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This guy helps the cigarette and alcohol companies more than their advertising does. The amount of college students who will go out and light up or 'drink enough to stun a mule' is huge and they all do it in the name of their Holy Lord Hitchens. It's a wonderful paradox, simple and elegant yet entirely telling of the hypocrisy we see day in day out in the 'learned'.
@R0WMaC - Hopefully the college students will be intelligent enough to make their own choices in life, good and bad. To blame Hitchens for the college culture of drinking to excess is a rather strawman attempt at insulting a brilliant man.
As Hitchens himself has said a number of times, and he made no apologies for it (and none are required); he may very well have burnt the candle at both ends...but if gave off a lovely hue!
A smart man, but an overrated one. Though I would prefer he didn't die, his death is the result of his own (quite illogical) lifestyle choices, and I refuse to feel sympathy for a man who had no sympathy for anyone else, as ignorant and stupid as they may have been.
He devoted too much of his argumentation to petty, ad hominem attacks for me to admire him as an intellectual or an orator. I feel that he cheapened the Atheist and Critical Thinker brand and did more harm than good. So it goes.
You have to judge people by the measure of their actions, but I tend to think that really elegant prose is independent of the author of the words. Thomas Jefferson has much to answer for as well, but his writing can still inspire and enlighten.
I think criticism of leaders like Hitchens is a good and right thing (and I suspect he would approve, contrarian that he was), but don't let it detract from his really good ideas and eloquent speeches.
@C0nc0rdance Very true, but I think there are many other sources from which to find the exact same ideas that he has espoused over his lifetime--which is all the more reason for me to wonder why HE was so magnetic to the atheist crowd. Contrarian though he was, he was not an original--he was merely more popular than other, more respectable people (often predecessors) who had similar ideas and philosophies. I (dis)credit him with cultivating a bad reputation for atheists everywhere.
@C0nc0rdance Yes, he has some good quotes :P (although that 3rd one is very wrong and I'm surprised he said it). I suppose I should give him credit for popularizing good ideas and coming up with pithy slogans, but I won't give him credit for the ideas themselves. There is a long, long tradition of secular humanism and other related philosophies that preceded him and that he owes a lot to.
@C0nc0rdance T. Jefferson: Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear
But it does me no injury 4 my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity
@C0nc0rdance Excuse the textification of Thomas Jefferson's prose lol This character limit is oppressive! Anyway, Thomas Jefferson is just one of many examples of less divisive, prickish, petulant sources for equally good (or better) writing on such topics : )
Plus he really throws a wrench in the whole Tea Party ethos, which depends so much on justifying its ignorance and stupidity with quotations from the Founding Fathers! Quoting Jefferson to conservatives can be quite fun.
@ForYeensSake I didn't say he fully copied anyone or that he should be ashamed to take these ideas from his predecessors. I just said that he was derivative. He is not the originator of these ideas. Secular morality, humanism, atheism, empiricism, they all predate Hitchens by a long shot. He was simply the the most prominent advocate of our generation for these things--he was not their creator.
@bsrk7 Well yes, now that you mention it that was a straw man. Sorry for that. However I don't think we see hitchens as a creator to be honest. But I've yet to find somebody who can disagree with me with this much panache.
Thanks for posting this vid. We never met but I miss him as I would a close friend We'll all miss Hitch but, his legacy of wit, wisdom and unrelenting opposition to theocratic bulling will live on in our lives. “Don’t keep the faith.”
@artbasss maybe a funny joke for Sam Singleton or Pastor Harry Hardwick but we Atheists do not have "churches" per se & Hitch would be ripe to point that out, the whole idea of canonization or saint is gibberish, accordingly I call MR Louis Missouri or streets abbreviated as ST but not the nonsense word of saint... fight the god idea all the way folks, that is what Hitch rallied you in honor to do 843-926-1750 Dial An Atheist Larry
@oldstock1607 OUR Atheism is IT that extends not only from religious/theocratic violence, not only from creationist drivel or even praying to US flags, our Atheism extends from common decency & a duty in ethics not to bribe people with alleged heavens nor threaten people with alleged hells, our Atheism is our birthright, as all of us are born Atheists, as religion is forced upon most children when we Atheists can stand as a beacon of refuge to religions victims inviting FreeThought
@alSation81 Sometimes when a group of people who has been killed and attacked physically throughout history for the sole reason of other people's "gods", they backlash a bit with their words, their attitudes, and their rhetoric. However, I would equate all atheist "mean-spirit"edness to equaling less than the death of a single atheist among thousands who has fallen in the name of someone's diety. So for now, I think we've got the right. At least we aren't "Inquisition"ing anyone.
@alSation81 Nobody wants to interfere with their faith or their freedom to believe what they will, only their ability to inflict those beliefs on others through the poisoning of the educational well or special privileges acquired by lobbying the political process in direct contravention to the principles of the American constitution.
Hitch was a master of unweaving the blanket of religious lies and exposing religion to intellectual scrutiny.
@alSation81 "He certainly made people turn their brain on while he was here"
He did that. Irrespective of which side of the religious fence you choose to sit on, there's no denying that he raised the intellectual bar and with his encyclopedic knowledge of philosophy and Christian writings, he blew away the veil of metaphor to get to the very nub of the matter in hand.
"thought he would pull through the ilness". Unfortunately, the prognosis was never good.
@baldieman64 Hitch demonstrated for us all the passionate command of language as "(gun)powder" he encouraged us to keep dry ready to ignite at the greatest of all enemies, never to water down one's invective towards great evils like Teresa of Calcutta killing people with her incompetent faith death houses when simple medicine could have saved lives in India by her hand
@LarryCarterCenter Yes, I knew all about (Soon to be) "Saint" Teresa before I had ever heard of Hitch. Having travelled fairly extensively in India, I've met a few people who have volunteered to work in her death houses and without exception they were united by their utter contempt for what went on there.
@alSation81 Attacking faith in itself is pointless and by that very nature makes it "mean-spirited" I suppose, but attacking those who would use their faith to try to alter reality, it is the only dignified choice.
RIP Christopher Hitchens. you were an ispiration to thousands, if not millions of rational minded secularists across the globe, and your tireless fight against ignorance and bigotry will mean your legacy will live on. Your suffering is over, but the world is a poorer place without you.
@JRBendixen yes this young man's voice is fine yet a bit fast to do justice to Hitch. We should find a baritone Brit to read this 220 seconds over 5 minutes with his famous "pause" style ... keep your powder dry as Hitch said years ago on C-SPAN ... 843-926-1750 Larry Carter Center ... I could use a voice coach to learn the Christopher Eric Hitchens perfected English
It is sad to think we might lose Hitchens, but there is comfort for him and us in the number of new zealots to the cause he has seeded. anti theists of the world unite! Hitch has delivered the ammo, lets lock and load!
Prepare for the worst but hope for the best...He is a well balanced thinker,with unbelievable capacity for logic, for memorizing and for mesmerizing with absolute impeccable language...He must certainly be amongst the highest of known intellectual debaters in the history, present and future of mankind.
@TwistedMind6969 I know what you said, doesn't change anything, you still talk about him like he is in the coffin. He is not doomed to die from the cancer yet, he can, even if it is unlikely, recover from this. And starting making these sort of comments already is just not polite, it makes it seem like he is already dead.
