Christopher Hitchens -God is Not Great 3/4

Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2RIzWQg7gI

Interview from 7-06-2007 Point of inquiry podcast

Christopher Hitchens, one of the most celebrated social critics of our time, has been a columnist for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate and Free Inquiry. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including God is Not Great (2007), A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq (2003), Why Orwell Matters (2002), The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001), and Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001). Additionally, he has written prolifically for The London Review of Books, Granta, Harpers, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, New Left Review, The New York Review of Books, Newsweek International, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Washington Post.He is also a regular television and radio commentator.

In this conversation with D.J. Grothe, Hitchens discusses his new best-selling book God Is Not Great, which is his contribution to the recent slate of best-selling atheist titles. He also explores various strategies for challenging religiosity in our society, the immorality of the Bible, how religion is bad for ones health, his many recent public debates with believers, and what he calls the war between the West and Islamism. He also comments on the relationship between atheism and intelligence, atheism and great literature, and the need for a New Enlightenment.

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[ytzuigt]

Dostoevsky's work owns the bible

well done Hitchens

[meganh8093]

I would vote for this kind of mind for president.

[sugarlanskee8]

@smuppa

Always get the Druids mixed up with the Druze.

[smuppa]

@sugarlanskee8 I actually see myself as a secular, humanist neo-druid. Not meaning I run around dancing in the moonlight (altho that sounds pretty cool) but just to get the clear definition of respect for ALL life on this planet.

[sugarlanskee8]

@smuppa

RIP, CH but the Humanists**, just as the "every human life is sacred" RCC and the Fundies, are really no better as both sides essentially worship Homo Sapien. Atheism in itself is mere (Secular) Humanism. Only ANIMAL RIGHTS ATHEISM offers a better alternative to these "stupid ideas..."

**Anthropocentrists, Species-ists are all part of the made-in-god's-image crowd (rabble). They hate Nature.

[themooddisorders]

ambidextrous gay is AOK or OK to be Takei!

[Bkkhngr81]

hang on... wait... why is the bottom left corner blocked at 6:53...??? ATHEIST CONSPIRACY!!!

[Hereticofreason]

2:12 sexay!!!!

[UnitedKingdomify]

@JollyGwydion Was that a serious question? Does Christianity lay claim to all and everyone who accomplished and produced anything in the years that the Church was dominant and countries less secular? You have a firm idea of what constitutes "Christian literature" it seems, and it's obvious why.

Many would disagree with you as "Christian literature" isn't well defined, and you won't find Barnes & Noble or Waterstones filling shelves in the "Christian literature" section with Shakespeare. lol

[JollyGwydion]

Dostoevski's works are filled with scripture ytzuigt. The end of "Crime and Punishment", and where Rashkalnikov finds peace, is "Lazarus come forth". Why does Hitchens cite Christian authors like Shakespeare and Dostoevski as literature for atheists?

[hornetobiker]

shrill shill.