Hitchens reads form "god is Not Great"--Hitch on Pigs.

[unfad1ng]

Hitchens is completly wrong here btw, pigs are not very closely related to humans .

A rat is way closer, the reason why pigs are used for medicine is becasue they have roughly the same size as us.

both dogs ,cats and camels are closer to us than pigs infact.

[unfad1ng]

im creating my own  religion were we worship pigs

[beradification]

keep on fighting the ignorant and dangerous religious fanatics Hitch.

[mollenth]

who is U?

what religion of U?

God is not great . . . hahaha, very funny.

U never know/see/visit Muslims of indonesia on the day of Idul Fitri.

U never know/see/visit Ketupat, lebaran and halal bihalal is very peace and nice.

hahaha . . . U cannot read al quran on arabic language.

hahaha,funny . . . u are clown.

[mollenth]

who is U?

what religion of U?

Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace . . . hahaha, very funny.

U never know/see/visit Muslims of indonesia on the day of Idul Fitri.

U never know/see/visit Ketupat, lebaran and halal bihalal is very peace and nice.

hahaha . . . U cannot read al quran on arabic language.

hahaha,funny . . . u are clown.

[weav8060]

what a treat, thanks!

[honkyxadonis]

pigs are possibly the most delicious animal and therefore the most tempting, a test from god

[minesoriginal]

Swine flu has happened before in the past only it had a different name back then, Spanish flu. has nothing to do with Spaniards or pigs, just the name they slapped on it. and as for "regular flu" to which strain of the virus do you refer? the seasonal flu shot you get is based on past trends of many diffrent strains of the virus and the board of health decides which strain is "most likely" to be a threat this year. this does not prevent you from getting another strain of flu. education is key!

[MoiraKelly1]

Thank you for posting this video. I have watched a video that presented a very good point for this video. It is called What is Spiritual Practice? POWERFUL and THOUGHT-PROVOKING by Tsemtulku.

[Nades129]

I love this chapter...

[02javis]

the SWINE FLU

how did this happeneded, is this terrorism?

after all to the islam point of view, it could be view as a punishment from allah.

im just thinking.

[tpinksen]

Are you really?

[02javis]

dont waste my time.

txs.

[AustralianPyro]

well, actually, you cant get swine flu from pigs.

dont confuse this with avian flu (which you can get from birds)

pigs are actually more likely to get the flu from us.

[AlRasuwl]

Then what is the "normal" flu a punishment for, and from whom? Normal flu is more fatal than swine flu.

The problem is, you just AREN'T thinking.

[02javis]

you didnt understand what i wrote,

thank you for your interest.

[AlRasuwl]

Well you might have been joking, I couldn't tell. But swine fly is not as lethal as normal flu, and is also nothing to do with pigs.

[02javis]

still i dont think u understand, just forget it.

[valerienanh]

AIRasuwl- u r wrong

Endemic Influenza is no more fatal than the 'Swine Flu'. Stop listening to BS Ch. 5 local news- who don't know wtf they are talking about. The reason why more people die/per year from 'regular' Endemic seasonal flu is bc it is more prevalent/widespread- NOT because it is more fatal!

H1N1 is an EPIdemic/PANdemic... these are more serious than the 'regular' endemic flu. H1N1 is know as a genetic Shift & due to a recombination of Human & Pig Neuroaminidase & Hexaminidase -H1N1

[AlRasuwl]

Well, we are now in "flu season" in the UK and the number of deaths apparently isn't worth noting despite the amount of hype surrounding it.

In fact the UK government department responsible for this kind of thing have said that it is not as dangerous as they had originally thought it to be.

[valerienanh]

02javis-

Swine flu... terrorism? lmao.

Stop thinking... you might burn a fuse.

Swine Flu was transferred by respiratory droplets from a swine to a human- & there was a recombination - which led to the recombinant H1N1

[02javis]

@valerienanh

stop thinking, is this a new religion??

lol

[valerienanh]

02javis-

All I'm saying is think before you type- and you will sound less like an idiot.

[tradercris]

Hitchens sure is articulate. I fear a generation from now in Europe and the US he or those like him will lose their platform. In Europe do to radical Muslim immigrants and in the US due to Christian Fundementatlists.

[Otzmatron]

Probably one of the most charismatic, iconoclastic eloquent writers in modern times.

Pigs may be purer than humans sometimes.

Especially than those who won't eat them.

"For a nation of pigs, it sures is funny you don't eat'em!"

Billy Hayes, Midnight Express.

