we (#2Spirit here) would like to highlight that #spirituality knows absolutely no organized religion New Age Spirituality operating from within the confines of the Bible… that’s not Spirituality they can not see what they are #usa edit: we are #indigenous to Europe 🏹 in culture for us on our code 🧐 repeating 11s is Ego we tried to tell them what money manifests but they crucify nonbinary ppl like ourselves it’s cultural edit x 2: Atlas on 444… indigenous folk know who is on 🎰 the Night sky told us google how far the Pleiades are they’re Atlas’ daughters
@@TBOTSS I agree he wasn’t at his most eloquent in the Craig debate, but he was in no way destroyed, because Craigs case is fundamentally not solid and has been debunked, notably by actual physicists time and again. It’s just not interesting. The default position is the default position and not only has religion not met it’s burden of proof, it also fails to present itself as a plausible hypothesis. Craig is much ado about nothing. Lennox is even more lost in his own presuppositions. It’s super dated stuff at this point.
If you haven't already done so, do yourself the enormous favor of watching Christopher and Stephen Fry oppose the question "The Catholic Church is a Force for Good" in the youtube video which you can search for under that exact title. It is a brilliant deconstruction of Catholic practice and theology showing both men at, what is in my opinion, their very best. While the first watching is an unparalleled joy, I have found that subsequent viewings only deepen my respect for their unalloyed gifts.
@@gabrielleangelica1977 A world like that wouldn’t make any sense. A world where religion doesn’t exist but people still believe? Ig everyone just believes in their own delusions then.
@@TheMilitantMazdakite Going to hell for the "original sin" is not a scare tactic? I've seen no evidence for hell, satan, or a god so allowing a 2000 year old book to scare me would be pathetic.
Nearly 13 years after his untimely death, I and thousands of people, listen to this man, the Late Great Christopher Hitchens, and mourn the loss to Humanity & Secularism. His Brilliance, articulateness, clarity of thought, and erudition are all beyond description. I, for one, can never have enough of Hitchens' oratorical abilities and brand of victorious Atheism, and that, even though I've been an Atheist for many years. Thanks for uploading this video.
That was CRINGE ATHEISM in full effect. Furthermore, the irony and the absurdity is that it’s common knowledge that in the end Christopher Hitchens actually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire…in Hitchens own words… “The crucial thing is to be willing and able, if not in fact eager, to l< I L L them without pity before they get started.” (Christopher Hitchens). It's that last phrase that's particularly chilling. Reference: ('The Age' 5th September 2002):
@@georgedoyle2487 I sincerely appreciate your tough words. Fair enough, even though I as a former lefttist, disagree with your views. If he was here today he'd be delighted to field your criticism and rebut your points.
@@edwardcreegan236 It speaks volumes that Christopher Hitchens brother didn’t fall for Christophers rhetoric and straw man attacks on religious expression and was not so easily impressed by Christophers posh British accent as Peter Hitchens was a thoughtful and assertive English educated debater himself. Moreover, Peter Hitchens eventually totally rejected his decades of atheism as a Godless Trotskyist and despite still being a contrarian he actually became a follower of Christ and has now found a sense of peace he never had before - yes? Which is beyond ironic!! Moreover, this quote from Christopher Hitchens after being asked about his friendship with the Christian Larry Taunton during a long road trip with him speaks volumes and demonstrates that Christopher Hitchens was teetering on the edge of rejecting the left wing THOUGHT POLICE himself..... According to Christopher Hitchens assessment of the Christian Larry Taunton… “If everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and care and concern for others that Larry Taunton has, we’d be living in a much better society than we do.” (Christopher Hitchens). Hitchens was actually a FRAUD as he had very positive relationships with Christians behind the scenes - right? Equally, this quote from Hitchens praising the Christian Doctor, who tried to save his life Dr Francis Collins, actually speaks volumes about Hitchens private persona versus his stage persona that earned him a lot of money... His cult followers get very triggered when you point out the fact that Hitchens secretly had Christian tendencies and he was even anti abortion!! According to Hitchens… “Thanks to the wonderful American, Dr. Francis Collins, who's the head of the National Institute of Health, which includes the National Cancer Institute who did the human genome project, this, you know, ahead of time and under budget, a marvelous scientific achievement. He and I have met because we're opposite sides of the religion debate, we became friends that way. He's a very convinced Christian and we've become friendly debaters and he's taken a very kindly interest in my case and has helped me have my genomes sequenced because I'm trying to look for a more perfect identifiable match for an imitation they can find that's peculiar to me.” (Christopher Hitchens). The brilliant Dr Francis Collins worked relentlessly to try and save Hitchens life and Francis Collins was a Christian and Hitchens friend. Hitchens was a fraud and secretly doubted his atheism and clearly had Christian tendencies and sympathies!! Obviously being a contrarian he would have struggled to admit this publicly!!
Hitchens was and still is today a great asset of our civilsation. He continues to live in all of us who admire him and who, like myself, propagate his views and teachings to others.
@@TBOTSS what's your point actually? Are you saying Christians are originator of science? If yes then sorry because we all know what happened copernicus and Galileo.
@@TBOTSS No, science started with Ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy, and ever since then, science has continued to advance in SPITE of Christianity, not because of it.
@@evoryann Someone clutches their chest and collapses next to you. Do you need to consult a holy text before you help them? I'd hope not. Basic morality is instinctive in social beings that have been raised socially. We help each other because we identify with each other. Because when we see someone in pain, we feel pain. People without empathy are damaged.
We could absolutely use Mr. Hitchens in this day and age. He is a hero of mine and he was the person who opened my eyes to the fallacy and massive contradictions of christianity. His insights, his wisdom, along with his exquisite use of language and his abilities with the written word, and his sheer eloquence in speeches, debates, and lectures were nothing short of genius.
Thank heavens we can still listen to the brilliant & rare man despite his passing. We need to listen to these podcasts over & over. What an intellect! Few can even compare.
@@Thagomizer yeah it has nothing to do with his lifelong long accomplishments, his incredible choice of words, thought process and ability to breakdown stupid ideas so simply. Remember you’re the one watching his UA-cam video. Who’s the genius now?
@@gwarren6386 Except nobody has ever been able to provide the slightest piece of evidence for the supernatural whatsoever. There is not one single thing you can point to that shows that god exists.
It speaks volumes that Hitchens book “GOD IS NOT GREAT” claims a status as a Number 1 Bestseller when its total sales to date only add up to about 500,000 - right? In contrast published estimates put sales of the Christian Bible at 50 per minute. Not bad considering the authors are allegedly nothing more substantive than Bronze Age goat herders right? Total all-time Christian Bible sales are estimated in the billions!! Not to mention the billions that are given away for free. The Foreign Bible Society in 2021 estimated that the total number probably lies between 5 and 7 billion copies. Not bad for so called illiterate Bronze Age goat herders who lived thousands of years ago with very little access to libraries and technology right? In contrast Hitchen's tedious book actually goes on and on relentlessly about the same thing for 296 pages with a grand total of about 50 source citations. Which means that his “evidence” and citations to support his list of half truths and factual errors are flimsy to say the least. Which basically means that for approximately 290 pages we’re stuck with Ayatollah Hitchens and Ayatollah Hitchens alone. He was unbelievably sophomoric and a bore!! Hardly anyone in England even knows who he is!!
@@Makarosc Like many governments. Is Christianity the only religion you know? You haven't even read the whole Bible. Yes, Atheism has become a cult of the belligerent walking wounded.
His grasp of these crucial issues of humanity, his superior analytical abilties, his massive competence in the use of the English language and his fearlessness in expressing his views and challenging those of others make him one of the most powerful intellectuals of the past 100 years, if not, 1000 years.
