The Four Horsemen: Hour 2 of 2 - Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Ep 1

http://richarddawkins.net - On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by RDFRS and filmed by Josh Timonen.

All four authors have recently received a large amount of media attention for their writings against religion - some positive, and some negative. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public's reaction to their recent books, their unexpected successes, criticisms and common misrepresentations. They discuss the tough questions about religion that face the world today, and propose new strategies for going forward.

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Books by these authors:
"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
"The End of Faith" by Sam Harris
"Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris
"God is Not Great" by Christopher Hitchens
"Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" by Daniel Dennett

Filmed and Edited by Josh Timonen

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Richard Dawkins
• Sam Harris
• Christopher Hitchens
• Daniel Dennett
• Religion
• Atheism
• Science
• Evolution
• Biology
• Physics
• Quantum Physics
• The God Delusion
• God is Not Great
• Breaking the Spell
• The End of Faith

[drsmithification]

If going to hell means being in the company of these 4 people whilst being burned for eternity then sign me the fuck up

[peenfluteking]

@lalamusa1

Come on, tell me how moral you are.

Come on, tell me that you know God's mind.

Your arrogance is disgusting. To think that God cares about you, that God has a special place for you.

You sit with the weight of gravity upon you on a floating rock, orbiting one of trillions of suns, in one of trillions of galaxies - and you genuinely think that the words in a single book you hold are the utterances of the creator of all of this.

Narcissist. Moron. Liar. Coward. Serf. Slave.

[DemoraX]

@thewarriorsrok sun goes up sun goes down! tide comes in! tide goes out! :P

[thewarriorsrok]

It's astounding to see how efficiently these brilliant men express ideas, it's an absolute credit to the English language and the human intellect. That being said, a very entertaining exercise of the mind is to imagine this conversation with Bill O'reilly sitting in. Just imagine how fucking stupid and tiny he would seem next to the TOWERING brainpower of these men.

[jinxxedlikeshit]

@peenfluteking You're an impressive man.

The amount of thought you have concentrated into one concise post is very impressive.

I congratulate you both on your ability to think and to articulate yourself in such a manner.

Thank you.

[BeachlessIsland]

@peenfluteking *applause*

[edemaomega]

I think it's very ironic that Hitchens is the nicest to theism around atheists.

[OyonTheAdept]

@peenfluteking wait, i thought there are only ~100 billion galaxies?

ah well. i get what you mean.

[Kairusan]

Watching this part made me wish I could be in the room to tell them there is a term for simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct in George Orwell's book "1984". It's called "doublethink".

[icouldnotfindaname16]

I really wish all talk/conversations/debates can be like this one. No one starts to yell, or just talk over with no regard for each others thoughts. They manage to talk and disagree with each other out of respect, really wish the world was like this.

[drsmithification]

@Spr1teRoses Glad to be of service lol

[donpalmera]

Even if there is a god.. who would want to spend eternity in heaven with all the douche bag mumbo jumbo spouting insane tosspots that feel they must comment on every atheist video on youtube?