Christopher Hitchens at Freedom From Religion Foundation 1/7

Christopher Hitchens gives a speech at the Freedom From Religion Foundation after receiving an award. This is from October 12, 2007.

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[farmerne]

One of the great milestones of human progress will be reached when we finally leave religion behind.

[IamHippomchippo]

@Eadhmonn

GHOST BUSTERS!

[lovehatingevil]

@35Rumblefish Of course Atheism is a religion. You have your scriptures, your prophets, your deity. Your whole worldview points to your own puny limited narrow-minded selves. You've put yourself in a box and are afraid to come out. The very fact that people crave for a God proves there is a God. There is no one who has never thought about God. This indicates you have a capacity for God.

[35Rumblefish]

@lovehatingevil After reading your posts I can see that you have no clue what athiests are about. First of all there is no such thing as an atheistic religion, there is no dogma or church. We are simply people who see no evidence of god therefore we can not believe. Religion makes no sense to me, so by default I can't believe it. It's not even a choice.

So before you go on judging us, you might what to remember the part in your book that says "Judge ye not, lest you be judged".

[SenseandReasoning]

I didn't know I was born on the same day as him until he died...

[lovehatingevil]

@TyDanLea You have obviously never read the Bible have you. It tells the truth of the fallen nature of men, and how God has provided a way out for us. All my kids have told me countless times how thankful they are for the Bible. Relationship with God thru Yeshua is our only hope. Atheistic religions have killed more people than anyone else. Your statements are weak, and you are very arrogant,base, and very pathetic. shame on your stupidity. Anyone who reads the Bible is smarter than you.

[TyDanLea]

@lovehatingevil

Shame, you obviously don't have much upstairs. The bible is a horror book full of hate, murder, lies, sexism, racism etc. Millions and millions have died because of religion!! You want to scare the shit out of your kids, then read them the bible.

[lovehatingevil]

@little69111 What an incredible brain you have. To bad you use very little of it. Its really to bad you don't use your spiritual faculties to really understand whats going on. Spiritual discernment and spiritual realities are a much higher evidence than what the 5 senses can detect, but since that would require faith I'm sure you're not interested. So whats the point of conversing. You atheists are sure boring. There is a lot of evidence for that.

[little69111]

@lovehatingevil what an incredibly arrogant and insulting attitude you have. "a higher love". atheists can't experience truewonder becausewe don'tbelieve in god. "The atheists experience a love that God built into nature for the procreation of the species" - thats just you making a statement and I bet youhave NO evidence for that statement other than personal experience - the weakest form of argument as only you can say it's true - completely untestable. check out the templeton prayer experiment

[lovehatingevil]

@huwj The atheists experience a love that God built into nature for the procreation of the species. (For the most part a selfish love) Only believers experience agape love, a higher love which atheists choose not to receive. Because atheists choose no deity they become their own deity and lose all spiritual perception. You are a citizen with no discernment, you don't even know what you are saying.

[little69111]

@michael1956able I truly didn't mean my previous post to be offensive even though you seem to be saying I will burn in eternal pain and torment which can be interpreted as quite nasty and offensive. I'm sure you have your reasons for believing what you do. I just wanted you to know that for myself (the only person I can truly speak for) I am not a nihilist - I do believe in many things but I don't rely on religions to try and work out my place in the universe and I'm glad I think the way I do.

[huwrj]

@michael1956able I have no "lord". I'm a citizen in a secular democracy. I didn't vote for no deities!