oh bullshit...socialists are no more cruel and stupid when greedy and powerful than when capitalists are. it's not about the system of government, but rather the corruption of it. Despots come in all shades.
The native Americans were more pious. They left maggots in wounds, that these larvae might do the Almightys work, and thus avoided the misery of gangrene. It took us centuries for Europeans to figure out that trick.
But Twain is right. We ought to be humble, and not put upon others with our false intellectual superiority. The universe is very big, we know very little about it, and it's unwise to pretend otherwise.
@davidmanhart1 Thank you for your support, but I cannot return the favor. Too many socialists have prospered (albeit at the expense of everyone else), and have often suffered only at the hands of other socialists. For a few exceptionally brutal and cunning socialists, their creed insured them a lifelong vocation as unfetterd despots.
Thus socialism is not a religion of the stupid. It is instead a faith for professional beggars and pirates, thieves and cutthroats. All intend to profit thereby.
Hitchens, ' God is not great' is one of my favourite books. For similar great thoughts try Dan Barker, John W. Loftus, Robert M Price, Valerie Tarico, Victor Stenger, Bart Ehrman, Ken Humphreys, Richard Carrier, Joseph Wheless, Keith Parsons, Gary Greenberg, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, Mark Twain, Earl Doherty, Israel Finkelstein, Daniel Dennett, C Dennis Mckinsey
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This is superb.I didn't know that Twain wrote so passionately and brilliantly about superstitious nonsense.thanks for the video-I'll be reading more Twain now
oh bullshit...socialists are no more cruel and stupid when greedy and powerful than when capitalists are. it's not about the system of government, but rather the corruption of it. Despots come in all shades.
beastshawnee 6 days ago
The native Americans were more pious. They left maggots in wounds, that these larvae might do the Almightys work, and thus avoided the misery of gangrene. It took us centuries for Europeans to figure out that trick.
But Twain is right. We ought to be humble, and not put upon others with our false intellectual superiority. The universe is very big, we know very little about it, and it's unwise to pretend otherwise.
DrCruel 2 months ago
@DrCruel: as you prove.. wisdom is more important than intellectualism... we need to discard religion and other stupidity
davidmanhart1 2 weeks ago
@davidmanhart1 Do you count amongst their number the idiotic religion of socialism?
DrCruel 2 weeks ago
@DrCruel I so completely agree! Socialism is religion for the stupid.
davidmanhart1 2 weeks ago
@davidmanhart1 Thank you for your support, but I cannot return the favor. Too many socialists have prospered (albeit at the expense of everyone else), and have often suffered only at the hands of other socialists. For a few exceptionally brutal and cunning socialists, their creed insured them a lifelong vocation as unfetterd despots.
Thus socialism is not a religion of the stupid. It is instead a faith for professional beggars and pirates, thieves and cutthroats. All intend to profit thereby.
DrCruel 2 weeks ago
i'm too drunk for this
2BitterFucks 5 months ago
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Hitchens, ' God is not great' is one of my favourite books. For similar great thoughts try Dan Barker, John W. Loftus, Robert M Price, Valerie Tarico, Victor Stenger, Bart Ehrman, Ken Humphreys, Richard Carrier, Joseph Wheless, Keith Parsons, Gary Greenberg, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, Mark Twain, Earl Doherty, Israel Finkelstein, Daniel Dennett, C Dennis Mckinsey
zytigon 6 months ago
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TheServiceWeb 6 months ago
What fantastic writing. Mark Twain was a truly gifted individual.
TheR0tter 7 months ago
Fideists do not come to believe in God based on reason and, accordingly, any further appeal to reason will not sway them to abandon their position.
The irony is that making such an argument in these circumstances is patently unreasonable, itself.
samuidave 1 year ago
This is superb.I didn't know that Twain wrote so passionately and brilliantly about superstitious nonsense.thanks for the video-I'll be reading more Twain now
henryporter101 1 year ago
@henryporter101 If you haven't already, read Letters From the Earth.
ThatDifferentDude 7 months ago
@ThatDifferentDude Thanks for the tip.I'll have a look for it.
henryporter101 7 months ago
This is obviously a hoax Twain did like 10 years ago . JOKE
Earrot 1 year ago
great, but not hitchens speaking
phuturexy 1 year ago
@phuturexy Obviously, read the description. It is only an excerpt from Hitchen's book where he cites Twain and thus states narrated by Nicholas Ball.
crimsonsamuraiftw 1 year ago
Brilliant!
BenWannaBee 1 year ago
His auto-bio out soon. October, I believe
mnaicck 1 year ago
Poetry, sheer poetry ! No wonder Twain isn't more read.
zimtran007 1 year ago
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People still read?
Sllvlloov 7 months ago
This is so pleasant to hear.
BohemianBlasphemy 1 year ago