Christopher Hitchens - On Point - P.3

Christopher Hitchens on On Point, 5/11/07. He discusses religion and anti-theism, speaking with host Tom Ashbrook, Pastor Stephan Munsey, and Professor Bill Leonard.

It's a radio show, so naturally it's audio only. The video has 5 parts.

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[Hurlman418]

Classic Hitchens witty rebuttal to demogoguery. Beautiful.

[sparkmandoo]

Indeed. I was really impressed by his point about certain prayers being inferior to others.

[Lodskins]

The flying spaghetti monster healed his daughter. Get it right, or boil forever in spaghetti sauce! 9_6

[sparkmandoo]

Poseidon is the way my friend. Poseidon.

[99minerkc]

Hitchens is RIGHT ON!! The Preacher claims that god healed his child! GOD HASN'T HEALED ME! WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE CHRONIC SUFFERING with a nerve disease! The preacher makes me sound like I'm less of a person than his girl is! NO! I find that OFFENSIVE!!!

[thruthem]

Another one bites the dust!

Hitchens is a bulldozer!!

[Reip187]

I think these testimonies should be our biggest target. This rubbish is accepted by so many and the guy has the nerve to claim that it shouldn't be questioned. H does this because that's what people let them get away with. Religious even encourage and believe it.

Anyone with even a remote sense of ethics, or the ability to care for others can see how arrogant this is if it is pointed out enough.

They won't listen obviously. Their prayer research proved them wrong and they ignore it.

[Reip187]

Yep...stories like that preacher gave are some of the most abhorrent in the religious game. These are the pinnacle of the arrogance of the religious. They call it personal testimony, and don't credit the doctors. I call it a mental disorder, or flat out deceit. Especially a preacher who benefits from such tales.

LMAO @ the "true god, the real god" and saying he agrees with Hitch on Islam. Guy should be sued for fraud.

[mrbrianmccarthy]

@99minerkc Why did this all knowing God even allow an innocent child to suffer in the first place?Why create a flawed being in the first place? If God had done his job,the baby wouldnt have needed to be healed in the first place??Sorry,but this preacher didnt make the point. The concept of an all knowing and all caring and more importantly all omnipotent God is assinine and outdated.The world is much more interesting and complicated than the believers think it is.

[SirBenthr]

The terrorists and bad people have a different god! My god is badass, checkmate!

[nvsven]

@sparkmandoo Thor is the way. Eat, drink, and by merry for eternity.

[SubconsciousGatherer]

The preacher here makes one of the most pathetic cases for his miguided faith that I've ever heard. I find it shocking that he heads a mega-church while having so little foundation to base his belief on. It is my contention that the pastors and preachers and rabbis and ministers and mullahs (etc.) are even more indoctrinated than their followers. It's the only way I can explain why they'd make a career out of their superstition.

[EsotericWisdom33]

Hitchens should start a formal movement against religious thuggery and dogma. This madness has no place in the 21st century and they got away with it for so long. It's time for the chains to come off and humanity to live for today and not for death.

[dougd1981]

they could have gotten a better spokesmen to represent thesistic point of view.

[SurelyYewJest]

What was with the cutting out of the pastor? What happened there?

Regardless, he was selling the same old theist crap, and daring CH to call his prayers worthless, and he got what he asked for. Prayers don't heal. If they did we would've figured it out thousands of years ago, and medicine today would be a joke. The pastor provides no details whatsoever about his daughter's sickness, save the details that help him make his case. I'm glad CH called him on it.

[SpellboundSolution]

Google "Reason Magazine God Agrees with Me, Or the Ultimate Confirmation Bias".