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  • well, that's a retarded question for pussies. Next.

  • Christopher was as good as his world. His children were at his funeral. He never judged them or made them feel bad about themselves. never pressured them with impossible-to-live-up-to ideals. He was a man who stood by his convictions without hiding behind a god he never met. he was 1000 X the man that any Christian man is, following what you have been taught like good little boys without question.

  • Christopher Hitchens was really sincere here.

  • Primate order sorry...we're all primates

  • @sexyeur one day when you take a middle school biology class you'll learn we are in the primate family. And monkeys are a completely different family, genus and specie. Idiot

  • @sexyeur man, I'm really sorry to say this but, you're slowing down evolution. If you don't consider humans to be a type of animal then you're lost in a world thats flying past you at an incredible rate. In 1000 years i bet christianity will be less than 50% of the USA. Science and reason will take the reins on the future. Also if god wanted me to change the way I think, and made me so I'd never change, then thats a bit evil huh?

  • So today I told my fellow class mates all in religion they said that girl all the stuff she went threw was a "test" of her faith. I couldn't help but laugh in my mind (I'm a highscool freshmen soo)

  • Hitchens you are missed.

    If you in 2012 can believe in religion - you are, i'm sorry to say - very very stupid.

    And knowing, that had you been raised in the middle east, you would have all of the same feelings and beliefs about allah and muhammed - can't you see it is mumbo-jumbo???

    A talking snake, a boat with millions if animals, a virgin giving birth to a boy who later became a zombie.

    Religion is proof that humans are NOT the mist intelligent on this little blue ball.

  • The utter arogance of tiranny :D

  • @sexyeur Fine. We'll leave you Christians alone. Only if you leave us, the gays, and other religions alone.

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  • @sexyeur You do your religion disservice with your hate speech. God gave us free will to choose him or not, because he loves us. If you are truly a follower of Christ, then you must afford your fellow man that same free will and love him as Christ loves him. He may disagree, he may do so in ways you feel are inflammatory, but all you can do is spread the good news of Jesus Christ and love your fellow man. Nothing about preaching your desire that he face hellfire conveys love at all.

  • @sexyeur Never mind, I thought I might have been speaking to another human being. I was wrong to expect you to listen to reason or even to adhere to the standards set by the religion you claim to follow. That you are a Christian at all is in question. You can quote scripture, but you cherry pick - and you do that badly, I might add. Carry on.

  • @sexyeur coolstorybro

  • @sexyeur God is love, huh? Well, if there is a god, I can tell he is not with you.

  • @sexyeur FYI, the human body fluctuates in weight on average 1.5 kg during the period of one day. God is not God because God is not anything. God is not love, love is love therefore you do not need to pollute your mind with hysterical nonsense (polite way of saying fucking bullshit lies), made up by nomads over 2000 years ago in order to love fully and wholly (not holy). Clear out the fairy tales that you feel you must consider in order to love and simply love all by yourself, its best.

  • @PaulAll1313 Oh God.

  • @sexyeur - "There is no peace for the wicked... Fear God Who has the power to throw you in hel.l"

    If this is what religion does to your mind -- turns you into a sick, twisted, paranoid delusional lunatic -- then I think I'll stick with rational explanations for nature, and discard your magical book of fairy tales.

  • @TownCryo "no peace"

    James advises: "Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth...human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you."

    It's sound advice.

  • @sexyeur - I don't care about your magical book of fairy tales, "angels," and sky-daddies. Read a REAL book for yourself. Science, history, philosophy. Clear and free your mind from ancient ignorant dogma.

    It's sound advice.

  • @TownCryo "I don't care.."

    Obviously, and so apropos then, Proverbs 27:22:

    If you crush a stubborn fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, [even then] his stupidity will not leave him.—GOD'S WORD

    And also Jeremiah 13:23:

    Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.—NIV

  • R.I.P. Christopher HItchens. The world has lost a great warrior of truth.

    

  • ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

  • Religious people believe in zombies, idiots.

  • RIP Hitch. You will be sorely missed for your intellectual capability and sensible moral reasoning and ethics.

  • I'm just discovering "Hitch" since he passed away and found this clip astonishingly lucid and persuasive. Deeply impressed.

  • He came , he saw, he Hitch slapped stupidity. R.I.P Hitch..

  • RIP

  • RIP Mr Hitchens. The world's a worse place without you :(

  • Even though WLC didn't get an airing in this clip i just know that the mighty Hitch will have pwned him.

  • He came. He saw. He kicked their asses.

