Hitchens vs. Hitchens (10 of 14)

Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens debate the Iraq War and religion at an event organized by the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies with the support of the Center for Inquiry and the Interfaith Dialogue Association.

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[MakeshiftEstablished]

It is in fact best if children learn morality "on their own." Simply being told does not satisfy the brain's lust for experiential learning. If children practice reciprocal altruism they learn that it is beneficial and will keep doing it.

[AtheistMovement]

Also, the fact there ARE very moral atheists who haven't even looked at a holy book and weren't brought up or surrounded by religion again, perfectly proves that our morality is built-in. Our morality has evolved from society but a lot is also built in.

[clipsryan]

@MakeshiftEstablished Exactly and wouldn't you expect that ability to come from an "intelligent designer" that shouldn't need a book to communicate to those that already claim they communicate with him telepathically?

[musiclover9361]

This is sheer intellectual brilliance from Christopher. He's like Botham in 'Botham's Ashes': "Come on then, if you think you're hard enough; I'll take you all on alone and still beat you." And he did! Fantastic!

[PoundFFFFFF]

Peter sounds very much like Christopher Lee. That's who it was.

[undisputedgreatest]

Christopher Hitchens is pulling a Snake Plissken here. "Call me Snake."

"The name's Plissken."

[mikejpete]

"Passionately agnostic"- best credo, evangelizing always leads to violence

[AtheistMovement]

@Sumoto999 Well surely you come down on either side. Unless you're an agnostic.

If you happen to be religious then I could say the exact same of you in reverse.

I don't hold or pertain to bias either, as that's illogical. My only 'bias' is logic. But logic by definition holds no bias as it's just truth and truth is as it is, regardless of who's saying it or how it's presented.

So if Peter Hitchens was saying things that were fundamentally true, he wouldn't be a moron. But he doesn't, so he is

[Sumoto999]

@AtheistMovement for a guy who has the name "AthiestMovment" as his account name, I guess you would expect that kind of statement of bias.

[writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, HauensteinCenter.

[writersblock26]

@TheWorldsStage Agreed.

[detahdomo]

the "doctor professor" gag was hilarious