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Christianity, Islam and Judaism hold the dismal belief that the Laws of Nature respond to wailings and incantations, prayers, petitions, repetitions and chants. These are rather, ludicrous remnants of ancient mindsets that believed the sacrifice of life by someone else’s death to be the ultimate offering for appeasement of the gods. All writings, rantings, rituals and religion is reflected in much of the world’s riddled cultures of stupidism, still, today.
Since humans stepped out of the caves, we constantly expanded our circle of love to include more people. We now reject genocide, racism, incest, etc; things that were common centuries ago. We are in a crucial point in our development. Becoming completely spiritual by rejecting all evil is the next step. Atheism rejects Jesus, which represents 100% love, as a role model,which is a step back for consciousness. The time has come to raise our consciousness to the next level ,do it before is too late
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A question for atheists. In a world where there's no proof of God's existence or of life after death; how will you explain to your children why you brought them into the world and why they should die?
All I am saying is if you want to prove things through facts then that's exactly what it takes. Hitchens also says don't just fill your gaps with God. I argue not to fill the gaps with anything, including the rejection of a God. If you cannot find an answer then continue to pursue maybe the answer isn't meant to be found.
That somewhat irrelevant but I am just saying. There things u and hitchen's say that are not fact but rather opinion; if you can have an opinion so can everyone else. Also I'm not sure the catholic church thinks it's better to get aids than wear a condom you may want to check your facts.
Also if you want your beliefs to be respected u must realize this is what these people truly believe in, they may not but some people do. For example if you aren't fucking around with sketchy people then you probably don't need to worry about std's/aids. These people also believe in not having sex till marriage.
...must be able to create a connection between all religions an then show me that they intend or do kill. Since religions can be created I can just alter my religion to your response so that doesn't really work for me. I am always open to new ideas, logical well thought through answers only please.
@1Thompsonmusic No, I merely recognise that we don't know how the universe came about. If you are to seek an explanation through a god, you must ask the next question: where did god come from? if you decide this is an unanswerable question, why not just skip a step and say that the begining of the universe is an unanswerable question? If you decide that god doesn't need an explanation and that he simply always existed, why not just skip a step and say that the universe always existed?
@1Thompsonmusic However, this is not all. Not only is god unnecessary for our understaning of the universe, there is no evidence to support his existence.
In other words, you're responding to a question with an answer which is not only totally unsupported by evidence, but which asks the same question it sought to resolve.
I, on the other hand, simply concede that I don't know.
So, I say again, religion is innately evil because it is irrational.
I am reminded of the old joke about naming a cat: "What's the point of naming something that doesn't come when you call it?"
If the soul can't be observed, either directly or indirectly; if it exerts no influence on the physical world and vice versa; if we can't define it by objective criteria; and if it can only be defined in spiritual, supernatural terms... what's the point in believing in it?
It seems to me that it's an inelegant way of NOT answering big questions.
@1Thompsonmusic Wind is air under high pressure moving to areas of low pressure; the reason we can not see air is that light passes through it instead of being absorbed or reflected by it - this is why we can feel air without seeing it.
Now, how is human life proof of the existence of God?
I don't like the way you put that sorry it is just an illogical response to what I said. Yes there is stupid shit certain religions do but all religions are different so you and maybe Hitchens which I have not read his books so he could have other ideas I do not know about but what you just did is create a hasty generalization. Catholicism, Islamic, Hinduism etc., all religions are their own and they all have their own beliefs. How can you prove that all religions are poisonous? You
Now, looking at the universe from a third person point of view may bring things into perspective. Many things go unanswered for long periods of time. This does not mean there is no answer. Without an answer we are stuck on a hunt for a truth? Correct? Instead of accepting coincidence or a collision for all things that have ever happened maybe a better answer is a spirit of some form for all I know it could be God who said, thought, breathed, whatever the fuck you want to call it, all existence.
If we knew there was a god or there is no god then we wouldn't be talking about this, this would not be a debate therefore either there are no Gods, there is one God, there exists more than one god, or all gods that claim to exist do exist. These are realistic premises that we cannot exclude.
And honestly I would say as an institution religions push their beliefs harder than anyone else probably...but with that being said atheists as individuals do not hesitate to voice their opinions or even in many cases make jokes, this is clearly just as poisonous to believers in a higher power. There is a reason this debate has gone on for centuries and that is because it is clearly unproven how we got here.
I understand the difference I believe. While spirituality is a personal idea religion goes public. I can't say I agree with religions pushing their beliefs which I know some religions do but some do not and if we generalize all religions as one then we are clearly creating a fallacy.
@WEWILLSECURE It seems to me that you are the one filled with hate, calling atheists nothing because we don't believe as you do. If anyone is confused, it is you. I do not hate myself and I love life. What I do hate is people like you who judge others because they don't believe as you do. As i said my life is full of love, I love my children and grandchildren and they love me as well, but I walk with neither god nor satan as I do not believe in them.
... you enjoy what seems to me as a form of preaching; i mean you say religion is a poison but a poison is something that kills at one rate or another. How can something be a poison if all It does is help people and possibly even allow them to live longer? You have a decent theory that yes maybe "God" has his own "dictatorship" if he exists but that doesn't mean it does not exist, nor does it mean that their is no God; with this being said the bible could have been written by some asshole that
I think you are confusing spirituality and religion. Many people who don't hold a religious belief are very spiritual. They don't need a god or gods, a priesthood or a dogma to appreciate the mysteries of life and the unanswered questions of the universe.
I don't think you're really looking at the harm that religion has done and is doing. Pick up the newspaper or go to CNN and look at the way that religious conflict is affecting our world.
@jcmurdy Religion is precisely something that can be used to kill at one rate or another and is therefore very much like a poison in that respect. Look how the Catholic church is committing what is pretty much genocide in Africa by promoting the idea that (to quote Christopher Hitchens) "AIDS is bad, but not quite as bad as condoms are bad"! Look at how religion was used to infect the minds of those guys who flew aeroplanes into the twin towers. Look where you like, but do LOOK!
@jcmurdy In speaking of religion you ask "How can something be a poison if all it does is help people and possibly even allow them to live longer?" Do you mean, as an example, the effect that religion (specifically Islam) had on nearly 3000 people on the bright sunny morning of Sept 11, 2001? Or perhaps you referenced the Holy Crusades or the Spanish Inquisition? Not exactly enhancements in peoples lives, were they?
@jcmurdy Religion does, in a more localized sense, help people. Philosophically, it can help them find purpose and meaning, and in a more concrete sense it helps people with soup kitchens, homeless shelters, etc. Although, just because it helps people, it does not make it true.
In global terms, it is poisonous. Different religions quarrel, creating conflicts all over the world. Religious ideology pits people against each other. It interferes with politics, which it has no place.
@jcmurdy Historically, it had a stranglehold over science. Blasphemy was punishable by death. Religious extremists murder without remorse, feeling justified by the teachings of their faith. Religion is absolutism by definition and is often applied to political philosophy, which restricts the free will of man. Any act is justifiable if you believe it is okay in the eyes of the lord.
If this were any other ideology, which was not so saturated in dogma, it would have been dismissed long ago.