First of all, that's not your idea. That's a thought of freud. Secondly, people fear death, whether they're religious or not. But let me ask you this if people were gonna get together to create a religion to help them with their fear of death. Do you think they would add in the whole? You're gonna burn for returnity unless you do everything right? Probably not because that doesn't sound too comforting. I think atheist in their heart do believe but they've talked themselves out of it. Because it's a scary thought to know that what they do. Matters and that they might have to answer for something. And it also gives you a good justification to not have to do anything because Hey, nothing matters, if there's no higher mean or higher power. This is it than why not just do anything.. You seem to hold dear. Some of the early moral commandments from the bible like show that steel. And I doubt you're Jewish but. I guarantee if someone still something for you. You would have a reaction claim. It's a moral and not like it. 50 out your wife was having an affair. I bet you wouldn't like that either. Well, why is that? Why is that immoral? Were you getting this concept of moral at just your opinion? But yeah, every human being has that in them Stop eating such a simpleton and think about it longer than five minutes Because a lot of Christians are not scared to die at all. But many non-believers in atheists are scared today, which makes no sense. Because it doesn't matter, you just go away. You're gone so the rational logical thing to do would be just to end at all. Why not if the nothing matters. You can say you believe things like that. But that I guarantee you do not live your life like that. Guaranteed it, you get up. You have goals. You do things, why do you do that? When people say you have potential. What the hell is that mean? Is that some kind of physical material. People actually live a lot different than they say You just don't wanna be judged or ever told it something you're doing is wrong and nobody does. And I haven't even touched the design argument of the planet in people. It's so overwhelming to walk away after learning these things and thinking. There's no creator is either complete total ignorance. Or will for wilful blindness. There's not one thing in your life that you look at or you cannot tell. It was designed from your iPhone to t. V to your car to buildings. Anything. We take it for granted, but we don't need to meet designer. But we know it was designed and yet you look at the most complex thing that exists the human body the brain. The fact that we can reproduce. Make babies the planet is perfectly calibrated for life. You can believe all these things are accidents. If you want to, but that's actually mathematically impossible. So at that point it's more reasonable to believe that there was a creator than to not believe. There's way more evidence and at that point it's just denial. And by the way, you can stop making accusations about what this church or that church did because number one every single institution is corrupt. Some degree and number 2. You've probably never been in a church. Or entire life
Yeah, that's Freud idea Hypothesis, maybe some people, but that is not really true. Number one, if you're scared of death, why would you make up a religion? That's supposed to make you feel better about death while at the same time. If you don't do things right. You're gonna burn in-hell for eternity? That doesn't really seem to be something to make you feel better. Plus a lot of faith-based people are not even scared today. Anyways To say those beliefs are only based off. Fear of dying is way to simplistic. And just not true. However I do love freud
Sigmund Freud was an atheist. Anyways, so I think you gotta take that into consideration. That's actually why him and carl young ended up separated Because carl uniders some of his philosophy from elements of christianity, at least Maybe he came up with that theory when he was doing tons of cocaine. He was brilliant
I also wish he was still alive. Such a wonderful speaker. With a way to reach anyone. Understandable. Hard to argue with the points he has made available. Changing the way so many of see through the smoke screens. Genius.
Nope!! He was a snob and he was facile!! He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
People laughed at many things Hitch said especially when he talked about a “Devine North Korea” but there couldn’t be a more real or more serious topic to talk about on Earth! If there is God who created us why did he make many of the most awful painful or disturbing things hilarious to us? God is either an Asshole or a Comedian or Both!
They laugh not because it’s funny, but to defuse the tension and discomfort of the cognitive dissonance borne of the realization that this is true and their beliefs are indeed absurd cruelties. The laughter puts enough distance between them and this realization to allow them to digest the idea without actually accepting it.
@@ominous-omnipresent-they Fact. I’m an atheist in my teen years. I have no clue how my parents can believe these fairy tales. But they’ve been forced to believe in it since childhood or get ostracized. When I move out I’ll reveal I’m an Atheist. If they hate me, it’s whatever, they’re already toxic to me, now they’d just not have any control over my life, so I won’t be forced to go to church and such.
Thousands of gods only one Christopher Hitchens. Twelve years since Christopher passed and no sign of the brilliance we once had with Christopher Hitchens!
Really you really think you need christopher hitchins What is it that he said that was so enlightening and life changing. Nothing he just told you what you wanted to believe. But I have to admit I feel the same way about Charles Manson. I think we need him back to
Sorry to break it to you but the irony and the absurdity is that it’s common knowledge that in the end Christopher Hitchens actually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire…in Hitchens own words…”The crucial thing is to be willing and able, if not in fact eager, to l< I L L them without pity before they get started.” (Christopher Hitchens). It's that last phrase that's particularly chilling. Reference: ('The Age' 5th September 2002): Sorry but the belief that Hitchens was this pure person and secular SAINT who never told lies is a myth. He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
Fact is that under this materialistic, causally closed, atheistic, fan fiction “you” and your very ironic “IMAGINARY FRIEND” argument has no more “TRUTH” value than leaves blowing in the wind!! The ELEPHANT in the room is that under a strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism “you”, the leaves and your very ironic “IMAGINARY FRIEND” argument are destined for the same place [THE FERTILISER PIT/THE GRAVE/THE ROTTING SH…T PILE/THE VOID]
Sorry to break it to you but the irony and the absurdity is that it’s common knowledge that in the end Christopher Hitchens actually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire…in Hitchens own words…”The crucial thing is to be willing and able, if not in fact eager, to l< I L L them without pity before they get started.” (Christopher Hitchens). It's that last phrase that's particularly chilling. Reference: ('The Age' 5th September 2002): Sorry but the belief that Hitchens was this pure person and secular SAINT who never told lies is a myth. He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
Sorry to break it to you but the irony and the absurdity is that it’s common knowledge that in the end Christopher Hitchens actually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire…in Hitchens own words…”The crucial thing is to be willing and able, if not in fact eager, to l< I L L them without pity before they get started.” (Christopher Hitchens). It's that last phrase that's particularly chilling. Reference: ('The Age' 5th September 2002): Sorry but the belief that Hitchens was this pure person and secular SAINT who never told lies is a myth. He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
Sorry to break it to you but the irony and the absurdity is that it’s common knowledge that in the end Christopher Hitchens actually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire…in Hitchens own words…”The crucial thing is to be willing and able, if not in fact eager, to l< I L L them without pity before they get started.” (Christopher Hitchens). It's that last phrase that's particularly chilling. Reference: ('The Age' 5th September 2002): Sorry but the belief that Hitchens was this pure person and secular SAINT who never told lies is a myth. He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right.
Nope!! He was a snob and he was facile!! He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
Thank you for your profoundly resolute committment to exposing the abject sociopathic and deeply maniacal aspects of religious imposed thinking on a person and a population good Sir Hitchens!
Please watch and share with others my five brief videos in which I present examples of scientific facts contained in the Bible, facts that the writers thousands of years ago could not have been aware of without divine knowledge given to them by Jesus Christ / The God of the Bible. And today's scientists agree with those facts!
@@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 a broken clock will accidently be correct twice a day... your argument is built on a story... nothing more. A story of an invisible sociopathic man who lives in the sky and punished beings he created broken and then commanded to become well and worship him eternally. The story and those who choose to believe in it, are unwell.
I cant believe I EVER fell for the evil story of convincing humanity they are less than they are, thet we are flawed at birth. What a BIG CON upon humanity. I keep an open mind and think for thyself and say loud and clear. ' I am not a sinner, I've NEVER been a sinner nor will I choose to be a sinner!
So you chose the one that says that man is absolutely nothing, a miserable speck of dust in a universe and man is entirely alone as he must bear the weight of everything on his miserableness? Can you see how this vision is much worse than the previous one?
@@juanranger4214 don't try putting words into someone's mouths or thoughts...Very manipulative of you....Can you see you only commented to try and make him or her look like an empty ,miserable human being whose life has no purpose?
@@rimbusjift7575 Pondering the concept of a creator actually takes a level of emotional intelligence that, let's be honest, most people these days are lacking
@@rimbusjift7575 it is not a fairytale, God does exist and He is our Father. Here is the evidence that you are looking for: someone to pray to God for something to happen (this someone can be you) and said something does happen. Like Einstein got out of the lab in a step of faith to see if his calculations were correct, do the same: by faith, call to God for a sign, a dream and ask Him to reveal himself to you. I did this and he led me to the name of Jesus Christ and called Him “my son”.
Nope!! Stop lying!! The Oxford professor John Lennox beat Christopher Hitchens in a debate quite thoroughly. Christopher Hitchens even admitted that he lost and John Lennox won very gracefully without any of this facile triumphalism you see in this echo chamber!!
