Christopher Hitchens on the Afterlife

Just a quick video of two of my favourite Christopher Hitchens moments from his debate with Sam Harris, David Wolpe and Bradley Shavit Artson at the Whizin Center.

I haven't had the time to make the video I've been wanting to make so this will hopefully fill the gap, just a little...

You can find the full video at http://www.archive.org/details/AfterlifeDebateWChristopherHitchensSamHarrisRa...

It is freely downloadble from there, hence the excerpts here.

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[scribb7]

Hitchens was a bit insensitive and tactless in my opinion which are not good qualities in a person but it is partly what made him popular.

[ThePassiveFist]

@scribb7

i agree - insensitive and tactless, but mostly to institutions of boundless insensitivity and tactlessness themselves, so every bit of vitriol was well deserved. though he was know to be quite short and sharp with the audience as well, but nobody's perfect...thankfully! thanks for watching.

[WorldIslamicOrder]

Now he is in hell fire

[ThePassiveFist]

@WorldIslamicOrder

Oh no no - he's just dead. his flesh and bones rotting into the soil over the next few years, or his ashes in an urn somewhere.

Hell is only for the living, those of us who remain here and have to put up with the endless drivel of religious nutbags, brainwashed individuals who continually spout dogmatic, vomitous mouth-diarrhea, not to realising their beliefs are the biggest, most successful con job in history, costing them the joy of only life they have.

[ThePassiveFist]

RIP Christopher Hitchens. you were an inspiration to thousands, if not millions of rational minded secularists across the globe, and your tireless fight against ignorance and bigotry will mean your legacy will live on. Your suffering is over, but the world is a poorer place without you.

Respect.

Hitchslap God for me. (irony alert)

[ThePassiveFist]

@roddy35wv

A lot of books say a lot of things, and some of those things can be construed as happening today.

If i'd written a book which is designed to keep people obedient, one that has so many contradictions, and is becoming less and less relevant by the day, I'd damn well put in there a section about how unbelievers and evildoers would come to mock the book and that for which it stands. it's a self-fulfilling prophesy, given some of the contradictory rubbish in it.

[Konicava]

@ThePassiveFist Good, the way I would've done, or at least would tried to.

[Konicava]

There was no match for Hitchens' intellect, I wish I could've said that to him while he was still alive.

[theBartone9119]

@roddy35wv I have a prophecy that in my next video, someone will dislike it. I also have a prophecy that there will be at least one comment, and that people will have mixed emotions about it in their brains......Does this mean I can see the future? No, somethings are just obvious. If I was going to write a book that I knew people were going to be skeptical about then I would mention that people will be skeptical about it. Its' called common sense not foreseeing the future Einstein.

[theBartone9119]

A disembodied consciousness at death shouldn't be desirable to anyone...Without a body you have no sexual organs, no taste buds, and no brain to produce chemical reactions. That means no sex, no tasting great food, and no being intoxicated...I'd much rather be unaware that I couldn't do those things anymore rather than be aware of what I'm missing for eternity.

[deadshot1995]

Logically, an afterlife really doesn't make sense. I mean, do animals get an afterlife as well? How about plants and microscopic organisms, like bacteria? Are they on the "other side" too? When we go to the afterlife, are we conscious and capable of rational thought? Can we sense others in the afterlife? If so, are our senses the same as when we were alive?

You've only got one life people. Enjoy it. Don't waste it waiting for something more.

[ThePassiveFist]

@procommenter

You are the worst kind of troll. Hitch, like many others, experimented with his sexuality in his teenage years. so fucking what? your bullshit comments, and your wholly farcical name "procommenter" has just earned you a ban from this channel.

forgive me for being "unprofessional", but I think I can echo the thoughts of many viewers by saying this:

FUCK YOU. You pathetic, backward, knuckle-dragging, fairy-tale believing, closed-minded, religious vomitstain.

GTFO

[sparkymmilarky]

Oh Hitchens :')

[MrJohnboy1984]

He was a great intellect and he was a man of reason and he was never afraid to speak his mind and he was never afraid to stand up for what he believed in, it's sad that hes gone but the good thing is is that his legacy will live on, RIP Hitch.