I am not saying any religion is right or wrong but I would argue that taking a stance is like saying you know the answers when really if you knew the answers then u have some form of supernatural powers or it seems because no one has proven to the world of any absolute solution to the beginning, at this point in time the big bang theory is just as plausible as a higher power or any form of coincidence for that matter. Many religions push their own onto others, I agree this is wrong. But Mr. Hit
...it answers everything. Just because we don't know the answer to all things does not mean that there is not an answer to every question. U make a statement saying something like "my Internet doesn't work therefore it's 'the' God's fault if my isn't working because God knows all things past and future, I am not sure I agree that God knows all things in the past and the future but if he did why couldn't he have known that your Internet wouldn't work at that exact moment just to piss you off. I
...but that seems just as plausible as some form of higher power having full control of what will happen and what has happened. If we are talking supernatural instead of coincidental which in my mind both should be accounted for, then your statement "something that answers everything really answers nothing" seems like a paradoxical statement. First of all if we make new discoveries everyday then why couldn't we one day discover that there is a God? Something that answers everything does just th
Hitchens, you say that religion is wrong but who's religion are you talking about? There are many religions which maybe you have studied them all but i doubt it and it seems irrelevant. In my mind there is no common sense when it comes to religion. Are there absolute facts of how things started? No? Oh well then that's kind of like having no absolute facts that a God does exist. Modern science tells us it was a natural spontaneous event of some sort that started everything but that seems just a
Thank you, Mr. Christopher for speaking your heart with much courage. Thank you Sir, for sharing your heart and mind. May Fantastic Free Flowing Hootenanny Love Vibrations bring Wonderful Joy and Peace to You Always!!! When asked about religion Albert D. Xavier replied, "Just get me some Peyote and a Hang-glider." Shazam, "B.A."
this speech actually brought tears to my eyes, thank you concordance for making this video, keep on fighting Hitchens, you will forever be a hero to me.
I have faith that this video is about Hitchen's death bed conversion to Christianity and atonement for his lifetime of blasphemy. Can't prove me wrong because I'm not watching the video.
The only legitimately scientific viewpoint is agnosticism By definition it is a corruption of the scientific method to be biased and atheism is an inherent bias in matters untestable by scientific method. Christians created scientific method to be neutral in religious matters. Christians believe in the Unknown God. Atheists want to kill Zeus,
@Texasjim2007 I seldom bless the likes of Texasjack with a response - they're a waste of time. I don't claim to be smarter than everyone else - perhaps in the top 15%-20% by IQ so I am smarter than most people I meet and I am DEFINITELY smarter than Texasjim! jack whatever.
If atheists are smarter than Christians how come atheist Europeans were stupid enough to let socialist dictators take over their countries and start the most destructive war in human history over which socialist dictator was going to replace Jesus? Us stupid Americans with all of our Christian Fundamentalists weren't stupid enough to make that mistake. Grow up and stop hating Christians..
@Texasjim2007 You have failed in so many ways in this short commentary. Inscription on WW2 german uniform belt buckle: "Gott mit uns". Hitler, Mussolini, Franco: good relationsip with the Vatican. Adoration of Stalin: Quasireligious. Most europeans at that time were christian.
@Texasjim2007 Er... texass... WWII was not about Jesus you dumb fuck. Read more and write less - I tune into the comedy channel for laughs but you're just as good. Secondly, Hitler, a Socialist - what were his social programs, quote a speech he gave about social welfare and helping the poor... wait a minute, helping the poor... hey, that was JESUS... OMG!!!! Jesus was a Socialist - sell all you have and GIVE to the poor.... the sermon on the mount and all that... Jesus, Socialist!
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If you atheists really were smarter than all the rest of us like you flatter your vanity to believe then why are there over a billion Christians and a billion Muslims but less than a billion atheists on Earth? Why is atheist New York losing seats in Congress and Christian Texas gaining seats? What rational reason is there for trusting a philosophy that by simple natural selection is an evolutionary failure?
As a fellow Texan, I resent the imposition that Texas is "Christian". According the US census in 2000 41% of Texans do not claim a religious affiliation. 21% are Catholic, 24% are Evangelical Protestants, and the rest are smaller groups. Everybody gets a voice here, even the 41% of people who don't call themselves anything.
And, by the way, New York state is 38% Catholic, 17% Evangelical, and 9% Jewish.
@Texasjim2007 Oh the old argumentum ad numerum. Seriously? You're using population sizes as proof of fairytales? I suppose I can't expect more from a religious wacko. Until only 500 years ago the ENTIRE world population believed the earth was flat. It was the handful who discovered otherwise who were infinitely smarter. Then everyone still believed the sun revolves around the earth. Wrong again. Reasons for thunder, lightening, earthquakes, disease, etc., etc. ALL WRONG, EVERYONE. Need more?
@Texasjim2007 - not all athiests think they are smarter than the rest. Its oversimplistic and divisive to treat others as dumber, whichever group we are in. Secularism is growing in some parts of the world, declining in others. Live and let live.
@Texasjim2007 Classical error: the number of people holding an opinion lends no support to that opinion - that's why they call us "Freethinkers" (silly boy!). Does your billion "Atheists" include the 1.4 billion Chinese? LOL. Thirdly: you clearly have not noticed the swing toward the Right in the US - this explains the awful election results you cited. Lastly - natural selection - Bwaaaaahahahahahahah you fuckin' idiot!
@Texasjim2007 You are exactly the sort of idiot that would have said precisely the same thing at the time when people believed the world was flat - and they did so for thousands of years.
This is known as a logical fallacy. Specifically, logical fallacy by appeal to majority. Look it up.
I'd also recommend you learn what evolution actually is.
@Texasjim2007 You ask “what rational reason is there for trusting a philosophy that by simple natural selection is an evolutionary failure?” I assume you have replaced the word ‘atheist’ with ‘a philosophy’ because you do not know the difference. In asking the question you have shown atheism to be an evolutionary success. Your interest betrays you as you have chosen atheism of all subjects under the sun to talk about..
@TheLuckySaGe Well it is just that it sums up christian intelligence quite accurately. Thought you would try a little harder as many often do to no avail. Good luck with your mythology studies, hope you see the light soon. :)
@Texasjim2007 Why? It's because religious nutjobs like YOU ! Because of people who have been brain washed by the religious bullshit fed to them since the day they were born. Because of the denial of scientific evidence, living in a fake jesus wonderland and wasting your only life on some fairy tale nonsense imaginary friends thinking you will live forever in the afterlife. And please don't talk about rational reasoning because your dumb shit response is anything but rational.
@Texasjim2007 The main reason behind this is that religion has been around for so long, that it has simply passed on delusion from generation to generation. Children are brought up by their parents faith, and if this is being handed down by hundreds of generations obviously there is going to be more religious people in government. It is only in the past few decades and in the 21st century where atheism is becoming common, and people are breaking through the barriers of religion and delusion.
@Texasjim2007 We are only just emerging from the dark ages of superstition. In humanitys childhood superstition and magical thinking was a norm. Just under 100 years ago almost everywhere on this planet "infidels" were killed. That practise is still going on in some countries, but most countries now have freedom of/from religion. So only now we have enough education and knowledge to give up religions as useless superstitions that they are. New generation will be wiser than the old.
How rational is it for you atheist religious cultists to trust atheists? Look at it logically. Christians may more difficult to persuade to talk into stuff you want them to do like kill all the babies who could be paying your social security taxes now or legalizing heroin for you to overdose on or making it easier for you to give each other AIDS but who is more likely to lie to you? Somebody who believes liars go to hell or somebody who believes liars make more money if they don't get caught.
