Christopher Hitchens -- Religion

Christopher Hitchens gives a talk in Canada on Free Speech in November 2006. This is the end of the twenty minute speech originally from One Good Move: http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2007/03/free_speech_6.html



Hitchens is right that religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

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[Kneleist]

He is immortal in his work and not in some idiotic made up neverland. A great man and an inspiration.

[RationalConclusion]

@jwhite256256 Don't waste your time. Prayer does nothing. Do something constructive instead.

[gogolplex74]

The world has lostt another great pop pseudophilosopher

what a big loss..

[gogolplex74]

@RationalConclusion like bash people on youtube?

[timcp1]

@abuliberalee Slavery found in the Holy Bible isn't the same type found in early America though. There is a law governing what should happen if a slave so loves his master he wants to live with him forever. Yet, in your mind that is an impossibility, however it happened. So we see that slaves in fact went into the agreement as well. Now with genocide, what God allowed Israel to do to its enemies is nearly less than what their enemies did to each other and wanted to do to Israel.

[timcp1]

@abuliberalee Yet humans give each other two or three life sentences. Even though life expectancy isn't even that long. They throw prisoners in with bigger tougher prisoners where rape and murder and torture take place. Corruption becomes rampant and wardens turn a blind eye. Yet hey, you keep shoveling your tax dollars to them. Yet, Jesus walked the walk and talked the talk and gave you a free gift if you should want it. You do have a say, yes forgive me or no.

[abuliberalee]

@timcp1 Then there's the tacit endorsement of slavery and the failure to repudiate the Old Testament which most definitely does condone and genocide and actually requires it in several cases.

[abuliberalee]

@timcp1 "...depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire..." Matthew 25:40. Introducing the concept of eternal punishment of the dead and with it the idea of modern totalitarianism. So that's one. Then there's the idea of vicarious redemption whereby you can abrogate your own ethical responsibility by piling your sins onto a human scapegoat and have them expunged by means of a vicious and disgusting human sacrifice that you didn't want and had no say in and would have prevented if you could.

[amycoopie]

@timcp1 This reference is to early Christians. At this time, the name "Jesus" was common among the Jews. The Romans persecuted Jews, specially those who claimed to be the messiah. At that time, lots of them claimed to be the messiah and lots were killed by the Romans. Still no evidences for one that really was really special.

[timcp1]

@amycoopieacitus Roman Annals (c.115-117 C.E.)

"They got their name from Christ, who was executed by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius. That checked the pernicious superstition for a short time, but it broke out afresh--not only in Judea, where the plague first arose, but in Rome itself, where all the horrible and shameful things in the world collect and find a home."

[amycoopie]

@timcp1 This is not about Jesus Christ! No one even knows if this Jesus actually existed! And if he did, he'd probably never done any of these fanciness that is stated in the Bible. Now, people follow religion to some point where they even burn people who are against it. Inquisition in Europe is past but in Kenya, Christians still burn people accused for witchcraft. And don't come arguing that Communism killed hundreds of million: I don't like communism at all nor most atheists out there!

[timcp1]

@selenadelos Jesus never condoned genocide, all you atheists do is point to those individuals who claim Christianity and commit acts you don't like and use that as your foundation to attack Christianity. What words or actions did Jesus Christ do that you believe is bad?