Christopher Hitchens takes on religion

Author Christopher Hitchens talks with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough about the role of religion in Decision '08.

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[whotookmysurfinbird]

@TRUNDLETHOR you must be the stupidest religion nut I've ever met, and I've met some dumb fuckheads

[jsillitoe2]

@TRUNDLETHOR Here, FTFY:

Theists are mad. Theism means belief in God. So theism is based on assumption, for until the existence of God is proved, theists will have to assume God exists in order to support their belief (hope) that God exists. This sanctimonious acceptance of assumption as fact is very scary to me. A theist is a fool. Agnosticism is the only intelligent choice for a professed theist.

It is DULL-IGNORANCE for an theist to assume Christianity represents all theism. 

[VenomShock]

I want to punch that laughing bitch.

[SOS763]

Keep it away from my sons also lol...religious nutcase...spread the flith eh?

We

[jwdogg1551]

Gosh.. The title is such a cliché <3

[Medulaman683]

the number of theists (especially in the united states)- while undoubtably large- is overestimated and given far too much time and credence by the public and the media today

[BailiffQuimby]

@ThePhnxman1 "You have fallen into the trap you tried to prepare for me"

I didn't prepare any trap for you and no falling has happened. At the end of the day, you are making a wild and fantastical claim and you have absolutely zero evidence to support it.

[ThePhnxman1]

@BailiffQuimby - "By using a light-to-other energy converter and explaining..." So you might convince a blind person of some other source of energy, but not necessarily of light. You have fallen into the trap you tried to prepare for me. And you admit that you are not blind, "...therefore, your sin remains."

[BailiffQuimby]

@ThePhnxman1 "My analogy might fail to a non-blind person, but not to the blind person."

Then go convert some blind people.

"How can you demonstrate light to the blind?"

By using a light-to-other energy converter and explaining to him what it's doing so he can recognize the relationship between the presence of the sun and its light.

"Neither can one demonstrate truth to a person who will not hear!"

I hear fine. You need to say something of substance for it to do any good.

[BailiffQuimby]

@ThePhnxman1 "Is that your truth?"

Nope.

"That all this energy came from itself?"

Nope.

"Can you demonstrate that?"

Why would I demonstrate something I don't even believe is true? You theists are the ones saying everything came from nothing. It's basically a summary of Genesis. Read it lately?

"Faith in God is not believing in "magic and monsters and unicorns"."

It is if you believe in the literal bible account. There's magic and monsters and unicorns in it. So how is it not?