Gee, so what happened to all those miracle cures for all diseases you atheists said stem cell research was going to give us if we let Nancy Pelosi get control of Congress and scrap our space program to fund atheist medical research into stuff like finally finding one of those Gay identity genes? Maybe you shouldn't have purged those Christians from American universities who gave America all those Nobel Prizes for science before you atheists stole their jobs for money.
@Texasjim2007 All you Atheists? 5 comments in a row of bigotry, ignorance, strawmen, appeals to authourity, special pleading, popularity arguments and hate. Ironic and hypocritical trash talk spew from Texas at it's best.
@Texasjim2007 Gee, why has ALL THE PRAYER IN THE WORLD never given back an arm or a leg to an amputee? Not once. Ever. So much for that benevolent and omnipotent god. I guess every one of those amputees had it coming, and will burn in hell for all eternity too.
Who ever claimed we know everything? Unlike religion, science is about continual discovery. Nothing more, nothing less. We know a hell of a lot more than we did 500 years ago. And a hell of a lot more 500 years from now. Religion: ZERO.
@bobbyjans: When does the decision (from god) take place that man has free will? When sperm meets egg? Obviously its arbitrary therefore contrived by man. And don't give me the "born sinners" that's a cop out from the argument.
Hmm God targeted his voice eh? No, I would put my money on the hand of man..(as usual) say perhaps a brood of radical Christians? A small capsule ingested then dissolves without a trace targeted at the esophagus seems more feasible, after all he did smoke..how convenient..
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Only a REAL FOOL would claim there is no God! Man creates awesome skyscrapers, fake hearts, tunnels, vehicles etc.. If we are very imperfect then what more can God create THE UNIVERSE! You must accept Jesus Christ as your Savior to receive eternal rest in heaven! Simple! John 3:16 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him! Repent & accept Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ or HELL?!? Visit cbn. com
tigersforchrist 1 week ago
This guy helps the cigarette and alcohol companies more than their advertising does. The amount of college students who will go out and light up or 'drink enough to stun a mule' is huge and they all do it in the name of their Holy Lord Hitchens. It's a wonderful paradox, simple and elegant yet entirely telling of the hypocrisy we see day in day out in the 'learned'.
R0WMaC 1 month ago
@R0WMaC - Hopefully the college students will be intelligent enough to make their own choices in life, good and bad. To blame Hitchens for the college culture of drinking to excess is a rather strawman attempt at insulting a brilliant man.
As Hitchens himself has said a number of times, and he made no apologies for it (and none are required); he may very well have burnt the candle at both ends...but if gave off a lovely hue!
He is missed!
This man helped a lot more than
bitphr3ak 1 month ago
Brilliant.
kullaceae 1 month ago
I never got the chance to meet Hitchens, but I miss him more everyday it seems.
Akhotnik 1 month ago
A smart man, but an overrated one. Though I would prefer he didn't die, his death is the result of his own (quite illogical) lifestyle choices, and I refuse to feel sympathy for a man who had no sympathy for anyone else, as ignorant and stupid as they may have been.
He devoted too much of his argumentation to petty, ad hominem attacks for me to admire him as an intellectual or an orator. I feel that he cheapened the Atheist and Critical Thinker brand and did more harm than good. So it goes.
bsrk7 1 month ago
@bsrk7
You have to judge people by the measure of their actions, but I tend to think that really elegant prose is independent of the author of the words. Thomas Jefferson has much to answer for as well, but his writing can still inspire and enlighten.
I think criticism of leaders like Hitchens is a good and right thing (and I suspect he would approve, contrarian that he was), but don't let it detract from his really good ideas and eloquent speeches.
C0nc0rdance 1 month ago
@C0nc0rdance Very true, but I think there are many other sources from which to find the exact same ideas that he has espoused over his lifetime--which is all the more reason for me to wonder why HE was so magnetic to the atheist crowd. Contrarian though he was, he was not an original--he was merely more popular than other, more respectable people (often predecessors) who had similar ideas and philosophies. I (dis)credit him with cultivating a bad reputation for atheists everywhere.
bsrk7 1 month ago
@bsrk7
"Contrarian though he was, he was not an original"
Come on... if ANYTHING, the man was a complete original.
Here are some lovely words from Hitchens on Wikiquote:
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
"Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them. "
"The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths."
C0nc0rdance 1 month ago 4
@C0nc0rdance Yes, he has some good quotes :P (although that 3rd one is very wrong and I'm surprised he said it). I suppose I should give him credit for popularizing good ideas and coming up with pithy slogans, but I won't give him credit for the ideas themselves. There is a long, long tradition of secular humanism and other related philosophies that preceded him and that he owes a lot to.
bsrk7 1 month ago
@C0nc0rdance T. Jefferson: Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear
But it does me no injury 4 my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity
bsrk7 1 month ago
@C0nc0rdance Excuse the textification of Thomas Jefferson's prose lol This character limit is oppressive! Anyway, Thomas Jefferson is just one of many examples of less divisive, prickish, petulant sources for equally good (or better) writing on such topics : )
Plus he really throws a wrench in the whole Tea Party ethos, which depends so much on justifying its ignorance and stupidity with quotations from the Founding Fathers! Quoting Jefferson to conservatives can be quite fun.
bsrk7 1 month ago
@bsrk7 Could you name 5-10 people who hitchens copied shamelessly and fully ? Not just based on ofcourse, but really copied?
ForYeensSake 3 weeks ago
@ForYeensSake I didn't say he fully copied anyone or that he should be ashamed to take these ideas from his predecessors. I just said that he was derivative. He is not the originator of these ideas. Secular morality, humanism, atheism, empiricism, they all predate Hitchens by a long shot. He was simply the the most prominent advocate of our generation for these things--he was not their creator.
bsrk7 3 weeks ago
@bsrk7 Well yes, now that you mention it that was a straw man. Sorry for that. However I don't think we see hitchens as a creator to be honest. But I've yet to find somebody who can disagree with me with this much panache.
ForYeensSake 3 weeks ago
Thanks for posting this vid. We never met but I miss him as I would a close friend We'll all miss Hitch but, his legacy of wit, wisdom and unrelenting opposition to theocratic bulling will live on in our lives. “Don’t keep the faith.”
max2right 1 month ago
If you pray to God for forgiveness and accept Christ as your Lord
and Savior, you will accept Hitchens' deathbed conversion and see him
in eternal Heaven after Judgment; are you interested in converting?
theetrue 1 month ago
@theetrue
LOL.
C0nc0rdance 1 month ago 19
1:31, is he channeling Capote?
eirefrance 1 month ago
His words flow like fine wine. A complex one at that.
tonyrosam 2 months ago
Hitchens should be canonized by the Atheist Church as a Wholly Sceptic
artbasss 2 months ago
@artbasss maybe a funny joke for Sam Singleton or Pastor Harry Hardwick but we Atheists do not have "churches" per se & Hitch would be ripe to point that out, the whole idea of canonization or saint is gibberish, accordingly I call MR Louis Missouri or streets abbreviated as ST but not the nonsense word of saint... fight the god idea all the way folks, that is what Hitch rallied you in honor to do 843-926-1750 Dial An Atheist Larry
LarryCarterCenter 1 month ago
"It extends from the overt meance of nuclear-armed Mullahs to the insidious campaigns to have stultifying pseudo-science taught in American schools."
