume you're either too lazy to come up with anything important or you're not smart enough to come up with anything important.

    Clearly, you don't like being told you're wrong, but too damn bad.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman translations of the bible arent widely accepted among linguistic experts as having translations errore. the errors are in the original, which has been edited at various times throughout history. the Torah, or Old Testament itself is attributed to at least 5 different writers each who went back through other books and edited out different parts and changed wordings. its most evident in Genesis where you can actually see 2 different creation stories.

  • @Keldrath

    Wrong. There are no errors period. The massive amount of copies we have of all the books makes the odds of any errors slim to none. Genesis does not have two creation stories but rather one going into more detail than the other.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman look up 3.3.3 a brief history of god part 1 on youtube and see if you change your mind. this is well supported fact in academia.

  • @Keldrath

    It didn't. Well supported fact? Better think again..that video just repeats notions that have long since been debunked.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman linguists and scholars have called most every book into question as to who authored what and how many people rewrote and reedited what. its evident given the evolution of language during the times each book was made, each one containing language that wasnt yet evolved at the time of the books writing and handwriting didnt match up on the original texts. showing they were edited decades after they were each written as demostrated in less detail

  • @Keldrath

    That's a lie...and a Fry-Lie at that. The only real question that has come up with them is the word order in which to use in each corresponding language. We have too many copies of the texts to consider them inauthentic.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman if you want to get into it in more detail the information is certainly out there and you are free to do research on it. as for genesis how do you explain god creating man and woman, then later on there suddenly is no woman and god made woman from adams rib? that was just a glaring compression of two seperate origin stories right in genesis. and dont bother going to matthew and acts, the story of judas fate will just confuse.

  • @Keldrath

    That's easy to answer. Chapter one is talking about making man in God's image and the other is talking about it in more detail.

    I will go wherever I deem fit, because I know I'll prove you wrong in the end.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman the entire story of exodus has been disproved by israeli archaeologists trying desperately to prove it even happened. modern archaeology findings have shown no evidence of any of that entire story ever even happening.

  • @Keldrath

    Again, that's a lie. Modern Biblical archeology has proven the events did happen.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman no, it didn't. saying it did doesnt change anything

  • @pieguy49

    Yes, it does show the events happened. If you really believed in your statement, you just refuted yourself.

  • you still havent found the bible passage that says the world was created round

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    but you did find the one that proves the big bang theory..... bit hypocritical dont you think?

    I thought god created the world, not the big bang!

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Wrong again, idiot. That's not what you argued. You argued "a priest proposing the Big Bang" was a lie, and it turned out you're full of shit.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    now im arguing something else...

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Instead of manning up to your failure?

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    Just like you failed and wont admit that you thought the bible said that god created a spherical world....

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Except Is 40: 22 does say that. Just waiting for you to say something that dumb.

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    I'm waiting to see whether you have the balls to admit you were wrong about the Big Bang.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    Fair enough, i didnt know who thought up the big bang, but then... the big bang theory goes against the bible.... catch 22 mother fucker.

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Not even close to true. The Big Bang, as it exists now in the accepted model, perfectly matches what Genesis says about the universe's creation.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    that says "circle" not "sphere" Last time i checked the oxford dictionary, those two words are not synonymous....

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Except for the fact it can't mean circle because Genesis refers to the dome above and dome below and domes aren't flat.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    Domes arent spherical either. The scripture you said was Isiah... not Genesis... find me the genesis chapter and verse number then...

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Since when? A dome is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Two half spheres or hemispheres if you will make one whole sphere.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    And it definitely says THAT in the bible, are you sure its not a mis translation?

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Are you sure you're not naturally this stupid?

  • better yet, mr trillion dollar asshole thinks ANN WIDDECOMBE IS A REPUTABLE PERSON SHES AN MP!!!!!!!

    sometimes this shit writes itself!

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Yet catapultcunt thinks someone's profession makes a difference...oh, wait: it doesn't.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    well people died when they preyed, and then science came along and discovered modern medicene..... Answer the fuckin question... would you prey or would you go to the hospital?

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    I think you mean pray, not prey. They're called homophones. Guess you don't understand basic English.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman

    I am English,,, unlike you stupid american that has ruined my language....

    Oh and George Washington was English by the way :D

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    Last I checked, pray and prey are not interchangeable in Oxford English.

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  • they just got hitchslaped and fryed! 

  • @kryo101

    More like Hitchens and Fry got the wind knocked out of them...how can they both be so damn ignorant?

  • @MrTrilliondollarman how are they ignorant?

  • @Flash13Magic

    Having seen the whole debate, I agree with the woman (can't spell her name though):

    Hitchens has touted the most idiotic misconceptions about the Church anyone has ever heard. I'm glad Death hitchslapped him.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman Spoken like a true believer. "I don't like their opinion, their death brings me joy." Rewatch the video because not even Hitchens wishes death on the pope or any pope. He touts the truth, I didn't hear from you or her any rebuttals on those "misconceptions". Read a book.

  • @TheLastReplicant

    Spoken like an ignorant atheist. "This believer must not have really understood what the atheist was saying." He touted bullshit that he knew was bullshit and anyone could look up and see it's bullshit.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman what are the misconceptions?that they are responsible for the spreading of aids throughout Africa because of the lies they have told?that they have encouraged child molestation by actively supporting the perpetrators and covering up their actions?please tell me how they are ignorant?oh and how very christian of you reveling in the death of another human being.

  • @Flash13Magic

    What spread of AIDS? According to the UN, AIDS is down in areas that follow the Church's teaching. Encouraged? Maybe if we were talking about the public school system, but the Church? Never. Show me just one document---just one--that says the Church taught molesting children was okay.

    How very atheist of you to cheer him on even though he touts crap.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman they supported the perpetrators and covered up their actions which encouraged further cases of abuse,look it up its well documented.as for aids they have continuously lied and said that condoms actually increase the risk of infection.

  • @Flash13Magic

    Actually, it is poorly documented and blown out of proportion. Condoms do increase the risk of infection, even if you assume proper storage and usage.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman first off, hitchens and fry obviously won that, secondly, how can you possibly say that they'r ignorant? unless your a typical brainwashed, closed minded, and completely deluded individual, judging by all of your comments that you'v posted here, you definitely are.

    i feel sorry for you and others like you, i hope you find it within yourselves to ask that god you so desperately believe to let you free.

    good luck

  • @kryo101

    No, they did not. In terms of accuracy, the other two won this one. Not their fault the people didn't feel like listening. Unless you're a dipshit a-the-tard, which you clearly are, Hitchens raped logic and Fry just lied.

    God has set me free from the shackles of atheism and i will NEVER side with it ever again.

  • @MrTrilliondollarman hahahaa, holy shit! your a complete retard! and i don't have time for crazy people, especially christian fundamentalist crazy people, so guess what..... blocked!

    good luck with the rest of your DELUDED existence you complete and utter moron!

  • @kryo101

    Clearly, you have your head so far up your ass, you prefer to stick your fingers in your ears and go "no god, no god...lalallalaa"

  • @kryo101

    @MrTrilliondollarman

    trillion dollar asshole, so many people on this comment page have called you an illogical, religious nutbar (or similar) yet with each of your comeback comments, youve found more people that think youre an idiot... keep going,

    heres another one for you

    If you suddenly become ill, bleeding from your ears, foaming at the mouth, do you go to your doctor (science based solution) or do you go to the church and prey?

  • @Catapultandclingfilm

    All them are a-the-tards who don't want to admit I'm right and they're wrong.

    Why would I go to a church to find prey? As Mr Spock would say, "most illogical."