Hitchens on Compelling Arguments for the Existence of God

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Author and atheist Christopher Hitchens remains unconvinced of the value of religion. Hitchens mockingly describes his favorite pro-religion argument saying, "The big bang is so amazing it must have been God after all." The best arguments in favor of the existence of God, he explains, are those that have "annexed" scientific theories and thus present more of a challenge for debate.

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Introduced by Graydon Carter at the 92nd Street Y, Jun 8, 2010, Hitchens was interviewed by Salman Rushdie. They spoke of Hitchens' searing memoir entitled Hitch 22 that lays bare the many contradictions in his life and affirms his conviction that all things personal are also political. - 92nd Street Y

Christopher Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School. He is the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Orwell, Mother Teresa, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger and his #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award nominee, God Is Not Great.

Salman Rushdie is an award-winning author of many novels, including Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown and Luka and the Fire of Life.

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[1tabligh]

The oppressive tyrant would deserve no blame and the just would merit no praise, because responsibility has meaning only within the sphere of what is possible and attainable for man.

Man deserves blame or merits praise only when he is able to decide and to act freely; otherwise, there can be no question of blame or of praise.

[turi73]

@turi73 bro,can we continue?are you willing to learn?

[bfoaliali]

To think that he had just found out he had cancer that day . . . wow. Throwing up twice ''violently'' as he put it. Brave man.

[CarlChipSanders]

too bad this is just an illusion on both sides. we all know that satan created the universe and we were all originally talking flowers. its evolution people!!

[1tabligh]

by means of His power and His will, and then to punish us for actions we have committed without any choice on our part.

If the deeds of men are, in reality, the acts of God, all corruption, evil and cruelty must be regarded as His work, whereas His most sacred being is utterly pure of all such corruption and injustice.

If there were no free choice for man, the whole concept of man's religious accountability would be unjust.

[1tabligh]

@AlexTheHumanist The question of man's religious accountability, the sending of the Prophets, the proclamation of divine messages, and the principle of resurrection and judgment—all these rest on man's free will and choice in the acts he performs.

It would be completely meaningless were God, on the one hand, to compel men to do certain things and, on the other, to reward or punish them.

It would surely be unjust were the Creator of the world to set us on whatever path He chose,

[avnerrietti]

@Menla1 Thanks Menla1. If I am "an idiot and a waste of time", then why are you wasting your time writing your angry rant.

... and then again you are claiming that I "have no coherent argument and have contradicted [my]self multiple times" but you don't seem to have the minimum written expression skill to explain where the contradiction is.

... so with all due respect, I believe that perhaps you should consider to "fuck off" before you hurt yourself... hahahahaha!

[Menla1]

@avnerrietti " I am not a Theist!"

"May God bless you with some intelligence!"

this is why you are an idiot and a waste of time. shut up and fuck off.

you have no coherent argument and have contradicted yourself multiple times in short, vague and void paragraphs. go away

[thegreatatheismo]

Good example of damning with faint praise.