There is a quote that will echo through the ages.
oldstock1607 2 months ago
@oldstock1607 OUR Atheism is IT that extends not only from religious/theocratic violence, not only from creationist drivel or even praying to US flags, our Atheism extends from common decency & a duty in ethics not to bribe people with alleged heavens nor threaten people with alleged hells, our Atheism is our birthright, as all of us are born Atheists, as religion is forced upon most children when we Atheists can stand as a beacon of refuge to religions victims inviting FreeThought
LarryCarterCenter 1 month ago
I'm not Christian or religious in any way, but by the same token don't understand the mean-spirited attacks on people who do enjoy their faith
alSation81 2 months ago
@alSation81 Sometimes when a group of people who has been killed and attacked physically throughout history for the sole reason of other people's "gods", they backlash a bit with their words, their attitudes, and their rhetoric. However, I would equate all atheist "mean-spirit"edness to equaling less than the death of a single atheist among thousands who has fallen in the name of someone's diety. So for now, I think we've got the right. At least we aren't "Inquisition"ing anyone.
ItsEasyIfYouThink 2 months ago
@alSation81 Nobody wants to interfere with their faith or their freedom to believe what they will, only their ability to inflict those beliefs on others through the poisoning of the educational well or special privileges acquired by lobbying the political process in direct contravention to the principles of the American constitution.
Hitch was a master of unweaving the blanket of religious lies and exposing religion to intellectual scrutiny.
He will be much missed.
baldieman64 2 months ago
@baldieman64 I'm shocked to hear he died .. thought he would pull through the ilness. He certainly made people turn their brain on while he was here.
alSation81 2 months ago
@alSation81 "He certainly made people turn their brain on while he was here"
He did that. Irrespective of which side of the religious fence you choose to sit on, there's no denying that he raised the intellectual bar and with his encyclopedic knowledge of philosophy and Christian writings, he blew away the veil of metaphor to get to the very nub of the matter in hand.
"thought he would pull through the ilness". Unfortunately, the prognosis was never good.
baldieman64 2 months ago
@baldieman64 Hitch demonstrated for us all the passionate command of language as "(gun)powder" he encouraged us to keep dry ready to ignite at the greatest of all enemies, never to water down one's invective towards great evils like Teresa of Calcutta killing people with her incompetent faith death houses when simple medicine could have saved lives in India by her hand
LarryCarterCenter 1 month ago
@LarryCarterCenter Yes, I knew all about (Soon to be) "Saint" Teresa before I had ever heard of Hitch. Having travelled fairly extensively in India, I've met a few people who have volunteered to work in her death houses and without exception they were united by their utter contempt for what went on there.
baldieman64 1 month ago
@alSation81 Attacking faith in itself is pointless and by that very nature makes it "mean-spirited" I suppose, but attacking those who would use their faith to try to alter reality, it is the only dignified choice.
halonone 1 month ago
The Hitch is dead. Long Live the Hitch!
Guitcad1 2 months ago
...i cant say ill miss him ill be missing stephan fry alot kmore when he dies..
but a loss of such a potent intellectual is a loss nonetheless
even if i personally think hes abit over the top
elgostine 2 months ago
thanks for this C0nc0rdance....he'll be missed.
dev0n72 2 months ago
RIP Christopher Hitchens. you were an ispiration to thousands, if not millions of rational minded secularists across the globe, and your tireless fight against ignorance and bigotry will mean your legacy will live on. Your suffering is over, but the world is a poorer place without you.
Respect.
Hitchslap God for me. (irony alert)
ThePassiveFist 2 months ago 3
Dammit you have the best voice C0nC0rdence.
He is surely dead, but he lives on in a small way by this this video, and I know that if he could, he would smile in joy.
You and Hitchens are heroes of reason :)
JRBendixen 2 months ago 10
@JRBendixen
Goodbye, Hitch. You pissed off all the right people, and you looked amazingly cool the whole time.
C0nc0rdance 2 months ago 30
@C0nc0rdance Ha ha ha .
JRBendixen 2 months ago
@JRBendixen yes this young man's voice is fine yet a bit fast to do justice to Hitch. We should find a baritone Brit to read this 220 seconds over 5 minutes with his famous "pause" style ... keep your powder dry as Hitch said years ago on C-SPAN ... 843-926-1750 Larry Carter Center ... I could use a voice coach to learn the Christopher Eric Hitchens perfected English
LarryCarterCenter 1 month ago
What a jerk is Hitch to die before so many of his enemies of varying degrees of worth. The world is a little less fun today.
DarthDefiler 2 months ago
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johnnymanhands 2 months ago
It is sad to think we might lose Hitchens, but there is comfort for him and us in the number of new zealots to the cause he has seeded. anti theists of the world unite! Hitch has delivered the ammo, lets lock and load!
elgar104 2 months ago
Prepare for the worst but hope for the best...He is a well balanced thinker,with unbelievable capacity for logic, for memorizing and for mesmerizing with absolute impeccable language...He must certainly be amongst the highest of known intellectual debaters in the history, present and future of mankind.
ruandanj 2 months ago
the dislike bar is like lady gaga's penis, small but it still shouldn't be there.
wasianwigger 3 months ago
I do not need a sky daddy to be a Human Being, to accept responsibility for myself.
Nor, Being Humane, do I claim special knowledge of my sky daddy because I believe I have special knowledge of my sky daddy.
I value intellectual integrity. And disdain comfortable ignorance.
1HumanKind 3 months ago
I will miss this man, I will miss this genius.
TwistedMind6969 3 months ago 22
@TwistedMind6969 He is not dead yet you know...
socialisticdemo 3 months ago
@socialisticdemo I said "I will miss this man" NOT "I miss this man." I know he's not dead yet.
TwistedMind6969 3 months ago
@TwistedMind6969 I know what you said, doesn't change anything, you still talk about him like he is in the coffin. He is not doomed to die from the cancer yet, he can, even if it is unlikely, recover from this. And starting making these sort of comments already is just not polite, it makes it seem like he is already dead.
socialisticdemo 3 months ago
@socialisticdemo ok, that's your opinion and I understand it. Can you move on now?
TwistedMind6969 3 months ago
@socialisticdemo Grow up and stop your nonsense.
577666 3 months ago
@577666 What nonsense?
socialisticdemo 3 months ago
@socialisticdemo - semantics piffle you write - it is nonsense
577666 2 months ago
@577666 That's just another assertion, could you point out why its nonsense?
socialisticdemo 2 months ago
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@socialisticdemo - No I will not point it out as I am tired of your stupidity. I have made it quite clear.
577666 2 months ago
@TwistedMind6969 well he's not dead yet
theamazingempiricist 3 months ago
@theamazingempiricist I'm sure you are adorable. :-D
TwistedMind6969 3 months ago
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Carl Sagan - "Our collective free time needs to shift as much as possible to education. Whether you're a young student or finished school long ago, get out to the library whenever you can and work hard to learn everything you can about this world. Each individual and society will benefit from being able to solve more problems and make better decisions. Education is an amazing discovery process that repays you endlessly."
TheLogicalBrain 4 months ago
Christianity, Islam and Judaism hold the dismal belief that the Laws of Nature respond to wailings and incantations, prayers, petitions, repetitions and chants. These are rather, ludicrous remnants of ancient mindsets that believed the sacrifice of life by someone else’s death to be the ultimate offering for appeasement of the gods. All writings, rantings, rituals and religion is reflected in much of the world’s riddled cultures of stupidism, still, today.
