Christopher Hitchens answers the question "What would you say to a dying friend?"

Selected full forum videos are available at http://www.theforumchannel.tv/ Famed atheist and author Christopher Hitchens answers the question "what would you say to a dying friend," ruminating on life, death and the afterlife in the process. Hitchens participated in The CT Forum's discussion about "GOD" with moderator Connie Schultz and panelists Rev. Peter Gomes and Rabbi Harold Kushner. For more information, please visit our webiste at www.ctforum.org

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[hobbohippy2]

what a terrific man, he will be remembered

[OnkelStein]

Haha, that's evidence of a god? Pffft. It's only the evidence that man has the ability to believe in a supreme being, like we see in all cultures. If you're born in one specific place your most likely to be a muslim, if you're born another place you'd be a hindu, etc. It's largely a cultural thing that's infected our species. I'm not attacking you, I'm just trying to get you to explain what makes one god more likely than a thousand others. That alone should tell you it's an illusion.

[MysteryoftheGods]

@OnkelStein Well a lot of people have shown it to be true in their labs, like Joseph Rhine of Duke University who was a pioneer in the paranormal research conducted by a university, but like I said, you have your beliefs. That's fine. I don't see why because I believe something and you belief in another you have to attack me, saying im in a bubble and, in effect, ignorant and delusional. That seems silly to me.

[OnkelStein]

@MysteryoftheGods Show me your evidence then. As I said, you would be the first person in history to do so. Believing something doesn't make it true, no matter how much you want it to be. Have a nice life in your bubble.

[MysteryoftheGods]

@OnkelStein Like I said, we both have our beliefs and the evidence to back it up, so while you try to insult me by saying I'm disillusion, I know we both have our views and beliefs.

[OnkelStein]

@MysteryoftheGods I don't care what imaginary friend you believe in, that's not the question. Jesus, Allah, Odin, Thor, Vishnu, Apollo, Zeus etc are all equally illogical and so obviously the works of men, and men alone. You live in a fantasy world, I'm afraid.

[MysteryoftheGods]

@OnkelStein *Not a Christian*

[OnkelStein]

@MysteryoftheGods "I have no arguments to support my case, therefore I will vanish from this discussion" *pooof*

I hope Jesus is proud of your behaviour =)

[MysteryoftheGods]

@OnkelStein Mkay well I know better than to answer Youtube posts for the fact that it always drags into a discussion that everyone else gets involved in, so I'll just accept that you have your beliefs and I have mine. I'm not running away, but if I had to debate everyone on Youtube who posted a comment like you did to me I would never get anything else done. So lets just accept each other's beliefs and accept that we both feel we have the right evidence to validate our own.

[OnkelStein]

@MysteryoftheGods Furthermore, we won't become "nothingness". Everything in the universe is energy, and when you die the energy that is your being will transist into something else. Energy can't die, and thus we really are eternal (except we won't be having tea with our parents for the next 100 million years +++)