[Davesteps]

"The mirthless cretins of jihad" nice line

[Maloclips]

what *way*

[YellowNumberFive]

You can have my bacon when you pry it from my cold, trigylyceride coated hand.

[croutonfada]

mmmmm... Triglyceride...

[YellowNumberFive]

That's the best gylceride.

[xvcranevx]

I like the FSM shots in there.

[Camikaze999]

idiot

[mohamedbongfish]

no, it says qed at the end. do you know what that means? it means i win.

[Maloclips]

writing win doesnt make it so. and doesnt make what you wrote clever.

[mohamedbongfish]

no but writing qed means its true.

[Maloclips]

wow! how every insightful.... please explain why writing "qed" at the end of anything makes it true. is it magic?

perhaps you should get your ideas published. truly ground breaking....

[mohamedbongfish]

qed means that-which-was-to-be-shown and i showed it. ta daa. its really not so hard

[Maloclips]

So in what what does that prove or disprove anything? You seem to think you have a point with that, but you are yet to show what that is.

Nonsensical statements don't form good arguments. "its really not so hard".... if that's the case, then why do you find yourself incapable of explaining it?

[mohamedbongfish]

i did explain it and i cant see what i wrote four months ago anyway.

[Maloclips]

"it says qed at the end. do you know what that means? it means i win"

"qed means that-which-was-to-be-shown"

"writing qed means its true."

that was your entire explanation. so writing qed at the end of any statement makes it true?

makes me wonder why more people have thought of this...

[JonMGilbertson]

Biddle-de-be-de, boing!

[OrmEmber]

It's time to draw a line in the sand. I'm tired of reasonable Americans & Europeans having to adjust to the demands of fanatics who have immigrated to such a terrible place as HERE, then demand that We conform to Their way of life; let them complain and bitch about pig characters & references; if they commit violence over it, arrest them and put them in jail. But stop trying to be "reasonable" and making adjustments for them; the more you do it, the more they will push.

[psymon208]

"If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a glass of milk."

[GalacticChimp]

I found the image transitions very distracting, but it's an interesting listen!

[SauceMystery]

"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."

--Albert Einstein

[Debaser11]

@SauceMystery

Hardly an endorsement of religion, though.

[damnyou1488]

awesome book, awesome author... end of story!!!

[ivnicholas]

THis is halarious! I really wonder how people take him serious. Pigs were used to consume human waste in historic days. Would you like to eat something that was eating your crap??

[kinglewisjtl24]

very true

[ravenshire43]

THX for posting this dfarmer1584. Sometimes, not often, disagree with Hitch, but have alot of respect for his observations which I find more often than not spot on. This vid reminded me of the book which I shall soon be purchasing. THX again.

[wfl18]

garbage this book is garbage

[Hottides]

Hitchen's book is a valuable anecdote the poisonous wells of religious garbage known as the Bible and Koran, which debilitate and destroy human intellect and conscience.

[wfl18]

im not religious god is a big part in my life

[Hottides]

I suggest it's imprudent and unhealthy to assign any portion of one's life to a delusion. Derive intellectual and emotional nourishment and fortitude from genuine sources such as science, philosophy, literature and other human beings, as opposed to ancient ignorance.

[wfl18]

what are you talking about i dont speak geek

[Hottides]

Sounds like you really need to apply yourself to education. Being ignorant and barely literate confers no advantages.

[huskerfied]

enlightening, as the person whom posted this stated, it made a bit more sense in light of the video that he was responding too, but none the less, helps shed a light on the social stigma that pigs seem to be the brunt of.

[Scrapheap71]

I can't get this video to not play choppy (Damn youtube bug!!!)

[Camel76]

Hitchens is a bias pig.

[TorontoBoi]

Someone certainly is a bias pig.

[Scrapheap71]

You're obviously an expert on swine...

[Camel76]

I'm glad you agree that Hitchens is a bias pig.

[Scrapheap71]

Don't put word in my mouth Javelina!!

[Camel76]

Huh!? All you told me was that Hitchens is a bias pig. He needs to move back to England. :P

[Scrapheap71]

I told you that you have an unnatural fascination with domesticated boar.

[Camel76]

You wallow in filth with Hitchens and his pigs at his farm!?

[Scrapheap71]

I don't need to know about your sexual fantasies.

[Camel76]

Nope, that's a fantasy of yours you fulfill all the time. :P

[Scrapheap71]

Psycologists call that projecting.

You know, like how Ted Haggard would preach sermons about the evils of homosexuality, then afterwards he'd get a blow job from his gay lover while free-basing Meth.

I bet you're gay for Christopher Hitchens

[Camel76]

What do psycologists know? :p

Haggard has always been a nut.