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Since humans stepped out of the caves, we constantly expanded our circle of love to include more people. We now reject genocide, racism, incest, etc; things that were common centuries ago. We are in a crucial point in our development. Becoming completely spiritual by rejecting all evil is the next step. Atheism rejects Jesus, which represents 100% love, as a role model,which is a step back for consciousness. The time has come to raise our consciousness to the next level ,do it before is too late
dejesusluisx 5 months ago
15 people were too drunk to accurately hit the like button.
michaelwitbeck 5 months ago 5
Oh Lord God, have mercy on Mr. Hitchens.
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TheServiceWeb 6 months ago
Hitch... As always, WELL SAID!
Rocketryman 6 months ago
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And, you have not lost your voice. It is just shared amongst others.
Rocketryman 6 months ago
He's a genius. I whish for him to somehow be able overcome his cancer, or at least live fully and pain free for the time he's got left.
He was and still is an inspiration to all free minds to open up even more.
WarChicken78 6 months ago
Worth listening a second time.
Doublicon 6 months ago
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A question for atheists. In a world where there's no proof of God's existence or of life after death; how will you explain to your children why you brought them into the world and why they should die?
QuestionForAtheists 6 months ago
@C0nc0rdance, where did you find that demotivational picture of hitchens? its amazing.
Mrforevernemo 7 months ago
WHAT A MAN
joerussoe2 7 months ago
Man for some reason i have this on a loop and deep gut feeling like hes running out points with said spectre of death
SizableBreasts 7 months ago
Hitch is my hero. Man needs to be humbled and rooted to the here and now. Deal with it.
Gypsyjiver 7 months ago
All I am saying is if you want to prove things through facts then that's exactly what it takes. Hitchens also says don't just fill your gaps with God. I argue not to fill the gaps with anything, including the rejection of a God. If you cannot find an answer then continue to pursue maybe the answer isn't meant to be found.
jcmurdy 7 months ago
That somewhat irrelevant but I am just saying. There things u and hitchen's say that are not fact but rather opinion; if you can have an opinion so can everyone else. Also I'm not sure the catholic church thinks it's better to get aids than wear a condom you may want to check your facts.
jcmurdy 7 months ago
Also if you want your beliefs to be respected u must realize this is what these people truly believe in, they may not but some people do. For example if you aren't fucking around with sketchy people then you probably don't need to worry about std's/aids. These people also believe in not having sex till marriage.
jcmurdy 7 months ago
...must be able to create a connection between all religions an then show me that they intend or do kill. Since religions can be created I can just alter my religion to your response so that doesn't really work for me. I am always open to new ideas, logical well thought through answers only please.
jcmurdy 7 months ago
@jcmurdy Religion is innately evil because it is irrational.
sstuddert 7 months ago
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1Thompsonmusic 7 months ago
@1Thompsonmusic No, I merely recognise that we don't know how the universe came about. If you are to seek an explanation through a god, you must ask the next question: where did god come from? if you decide this is an unanswerable question, why not just skip a step and say that the begining of the universe is an unanswerable question? If you decide that god doesn't need an explanation and that he simply always existed, why not just skip a step and say that the universe always existed?
sstuddert 7 months ago
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1Thompsonmusic 7 months ago
@sstuddert Sagan Copypasta. =P.
mmmmmarcus 6 months ago
@mmmmmarcus Damn right; if you're goin to be a copypasta of anyone, it may aswell be someone like Sagan.
sstuddert 6 months ago
@1Thompsonmusic However, this is not all. Not only is god unnecessary for our understaning of the universe, there is no evidence to support his existence.
In other words, you're responding to a question with an answer which is not only totally unsupported by evidence, but which asks the same question it sought to resolve.
I, on the other hand, simply concede that I don't know.
So, I say again, religion is innately evil because it is irrational.
sstuddert 7 months ago
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1Thompsonmusic 7 months ago
@1Thompsonmusic
I am reminded of the old joke about naming a cat: "What's the point of naming something that doesn't come when you call it?"
If the soul can't be observed, either directly or indirectly; if it exerts no influence on the physical world and vice versa; if we can't define it by objective criteria; and if it can only be defined in spiritual, supernatural terms... what's the point in believing in it?
It seems to me that it's an inelegant way of NOT answering big questions.
C0nc0rdance 7 months ago
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1Thompsonmusic 6 months ago
@1Thompsonmusic If God can not be observed (unlike wind, which most certainly can be observed), what makes you think he exists?
sstuddert 7 months ago
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1Thompsonmusic 6 months ago
@1Thompsonmusic Wind is air under high pressure moving to areas of low pressure; the reason we can not see air is that light passes through it instead of being absorbed or reflected by it - this is why we can feel air without seeing it.
Now, how is human life proof of the existence of God?
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1Thompsonmusic 6 months ago
@sstuddert
Stop wasting my fucking time.
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@1Thompsonmusic you didn't answer my question: how is human life proof of God's existence?
sstuddert 6 months ago
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@1Thompsonmusic Do you have any evidence that your god exists outside of your imagination?
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@sstuddert The comment that 1Thompsonmusic removed (and which I was replying to) was:
"so it is rational to think that the universe just came out of nothing?"
sstuddert 7 months ago
@mahargnamm
I don't like the way you put that sorry it is just an illogical response to what I said. Yes there is stupid shit certain religions do but all religions are different so you and maybe Hitchens which I have not read his books so he could have other ideas I do not know about but what you just did is create a hasty generalization. Catholicism, Islamic, Hinduism etc., all religions are their own and they all have their own beliefs. How can you prove that all religions are poisonous? You
jcmurdy 7 months ago
Now, looking at the universe from a third person point of view may bring things into perspective. Many things go unanswered for long periods of time. This does not mean there is no answer. Without an answer we are stuck on a hunt for a truth? Correct? Instead of accepting coincidence or a collision for all things that have ever happened maybe a better answer is a spirit of some form for all I know it could be God who said, thought, breathed, whatever the fuck you want to call it, all existence.
jcmurdy 7 months ago
If we knew there was a god or there is no god then we wouldn't be talking about this, this would not be a debate therefore either there are no Gods, there is one God, there exists more than one god, or all gods that claim to exist do exist. These are realistic premises that we cannot exclude.
jcmurdy 7 months ago
And honestly I would say as an institution religions push their beliefs harder than anyone else probably...but with that being said atheists as individuals do not hesitate to voice their opinions or even in many cases make jokes, this is clearly just as poisonous to believers in a higher power. There is a reason this debate has gone on for centuries and that is because it is clearly unproven how we got here.
jcmurdy 7 months ago
@c0nc0rdance
I understand the difference I believe. While spirituality is a personal idea religion goes public. I can't say I agree with religions pushing their beliefs which I know some religions do but some do not and if we generalize all religions as one then we are clearly creating a fallacy.
jcmurdy 7 months ago
@WEWILLSECURE It seems to me that you are the one filled with hate, calling atheists nothing because we don't believe as you do. If anyone is confused, it is you. I do not hate myself and I love life. What I do hate is people like you who judge others because they don't believe as you do. As i said my life is full of love, I love my children and grandchildren and they love me as well, but I walk with neither god nor satan as I do not believe in them.
alias41100 7 months ago
... you enjoy what seems to me as a form of preaching; i mean you say religion is a poison but a poison is something that kills at one rate or another. How can something be a poison if all It does is help people and possibly even allow them to live longer? You have a decent theory that yes maybe "God" has his own "dictatorship" if he exists but that doesn't mean it does not exist, nor does it mean that their is no God; with this being said the bible could have been written by some asshole that
jcmurdy 7 months ago
@jcmurdy
I think you are confusing spirituality and religion. Many people who don't hold a religious belief are very spiritual. They don't need a god or gods, a priesthood or a dogma to appreciate the mysteries of life and the unanswered questions of the universe.
