Brockport Student Government Presents Hitchens Vs. Wolpe 1 of 10

[shawn199500]

Don't we have laws that are based on Peoples collective values on good and bad. We don't really need any religion for Democracy do we?

"religion makes people do good or bad" . you cannot possibly believe that statement. I'd like to see religious education outlawed to children below the age of 17, or least Rated R

[Chill197]

were smart enough to imagine flying farts

[hagenttzd]

I like Bertrand Russels Teapot . Sums things up quite nicely.

[ticaille59]

Jump to 3:48 and skip the intro ;)

[architect333]

To sum this up quick, if Good N Bad = Religion.

Wolpe = here u go, some Good N Bad better then nothing!

Hitchens = but that's the way the world is, we can do better then that, and get rid of the Bad!

Me = what about the Good? Hitchen's doesn't make his point on this one!

[Chill197]

The good would still be here despite religion

[architect333]

We all know this... My point religion makes people do Good N BAD, Hitchen's thinks everyone can be rational, when in fact I'll quote from above "We really are not that smart a race lets face it." So i agree lets get rid of religion for it's BAD, but how are you going to convince everyone else how to be GOOD??? Remember were talking about religion here and to it's intellectual followers. Not Convincing, Never mine the millions of believers out there!

[Chill197]

Again you dont need religion to convince people to do good

[ashman165]

You fail to understand that ideas of good and bad are available to everyone, mostly. The human capacity for understanding is belittled when people are told that without a book telling them what is right, they lack the capacity to know it.

If you're comfortable being spoken to like a child, have at it. I, on the other hand, have no need of being told as much and refuse to be spoken to in such a tone.

[TheBlackLagooner]

Go to 3:45 to get to Hitchens.

[RodHullIOnceWasHim]

Most useful comment of the week... Cheers...

[felandath]

Thanks for that mate.

[papercutpictures]

@TheBlackLagooner - you know why we're all here... thanks mate!

[TheBlackLagooner]

You're welcome. heh

[JesusSavesAtCitibank]

"The whole of the notion of god(s) is nothing more than the manifestation of human ignorance expressed through human imagination." ~ John O'Hara

[IanBillings00]

Ahh! I can't believe Christopher Hitchens was so very close to where I live, and doing a debate none-the-less, and I didn't even know about it!

Is there anyone who knows how one can access a listing of Hitchen's debate schedule? I would absolutely love to be able to see him at a live debate, but I have no idea where he will be until the debates have already passed and have been posted.

[pervertedmind]

haha , didnt know this was new, kept thinking it was old, i hope he makes him cry again. d(:

[BeforeTheNoose]

Hitchens kicks ass, as per. I don't think Harris did even better at demolishing Wolpes poor arguments tho. Mainly because of the Elvis bit.

[babner]

Thanks for the post. There was a prior debate between these two, i hope this one is just as good.

[BIGJIMBOZZ]

Hitchens is our new Fu'hrer

Hail Hitchens!

[retep19]

hitchens wins as usual .

[saburoemon]

wolpe's arguments are just tired and have been refuted time and time again. can he get a new shtick already?

[rclxor]

Cool, thank you so much.

[jacob353]

03:38

[drongovids]

thanks

[BigMikeMcBastard]

Read my mind.

[sk80soarus]

hahahaha, very nice!