Hitchens v. D'Souza - Jones County, Mississippi (Full Debate 13/13)

Previously on jcjc.tv, the full debate video of the Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D'Souza at Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, Mississippi.

For a more concise preview of the debate along with personal interviews by me with both participants, as well as interviews with attendees and questioners from the footage please check out my other playlists:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=02A8D1B7657BF658

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[Jakeblood240]

No, your correct. No religious people have ever engaged such enlightened thought experiment. They're born sheep who just can't stand the thought of life without their delusions, incapable of critical thought.

Appears self-serving honestly. Do you really believe that? Your superior intellect has set YOU free and the obvious frontal lobe malfunction of EVERYONE else whose ever believed in God, throughout history, is the clear explanation?

I know it makes people feel good but, come on.

[PhilosophyF]

Do I believe that? No.

I guess I'll just leave you to your diatribe. Enjoy.

Thanks for watching.

[Jakeblood240]

I love how you all bow to the greatness of Hitchens and call everyone who dares to disagree "brainwashed' and moronic.

You're all such severe sycophants you can't even admit plenty of really smart people throughout history believed in God, a monotheistic one at that. Yet, you all sweep them all away with one hand as "mere morons". Sorry if the YouTube community calling every one of these great thinkers stupid, less than persuading.

[PhilosophyF]

So, the atheistic community that does acknowledge very bright people who have been religion, but still disagree that there are no compelling or evidentiary reasons to believe...

...you're perfectly fine with those people? Or is this rant highly generalized beyond that nuance?

[Turandot29]

PhilosophyF, thanks for posting this debate.

I do love to hear my beloved HItch speak.

[PhilosophyF]

Thank you for watching, absolutely.

(He was a cool enough guy, when I met with him backstage... scary smart, very funny)

[IMAGINE5677]

Last question? What an arrogant stupid religious answer by a religious dyke!

[retardedsister]

D'Souza kind of reminds me of Flanders from Simpsons... annoying

[BigLundi]

Whilst I would never enter in a diatribe of calling the last questioner a...dyke...for her answer, I would call it a rather inaccurate answer, as Hitchens noted, in regards to the question actually proposed.

Truthfully I find it puzzling that people consider it some sort of given moral stance that leading people to Jesus is in some way intrinsically a good thing.

When I see statements like, "I am a willing slave to Christ" or "I am a voluntary child to Christ" I don't...find...this...moral

[writersblock26]

@TheMuscleShark I'm sorry, but your analogy just doesn't hold.

[sgunsgun2]

I don't quite understand how women can derive their faith from a book that treats them so harshly, and contains many misogynistic elements. Ironic, the lady at the end trying to defend her religion.

[risingsun08107]

Dinesh said, If there's no god, why not rape, murder, commit genocide, use up Earth's resources and so on? Answer: life would quickly become "nasty brutish and short." We strive to live by compassion, tolerance, justice and sustainability because only these values lend themselves to creating a more stable, happy and harmonious society. Natural selection would wipe out civilizations that attempted to live by lesser values. So actually, his evolutionary explanation is backwards I think.

[90gregclark]

@Jakeblood240 There were very clever people that believed in god. But you can do great things and still be wrong about religion. It is not one or the other.

[Bergelmer123]

"God" I hate the reasoning that we have to have a purpose. We are all equally worthless or meaningfull.

[880330145789]

good discussion... one of the better more balanced debates i have seen on youtube with hitchens..

[zapopaul]

wrong christopher!what you should have said is:"I can not give you any consolation at this time,your child will die and it is not within my power to stop this,he is not going to heaven,he is just going to die and you'll never see him again. However,we,through our scientific method are incessantly working to solve this problem, and I am confident that there will come a time when will have a cure for cancer and had we not have been 'blessed' with christianity I probably would have had a cure now."

[mollkatles]

@IMAGINE5677 - Seriously? at 32 years old that is the smartest thing you could come up with to offer to the conversation? You tried really hard, but nothing smarter would pour from your brain? Don't take this the wrong way, there's a pretty good chance you are retarded, you should have a doctor look at that for you

Still, in my estimation, after viewing many comments from atheists, you might be the smartest atheist on the planet - kudos on that, I guess