@@taylorspringer “I thought Christopher Hitchens made a fool of him” Oh the irony!! Sorry but “MADE A FOOL OF HIM” according to who? or what absolute, universal, objective standard of measure exactly? “MADE A FOOL OF HIM” according to the standard of an overgrown amoeba with illusions of grandeur? Or “MADE A FOOL OF HIM” according to nothing more substantive than the delusions of an ULTIMATELY MEANINGLESS, HOLLOW AND SOULLESS APE who shares half their DNA with a POTATO? Your worldview, your absurdity, Your ULTIMATELY MEANINGLESS, HOLLOW AND SOULLESS APE, your existential crisis, your epistemological crisis not the theists - right? There’s still hope though because perhaps Hitchens “MADE A FOOL OF HIM” according to nothing more substantive than the standard of the blind, mindless, ultimately meaningless, accidental arrangement of [random atoms] and [brain chemicals] creating the illusion of stable patterns and regularities - yes? Your worldview, your absurdity, your ULTIMATELY MEANINGLESS, HOLLOW AND SOULLESS APE, your existential crisis and your epistemological crisis not the theists!! There’s still hope though because perhaps Hitchens “MADE A FOOL OF HIM” according to nothing more substantive than [brain fizz] creating the illusion of stable patterns and regularities? That is nothing more substantive than the science project of vinegar and baking soda accidentally bubbling over!! Nothing more substantive than the blind, mindless, ultimately meaningless accidental arrangement of POND SLIME evolved to an allegedly “HIGHER” order - right? Your worldview, your absurdity, your ULTIMATELY MEANINGLESS, HOLLOW AND SOULLESS APE, your existential crisis, your epistemological crisis not the theists!! I mean, everyone has a right to believe what they want and everyone including theists have a right to find it totally ridiculous, totally fatalistic, totally nihilistic and totally and utterly self refuting!! Prove me wrong? I’ll wait!!
Thank you. Truly A cwime to humanity. My father left the seminary before being ordained as a catholic priest. Sadly I am very grateful for his early death that allowed me to heal the indescribable damage he did to his family, particularly to my mother and me against whom he turned his hatred of women.
I bet you’re a blast at Christenings, birthday parties, and especially at golden wedding anniversaries and especially at funerals!! At least be a consistent strictly reductive materialist, atheist or philosophical naturalist because according to the greatest atheist thinkers who ever lived with possibly the highest IQs… Logic is an illusion (Nietzsche) “Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.” - (Nietzsche, Reference from: On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense). “Should I kill myself?” is the essential philosophical question.” (Albert Camus). Merry chap but at least he’s “logically” consistent with his strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism - right? Life is an “horror” and “truth” is “illusory”. (Nietzsche) Moreover, according to the prominent atheist Foucault… “Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent.” (Foucault). Imagine telling all of these little stories to someone as a Christmas bed time story!! And you mock our beliefs!!
I bet you’re a blast at Christenings, birthday parties, and especially at golden wedding anniversaries and especially at funerals!! At least be a consistent strictly reductive materialist, atheist or philosophical naturalist because according to the greatest atheist thinkers who ever lived with possibly the highest IQs… Logic is an illusion (Nietzsche) “Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.” - (Nietzsche, Reference from: On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense). “Should I kill myself?” is the essential philosophical question.” (Albert Camus). Merry chap but at least he’s “logically” consistent with his strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism - right? Life is an “horror” and “truth” is “illusory”. (Nietzsche). Moreover, according to the prominent atheist Foucault… “Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent.” (Foucault). Imagine telling all of these little stories to someone as a Christmas bed time story!! And you mock our beliefs!!
I bet you’re a blast at Christenings, birthday parties, and especially at golden wedding anniversaries and especially at funerals!! At least be a consistent strictly reductive materialist, atheist or philosophical naturalist because according to the greatest atheist thinkers who ever lived with possibly the highest IQs… Logic is an illusion (Nietzsche) “Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.” - (Nietzsche, Reference from: On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense). “Should I kill myself?” is the essential philosophical question.” (Albert Camus). Merry chap but at least he’s “logically” consistent with his strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism - right? Life is an “horror” and “truth” is “illusory”. (Nietzsche). Moreover, according to the prominent atheist Foucault… “Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent.” (Foucault). Imagine telling all of these little stories to someone as a Christmas bed time story!! And you mock our beliefs!!
I am so thankful that i am heating this man.. To Quote .." If you want good people to do wicked things, you will need religion .. What a sentence.... I wish i had heard of this guy before 3 days ago... He is the most sense speaking man i have ever heard
So the Bidens are the picture of morality. And joining nato,urging Ukraine to join as well so we can put weapons on Russia's borders, forcing them to react is cool, oh most Americans dont know that cause the major news spinned it another way, awesome? Big countries like them and us won't allow weapons on their borders. We was about to do the same thing over the Cuba missile crisis if they didn't stop. Oh, do you think out borders should be wide open for anyone to come in? Do you know the problems millions of illegal immigrants in all our states is causing? And the mind-boggling amounts of money we are spending just on these two issues I've raised? We're broke. If you think it's OK, just go to a major city and invite a bunch to your home and quit locking your doors. Would you do that? Well, that's what our country is doing. I don't like Trump either but he's is the best choice for the country, if you actually vote what's best for the country or do you vote for who you like better and screw the country. The hell with the country, I'd rather have someone that supports a pride parade down main st.😅
The fact is that after 9/11 and Bosnia and after the threats to Rushdie Christopher Hitchens main conclusions were that religion, and specifically Islam, was an underestimated force for dominance and evil in world affairs. He also concluded that the US empire could be a countervailing force for good, but that the left had become so detached from any international working-class movement it was incapable of challenging capitalism and Islam, and was on the wrong side of history - right?
I think Christopher Hitchens may have been partly right because the left wing THOUGHT POLICE are spineless when it comes to speaking out against Islamic sharia law being imposed in England. Something that has been demonstrated at speakers corner where it is actually Christians that are working like Trojans and actually risking their lives to turn Muslims away from backwards thinking sharia law, Arabisation and Islamic religious apartheid!! [see Bob at speakers corner, Soco films]
Where does he get this idea of morals? In a world of randomness there are no morals just opinions. It's not like morals are material so how did they evolve? If there's no God anything goes. Your morals and the nazis morals were quite different. I guess they evolved differently out of nothing . It's a ridiculous premise for anyone who thinks for themselves for 5 min.
True. Mother Teresa, Torture Teresa, Narcissist Teresa, Lier Teresa, is actually the same person. But no prob, the sectarians, have their, "good and have" Jesus, who in a disturbing way, take all their blame.
I wasn't familiar with the "Who wants this to be true?" argument. It's stunning how it turns the "benefit" of religion on its head (because people believe what they want to be true, not what they discover to be true through honest examination) and shows that Christianity is so bad that it's a character flaw to even wish it were true.
@@Doc-Holliday1851 christians are an uneducated and judgmental group. Most are governed by fear or anger. I should know better than to think christians can self-judge how others might see them.
Nope!! He was a snob and he was facile!! He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
A lot of things about Christianity confuse me. I struggle with them, religiously. I don't know why God had to send himself to save us from himself. But I do know one thing: Jesus never walked on water - unless it was frozen.
You know nothing under atheism. Fact is that under this materialistic, causally closed, atheistic, fan fiction “you” and your claim to the “MORALLY COURAGEOUS” high ground has no more “TRUTH” value than leaves blowing in the wind!! The ELEPHANT in the room is that under a strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism “you”, the leaves and your very ironic whining about having a “HONEST CONVERSATION” are destined for the same place [THE FERTILISER PIT/THE GRAVE/THE ROTTING SH…T PILE/THE VOID]
If Hitchins does not believe in God, would reason to believe he doesn't believe in the Bible either. So what is the point of reading the Bible and critique it when at the end of it? He's just gonna say. I don't believe it. There was absolutely no point in that.
Could you IMAGINE the tongue lashing our government in the US would get if Christopher were with us today? Ain't enough popcorn in the world for that show.
Very eloquent indeed. I'm a Muslim myself but I have a great respect for atheists. I like the way they honestly, to the best of their abilities, challenge the status quo, and attack ignorance with reason. There's a lot I disagree about but I admire the dare to speak and refusal of blind faith.
The fact is that most atheists/relativists are just believers who are hopeless at it!! It speaks volumes that if even the most devout militant atheist was startled in some way he or she would exclaim “Oh, my god!!” instead of “Oh, my cosmic accident!!” or “Oh my pond slime evolved to a higher order!! or “Oh, my overgrown amoeba with illusions of grandeur” or “Oh my brains user illusion of self” or even “Oh my Nietzsche, oh my Bertrand Russell or Oh my Hitchens!!” The list of the gods of relativism goes on!!
Freudian slip because everyone knows what is ultimate and personal/God exists really!! It’s all ultimately meaningless word games from atheists. You’ll find out one day!!
