Divine impulses: Hitchens: contempt for the religious 4 of 7

[electricsoldiers]

Is it still called being a 'devil's advocate', if you argue that there is a god, but you're an atheist?

[halflifeproductionz]

wtf!? hitchens keeps using the same arguments over and over i don't get it. whats going on.

[cnmaster01]

@halflifeproductionz I'm not sure if the uploader or the original editor is responsible, but it's clearly been cut up and sorted by subject, so if it overlaps it gets repeated.

[inglefud2]

Yes, I have to agree. I experienced deju vu a few times watching this. some parts are being repeated. But anyway, repetiton drives the points home.

[toolegit2quittttt]

im going to bitch about his editing some more. yeah!

[MattTee1234]

Hitch is the man!

(I would just add that Hitch misspoke slightly on the Romney bit. The cursed participants of the war he mentions are not condemned African-American's, but ancestors of Native Americans. Mormonism's anti-Black doctrine doesn't really have anything to do with the war Hitch referenced... except maybe to show that it isn't just African-Americans that they believe are cursed and inferior.)

[trident3b]

could this be reloaded without all the errors... 3=4 etc... it's a mess

[MegaMalfurion]

In my younger days I was a very angry atheist. However, I've moved past that. I harbor no hatred of the religious. I don't believe they are capable of logic. Perhaps It's a genetic defect, and I can only hope that it's curable some day.

[janjanjan0]

very interesting

[mimesis6mime]

GILF!

[DNorbsODS7]

20+ years ago this woman must have been a bombshell...

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

Religion gives me an erection.

[MoonPaddy81]

You contemptuous shrew! Utter tripe!

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

Hitchens Ego is malfeasant.

It is a vile contagion, a pestilence, a panoply, a bestiary, a cistern, an abyss, a concave crest, an escutcheon, a fetid foul, wretched, putrid macabre, malodorous grimoire.

[MoonPaddy81]

Do you carry a thesaurus everywhere you go?

[PinkandDeadly]

@AnonymousWhitePerson

Step away from the thesaurus and make a point.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

@PinkandDeadly,

I thought my adjectives were Cute.

[PinkandDeadly]

@AnonymousWhitePerson

Well sure, but the nouns were a bit odd. You should probably look up panoply.

And escutcheon.

And grimoire.

Is this one of those free association poetry things or are you just taking advantage of your word-a-day calendar?

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

@PinkandDeadly,

Poppycock.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

The interviewer has an aquiline proboscis.

[InSearchOfStorms]

god is non-existent

[soylentgreenb]

You know those annoying chain letters people post on youtube?

"Don't red this msg sorry!!!1 If you red this msg you must repost it on 5 videos in an hour or your mother will die!"

This is religion in a nut-shell. It's just a bloody bronze-age chain letter.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

Christians worship the Sun on Sunday and celebrate the resurrection of the Sun (Sunrise) on Easter Sunday.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

The Bible is the greatest work of Pagan Mythology Ever Writ.

[NidisListenstoShit]

@AnonymousWhitePerson How are you going to complain about egotism with a sentence the subject of which is "I"? Don't assume we care.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

@NidisListenstoShit,

How are you going to complain in a sentence with poor syntax?

[NidisListenstoShit]

@AnonymousWhitePerson Even if my syntax were bad, there's no irony there. I wasn't insulting anyone's syntax. You were insulting egotism with an egocentric comment.

Please, try to keep up.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

@NidisListenstoShit,

Make me, you effete drunkard.

Really, it pains me to see good Cognac squandered on such a scurrilous dreg.

Spare me the pleasantries of gutter-life.

[NidisListenstoShit]

@AnonymousWhitePerson You want me to make you keep up? Does that mean you're admitting you failed to keep up? Put down the thesaurus and read a book. You'll be a better writer and a better person for it.

[49fiori]

if believers would truly believe in god they would be fucking happy! but no, they have to drag others into the abyss so they feel good.

[kaiwanmak]

imaginary friends for adutls are in there last chapter, dont get to angry, its a few more generations away from being eliminated.

[ShadowReubenKee]

Being an "angry" atheist myself, I can only agree with Mr. Hitchens. We have the right to be "angry" at having to accept superstitious fucking deluded people, messing up our educational system and the entire world!

[BillKiernan]

agreed. it's frustrating that intelligent human beings are still lying themselves into believing things we should have dumped as a species well over a thousand years ago.

