Christopher Hitchens debates Dinesh D'Sousa on Michael Medved Show 5/11/09 Part 3

The perennial antagonists go at each other again while taking calls from the audience.

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• inquisition
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[bkelsey4]

This interviewer has no personality or sense of humour.He completely fails to appreciate the glory that is Hitch.Jon Stewart was a much better interviewer for a sparkling wit like Hitch (but the blandness of D'Souza meshes well with the interviewer).

[belzondium]

5:08: "What do you get when you cross a Unitarian with a Jehovah's Witness? Someone comes and bangs on your door for no particular reason". LMFAO!!

[MichaelnChristine]

It isn't universal.  I punch you and you say "you shouldn't have done that" and I punch you again because I think/say "I sure as hell should have!" Not that I am pro violence but all morality is subjective.

[WeedGreenPowerRanger]

God, the caller at the end is making every kind of creationist fallacy known to man....

[RedFractals1]

Dinesh is such a boring speaker.

[Domzdream]

@koabarra

Oh, I see. So if I were to believe in monsters, and devils, and warlocks, and witches, and talking snakes, and the dead rising, etc etc etc, if I accepted all that, then you'd call me grown up, right? You as a christian believe in all these childish mythologies. Now who's childish. Can you not see how puerile all this is?

[Domzdream]

@koabarra

WHAT?? There are developed christians? haha.

[Domzdream]

Point is, you theists just, somehow know that there is a god. You just know. Sounds more like hope to me. Or more appropriately, having faith. Having faith in something doesn't make it true or real.

This is why atheists laugh at you guys. Because this subject matter is so easily refutable and so intellectually bankrupt that it's a joke. Ergo why we disparrage you.

What's worse, most of you theists claim to know the mind of god. I mean, how can you top that??

Sure, peace- on that I agree.

[theeontheoffwing]

Newton apparently was moved by nature in such ways. Story I read once (I assume it's true), where Newton had an Atheist friend who kept asking him, who made this machine Issac??; the machine being Newton's representation of the planets. Finally, Newton put down his pen and then replied to his friend ... now isn't that funny ... you insist that someone had to have made this child-like crude toy, but then when you look at the stars at night you insist there is no creator. Just sharing! Peace!

[jonnykzj]

Now let me catch Mr. Dinesh right on this pt. He repeatedly says "we have this inner voice telling us wht is right n wht is wrong" n according to him tht conscience of us is divine. OK. LETS NOW analyse the Bible with our conscience then shall we. Wht wld our inner voice tell us when we read GOD commanded the burning of witches, the stoning of adulterers, the killing of even little children, to love ones enemies, etc etc. It wld shout like hell tht all this is a pile of utter bullcrap wldnt it?

[Domzdream]

To the speaker at the end of clip: just becasue something is glorious does not necessitate the idea of a god. Might as well say, damn that lightning was so massive it just HAD to be thrown by the god Zeus. He's completely fabricating his opinion based on the awe of nature and the yet unexpored.

Wanting something to be true, doesnt make it real.

[gerbs96]

Fucking really?  The watchmaker argument, grow up caller.