The fact is that most atheists/relativists are just believers who are hopeless at it!! It speaks volumes that if even the most devout militant atheist was startled in some way he or she would exclaim “Oh, my god!!” instead of “Oh, my cosmic accident!!” or “Oh my pond slime evolved to a higher order!! or “Oh, my overgrown amoeba with illusions of grandeur” or “Oh my brains user illusion of self” or even “Oh my Nietzsche, oh my Bertrand Russell or Oh my Hitchens!!” The list of the gods of relativism goes on!!
I came to realise that a lot of people on the planet need religion because they lack the intellectual capacity to deal with life in another way. Thinking for yourself is no easy task and believing is so much easier. 1) Some-thing can only come into existence out of a state of no-thing. Otherwise some-thing couldn’t be anything else than every-thing. The state of no-thing on the other hand has the potential to manifest every-thing. Therefore, some-thing and no-thing are of equal value. Not surprisingly the same result is obtained in mathematics but I prefer my own thought via a philosophical approach. Thinking for yourself has proven to be a great way to keep devils, angels, goblins, leprechauns and god(s) at a distance, but that aside. 2) There are good reasons to compare the coming into existence of universes with something we all enjoyably know: ejaculations. Most spermatozoa are destined for the drain and only one amongst the million losses viable. We are living in one of the universes viable for life, probably amongst many failed or disabled universes; hence the absolutely not miraculous fine tuning of our cosmic surroundings. We’re lucky and we are translating our luck, a very common human characteristic, into pride, prejudice and the preposterous idea that a super being is overseeing each of us and sad or happy depending on the position of our hands above or below the sheets. 3) So, the absolute beginning from the very first universe must have started from a very fine tilting point in a state where there was no difference between some- and no-thing. Quantum mechanics has learned us that energy can be borrowed for such a short time that the balance between the two states isn’t affected. Unimaginable stretches of time and evolution have done the rest in a trial, error and rarely, but in view of the incredible time lapses, unavoidable success way. We perceive the end result like a magic trick. Conclude that the pigeon out of the head is pure wizardry until the magician explains every step of the astonishing experience. 4) if an all powerful god existed, why in the name of the one no one should believe in, would that being make the billion of years detour instead of just creating a made and ready universe? Unless you reject the fact, no, no longer the theory, but the fact of evolution. If that’s the case, then you are worshipping a god created or accepted out of pure and maybe even wilful ignorance. 5) if god existed there would be no need to prove his existence because he / she / it would be perceived or at the very least be experienced by believers and non believers alike and since that’s clearly not the case it’s safe to say that god(s) are man made and not the other way around. That’s also why there are approximately, at present, 4.300 religions with matching super bff to suit different cultures, regions and tribes. 6) Seneca, ancient Roman philosopher: ‘for common people religion is true, for wise men false and useful for rulers’. The story of Jesus, his miracles and resurrection Ask 1000 followers of Kenneth Copeland if he can heal the sick, paralysed and disabled. Well, you know the answer. Ask 1000 followers of Copeland if he could resurrect someone from the dead. You know the answer Ask 1000 followers of Copeland if they witnessed a resurrection performed by Copeland and at least 100 will testify on their life and the life of their children that they witnessed a resurrection done by one of the biggest spiritual con men in our day and age. Should give you some idea about the value of testimonials in Jesus time. People turn their wishes into beliefs and from that principle all religions are born. Let's also not forget that resurrections where far from exceptional in the days of the Jesus. I wouldn't go as far as to say: 'one resurrection a day kept the gravedigger away', but still. Jesus was a mediocre prophet and so delusional that he convinced himself to be the son of a non existing being. And it’s because of his mediocrity and the fact that his ‘teachings’ serve the rich, rulers and common people alike that he became so popular.
Just to be clear, in a nutshell what you’re basically saying is that as an atheist and as a “genuine freethinker” and as a “real” truth seeker you have the “RATIONAL” high ground because your many years of study and your many years of research into the “natural sciences” and your many years of study of the two millennia of scholarship on the subject of logic and analytical philosophy have lead to the “PROFOUND” and ultimately USELESS and ultimately MEANINGLESS conclusion that…. “Birth is an accident, life is ultimately MEANINGLESS, ultimately PURPOSELESS and ABSURD and DEATH simply ends the absurdity and illusion that birth began” [Atheism]. Glad we cleared that one up!! What a “PROFOUND” insite!! Thanks for the “HELP”!! Spread the word quickly before someone steals you and “genius”!!
At least be a consistent strictly reductive materialist, atheist or philosophical naturalist - right? That is at least be a consistent perspectivist, relativist or absurdist yes? Because according to the greatest atheist thinkers who ever lived with possibly the highest IQs… Logic is an illusion (Nietzsche) “Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.” - (Nietzsche, Reference from: On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense). “Should I kill myself?” is the essential philosophical question.” (Albert Camus). Merry chap but at least he’s “logically” consistent with his strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism - right? Life is an “horror” and “truth” is “illusory”. (Nietzsche) Moreover, according to the prominent atheist Foucault… “Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent.” (Foucault). Imagine telling all of these little stories to someone as a Christmas bed time story!! And you mock our beliefs!!
The fact is that language inevitably becomes meaningful, that is beautiful, transcendent, sacred and metaphysical because our [FAITH] in the ability to convey meaning and purpose and value using language transcends blind, mindless, ultimately meaningless “matter”. Beauty is a mark of eternity, that is the eternal logos, the word!! Reality and existence and in particular the qualities of experience such as language, that is meaning, purpose and love, that is inexplicable and intangible values such as Truth and goodness are not made of “matter” they are made of what [matters]. Furthermore, “we actually have a domain of deep language. When we fall into the domain of the deep language we are in the domain of the sacred” We have this innate sense of literary depth and meaningfulness. Some stories are shallow and meaningless, some stories are incredibly deep, poignant and meaningful, and everyone feels that and knows it with every ounce of their being!! And everyone pretty much appreciates and accepts that. You experience it with music. You experience it when observing the beauty in nature and more so when you observe inner beauty in others!! Any art form or experience there’s shallow aspects and there’s deep aspects!! And deep aspects move you and they move you so deeply they have emotional resonance!! And they call to you and challenge you to listen as well! They call you to a better version of your self!! Continued….
The fact is that Jesus of Nazareth using deeply beautiful and meaningful language, spread a universal message of love, without money, weapons, armies or political power, called to more people and conquered more millions than Alexander the Great, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without modern biology, chemistry, physics or cosmology, Jesus Christ using deeply beautiful language called to more people, shed more light on things more human, more poignant, more divine and more beautiful than all philosophers and scholars combined!! Jesus Christ using the art of language produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; he called to more people and set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art, and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times!! This is just an historical fact!! If you took the best qualities of all the greatest people that you have ever known share, and boiled those qualities down into one person that would be your archetypal hero. Furthermore, if you took the courage, bravery, self sacrifice, altruism, empathy and compassion of all the greatest archetypal heroes that ever lived, and boiled them down to one central figure that’s Christ [The One/The Logos/The Word]. Continued…
The Greatest person in History... Jesus had no slaves or servants, yet they called Him Master. Had no degrees, yet they called Him Teacher. Had no drugs or medicines, yet they called Him Healer. He had no army, yet kings feared Him and wanted his followers dead. He won no great military battles, yet He conquered the world by bringing light into the world. He did not live in a palace, a castle or own vast lands and property and servants and yet they called Him Lord and king, He ruled no nations, he did not seek to conquer all the world through force like the ancient Roman emperor’s or Islam or like Stalin’s atheist regime that was defined by atheism through its anti religious policies and death camps did. Jesus never carried out any of these depraved war monger like behaviours and yet they called Him Mightiest of Kings, Jesus committed no crime, yet they tortured and crucified Him. He was buried in a tomb and his followers despaired as they could not grasp the TRUTH he brought into the world and thought it could be completely extinguished by DEATH, Jesus still lives today. “There is in the world only one figure of absolute beauty: Christ. That infinitely lovely figure is, as a matter of course, an infinite marvel.” (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Letter to niece Sofia Alexandrovna) According to one of the greatest authors that ever lived Fyodor Dostoyevsky… “Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old” (Dostoyevsky).
Equally, Hitchens actually claimed that the Christian pastor Martin Luther King JR wasn’t even a real Christian because he wasn’t vindictive enough? Really? Anyone who could seriously claim that the Christian pastor Martin Luther King JR was not a real Christian because he was a civil rights hero really does not have much of a grip on reality and is clearly self deluded and is a fanatic!! It’s hardly surprising that in the end Christopher Hitchens became a willing apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire and it’s even been shown that, in fact, Christopher Hitchens directly plagiarised materials from the old Soviet (League of the Militant Godless) word for word in his book “God is not Great”!!
