Hitchens vs. Hitchens (12 of 14)

Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens debate the Iraq War and religion at an event organized by the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies with the support of the Center for Inquiry and the Interfaith Dialogue Association.

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[writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, HauensteinCenter.

[AULhall]

One of the most beautiful arguments I've ever heard is given by Christopher Hitchens in this video.

[clipsryan]

@TheSqualors Wrongly in what way? He's ordered many of his people to slaughter many and in my opinion, that's wrongly of morality but apparently not wrongly according to "him" unless his sheep do this to eachother in which he'd lose all support.

[clipsryan]

@MrDddlll What's true christianity?

[MrHitchslap]

god took the wrong brother

[Barbershop666]

@AULhall Which one?

[mouthyweasel]

Poor Peter. Never stood a chance.

[adknerr]

Ivan the Terrible. That questioner needs to look that up.

[MrDddlll]

The nation he described that follows the various philosophies of the people he mentioned: I would propose the same in the light of true Christianity. There has never been a whole nation to live by the true teachings of Christ. He can argue against religion all he wants, just don't categorize true Christianity within the same boat. By doing so his argument becomes null and void.

[TheSqualors]

The Hitch makes really educated points. However, I think he diverts the issue on many occasions . The prompt is a question of God, but Hitch often makes it a question of religious organizations and churches, and he strikes them hard and with nearly all cases with justice. However, in the Jewish and Christian scriptures you find God being very harsh and blunt with people who claim to follow Him and worship Him and are extremely religious but act completely wrongly and disowns that conduct