Divine impulses Christopher Hitchens

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Christopher Hitchens discusses being moral without believing in God, being an anti-theist, his contempt for the religious, the value of religion, the trouble with islam with On Faith's Sally Quinn.

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[sbeast64]

1:30 "Round the clock, celestial dictatorship". Brilliant.

[MentholSnuff]

@PoppinFreshMe You're dying too... Just slower and you've made less of a difference in the world.

[frylauriesoopytwist]

@PoppinFreshMe You are dying also. Gee , how brilliant, although you will be less remembered. oh well ....

[beanie928]

What about this display doesn't make sense? The man is so correct about the madness of so-called "belief". It's pretty much nutty. No one with a rational mind can really believe this biblical nonsense. Read this " Bible" with an open mind and you'll be appalled at this "loving" God's antics. He's awful!

[MrRedthief]

Be careful what you say and do, Santa clause is watching.

Which one would you want to be real. Santa who if you are bad just does not bring you a toy or God of the bible who if you are bad will bring famine, tornado's, plague, tsunami's and erupting volcano's and earthquakes.

Both are not real but you choose.

[zeldaofarel]

@ECabot22 Well Hitchens was talking about actual buildings too.

It's not really anti-EU. You have to see it from our perspective. We had the onslaught of the Tatars, the Turks, the Russians, the Austrians annexed us through family ties. Did anyone care? No. We suffered a lot, but when we asked for help for example against the Turks in the name of Christian Europe, they ignored us. We were always the ones licking their boots, bowing down. He's just a bit tired of it.

[justjulie37]

thanks for sharing this interview with us.

[ECabot22]

@zeldaofarel I thought that "a secular cathedral" was a metaphor you used in criticizing the people in the national assembly for being too religious, not realizing that it is an actual cathedral. A stupid mistake - especially because I've been in there.

Anyway, anyone too anti-EU for the eurosceptic parties must be pretty radical. I personally have no problem with neo-fascists, they're pretty funny.

[zeldaofarel]

@ECabot22 He's not that Christian, but that has nothing to do with the architecture of a secular building. Plus many Europeans don't like him, because he's unapologetic about our history and refuses to bow down to the big countries, which kept trying to invade us.

[greygold1]

I agree. The best reply to that is: "O.k, i will think for you".

[ECabot22]

@zeldaofarel I went to the European parliament a couple of weeks back and asked a friend who works there: "which country has sent the craziest Christian far right MEPs?". Her answer, "Hungary". :D