The True Core Of The Jesus Myth | Christopher Hitchens @ FreedomFest (1)

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Dinesh D'Souza and Christopher Hitchens go at it again at the 2008 Freedom Fest as the "Main Event".

FreedomFest is an annual festival where "free minds meet" to celebrate "great books, great ideas, and great thinkers" in an open-minded society. It is independent, non-partisan, and not affiliated with any organization or think tank.

Founded and produced by Mark Skousen, since 2002, FreedomFest invites the "best and the brightest" from around the world to talk, strategize, socialize, and celebrate liberty. FreedomFest is open to all and is purely egalitarian, where speakers, attendees, and exhibitors are treated as equals.

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Christopher Hitchens (born 1949) is an author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens is also a political observer, whose books — the latest being "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" — have made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits.

In 2009 Hitchens was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the "25 most influential liberals in U.S. media." The same article noted, though, that he would "likely be aghast to find himself on this list" and that he "styles himself a radical", not a liberal.

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[smegma300]

@smegma300 and the “ends of the earth”. There is also a historical record of a man being in the stomach of some type of fish in the 1890's for about six hours and surviving for several days after being removed but dying later due to the effect of the acids. I don’t have anything for the sun revolving around the earth. Does it really say that? Sorry but I couldn’t resist making a few more waves. Go ahead and tell me I'm full of it!!:)

[smegma300]

@TheReliquarian ). It also references an event, often referred to as the Rapture, that states he will instantly gather some that are sleeping, some working in the field, some grinding at the mill. This interestingly infers an event on earth occurring both at night and day simultaneously and consequently, which could indicate a knowledge of the spherical earth. I believe that Flat Earth interpretation came from one passages using the metaphors “the four corners of the earth”

[smegma300]

@TheReliquarian I would concur with you regarding the Urey-Miller experiment's inability to prove creation. Since I’ve studied various religions and enjoy stirring up the topic, I believe a good case could be made that the bible actually states that the earth is round (also can be translated sphere that it rests on nothing, Ex 22:22 & Job 26.7).

[smegma300]

@Mrgoodtimelove Ha ha..the Bill Maher comment is classic. Britain gets Christopher with an obvious high IQ and the US get a guy attempting to portray a high IQ (Bill Maher), but actually exhibiting a "George Bush" level IQ.

[smegma300]

@katinkers My intent was not to sell my opinion to anyone, but just to throw out a few differing views that were not simply connected to religious zealots. I found some notes on one of Leakeys' controversies concerning "Skull 1470". However, A quick internet search primarily turned up the usual, admittedly biased, anti-evolution comments. You may get lucky if you look around a bit more than I did. Anyway, it's been a pleasure talking with you and exchanging some information.

[smegma300]

@Mglosk If you wish to believe that evolution is 100% proven more power to you!!! You’re just wasting my time with your rants. Additionally, I commented on your idol AronRa's errors concerning Christianity because he feels the need to spend the first 30 to 60 minutes of his "Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism" just talking about his erroneous view of Christianity rather than evolution. It seems obvious that religion is his actual hang-up.

[Preator]

@andersoncouncilpf

Truly, we cannot say that God merely begins and ends in the mind. Many treat him as though he is very real, and there is the danger and ability to affect our world profoundly, as it has and continues to do. God is irrelevant to you and I and many others - but it is his very tangible relevance to others that effects his presence upon us through others. It is not his veracity of lack thereof that matters - merely the fact that others assume that he is indeed real.

[RAPLOCHREPORTER]

@toniviguncio WHAT BULL YOU WRITE

[andersoncouncilpf]

@Preator

I stated that god is irrelevant, which, objectively speaking, it is. Anything that starts and ends in our minds as a concept is, of course, only present within our minds. The idea of god is one of those things. Our imagination is very powerful at times, but any fanciful idea, like the idea of god, is irrelevant to our practical existence. Christians aren't irrelevant, they want hope. They just haven't thought their ideas through very well, any more than any atheists have.

[toniviguncio]

The mic + his collar + his head = stick figure