Part 3 - D'Souza, Hitchens, and Prager

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The Christian God, The Jewish God, or No God. A Meaningful Dialogue with Dinesh D'Souza, Christopher Hitchens, and Dennis Prager.

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[TheLordValarath]

I find it funny that it takes two people to even try to match Hitchens, he just verbally decimates them over and over.

[WhiteLakeDan]

So then, D'Souza, why then are we all born Atheists?

[emaleroland]

@WhiteLakeDan You just proved that atheists will believe in anything.

[youngsteve113]

D'Souza makes very valid points if you people weren't so ignorant and actually listened to someone who believes in what there talking about you might learn something. Hitchens is an atheist, well spoken at that but D'Souza slaughters him on several debates including this one. Just because his rhetoric isn't as powerful as Hitchens doesn't mean he doesn't know what he is talking about. Listen and you might learn!!

[Tomer1776]

@skat1140 Ummm... I believe Hitchens did openly support live ammunition against radical Muslims. I think Dinesh knows exactly what he's talking about when he speaks for Prager and Hitchens. Again, not about putting bullets into every Muslim in the world, just the radicals who fight the US. Prager and Hitch were both very open about this, D'Souza knows what he's talking about.

[Morclaw]

Everyone who dissliked this video is an idiot in my opinion. The video is of good quality and so is sound , can't you people differ between rating video and reaction to D'souza? Thanks for the debate!

[drfoxcourt]

The argument for design by fine tuning is a poor one IMHO. The chances that the Universe has the values it does is 100%. We have no reason to assume that the universal constants (such as Planck's constant) are tunable. The "If any of them were different..." argument ignores that there is no chance they can be different.

[vniekje]

@TheLordValarath Although I also agree with a lot of Hitchens arguments. Your argument is qualitative and is not legitimate, although I like agnostic reasoning, the numbers don't count, the quality of the argument do! The other way around I could imagine five bad debaters on proposition of atheism beeing beaten by one good reglious debater.. On second thought, could I? No :) Thank god ;)

[skat1140]

Whoa -- Dinesh doesnt even know that cave paintings are much, much older than 5000 years? like 20,000-40,000 years. He thinks all traces of man's intelligence are limited to 5000 years back? Stunning he can sit there and assume an authority (he doesn't deserve) and be so ignorant. I guess it could've been worse: he could've professed adherence to Young Earth creationism and thereby shown ignorance of biology, geology, astronomy, chemistry, as well as anthropology.

[skat1140]

Disgusting to see Dinesh, in his first comments, make a cheap anti-Islamic slur. Then, tries to claim Hitch would concur. Hitch is anti-Islam, because he's anti-religion. He's not a bigot like you. Seeing Dinesh call Islam nonsense reminds me of the joke of the American and Soviet discussing their political systems. The American says, in my country I can walk up to the President and call him an idiot. The Soviet replies, So can I. I can walk up to your President and call him an idiot.

[ballerine11]

Dinesh D'Souza claims to know his brother, when he doesn't even know himself.

[MinstrelKrampf]

Basically, whenever religious fundies, like D'Souza, try to inject reason into their prosthelitizing, they have to ignore annoyances, like FACTS, EVIDENCE, RECORDED HISTORY, because those things force them to compare the obviously ridiculous aspects of their faith with reality, and reality always wins.