  • I've never understood how people extract "hope" and "dignity" from religion, let alone Christianity. If anything, it teaches you the polar opposite: that unless you flagellate yourself and your fellow man in the name of your mystical djinn of choice (and I use the word "choice" very loosely) do you get to experience an afterlife of sunshine, unicorns and double rainbows. Then again, this is William Lane Craig we're talking about, so yeah...

  • @GeneticallySuperior1 There are plenty of fools who are articulate but you still know they're fools, Hichens isn't one of them. Just because you don't understand what he's saying it doesn't make him a fool.

  • @GeneticallySuperior1 Yes, you really don't understand what he's saying. Get a life and stop trolling.

  • @GeneticallySuperior1 Like I said, stop trolling. It's just pathetic.

  • @rockermanmatt Your the troller you fucktard! I made "1" single comment in regards to this video & it wasn't inappropriate at AT ALL! Then suddenly "rockermanmatt the retard" comes along & decides to walk on my commentary! HMMM~ Who's the troller you fucking idiot? Think about this shit before you open your stupid mouth! JEEEEEESH! Fucking idiots everywhere.

  • @GeneticallySuperior1 A troll is someone who posts inflammatory comments for no reason among other things. You are the very definition of a troll.

    You clicked on a Christopher Hitchens video just to call him a fool and provoke a response, which you managed to do. I'll say it again, stop trolling and grow up. If you don't like him, don't click on him. Simple.

    If you can't even respond without calling me a "fucktard" don't reply at all. Bye.

  • @GeneticallySuperior1 hahah whats the matter? you mad bro?

  • Christianity is sweet and pleasant compared to Islam.

    We - atheists - ought to place our attention more on vulgar ideology if Islam

  • That guy at the start does more harm to the Christian argument than Hitchens, lol!

    Hitchens is the man though, antitheism is the way forward.

  • The introductory comments must be the worst argument for theism around. Because some people are weak and gullible and without hope they should delude themselves into believing in things that do not exist? That is a grave insult to all religious people. And they dare call Atheists insulting.

  • THE DUDE GOT HITCHSLAPED

  • The religious are all afflicted with the same delusion, this delusion being a belief that they know what happens beyond death, though not a single human being on this planet does.

  • "Christianity has something to say for people who are not strong, who are not intelligent. For people who fall down."

    That way of thinking makes Televangelist A LOT of money. The Church in general. Keep on being...

    "not strong, not intelligent. And, falling down."

    If that is what bring people solace?

  • i feel sorry for the other panalists , they look in awe and fearful of hitchens even the ones on his side.

  • Christopher Hitchens / Richard Dawkins / Matt Dillahunty are my fucking heroes!

    I was a cunt at school and college but I really wish I had listened and learned more so I could sound half as intelligent as these guys and give almost as strong arguements against religion and for atheism!

  • @bluffr22 I feel ya there

  • @bluffr22 sam harris

  • @bluffr22 It is never to late to learn, besides if you were accepted at university you could not have

    preformed that badly in school and furthermore you probably have a habit of reading books which

    helps, I have actually spoken to people that proudly claims that they have not read a book since

    school, I pity those. in debates it is important to handle the language and even if you onlý read

    fiction it is a great help for that kind of skill.

  • " I believe because I am too weak not to." Nice!

  • He didn't really answer the question: What does anti-theism have to offer to the downtrodden? He convincingly argued against monotheism, but did not argue convincingly in favor of his own position.

  • "Christianity has something to say for people who are not strong, who are not intelligent. For people who fall down." - Craig.

    Very well said. In other words "If you are easily brainwashed, who can't for himself/herself think for oneself, easily swayed by words made by people 2000 years ago. People who can be very arrogant through ignorance. Welcome to CHRISTIANITY! "

  • @Emarquez1896 that wasn't Craig

  • @IbsaUtube my bad. but i call people who i don't know who asked question like that and then replied by Hitchens beautifully "Craig". JK my bad.

  • @Emarquez1896 Well said.

  • @Emarquez1896 Christianity is clearly 'for' the strong. Look at politics today. Who behaves in a social Darwinian manner? The Christians and their 'free' market masters of course! Christianity was adopted not by the meek but by the warrior caste. All religions are the same in that respect. The healthy and strong can more easily delude themselves that god has a plan for them and is all good.

  • @MinisterAilingTongue You've got a point. But I would say that Christianity is 'by' those who are strong 'for' the weak. If God is powerful over the people, then the people who controls God controls the rest.