[camipco]

I'm gay for Christopher Hitchens.

[FEAROFFEET]

Happy eleventh birthday.

[Salvatrucho213]

I am currently reading this book. And to the risk of sounding ignorant he uses a lot of big words like "ruefully" or "continence". I need a dictionary next to me. Good though

[shakytown]

religion divides, discourages independent thinking and imho has caused more hurt than anything else in this world.

[lordraidis]

man i love this guy.........hitchens and dawkins out there on the frontlines tearin' religion a new one!

w00t!

[EricMetalGuitarist]

Brilliant.

[sunsdawn19]

this from christopher is a real good example of how silly belief systems have ruined the human race,the problem with reilgion is that this people dont even know where their beliefs stemed from in the first place,so they blindly follow like little scared children,its the fear of death that has them locked in these systems

[benchipi]

i totally agree!!! religion is made up and misused to control the ignorant, because people are the only creatures on earth, concious of their mortallity, of wich they are (death)scared, so they grap and hang-on to any mindcomfort they can get: religion!

[jumperchu]

Totally right, it's fear and guilt that guide an organized religion.

[IcyNami]

video error!

[dfarmer1584]

????

HMMM

I'll check

[rmeddy1]

This is one of favorite chapters this and An argument from Design. His points were great and even schooled me on the old Trichinosis theory.

[looquoo]

audio seems broken, skips back and forward in pops every now and then...

[dfarmer1584]

Seems like a corruption during the upload.

It happens with youtube postings often.

[ChuckHippy]

Hitchens is a boring bloated old windbag. He loves the sound of his own voice and contary to what he may think he rarely conveys a balanced view of the world be it from his right-wing politics or his recently voiced atheism.

[dfarmer1584]

Hmmm, then I am curious why you bothered to click on a video clearly consisting solely of Hitchens?

Seems rather petty.

[BadGroundBand]

@ChuckHippy would I be a "recently voiced"athiest if I wrote a book about my atheism? would that imply that I wasn't atheist before writting a book on it? a very dumb thing to say on your part. Hitchens has been himself all his life and is always expanding his understanding of things .

[fenderplayer34]

Hitchens vrs c.s lewsis???? Lewis would make this man look stupid. How could any man be so dumb or smart?????? to look at this world and say it just happened by chance? Pls give me a break. Ok I can see people having a problem with christ (I dont) but how could anyone really believe in nothing? This guy is a smart dumbass

[dfarmer1584]

Thanks for the opinion. It seems you fancy yourself to be the opposite of what you think Hitchens is then? A dumb smartass.

Yes, I agree with your self assessment. you are a dumb smartass.

[fenderplayer34]

what I am saying is it is like to miss the forrest for the tress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dfarmer1584]

Oh and BTW fenderplayer, while I think fenders are adequate, I play Gibsons. Les Paul >>>> Stratocaster. So there.

[fenderplayer34]

ok bro as far as the guitar goes thats kool. I like the bar on the fender. Gibson is cool as well. Im am a seeker that dont really know what I think. I just hava a prob with a guy that is making a killing of a book that states that he has it a togather??????

[parkt6792]

'fenderplayer'. nice name btw. ok, so, you don't even know how to spell the word 'forest'.. that's a word you should've have seen your whole life! and you spelled it wrong! why, in the world, should anyone respect your opinion when you can't even get that right????

[parkt6792]

also, as per your 'argument', you look at this world as being only, well, under 10,000 years old. you can't believe in Jesus as the son of God and believe this world is 6 billion yrs old. by chance? - I don't think that 6 billion years is 'by chance'. you probably suck at guitar too. jesus tool

[fenderplayer34]

Jesus tool? Why you like that? What you afraid of? There is no reason to insult me? I dont claim to be a jesus tool! Check out c.s lewis on you tube. Listen to him and let me know what you think. As far as the guitar goes I am very good. I play hendrix, vaughan, clapton, kottke and alot of classical. 25 yrs of pratice. I play it all (for the most part on an acoustic) so pls dont be like that.

[RayNinblood]

You realy have the question the wrong way round. Do you believe in Santa, or Fairies? The onous is on the believer, not the none believer. If there is no proof of somthing why would you believe in it? Only the mentaly deranged would do so.

[davedarunner2000]

i agree

[skatebawd]

i loved this part of the book, i thought it was interesting, witty, and intelligent. awesome video.

[patflix]

Hitchens is terrific....and so is your video presentation.

[AttritionofFaithful]

YT needs to stop pulling people's opinion vids, even if they are "hateful"