Christopher Hitchens on God Religion and Atheism in Seattle

6/7/2007
Christopher Hitchens is widely-published polemicist and frequent radio and TV commentator and contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Hitchens makes a case against religion in God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. With a close reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which he believes religion is a cause of dangerous sexual repression and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos, and frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life and University Book Store.

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[MrRedthief]

Hitchens is brilliant.The world needs more like him that thinks that God is a monster and the belief in God/Jesus/allah is the True Evil in the world.

[AscendingParadigm]

"I presume Divine Sir, that you have some respect for intellectual honesty and for moral courage and that you would look with more favor on someone who made an honest profession of unbelief, than on someone who exceeded to belief in you in the hope of a handout."

[AscendingParadigm]

Hitch, thanks for all the lucid brilliance. You're admirable, inspiring & empowering.

[itsjustameme]

This video is criminally underviewed.

[justjulie37]

I may not have agreed with Hitchens on all of his political views, but I most certainly agreed with him on his secular views. He will be missed !

[SugarRose25]

@TheDJKareem disgusting, like yourself.

[TheDJKareem]

@MrRedthief Well said sir :-)