Christopher Hitchens even actively promoted the idea that American intervention in the Balkans and Middle East was a great idea and he even had to be water boarded to see if water boarding was actually torturous when used on people with a particular skin colour- right? Wake up!! Torturing humans is objectively evil and depraved not just an arbitrary subjective opinion, not just an arbitrary subjective taste - yes?. Christopher Hitchens was a Trotskyist and so called “Enlightenment” Snob!! It gets even worse because according to Christopher Hitchens associate Sam Harris torture and nuclear first strikes may be an “ethical” necessity…To quote Hitchens associate directly… “The only thing likely to ensure our survival may be a nuclear first strike of our own ” (Sam Harris).
But there's even a lower level of ridiculous stupidity that seems to be accepted that we came from a bunch of goop, accidentally all of us with catches's and brains and everything, and that's just so rational to believe that lol That's like saying there's no rational reason at all that somebody designed this iPhone. It must have just designed itself lol Because believing that nothing created something as opposed to something created all of this Is Saul reasonable? Isn't it I mean think? How many times you walked on the street and boom? All of a sudden things just popped out of nothing and holy cow. Look at this house just built itself in The Middle of the street. What a coincidence. Oh, my God, look a car. Just just popped out of thin air and cool. We can drive it nice. We needed one of these. Yeah, that happens all the time. There's no logical rational reason for you to say such an arrogant statement when there's plenty of reasons to believe even if you choose not to. For example, I believe that statement is totally ignorant that you made. I can't prove that scientifically but it's kind of self evident kinda like that
the more i study about atheism more i notice that atheism is just a anserw of the terroble theology we have today, the majoriry of people just didnt understud the bible, and because of this miscompreention they turned to be a non beliver
@@caracomfotodeanime3404 Nope. One of the great things about being an Atheist is that I don’t ever feel compelled to perform mental gymnastics to justify slavery and incest and other disgusting immoral things in your story book. So what’s the "correct" way to read it then and what method did you use to determine that?
That’s ironic because Hitchens really strengthened my faith in Christ. Why do put so much trust in such a facile and snobbish individual as Christopher Hitchens?
Furthermore, the irony is that Richard Dawkins right hand man, Josh Timonen, recently had an epiphany and actually totally rejected atheism after decades of being Dawkins protege - yes? That is Josh Timonen, Richard Dawkins right hand man, who was a committed atheist for decades, recently totally and utterly rejected atheism/fatalism and epistemological nihilism and became a follower of Christ - right?
The fact is that Josh totally and utterly rejected the claims made in Dawkins books including his famous book the “God Delusion” because he had become unconvinced by Dawkins straw man fallacies and philosophically illiterate mockery and attacks on Christian’s. MThat is Josh totally rejected the same book that has Josh’s name printed in it as a dedication to Josh for his help in deconstructing religious expression. This total rejection of atheism was due to the fact that Josh had a change of heart because he had actually made the effort to study the arguments for theism properly and with an open mind and and a open heart!!
Bravo, Christopher Hitchens. (I'm being facetious, here. But it suddenly struck me that, outside of the eternity aspect, it's an analogue to the way I'm expected to show gratitude to my employer for letting me work.)
God bless Jesus Christ the Lord and may all of Gods people rejoice in the salvation that is Jesus Christ the Almighty. O death where is thy sting? O death where thy Victory?
@qualitypaversinc Seems like you didn't watch the whole video. Maybe even read the whole Bible and tell me how manmade it is. I was Christian and I went through nothing but trauma because of religion. You're clearly not okay and coerced into this thing you called Christianity and I'm sorry that you're like that. Sure not everyone in religion is bad but the problem is that they don't realize that the Bible isn't the truth and seeing the problematic verses that's in there. Like when it says that the raped should marry their rapist and basically conditional love (John 3:16 is the best example). Proverbs 3:5-6 just proves that it's a cult by shutting down critical thinking and thinking for yourself entirely. So please do your proper research for now on. Thank you.
@@AngelOrrandMoreI'm a Catholic my good brother. Jesus is the truth my friend. The one who conquered death. The Bible is clearly a holy and spiritual book that was giving to us by God. All the people who wrote it claimed to be divinely inspired and that one book is the most sold book in all of human history. That name Jesus stands above all names. And that book will be here until the very end. Us Catholics not only have a book from Heaven but we have supernatural miracles here on earth that not even NASA nor top Nobel piece prize winner in science could explain. Supernatural miracles that defy the laws of nature, of time and space. Miracles that should not exist yet they stand strong in beautiful Catholic churches all around the globe. Those miracles are not there to pursade the unbeliever. Because we understand to a non believer even if one were to rise from the dead he would not believe. Even if God himself appeared to you , the non believer would think it was a dream. Those supernatural miracles that science cannot explain are there to further strengthen the church and God's people to show us that the things of God are from another dimension and no scientist, scholar or laboratory can deny what we know to be true to the depth of our core. We all must face death and judgement for our sins. But on that day I will have the blood of Christ and Jesus by my side. Hope he has mercy on us all.
@@qualitypaversinc If the Bible is our moral guide, then how can it make pornographic statements such as: “…they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you” (2 Kings 18:27)? Also consult Numbers 31 where a whole tribe of people, including the elderly and children are slaughtered. The only survivors were the virginal women, who were later raped by the “just and perfect” Moses and his men. Is that what you want your children reading on Sunday? Biblical morality is pure horror, and if christians really followed all gods commands, we would need to build a lot more prisons. People were moral long before christianity was invented, and it will exist long after its gone. True morality comes from tht heart of each of us, no matter our belief or lack thereof. No matter our origin, our color or culture... Christians do not act from the heart, but from fear of punishment or groveling for favors and rewards. Good people are good because thats who they are..period.
The late, great Hitch certainly made some excellent and compelling arguments against religion, though there are certainly many more not mentioned here. I only wish the editors of the video had modified the sound levels on the various clips to match. I had to keep adjusting my volume! I miss the Hitch. He was an inspiration to all of us who stand for reason and rationality against the insidious cancer of delusion, deception, ignorance, intolerance and, yes, _immorality_ that religion has inflicted upon the world. Though I can't claim to match his knowledge or eloquence, I do my best every day to follow his example.
I don’t think about religion much anymore, as I became very comfortable with my position of having no god belief decades ago. I still love to hear people like Christopher Hitchens put forward logical arguments against religion though. RIP Hitch.
This is a great man. Brilliant beyond brilliant. This man should have lived 100 lifetimes. Another reason to believe there is no god. There will never be another one like him. If you search for the truth you will find it.
@@georgedoyle2487what did he lie about. Tell me what he lied about when it comes to Mother Theresa. That is wasn’t a place to go and die??What did she do with all the money. I am just asking respectfully
@@idontcareaboutyourfeelingsok He lied about her refusing to give morphine to patients who were in agony because she was a religious fanatic. It’s a total and utter LIE and is taken from an half truth about access to Morphine in India and poor palliative care right across India. But Hitchens is very slippery and knows that if you throw enough mud some of it will stick. So all you need to do is provide a source from this period demonstrating Teresa definitely has the facilities in place to give very dangerous drugs such as opiates and morphine etc and that she just simply kept class A drugs locked away. You won’t because the laws on opiate use in India were so strict it was very difficult to even get morphine in the main hospitals and you required a prescription and a qualified nurse to titrate the drug safely so as not to kill any patients . This alone is an enormous defeater for Hitchens diatribe. I can even provide medical references if you want them. You could not get access to proper palliative care anywhere in India during this time never mind morphine and definitely not in a hospice that was created specifically for the sick and homeless and diseases. And Teresa actually gave the drugs she could get hold of - . right? Hitchens is untrustworthy and is a terrible journalist and a Trotskyist during this period of time. But he eventually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire which is beyond ironic!!
Just to let you know Im being SHADOW BANNED so I will post some of my responses, that’s if you’re genuinely interested in truth, at the beginning of this post to no one in particular. So you have the choice to read it or not and I can’t be accused of bullying or badgering anyone - ok Because UA-cam and the left wing THOUGHT POLICE are constantly deleting my comments if I respond to anyone and accuse me of “HATE” speech. Particularly when I critique atheist Marxism, communism or Islam!! So look out for my comments at the top of this post if you’re genuinely interested in truth.