I don't think you're really looking at the harm that religion has done and is doing. Pick up the newspaper or go to CNN and look at the way that religious conflict is affecting our world.
C0nc0rdance 7 months ago 11
@C0nc0rdance
I find no more evidence for spiritualism than I do for belief in a religion. I think they are both delusional.
VANEPS7 7 months ago
@jcmurdy Religion is precisely something that can be used to kill at one rate or another and is therefore very much like a poison in that respect. Look how the Catholic church is committing what is pretty much genocide in Africa by promoting the idea that (to quote Christopher Hitchens) "AIDS is bad, but not quite as bad as condoms are bad"! Look at how religion was used to infect the minds of those guys who flew aeroplanes into the twin towers. Look where you like, but do LOOK!
Mahargnamm 7 months ago
@jcmurdy In speaking of religion you ask "How can something be a poison if all it does is help people and possibly even allow them to live longer?" Do you mean, as an example, the effect that religion (specifically Islam) had on nearly 3000 people on the bright sunny morning of Sept 11, 2001? Or perhaps you referenced the Holy Crusades or the Spanish Inquisition? Not exactly enhancements in peoples lives, were they?
JackKangaroo1 5 months ago
@jcmurdy Religion does, in a more localized sense, help people. Philosophically, it can help them find purpose and meaning, and in a more concrete sense it helps people with soup kitchens, homeless shelters, etc. Although, just because it helps people, it does not make it true.
In global terms, it is poisonous. Different religions quarrel, creating conflicts all over the world. Religious ideology pits people against each other. It interferes with politics, which it has no place.
Mysteryskatin 4 months ago
@jcmurdy Historically, it had a stranglehold over science. Blasphemy was punishable by death. Religious extremists murder without remorse, feeling justified by the teachings of their faith. Religion is absolutism by definition and is often applied to political philosophy, which restricts the free will of man. Any act is justifiable if you believe it is okay in the eyes of the lord.
If this were any other ideology, which was not so saturated in dogma, it would have been dismissed long ago.
Mysteryskatin 4 months ago
I am not saying any religion is right or wrong but I would argue that taking a stance is like saying you know the answers when really if you knew the answers then u have some form of supernatural powers or it seems because no one has proven to the world of any absolute solution to the beginning, at this point in time the big bang theory is just as plausible as a higher power or any form of coincidence for that matter. Many religions push their own onto others, I agree this is wrong. But Mr. Hit
jcmurdy 7 months ago
...it answers everything. Just because we don't know the answer to all things does not mean that there is not an answer to every question. U make a statement saying something like "my Internet doesn't work therefore it's 'the' God's fault if my isn't working because God knows all things past and future, I am not sure I agree that God knows all things in the past and the future but if he did why couldn't he have known that your Internet wouldn't work at that exact moment just to piss you off. I
jcmurdy 7 months ago
...but that seems just as plausible as some form of higher power having full control of what will happen and what has happened. If we are talking supernatural instead of coincidental which in my mind both should be accounted for, then your statement "something that answers everything really answers nothing" seems like a paradoxical statement. First of all if we make new discoveries everyday then why couldn't we one day discover that there is a God? Something that answers everything does just th
jcmurdy 7 months ago
Hitchens, you say that religion is wrong but who's religion are you talking about? There are many religions which maybe you have studied them all but i doubt it and it seems irrelevant. In my mind there is no common sense when it comes to religion. Are there absolute facts of how things started? No? Oh well then that's kind of like having no absolute facts that a God does exist. Modern science tells us it was a natural spontaneous event of some sort that started everything but that seems just a
jcmurdy 7 months ago
Thank you, Mr. Christopher for speaking your heart with much courage. Thank you Sir, for sharing your heart and mind. May Fantastic Free Flowing Hootenanny Love Vibrations bring Wonderful Joy and Peace to You Always!!! When asked about religion Albert D. Xavier replied, "Just get me some Peyote and a Hang-glider." Shazam, "B.A."
MrBeautifulba1 7 months ago
Thank you Christopher Hitchens, We need millions more like you so we can be saved from these religious freaks.
310mitzi 7 months ago
this speech actually brought tears to my eyes, thank you concordance for making this video, keep on fighting Hitchens, you will forever be a hero to me.
KyokushinTruth 7 months ago
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vdubs4life1964 7 months ago
Words of encouragement with Dr. Ben Carson" on youtube! If anyone can deter me from lending credence to his argument please drop me a line
ellisonwrigh60srage 7 months ago
Rather beautiful is it not?
KyleThomasShultz 7 months ago
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@Texasjim2007 please stay away from the children.
illusionstateofmind 8 months ago
Someone (who needs no introduction) spends too much time in the horse pasture. Clearly, there is an aroma of horse manure in these comments.
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Trying to promote some thought and discussion on my page. Check it out, Freethinkers! /watch?v=urlTBBKTO68
gerrodallen 8 months ago
I have faith that this video is about Hitchen's death bed conversion to Christianity and atonement for his lifetime of blasphemy. Can't prove me wrong because I'm not watching the video.
ddrddrddrddr 8 months ago
The only legitimately scientific viewpoint is agnosticism By definition it is a corruption of the scientific method to be biased and atheism is an inherent bias in matters untestable by scientific method. Christians created scientific method to be neutral in religious matters. Christians believe in the Unknown God. Atheists want to kill Zeus,
Texasjim2007 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 I seldom bless the likes of Texasjack with a response - they're a waste of time. I don't claim to be smarter than everyone else - perhaps in the top 15%-20% by IQ so I am smarter than most people I meet and I am DEFINITELY smarter than Texasjim! jack whatever.
2001Horatio 8 months ago
If atheists are smarter than Christians how come atheist Europeans were stupid enough to let socialist dictators take over their countries and start the most destructive war in human history over which socialist dictator was going to replace Jesus? Us stupid Americans with all of our Christian Fundamentalists weren't stupid enough to make that mistake. Grow up and stop hating Christians..
Texasjim2007 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 You have failed in so many ways in this short commentary. Inscription on WW2 german uniform belt buckle: "Gott mit uns". Hitler, Mussolini, Franco: good relationsip with the Vatican. Adoration of Stalin: Quasireligious. Most europeans at that time were christian.
byrus1 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 Er... texass... WWII was not about Jesus you dumb fuck. Read more and write less - I tune into the comedy channel for laughs but you're just as good. Secondly, Hitler, a Socialist - what were his social programs, quote a speech he gave about social welfare and helping the poor... wait a minute, helping the poor... hey, that was JESUS... OMG!!!! Jesus was a Socialist - sell all you have and GIVE to the poor.... the sermon on the mount and all that... Jesus, Socialist!
