The Dark Side Of Religion | Christopher Hitchens @ FreedomFest

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Dinesh D'Souza and Christopher Hitchens go at it again at the 2008 Freedom Fest as the "Main Event".

FreedomFest is an annual festival where "free minds meet" to celebrate "great books, great ideas, and great thinkers" in an open-minded society. It is independent, non-partisan, and not affiliated with any organization or think tank.

Founded and produced by Mark Skousen, since 2002, FreedomFest invites the "best and the brightest" from around the world to talk, strategize, socialize, and celebrate liberty. FreedomFest is open to all and is purely egalitarian, where speakers, attendees, and exhibitors are treated as equals.

http://www.freedomfest.com/

Christopher Hitchens (born 1949) is an author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens is also a political observer, whose books — the latest being "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" — have made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits.

In 2009 Hitchens was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the "25 most influential liberals in U.S. media." The same article noted, though, that he would "likely be aghast to find himself on this list" and that he "styles himself a radical", not a liberal.

http://www.hitchensweb.com/
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[raplena14]

am i crazy or does the theme from the good the bad and the ugly start playing at 1:38

[ctriamimgons]

Damn, I miss Hitch already.

[1tabligh]

@FractalRe....What is called science by the *science-worshippers* of the present age and regarded by them as equivalent to the sum total of *reality*, is simply a collection of laws applicable to a single dimension of the world. The result of all human effort and experimentation is a body of knowledge concerning a minute bright dot comparable to the dim light of a candle-surrounded by a dark night enveloping a huge desert of indefinite extent.

All praise is due to ALLAH.

[1tabligh]

@FractalRe... Do scientific discoveries and knowledge cause such a scientist to conclude that matter, *unknowing and unperceiving *, is his creator and that of all beings?

No?

Then how can the duped atheists and some of the scientists delude themselve and *believe* that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?

[1tabligh]

@FractalReasoning The atheist Delusion!

How could some of the scientists permit themselves to make a claim that would necessitate knowledge as extensive as the scheme of the universe, when their knowledge of the total scheme of being is *close* to zero, when confronted with a whole mass of unknowns concerning this very earth and tangible, lifeless matter, let alone the whole universe?

[FractalReasoning]

@1tabligh

It is not logic, rational proof or scholarly studies that makes one pious, it is faith, and any intelligent religious person will echo my words.

[mason0444]

Beans, from Even Stevens, all grown up?!?

[eutectics]

I am an Athiest. I found this video buy searching for videos buy Christopher Hitchens. I did this as I find home incitful

[1tabligh]

and disease?

Is the belief in religion of thousands of scholars and thinkers the product of fear on their part of storms, earthquakes and disease?

Can their inclination to religion, the result of scholarly studies, of logic and rational proof, be attributed to their ignorance and lack of awareness of the natural causes of phenomena?

What would be the answer of an intelligent person?

[1tabligh]

fear, fear of disease and death?

Is not the truth of the matter that the science of medicine is a reality, irrespective of whether the original motive of man in discovering it was fear of disease and death or some other factor?

Would it not be a hasty judgment to say that all the religious ideas and sentiments of men, the inclination to the worship of God in all periods down to and including the present, have been caused simply by terror, by fear of the wrath of nature, of war

[1tabligh]

@55painterman If fear motivated man to seek a refuge and if in the course of that search he discovered a certain reality (God), is there any objection to be made?

If fear is the cause for the discovery of a certain thing, can we say that that thing is imaginary and unreal because it was fear that prompted man to seek it out?

Would it not surely be illogical to maintain, for example, that the science of medicine has no reality because man has sought and discovered it out of

[meisner73]

He does make a really great point about the connection between worshipping a god and a dictatorship. I never really thought of it like that, but it really makes sense. This was a very intelligent man. RIP Mr. Hitchens.