@@idontcareaboutyourfeelingsok With regard to money and the accusations of Teresa mixing with criminals…For instance, Christopher Hitchens book starts off talking about a photo that exists of MT with Michele Duvalier. And the Duvaliers are bad. And there she is, right there in the photo with one of them. And they're holding hands and looking at each other. Right there in that photo. With the bad woman. And she's smiling. And she doesn't deny it. And therefore MT is clearly a criminal and a horrible person, the worst kind of person, and it's totally obvious. Bloody Hell shook hands with thousands of people and was photographed with all sorts of characters - right? So what? Hitchens goes on for pages and pages with total b…. Sht like this, and it's lapped up by his Trotskyist fan base and is a very very tedious read. He also weirdly makes Mother Teresa out to be this horrible and fanatical little woman and mocks her celibacy in a demeaning way because she takes Christian stances, like being anti-abortion. Really? The missionary Christian nun buys into the Church's position on abortion? Shocking! Or not. It's also apparently her fault that people claim that she performed miracles that she NEVER EVER ONCE CLAIMED to have performed - right? I mean, he's bashing her because the Church sainted her and he thinks her miracles were a sham. Yet, he's not just an an atheist, he’s an anti theist- yes? which means that he thinks all miracles and saints are a sham. Why is MT somehow worse than the rest? It’s a personal attack because she’s an easy target. He's also fixated on her forgiving people, questioning by whose authority she forgives, and what right does she have to forgive, and no one asked her for forgiveness - right? As if each of us doesn't have the RIGHT to forgive others in our own way for the slights and errors we perceive in them. The only semi-valid points Hitchens makes are that she might have spent the money that was donated to her in a more constructive way, and that she took money that maybe she shouldn't have taken, or that she should have returned. But he doesn't even do a good job validating those positions.
Ataturk - the man who dragged Türkiye out of the dark ages in the early part of the twentieth century, said, "I wish all religions were at the bottom of the sea."
I didn’t find out about this man until 2024, he was very eloquent and well spoken. I wish he was still with us.
we (#2Spirit here) would like to highlight that #spirituality knows absolutely no organized religion
New Age Spirituality operating from within the confines of the Bible…
that’s not Spirituality
they can not see what they are
#usa
edit: we are #indigenous to Europe 🏹 in culture
for us on our code 🧐 repeating 11s is Ego
we tried to tell them what money manifests but they crucify nonbinary ppl like ourselves
it’s cultural
edit x 2: Atlas on 444… indigenous folk know who is on 🎰
the Night sky told us google how far the Pleiades are they’re Atlas’ daughters
a bit late to the party but on the bright side you have a lot of great stuff still ahead of you
Watch his debates with William Lane Craig and John Lennox. Hitchens gets destroyed.
@@TBOTSS I agree he wasn’t at his most eloquent in the Craig debate, but he was in no way destroyed, because Craigs case is fundamentally not solid and has been debunked, notably by actual physicists time and again. It’s just not interesting. The default position is the default position and not only has religion not met it’s burden of proof, it also fails to present itself as a plausible hypothesis. Craig is much ado about nothing. Lennox is even more lost in his own presuppositions. It’s super dated stuff at this point.
If you haven't already done so, do yourself the enormous favor of watching Christopher and Stephen Fry oppose the question "The Catholic Church is a Force for Good" in the youtube video which you can search for under that exact title. It is a brilliant deconstruction of Catholic practice and theology showing both men at, what is in my opinion, their very best. While the first watching is an unparalleled joy, I have found that subsequent viewings only deepen my respect for their unalloyed gifts.
Imagine how wonderful the world would be without religion 😔
Humans probably needed it once but not anymore
@@Popirnot yes ancient people who knew nothing about the world and science..
...and Atheists.
@gabrielleangelica1977 Oh nooo imagine a world where people do not believe in magic, horrible.
@@gabrielleangelica1977 A world like that wouldn’t make any sense. A world where religion doesn’t exist but people still believe? Ig everyone just believes in their own delusions then.
Government NEEDS to take away Tax Exemption status for religion. Religion NEEDS to start teaching Truth instead of scare tactics.
It needs to be lead by an outgoing group of officials, not at risk of reelection
No, religion does teach truth, NOT scare tactics.
Government needs religion. They share the same bed.
@@TheMilitantMazdakite Yea, really? Which religion?
@@TheMilitantMazdakite Going to hell for the "original sin" is not a scare tactic? I've seen no evidence for hell, satan, or a god so allowing a 2000 year old book to scare me would be pathetic.
Christopher never fails to excite and impress me.
That doesn't reflect too well on you.
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Says an idiot@@Thagomizer
@@ThagomizerLMFAO!
Awww. He hurt your feels for jesus?
Grow up.
There is no god.
@@ljramirez William Lane Craig and John Lennox hurt Christopher Hitchens' feelings for sure.
I wish Hitch was alive today.
Lets keep his work up and/or follow his legacy
@@AntitheistHuman well said
And Carl Sagan! ❤
yes he is sadly missed and very sorely needed
Amidst this scourge of islamism, very dearly.
Nearly 13 years after his untimely death, I and thousands of people, listen to this man, the Late Great Christopher Hitchens, and mourn the loss to Humanity & Secularism. His Brilliance, articulateness, clarity of thought, and erudition are all beyond description. I, for one, can never have enough of Hitchens' oratorical abilities and brand of victorious Atheism, and that, even though I've been an Atheist for many years. Thanks for uploading this video.
Thank you for teaching me a new word today "erudition"
@@Dime_time333 You're welcome. Anytime.
That was CRINGE ATHEISM in full effect. Furthermore, the irony and the absurdity is that it’s common knowledge that in the end Christopher Hitchens actually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire…in Hitchens own words…
“The crucial thing is to be willing and able, if not in fact eager, to
l< I L L them without pity before they get started.” (Christopher Hitchens).
It's that last phrase that's particularly chilling. Reference: ('The Age' 5th September 2002):
@@georgedoyle2487 I sincerely appreciate your tough words. Fair enough, even though I as a former lefttist, disagree with your views. If he was here today he'd be delighted to field your criticism and rebut your points.
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It speaks volumes that Christopher Hitchens brother didn’t fall for Christophers rhetoric and straw man attacks on religious expression and was not so easily impressed by Christophers posh British accent as Peter Hitchens was a thoughtful and assertive English educated debater himself.
Moreover, Peter Hitchens eventually totally rejected his decades of atheism as a Godless Trotskyist and despite still being a contrarian he actually became a follower of Christ and has now found a sense of peace he never had before - yes? Which is beyond ironic!!
Moreover, this quote from Christopher Hitchens after being asked about his friendship with the Christian Larry Taunton during a long road trip with him speaks volumes and demonstrates that Christopher Hitchens was teetering on the edge of rejecting the left wing THOUGHT POLICE himself.....
According to Christopher Hitchens assessment of the Christian Larry Taunton…
“If everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and care and concern for others that Larry Taunton has, we’d be living in a much better society than we do.” (Christopher Hitchens).
Hitchens was actually a FRAUD as he had very positive relationships with Christians behind the scenes - right?
Equally, this quote from Hitchens praising the Christian Doctor, who tried to save his life Dr Francis Collins, actually speaks volumes about Hitchens private persona versus his stage persona that earned him a lot of money...
His cult followers get very triggered when you point out the fact that Hitchens secretly had Christian tendencies and he was even anti abortion!! According to Hitchens…
“Thanks to the wonderful American, Dr. Francis Collins, who's the head of the National Institute of Health, which includes the National Cancer Institute who did the human genome project, this, you know, ahead of time and under budget, a marvelous scientific achievement. He and I have met because we're opposite sides of the religion debate, we became friends that way. He's a very convinced Christian and we've become friendly debaters and he's taken a very kindly interest in my case and has helped me have my genomes sequenced because I'm trying to look for a more perfect identifiable match for an imitation they can find that's peculiar to me.” (Christopher Hitchens).
The brilliant Dr Francis Collins worked relentlessly to try and save Hitchens life and Francis Collins was a Christian and Hitchens friend. Hitchens was a fraud and secretly doubted his atheism and clearly had Christian tendencies and sympathies!! Obviously being a contrarian he would have struggled to admit this publicly!!
Hitchens was and still is today a great asset of our civilsation. He continues to live in all of us who admire him and who, like myself, propagate his views and teachings to others.
There will never be another Hitch yet the world need millions like him.
Hitchens is now reincarnated as Alex O'Connor
Hitchens had studied the Bible more than the people who follow its orders
Imagine where we would be today, if science hadnt had 1000 years of religious oppression.......