2001Horatio 8 months ago
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If you atheists really were smarter than all the rest of us like you flatter your vanity to believe then why are there over a billion Christians and a billion Muslims but less than a billion atheists on Earth? Why is atheist New York losing seats in Congress and Christian Texas gaining seats? What rational reason is there for trusting a philosophy that by simple natural selection is an evolutionary failure?
Texasjim2007 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007
As a fellow Texan, I resent the imposition that Texas is "Christian". According the US census in 2000 41% of Texans do not claim a religious affiliation. 21% are Catholic, 24% are Evangelical Protestants, and the rest are smaller groups. Everybody gets a voice here, even the 41% of people who don't call themselves anything.
And, by the way, New York state is 38% Catholic, 17% Evangelical, and 9% Jewish.
C0nc0rdance 8 months ago 22
@C0nc0rdance And that's a hitchslap...(applause)
TheAppletaffy 8 months ago
@C0nc0rdance
Jewish does not mean religious. Surely not along side of Catholic and Evangelical.
Forkroute 7 months ago
@Texasjim2007 Oh the old argumentum ad numerum. Seriously? You're using population sizes as proof of fairytales? I suppose I can't expect more from a religious wacko. Until only 500 years ago the ENTIRE world population believed the earth was flat. It was the handful who discovered otherwise who were infinitely smarter. Then everyone still believed the sun revolves around the earth. Wrong again. Reasons for thunder, lightening, earthquakes, disease, etc., etc. ALL WRONG, EVERYONE. Need more?
kossmikham 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 - not all athiests think they are smarter than the rest. Its oversimplistic and divisive to treat others as dumber, whichever group we are in. Secularism is growing in some parts of the world, declining in others. Live and let live.
polychenko 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 Classical error: the number of people holding an opinion lends no support to that opinion - that's why they call us "Freethinkers" (silly boy!). Does your billion "Atheists" include the 1.4 billion Chinese? LOL. Thirdly: you clearly have not noticed the swing toward the Right in the US - this explains the awful election results you cited. Lastly - natural selection - Bwaaaaahahahahahahah you fuckin' idiot!
2001Horatio 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 You are exactly the sort of idiot that would have said precisely the same thing at the time when people believed the world was flat - and they did so for thousands of years.
This is known as a logical fallacy. Specifically, logical fallacy by appeal to majority. Look it up.
I'd also recommend you learn what evolution actually is.
GonzoNomad 8 months ago
@GonzoNomad That the Earth was flat* (Which it is by the way :)
fr0ber 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 You ask “what rational reason is there for trusting a philosophy that by simple natural selection is an evolutionary failure?” I assume you have replaced the word ‘atheist’ with ‘a philosophy’ because you do not know the difference. In asking the question you have shown atheism to be an evolutionary success. Your interest betrays you as you have chosen atheism of all subjects under the sun to talk about..
ritchloui 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 You are fractally wrong.
TheLuckySaGe 8 months ago
@TheLuckySaGe You must have fractured head to throw in such a comment.
whitehorsejason 8 months ago
@whitehorsejason Sorry, was my lingo to big for you?
TheLuckySaGe 8 months ago
@TheLuckySaGe Well it is just that it sums up christian intelligence quite accurately. Thought you would try a little harder as many often do to no avail. Good luck with your mythology studies, hope you see the light soon. :)
whitehorsejason 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 Since when come smarter people in larger numbers?
How do you explain, a vast majority of well educated scientists is non-religious?
YAMAHADIVERSION33 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 Why? It's because religious nutjobs like YOU ! Because of people who have been brain washed by the religious bullshit fed to them since the day they were born. Because of the denial of scientific evidence, living in a fake jesus wonderland and wasting your only life on some fairy tale nonsense imaginary friends thinking you will live forever in the afterlife. And please don't talk about rational reasoning because your dumb shit response is anything but rational.
zygi22 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 Texasjim, here's my question in reply to yours: Why are there so few Einsteins in this world and so many Texasjims like yourself?
subscriber77 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 The main reason behind this is that religion has been around for so long, that it has simply passed on delusion from generation to generation. Children are brought up by their parents faith, and if this is being handed down by hundreds of generations obviously there is going to be more religious people in government. It is only in the past few decades and in the 21st century where atheism is becoming common, and people are breaking through the barriers of religion and delusion.
ToxxinProductions 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 We are only just emerging from the dark ages of superstition. In humanitys childhood superstition and magical thinking was a norm. Just under 100 years ago almost everywhere on this planet "infidels" were killed. That practise is still going on in some countries, but most countries now have freedom of/from religion. So only now we have enough education and knowledge to give up religions as useless superstitions that they are. New generation will be wiser than the old.
bary1234 7 months ago
@Texasjim2007 because your mom is a punk bitch , now what?
bonnevie9 7 months ago
@Texasjim2007 What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right. Majority rule does not work in mental institutions.
TheStrangerInTheRye 6 months ago
@Texasjim2007 because more people believe in "christian texas" than atheist reality because the dumbasses outnumber the intelligent almost 3 to 1
DmOrgZzz 5 months ago
How rational is it for you atheist religious cultists to trust atheists? Look at it logically. Christians may more difficult to persuade to talk into stuff you want them to do like kill all the babies who could be paying your social security taxes now or legalizing heroin for you to overdose on or making it easier for you to give each other AIDS but who is more likely to lie to you? Somebody who believes liars go to hell or somebody who believes liars make more money if they don't get caught.
Texasjim2007 8 months ago
Gee, so what happened to all those miracle cures for all diseases you atheists said stem cell research was going to give us if we let Nancy Pelosi get control of Congress and scrap our space program to fund atheist medical research into stuff like finally finding one of those Gay identity genes? Maybe you shouldn't have purged those Christians from American universities who gave America all those Nobel Prizes for science before you atheists stole their jobs for money.
Texasjim2007 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 All you Atheists? 5 comments in a row of bigotry, ignorance, strawmen, appeals to authourity, special pleading, popularity arguments and hate. Ironic and hypocritical trash talk spew from Texas at it's best.
groovyengineer 8 months ago
@Texasjim2007 Gee, why has ALL THE PRAYER IN THE WORLD never given back an arm or a leg to an amputee? Not once. Ever. So much for that benevolent and omnipotent god. I guess every one of those amputees had it coming, and will burn in hell for all eternity too.
Who ever claimed we know everything? Unlike religion, science is about continual discovery. Nothing more, nothing less. We know a hell of a lot more than we did 500 years ago. And a hell of a lot more 500 years from now. Religion: ZERO.
kossmikham 8 months ago
God prefers atheists and disappeared in a puff of logic.
ritchloui 8 months ago
Amazing, touching and moving. And I fear that at one point in my life, I will have to borrow from this incredible intro.
kkme7 8 months ago
@bobbyjans: When does the decision (from god) take place that man has free will? When sperm meets egg? Obviously its arbitrary therefore contrived by man. And don't give me the "born sinners" that's a cop out from the argument.
Jdsmj22 8 months ago
I wish I could hit the 'like' button many more times than once. Keep getting better Christopher!
Mirkwoods 8 months ago
Hmm God targeted his voice eh? No, I would put my money on the hand of man..(as usual) say perhaps a brood of radical Christians? A small capsule ingested then dissolves without a trace targeted at the esophagus seems more feasible, after all he did smoke..how convenient..
Jdsmj22 8 months ago
I'm not american, but I had to like it :D
freiheitsalv 8 months ago