Christopher Hitchens, Rabbi Kushner, Rev Gomes: What Difference Does it Make if There is a God?

Selected full Forums now available at www.theforumchannel.tv Connecticut Forum panelists Rabbi Harold Kushner, Christopher Hitchens and the Rev. Peter Gomes answer the question, "What difference does it make if their is a god?" For more information, please visit our website at www.ctforum.org

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[Thoughtland]

I had to turn my volume up to the max and its still quiet

[Kruezoraxe]

Christopher Hitchens is like a lion amongst a bunch of chickens.

[Calliope222]

Hate to say it, but the reverend looks like he just came back out of an ancient coffin.

[lightandbeautiful]

Please visit my channel for the unpopular truth about homosexuality.

A person does not need hatred or any kind of phobia in order to acknowledge important differences between heterosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption and homosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption. Even non-religious people know this.

Homosexual activists, with support from the media, have succeeded at framing themselves as noble victims; it's an effective way to push a social agenda.

[zigjams]

gomes is god

[jasonhuk]

It's a bit quiet…

[beastshawnee]

Hilarious! Now not only do we have to believe in an imaginary god, now we have to believe in an imaginary mirror that belongs to god? a mirror? WTF?

[jacderida]

@tkotomy I don't think Christopher is talking about suddenly vacating any and all references to the religious things in the world. He's saying that if right now, we were able to conclusively prove that Jesus etc. had never existed or were proven to be non supernatural (i.e. just human imposters) then this would be proof that these morals had just came from human beings rather than delivered from on high. As a result we're not gonna suddenly just start changing everything given that revelation...

[tkotomy]

Hitchens argument is poor here. You can't picture a hypothetical world without religion right now because the world we live in now was built on religion, so how can you remove it.

It's like saying imagine the world without WW2, would we have made all these technological advancements that we have? Probably not.

[tkotomy]

Rabbi is not intelligent.

[batmanFAN07]

Am I deaf ?

[Makingnewnamesisdumb]

So this is supposed to be a serious debate with experts in their respective ideologies, right? So why is it that the only one that can make any sort of well-thought response is Hitchens? The Rabbi makes an appeal to being comforted by a belief regardless of whether that belief is actually true or not and the Reverend basically uses pascal's wager. The competition isn't very high, to say the least.