  • @Emarquez1896 It might be pretty cool to have one or more powerful, benevolent beings giving advice and aid to us misguided primates. Unfortunately it looks like we're completely on our own. They might be out there. One/many may have even presided somehow over the cosmic kick off. Who knows? We don't. I'm an atheist in that I reject the truth of (man made) religions and their claims concerning god(s). We humans are our only hope. Thus we must be guided by reason and compassion sans superstition.

  • Is it not terribly patronizing to say that Christians are too weak and too stupid to find consolation somewhere other than a divine fairy-tale? I think that's why many atheists are so militant. Because we believe everyone has the ability to be intelligent and strong enough to stand alone in the universe rather than be slaves to a fairy-tale.

  • Believer! Actually christian is another word for Brainwashed. Or any other religion.

  • What the hell was that second to last picture in this video?

  • @ManDudeYeah i think it's him in iraq

  • @abeeftec - you said "I have offered to prove the existance [SIC] of God…" - why are you wasting your time HERE then? Submit your proof to a peer-reviewed journal, WIN the Nobel prize in Science, and you'll get $1.5 million, and you will change the world. What are you waiting for? YOU and YOU ALONE can "prove" God's existence!!! GO FOR IT!

  • @geneolune Your comment made my day lol, very funny indeed. Thank you!

  • Hitchens... Obviously displayed alot of class here with the moderator.

  • you i know fuck it I dont care anymore. Believe your nonsense if helps you get through the day, but please dont fucking vote to restrict my rights based on your beliefs adn I dont care if you want to be delusional. I just care, remain willfully ignorant of science, I just dont care anymore.

  • @abeeftec You see I dont have to have faith in evolution, and even if I were not believe in evolution that would not change the fact that it is true.

    abiogenesis is not confirmed - yet - but we are working on it.

    I do understand DNA, protein chains, biochemistry and and reactionary science. If you did, you might understand why we laugh at people that argue against evolution without evidence as we do people that claim the earth is 6,000 years old and or think the world is flat.

  • @Xamaza "You see I dont have to have faith in evolution, and even if I were not believe in evolution that would not change the fact that it is true." Actually you do Have faith in evolution. And for the rest of your message under that statement I will NOT comment because YOU OBVIOUSLY mistake me for Christains you have spoken to in the past! Remember what you said about" ALL ATHEISTS?" Well, Same goes for you!!

    I CAN prove God Exists, But I CANNOT do it in a you tube post!!

  • @abeeftec I have read the evidence, seen the fossils, had DNA explained and read papers on genetic markers.

    We use that to convict people of crimes here, you know DNA, and our understanding of genetics is just another piece of the puzzle.

  • @Xamaza If you think that a person NOT of faith proved the world was ROUND you are again mistaken! It was A CHRISTAIN who Sailed the Sea to PROVE IT. And those who claim the earth is 6000 years old mistake the existance of PEOPLE AND the space of Time between Scriptures with The EARTH AGE which is FAR different. They are TRYING to honor what they THINK the bible says but it DOES NOT SAY IT. The 6000 years is what is determined APPROXIMATELY on a LOST people! NOT earths AGE.

  • @abeeftec Well at least we agree on the TIME SCALE AGE of the earth, which is the foundation of evolution. At least we can agree on that...

  • @Xamaza I am NOT a stupid Christain who assumes anything.And I am TELLING you that there IS a distinct difference, a line between FACT and built up evidences.Evidence does NOT indicate FACT. It indicates EVIDENCE,You need to determine if the evidence is CIRCUMSTANTIAL or Is it Aevidentail! Meaning, Could go either way. If you have some Evidence for evolution that is NOT either of those but BULLET PROOF,I would love to hear it,But first conclude that what you have shown so far is aevidentail

  • @abeeftec I dont think I ever called you a stupid christian, but misguided and ignorant, but that is nothing to be ashamed up, we are all born ignorant...

    Police would argue against that. We use evidence and try to inturpret the data the best way possible. As such, science does the same thing that is why we rely on science to make sense of things in the natural world.

  • @Xamaza what I do know is that the PEICES of the PUZZLE FIT TWO THEORIES. And you say they are FACTS for evolution and Christains say they are FACTS FOR GOD. So how do we rectify this problem? Should we just say they are BOTH LOONIES? Because I dont think there are NO rational people before the atheist movement and most beleived in God even if they didnt adhere to his principles. Putting their hand on the bible would cause most to thell the truth. Which is sacreligious really and means nothing

  • @abeeftec The difference is, science will concede when it is proven wrong and adjust itself to be inline with what is true if that is what the evidence says.