Science started as Christian theology. It did not start in the Far East, Africa or India. What is your point?
@@TBOTSS what's your point actually?
Are you saying Christians are originator of science? If yes then sorry because we all know what happened copernicus and Galileo.
@@TBOTSS Originator of modern science were primarily diests
@@TBOTSS No, science started with Ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy, and ever since then, science has continued to advance in SPITE of Christianity, not because of it.
@@itsoblivion8124 What historian of science would disagree with me?
Words of wisdom indeed!! Is there anyone today like this?
Aron Ra
Douglas Murray
@campfireaddict6417 he's not as nice and well spoken, in my opinion
@@Popirnotand half as intelligent!
Sam Harris
I got plenty of pushback (and support) on another channel for this comment but here goes: "Morality does not require religion"
Then where would it come from? Where would we instinctively get these morals?
@evoryann I don't know and that's the only right answer as of now "I don't know" thats it
@@evoryannFrom the same place our morals have always come from: Our parents, society, and our innate sense of empathy.
@@evoryann Someone clutches their chest and collapses next to you. Do you need to consult a holy text before you help them?
I'd hope not. Basic morality is instinctive in social beings that have been raised socially. We help each other because we identify with each other. Because when we see someone in pain, we feel pain.
People without empathy are damaged.
We could absolutely use Mr. Hitchens in this day and age. He is a hero of mine and he was the person who opened my eyes to the fallacy and massive contradictions of christianity. His insights, his wisdom, along with his exquisite use of language and his abilities with the written word, and his sheer eloquence in speeches, debates, and lectures were nothing short of genius.
Thank heavens we can still listen to the brilliant & rare man despite his passing. We need to listen to these podcasts over & over. What an intellect! Few can even compare.
Amen to that.
I have NEVER come across someone who speaks so eloquently exactly what it is I am thinking. I agree with 99.9%
He only seems to be a genius because you happen to agree with him. If you don't, his argument is still eloquent, but his views are incredibly facile.
@@Thagomizer i could say the same about theists
@@Thagomizer yeah it has nothing to do with his lifelong long accomplishments, his incredible choice of words, thought process and ability to breakdown stupid ideas so simply. Remember you’re the one watching his UA-cam video. Who’s the genius now?
@@Thagomizercan't stand that he's right?
There is no god.
Grow up.
Which begs the question, what is that 0.1% you disagree with?
I love how Turek tried to interrupt with one of his idiotic questions, and Hitchens refused to let him.
But he ain’t alive. And if he could talk to you now he would tell you he was all wrong. Believe it.
@@gwarren6386Shut. The. Fuck. Up and open it again when you have proof
Hou have no way of knowing that.@@gwarren6386
Turek is just angry because he argues from a basis of belief and feeling where hirchens argjes from fact and logical deduction.
@@gwarren6386 Except nobody has ever been able to provide the slightest piece of evidence for the supernatural whatsoever. There is not one single thing you can point to that shows that god exists.
How badly we need him today!
Why? He never wrote anything noteworthy and he was facile!
It speaks volumes that Hitchens book “GOD IS NOT GREAT” claims a status as a Number 1 Bestseller when its total sales to date only add up to about 500,000 - right?
In contrast published estimates put sales of the Christian Bible at 50 per minute. Not bad considering the authors are allegedly nothing more substantive than Bronze Age goat herders right? Total all-time Christian Bible sales are estimated in the billions!! Not to mention the billions that are given away for free. The Foreign Bible Society in 2021 estimated that the total number probably lies between 5 and 7 billion copies. Not bad for so called illiterate Bronze Age goat herders who lived thousands of years ago with very little access to libraries and technology right? In contrast Hitchen's tedious book actually goes on and on relentlessly about the same thing for 296 pages with a grand total of about 50 source citations. Which means that his “evidence”
and citations to support his list of half truths and factual errors are flimsy to say the least.
Which basically means that for approximately 290 pages we’re stuck with Ayatollah Hitchens and Ayatollah Hitchens alone. He was unbelievably sophomoric and a bore!! Hardly anyone in England even knows who he is!!
Long live the legend of the mighty Hitch!!!
@gabrielangelica
Most of the popes are dead, too. Your point?
@@jimmyboy95 I'm not Catholic. Hitch was nothing but a belligerent drunk. Now he's gone.
@@jimmyboy95So is his nasty attitude and alcoholism.
@@gabrielleangelica1977yet the vatican is still depply corrupt
@@Makarosc Like many governments. Is Christianity the only religion you know? You haven't even read the whole Bible. Yes, Atheism has become a cult of the belligerent walking wounded.
His grasp of these crucial issues of humanity, his superior analytical abilties, his massive competence in the use of the English language and his fearlessness in expressing his views and challenging those of others make him one of the most powerful intellectuals of the past 100 years, if not, 1000 years.
Fear of death drives sane people to religion. Get over it and enjoy your life, and become a positivity
First of all, that's not your idea. That's a thought of freud. Secondly, people fear death, whether they're religious or not. But let me ask you this if people were gonna get together to create a religion to help them with their fear of death. Do you think they would add in the whole? You're gonna burn for returnity unless you do everything right? Probably not because that doesn't sound too comforting. I think atheist in their heart do believe but they've talked themselves out of it. Because it's a scary thought to know that what they do. Matters and that they might have to answer for something. And it also gives you a good justification to not have to do anything because Hey, nothing matters, if there's no higher mean or higher power. This is it than why not just do anything.. You seem to hold dear. Some of the early moral commandments from the bible like show that steel. And I doubt you're Jewish but. I guarantee if someone still something for you. You would have a reaction claim. It's a moral and not like it. 50 out your wife was having an affair. I bet you wouldn't like that either. Well, why is that? Why is that immoral? Were you getting this concept of moral at just your opinion? But yeah, every human being has that in them Stop eating such a simpleton and think about it longer than five minutes Because a lot of Christians are not scared to die at all. But many non-believers in atheists are scared today, which makes no sense. Because it doesn't matter, you just go away. You're gone so the rational logical thing to do would be just to end at all. Why not if the nothing matters. You can say you believe things like that. But that I guarantee you do not live your life like that. Guaranteed it, you get up. You have goals. You do things, why do you do that? When people say you have potential. What the hell is that mean? Is that some kind of physical material. People actually live a lot different than they say You just don't wanna be judged or ever told it something you're doing is wrong and nobody does. And I haven't even touched the design argument of the planet in people. It's so overwhelming to walk away after learning these things and thinking. There's no creator is either complete total ignorance. Or will for wilful blindness. There's not one thing in your life that you look at or you cannot tell. It was designed from your iPhone to t. V to your car to buildings. Anything. We take it for granted, but we don't need to meet designer. But we know it was designed and yet you look at the most complex thing that exists the human body the brain. The fact that we can reproduce. Make babies the planet is perfectly calibrated for life. You can believe all these things are accidents. If you want to, but that's actually mathematically impossible. So at that point it's more reasonable to believe that there was a creator than to not believe. There's way more evidence and at that point it's just denial. And by the way, you can stop making accusations about what this church or that church did because number one every single institution is corrupt. Some degree and number 2. You've probably never been in a church. Or entire life
Yeah, that's
Freud idea Hypothesis, maybe some people, but that is not really true. Number one, if you're scared of death, why would you make up a religion? That's supposed to make you feel better about death while at the same time. If you don't do things right. You're gonna burn in-hell for eternity? That doesn't really seem to be something to make you feel better. Plus a lot of faith-based people are not even scared today. Anyways To say those beliefs are only based off. Fear of dying is way to simplistic. And just not true. However I do love freud
Atheist type, people like to use that to discredit religion. In faith, that's just a freud idea in it's not yours
Sigmund Freud was an atheist. Anyways, so I think you gotta take that into consideration. That's actually why him and carl young ended up separated Because carl uniders some of his philosophy from elements of christianity, at least Maybe he came up with that theory when he was doing tons of cocaine. He was brilliant
Very very weak hypothesis
I also wish he was still alive. Such a wonderful speaker. With a way to reach anyone. Understandable. Hard to argue with the points he has made available. Changing the way so many of see through the smoke screens. Genius.
Hitchen: religion is poison
Religion: you poisoned yourself, bruh, too much smoking and drinking
Nope!! He was a snob and he was facile!! He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
I miss him so much. We desperately need him in this day and age. I doubt there will be another man like him. RIP Christopher
Oh the irony!! Erm… under atheistic, materialistic premises Hitchens doesn’t even exist- right?
