Christopher Hitchens 1/2 (The Amazing Meeting 3)

Great speech by Christopher Hitchens from The Amazing Meeting 3 in Las Vegas

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[Lavabug]

The lighting prank was funny for the first 2 times, after that it was stupid. I hope someone got fired.

[tommos1]

all god could do to stop hitchen was to blink the lights. PATHETIC!

[SippinonMickeys]

Hitchens we all miss you my friend.

[shabido1]

If the lighting person didn't get fired, here's a message for him or her. You're afraid of anyone who doesn't agree with you or believe what you've been told to. Your fear is painfully obvious by your actions.

[Endymos]

Hitchens is brilliant, both intelligent and entertaining

[acrazyone1]

@spp41 Ya, it looked like it was on automatic timer for a lighting effect that someone forgot to stop

[vulnerabledonkey]

Pascal's wager doesn't make sense. You have A LOT to lose by following a religious faith. All the time spent in Church on sunday is wasted. All the hours spent reading and re-reading the Bible is time that could have been spent reading a variety of different, better books. If a homosexual takes up the Catholic Church's most recent offer of joining but remaining chaste and not being permitted to masturbate, he or she will go through life never experiencing simple sexual pleasure. Lots to lose.

[spp41]

I doubt it was a prank ... Looked like an unfortunate technical problem.

[eyholmess]

@idiotwithknife Care to point out the last time a christian, jewish, buddhist or hindu theocracy expressed the desire to bring about the endtimes? Rioted in the streets because they were butthurt? Issued a fatwa? It's blatant intellectual dishonesty to pretend islam isn't currently the primary source of religious violence in the world. Had we been talking during the inquisition I would've said the same about christianity.

[idiotwithknife]

@eyholmess

The point was that you deliberately chose examples based on whether or not they would "prove" your claim and not based on whether they were appropriate representations of that group. It's called cherry-picking your data and it is dishonest.

I think if you were to look around you would see that violence from religion tends to come from those with a strict, fundamentalist belief more than it comes from any one religion. This is a problem in christianity as well as in islam.

[eyholmess]

@idiotwithknife Go ahead and go to 100 different places of worship ( let's say 10 for each of the 10 largest religions ) and claim what they're preaching is simply not true. I think we all know where you'd be most at risk of physical harm, spoiler: it's not the Buddhist temple.

[eyholmess]

@TheMetalRiffer Clearly this is the work of the almighty FSM, his Noodly Appendage touches all.