    Have you heard the term argument from ignorance? There are MANY christians that believe in science, evolution and STILL Believe in god bro. They are not mutually exclusive. You need to find a way to believe in both.

  • @Xamaza Actually evolution was said,Long ago when Darwin started the theory, That the only thing that will cause evoluion to go from theory to Fact is the missing link, That is why there are JOKES about "the missing Link" Yet, Since the dawn of the Atheist movement a little less then 20 years ago, Evolution all of a sudden was picked back up and ran a different route and soon after HUMAN ORIGINS WAS REMOVED And MICRO and MACRO evolution was born. So spread FACT all you want, But Its NOT

  • @abeeftec I dont care what you call it, its still evolution, micro macro, pfft w/e same thing.

  • @abeeftec wait let me get this right, you agree with MICRO evolution but you dont agree with MACRO evolution?

  • @abeeftec Actually evolution is the change over time and HOW it changes is variation, mutation and adaptation.

    Richard dawkings does explain this well. You are standing at hte base of a mountain and looking up and cant see how we can say we started at hte bottem and jumped straight up to the top, however if you walk around the side and take small gradual steps you can reach the top with ease.

    That is all evolution ever said. Baby steps over long periods of time. Micro is macro.

  • @abeeftec mkay thats nice, how come jesus didnt talk about genetics? How come nuclear fission isnt mentioned?

    Electricity? Steam power? Vaccines? Viruses? How come they didnt realize the sun was a star as well as all the other pretty lights in the night sky? God didnt think that important I guess?

  • @abeeftec Yep you have gone full retard. We broke the sound barrier a while back. But cool story bro.

    So again what proof do you have that god exists. I do not believe anything the bible says at all. Zero. Stop using it, I dont care.

  • @abeeftec You know what would have been a REAL prophecy? explaining HOW we were going to break the sound barrier.

    Something that no one could possibly know. Your claims of men as lightning means nothing to me. at all.

    You are asking me to be reasonable, but you still havent proven god exists in the first place, all you have proven is that YOU BELIEVE he exists. Which was never in question...

  • @abeeftec I dunno can you explain the meaning of poems? Or Music? does that mean it has to mean what YOU claim it to be? Pfft w/e kid.

    Again, if it had been Specific, about something they didnt know, like oh I dunno, that lightning creates antimatter, that would be interesting. but what you have isnt. You sound like raving lunatic, nothing more and will convince few others unless tehy are mentally unstable.

  • @Xamaza And you want me to NOT use the Bible? Then you stop using Science to prove evolution!

    you see,If I was using the BIBLE to prove the BIBLE it would be different.But I am USING EVENTS have were FORTOLD BEFORE THEY HAPPENED. Which YOU cannot claim for evolution so I am sorry but my method is MORE ACCURATE THEN YOURS.Also, Cars were Prophesied about in Nahum. TELEVISION in Revelation. on and on it goes! Airplanes. The Sudden SURGE in Technology! Its all there pal. But you wouldnt know

  • @abeeftec Science is based on evidence, reason and intellect.  Your book of fables != fact. Word of mouth stories passed down for generations != fact. The great thing about science is believing it doesnt matter.

  • @Xamaza So let me ask you,Why is it then,That when you speak of Evolution I dont insult you nor do I call you names,But I give you an ALTERNATIVE to what you say is FACT FOR EVOLUTION.YET whenever I say something about the Bible, Instead of giving an alternative you resort to name calling, insults, taking digs at the bible.Why not just admit it is NOT you who is using reason nor intellect but it is I who is using My intellect to show you science is NOT ALWAYS RIGHT.And never has been ALWAYS

  • @abeeftec I dont care if you do insult me, I have thick skin and dont mind.

    Science is the philosophy of discovery, creationsim (intelligent design) is the philosophy of ignorance.

    Your book is not about reason, logic or intellect. It is not based on evidence. If you understood what science does and how it works, you would understand the difference. You dont, so please reeducate yourself if needed, but ignore the holy book.

  • @abeeftec sir, evolution doesnt say a fucking thing about god. Stop claiming it does. No one said it does.

    Again, I dont care what you think the bible says so please save it.

    I read science journals EVERY FUCKING DAY and when something changes omfg we get smarter. The bible doesnt change and DOESNT GIVE US INSIGHT INTO ANYTHING. IT doesnt lead to NEW science or NEW understanding. There is NOTHING to DISCOVER by reading your bible.

  • @abeeftec still dont care.  Prove god exists. Thanks.

