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Christopher Hitchens: The seed of doubt

The British writer and avowed atheist sat down with The Globe's editorial board editor John Geiger to reflect on faith before Friday's Munk debate.

Transcript + audio: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/transcripts-and-audio-christopher-h...

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[sulijoo]

"It isn't because people have twisted of perverted their faiths; it's because they believe in them." Hitchens in the 'Hitchens-v-Blair debate'. So eloquent, so succinct, and so true.

[waseatenbyagrue]

@xtrmsprts Common sense needs no citation. Hitchens presents the atheist position clearly and coherently through simple logic.

[andromidius]

@prebenist If Hitch is a sign of the low intellectual level of "new atheists" (a movement I don't believe he considered himself part of, though I may be mistaken), then huzzah! Because he was one of the greatest minds of our time, and you're a fool for not seeing it. Even people who disagreed with him admired his intellect. To ignore that is your own ignorance, and your own shame and pity.

[andromidius]

One slight amendem to what Christopher said at the start. While religious classes are manditory still, Christianity isn't taught as being 'true' in British state schools (at least not currently, maybe it was in his day). That at least is one noticable benefit to the multiculturalism trend we're going through right now.

Catholic schools are another matter. Manditory mass and making crosses on the foreheads of all the children with dirt. *shudder*

[NestoriusAlpha]

@prebenist He didnt say that this example was the reason why he is an atheist. It was just a little anecdote that he shared--a moment when he realized what he was being told was nonsense. Certainly you cannot say from this video that this shows the intellectual level of Hitchens or others like him. He was Oxford educated--does that mean anything to you?

[914light]

@ronaldcorreatv OMG this poor bastard looks like dick chaney !!

[prebenist]

what a retard! that is the most fallacious reason for being an atheist i have ever heard. it just shows the low intllectual level of these "new atheists".

[Aeschylus]

So glad he got his voice back!!!

[hectorreyesLIVE]

It would be refreshing to see one of his debate partners or one of his interviewers read his books or watch his past body of work, and maybe we would learn something new. The same stories, questions and challenges are the way that the right dumbs down their sheep, sometimes it feels that they have Hitchens caged with their typical ignorance and hypocrasy.

[KonijNx2]

@DemokritosAbdera "Religion is compulsory in English schools as you know...", this is terribly misleading, then.