[ryerye1111]

cheers to that

[SofaKingAbsent]

The Big Bang describes the origin and evolutionary process of the physical cosmos we experience it now... but it does not describe why or how something spontaneously manifested from nothing.

What was before the big bang Chris?

Though there was a beginning to this physical universe, conscious existence had no beginning. This single existence we all make up has always been and always will be; in one form or another. Eternal, infinite existence.

[mfunke]

@SofaKingAbsent

What is south of the south pole? Where is under the center of the Earth? What was there before the existence of time?

Non sensical questions. Time begins at the big bang. There is no before time.

And nothing in science suggests the universe was EVER devoid of energy. Energy never came out nothing. Energy was already there in the beginning of time.

Only magical religious stories suggest energy being created out of nothing. The very point they argue against.

[jloo222]

video is so edited it's stupid

[reinforcedpenisstem]

Also, the sound is far too quiet in these videos.

[reinforcedpenisstem]

I'm glad I don't have the terrible burden of working for free for my 'God' - trying to conscript people for a lost and meaningless cause. I suddenly feel so free. Glad I don't work for a thankless, invisible, immaterial and demanding, bearded boss.

[MvNPTI]

Yea she is a hot grandmom

[ciaochowbella]

Faith is a virtue only to those who would mislead you. In case you haven't noticed, religion, especially the religions of Abraham, is all about controlling the masses through fear and intimidation. If you keep people afraid, you can make them do as you wish.

[SofaKingAbsent]

Precisely. A fear based, self-psychological slavery.

I've been there... I know!

[green2489]

what's a MILF? Please explain...

[scriptycoder]

MILF stands for "Mother I would Love to Fuck " .

[green2489]

I have been seeing this for about two years and have been wondering all this time-thanks!

[naybobdenod]

hitchens gets this spot on,Why should anyone respect any faith,its a ludicrous statement from any theologion,faith,like none belief should hold the same respect.

Lets all get a grip and stop believing in angels and walking on water,we all know its garbage from the past.

Reality is the way forward,perhaps the Higgs boson will sort this supesticious mess out.

Hopefully

[SkeksisRule]

You can't cut out the stupid parts or it will kill them. No amount of reasoning will help either.

[SkeksisRule]

I'm angry.

[SenorZorrozzz]

My comment, gone? No guts these atheists. Can't deal with facts, they must shut you up and insult you.

[SWAC424]

Facts you say? Theres no such thing as a religious fact.

[DiabSoulBooker]

the order of these videos is all fucked up... horribly. parts keep repeating, or else i'm drunk or something

[hitchenschannel]

they are order in correct and they do not repeat. some part they talk back about they talked before it the interview.

[DiabSoulBooker]

no, i'm pretty sure i was right the first time.

[enigma343]

The first part of the video is clearly a "highlights" video or a trailer. It keeps repeating the first video because the first video have snippets of the entire interview.

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

@hitchenschannel

"(uploader) they are order in correct and they do not repeat"

Actually, they do repeat. The question about feeling contemptuous about religion and Hitchen's answer to that is an example.

[TheAtheistworld]

@hitchenschannel what do u smoke? info repeats.

[gellerstudent]

@hitchenschannel lol wrong

[CognitiveApprentice]

@hitchenschannel

It appears that the first video was a sort of highlight reel for the rest of the program. I'm not drunk, and I heard the bit about compulsory love in the last video, for the second time. Also at the beginning of this video he says "I instantly lose some respect for them" in reference to someone saying "I'll pray for you", that was in the first video and this one as well.

[lizmac63]

@hitchenschannel Several parts are definitely repeated ... and no ... I'm not drunk either!

[morningstomper123]

@hitchenschannel Bullshit. Parts most definately repeat. The editing is amatuer at best. "My first video edit", you could say.

[mockingbirdgrrl1]

@hitchenschannel

Nice english...

[jabblesfan1]

@mockingbirdgrrl1

he might be drunk haha

[newfagscanttrif0rce]

@DiabSoulBooker

The first part was a highlight video

[Chrisdvc26]

No, the first video shows snippets of what's to follow in the succeeding videos, which makes it feel like its repetitive.

[SenorZorrozzz]

Note to self; send Hitchens information on Bariatric Surgery.

[bollockowithalob]

Thanks for uploading.