  • @abeeftec Oh wait...I've just noticed you write SOME words in CAPITALS...oh maybe you're RIGHT then about the sky god chap.

  • @abeeftec Dude, relax. Capital letters don't make your ideas any more convincing. And I'm glad you can prove God. You, sir, must be some sort of genius. Let's discount the struggles that the brightest minds have had since the beginning of human existence, because you have the factual proof. You really, really have to understand the burden of proof is on your end. Evolution is the best explanation for our origins. Your "theory" is an assumption. So please, relax, and think twice before you speak.

  • @abeeftec Sigh. Insults like "smart guy" don't help either. Why are your arguments so irate? I do concede that non-believers can be smug, arrogant, and self-righteous. Trust me, believers are as well. Let's argue without hostility. First, my THEORY is NOT a theory, is an oxymoron. Next, I wasn't trying to be insulting, just astounded that someone can "show" it. if you can now prove God's existence right here, right now, I'd be in your debt, and so would all of us. Please present your argument.

  • @abeeftec The existence of a transcendent deity and the biological implications of evolution are not related.. Sir, I don't understand why you're trying to pass the torch. The floor is yours, I gave you your soapbox. There's no need to argue that atheists can't "prove" evolution as fact. Frankly, that's irrelevant to my question. Is it possible to prove the existence of God, and if so, do you have the capability?

  • @abeeftec Does the progressive evolution of E-Coli bacteria over the course of just a few years count as "hard evidence"?

    Or is there some other way you'll try to worm your way out of finally giving up and accepting that it's actually happening?

  • @abeeftec Fuck you're stupid...sorry nothing to do with me but it's sad

  • @abeeftec Who is the author of the book of Mathew?

  • @abeeftec - "There are NO contradtions in any of them" - Lk 16.16, Jesus rejects the laws. Mt 5.17, he supports them. Rom 6.14, rejected. Mt 19.17, supported. Mt 19.18-19, doesn't know his Commandments. Mt 11:29, Jesus is meek and lowly, yet Mt 12.42, Jesus says he is greater than Solomon!

    Two absurd "genealogies" of Jesus are given; they do not match (and one goes back to the fairy-tale character "Adam"!).

  • @abeeftec - Sorry, WRONG - The N.T. REJECTS the law: "The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it" (Lk 16:16)

    And: "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." (Rom 6:14)

    And, Jesus also contradicts himself, accepting/fulfilling the law, in other verses I had shown you.

    The Bible contradicts itself at every turn -- which part is "right" or "true"??

  • @abeeftec I always read the king james version growing up so yes, that is what I based my understanding on since thats what i had... Do you speak aramaic? If so I would love a reading! You are claiming im being biased because I dont speak latin or greek or aramaic and used what i had on me, my bad... I see where i wrnt wrong.

    So without the bible, prove god exists and he create man. Go.

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  • @abeeftec You want direct proof from a Christian Evolution is true? Fucking search KEN MILLER oh wait here let me give it to you: watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk then put youtube .com /  then watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk DIRECT bro. Not beating around the bush, not telling you to search, THERE. See how EASY that is????
  • I don't get the: "we must see the backs of our fathers when they die, and with God you will never see such a thing. Thats hideous" And then says: My kids don't want me to die but it would be hideous to have me around them indefinitely. sure he didn't explain that as he does for some few other things.

    What is more majestic than to have our loved ones with us if we could choose to have them. But that to Richard is a bad thing. i dont see how that is bad.

  • @daniloorbolato He says that god is a horrible parody of fatherhood. The reason being is that a father's job is to raise and protect his children so that they may live and someday take his place having more than he had. God is a father who never dies and lives to see his children die, never seeing his children take his place nor having more than he has. That is the horrible parody of which Christopher is talking about.

  • abeeftec = total idiot who needs anger management classes.

  • I CHALLENGE ANY EVOLUTIONIST TO PROVE EVOLUTION IS A FACT! Sorry, Cant do it! Then you need to stop saying it is FACT, or you need to stop telling Christains to PROVE GOD EXISTS in 500 characters or less! The number one reason you need to stop saying evolution is fact, Because EVEN DAWKINS CANT SAY ITS FACT! And if you dont know by your own studies then saying its fact and not proving it is just LIP SERVICE!

  • @abeeftec - "Because EVEN DAWKINS CANT SAY ITS FACT!" Yes, he can.

    See watch?v=ZRDsNjhZn34

    "Evolution is a fact" -- Dawkins

    (P.S. I know you won't watch that, because it disproves your statement.)