Oh the irony. Erm… under atheistic, materialistic premises he doesn’t even exist- right?
People laughed at many things Hitch said especially when he talked about a “Devine North Korea” but there couldn’t be a more real or more serious topic to talk about on Earth! If there is God who created us why did he make many of the most awful painful or disturbing things hilarious to us? God is either an Asshole or a Comedian or Both!
They laugh not because it’s funny, but to defuse the tension and discomfort of the cognitive dissonance borne of the realization that this is true and their beliefs are indeed absurd cruelties.
The laughter puts enough distance between them and this realization to allow them to digest the idea without actually accepting it.
POW!
A fine compilation of Hitch-slaps indeed.
And I don't understand how religious people seeing this still remain religious. Boggles my mind
@@AntitheistHumanThe brainwashing sometimes runs tragically and borderline unalterably deep
@@arthurfleck629 And subsequently more difficult to overcome with age.
@@ominous-omnipresent-they Fact. I’m an atheist in my teen years. I have no clue how my parents can believe these fairy tales. But they’ve been forced to believe in it since childhood or get ostracized.
When I move out I’ll reveal I’m an Atheist. If they hate me, it’s whatever, they’re already toxic to me, now they’d just not have any control over my life, so I won’t be forced to go to church and such.
Really well edited and put together. Well done
RIP Hitch
How do you not miss this man? 👏🏼👏🏼
I’ve seen this video at least 20 times and always enjoy it more each time. It’s a shame we will never get any more new material from him. RIP
20 times? Cringe atheism in full effect!!
His use of language and wit was amazing. It is not always easy to stand up against the religious mob but he inspires people to do so.
He had an incredible way of speaking without pause. And his knowledge of religions' texts was greater than most theists who follow such texts.
I miss Christopher Hitchens so much.
He doesn’t even exist according to atheistic premises..
Logic is an illusion [Nietzsche].
Brilliant man
He was wonderful.
But not as wonderful as William Lane Craig and John Lennox.
@@TBOTSSwhy are you looking up atheist speakers just to spread your bs? No one here is gonna listen... try it on little kids theyll believe you
@@TBOTSS I'm sure Hitchens was far more intelligent. And wonderful.
Thousands of gods only one Christopher Hitchens. Twelve years since Christopher passed and no sign of the brilliance we once had with Christopher Hitchens!
I wish I could go back in time and tell him, take care of yourself. We need you.
Really you really think you need christopher hitchins What is it that he said that was so enlightening and life changing. Nothing he just told you what you wanted to believe. But I have to admit I feel the same way about Charles Manson. I think we need him back to
CULT THINK anyone?
Sorry to break it to you but the irony and the absurdity is that it’s common knowledge that in the end Christopher Hitchens actually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire…in Hitchens own words…”The crucial thing is to be willing and able, if not in fact eager, to
l< I L L them without pity before they get started.” (Christopher Hitchens). It's that last phrase that's particularly chilling.
Reference: ('The Age' 5th September 2002): Sorry but the belief that Hitchens was this pure person and secular SAINT who never told lies is a myth. He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
Religious peace : is like asking two little children to decide and agree on who’s ’imaginary’ friend is the best, it’s never going to happen .
Wow, another straw man argument. You guys need to get the money back from your university that you went to
Look up straw man argument and appeal to ridicule fallacy!!
Fact is that under this materialistic, causally closed, atheistic, fan fiction “you” and your very ironic “IMAGINARY FRIEND” argument has no more “TRUTH” value than leaves blowing in the wind!! The ELEPHANT in the room is that under a strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism “you”, the leaves and your very ironic “IMAGINARY FRIEND” argument are destined for the same place [THE FERTILISER PIT/THE GRAVE/THE ROTTING SH…T PILE/THE VOID]
Fabulously analytical and so truthful !!!
A small reminder of what we have lost in his passing. Unfortunately we’re left with his brother…
Thanks to technology, Hitch will be among us for a long time.
Hitch is one of my heroes. Witty, articulate. logical and undebatable.
He doesn’t even exist according to atheistic premises..
Logic is an illusion [Nietzsche].
Sorry to break it to you but the irony and the absurdity is that it’s common knowledge that in the end Christopher Hitchens actually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire…in Hitchens own words…”The crucial thing is to be willing and able, if not in fact eager, to
l< I L L them without pity before they get started.” (Christopher Hitchens). It's that last phrase that's particularly chilling.
Reference: ('The Age' 5th September 2002): Sorry but the belief that Hitchens was this pure person and secular SAINT who never told lies is a myth. He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
Sorry to break it to you but the irony and the absurdity is that it’s common knowledge that in the end Christopher Hitchens actually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire…in Hitchens own words…”The crucial thing is to be willing and able, if not in fact eager, to
l< I L L them without pity before they get started.” (Christopher Hitchens). It's that last phrase that's particularly chilling.
Reference: ('The Age' 5th September 2002): Sorry but the belief that Hitchens was this pure person and secular SAINT who never told lies is a myth. He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
Sorry to break it to you but the irony and the absurdity is that it’s common knowledge that in the end Christopher Hitchens actually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire…in Hitchens own words…”The crucial thing is to be willing and able, if not in fact eager, to
l< I L L them without pity before they get started.” (Christopher Hitchens). It's that last phrase that's particularly chilling.
Reference: ('The Age' 5th September 2002): Sorry but the belief that Hitchens was this pure person and secular SAINT who never told lies is a myth. He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right.
Glad this vid is back
Brilliant man who spoke the truth and opened the eyes of many. If he's wrong, he'll have a lot of explaining to do. A true legend. 😊
After dying is no life. No one to explane to. Hitchens is right.
If he's wrong then whoever judges him has a lot of explaining to do. But he is not wrong.
Nope!! He was a snob and he was facile!! He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
Thank you for your profoundly resolute committment to exposing the abject sociopathic and deeply maniacal aspects of religious imposed thinking on a person and a population good Sir Hitchens!
Please watch and share with others my five brief videos in which I present examples of scientific facts contained in the Bible, facts that the writers thousands of years ago could not have been aware of without divine knowledge given to them by Jesus Christ / The God of the Bible. And today's scientists agree with those facts!
@@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 a broken clock will accidently be correct twice a day... your argument is built on a story... nothing more. A story of an invisible sociopathic man who lives in the sky and punished beings he created broken and then commanded to become well and worship him eternally.
The story and those who choose to believe in it, are unwell.
Love it. Keep them coming. I feel like we're living in the twilight zone and I'm the only one who realizes it
I cant believe I EVER fell for the evil story of convincing humanity they are less than they are, thet we are flawed at birth. What a BIG CON upon humanity. I keep an open mind and think for thyself and say loud and clear. ' I am not a sinner, I've NEVER been a sinner nor will I choose to be a sinner!
So you chose the one that says that man is absolutely nothing, a miserable speck of dust in a universe and man is entirely alone as he must bear the weight of everything on his miserableness? Can you see how this vision is much worse than the previous one?
@@juanranger4214 don't try putting words into someone's mouths or thoughts...Very manipulative of you....Can you see you only commented to try and make him or her look like an empty ,miserable human being whose life has no purpose?
@@juanranger4214
How is living according to a caveman's fairytale, better?
@@rimbusjift7575 Pondering the concept of a creator actually takes a level of emotional intelligence that, let's be honest, most people these days are lacking
@@rimbusjift7575 it is not a fairytale, God does exist and He is our Father. Here is the evidence that you are looking for: someone to pray to God for something to happen (this someone can be you) and said something does happen. Like Einstein got out of the lab in a step of faith to see if his calculations were correct, do the same: by faith, call to God for a sign, a dream and ask Him to reveal himself to you. I did this and he led me to the name of Jesus Christ and called Him “my son”.
Every single religious person who has ever tried to debate with Christopher Hitchens has failed miserably.
Lol ya ok, until he has to answer a hard question. How about you think for yourself instead of adopting Hitchens ideas as your own .
Nope!! Stop lying!! The Oxford professor John Lennox beat Christopher Hitchens in a debate quite thoroughly. Christopher Hitchens even admitted that he lost and John Lennox won very gracefully without any of this facile triumphalism you see in this echo chamber!!
@@georgedoyle2487 I watched that debate. Do you really think he won? I thought Christopher Hitchens made a fool of him through most of it.
@@taylorspringer
“I thought Christopher Hitchens made a fool of him”
Oh the irony!! Sorry but “MADE A FOOL OF HIM” according to who? or what absolute, universal, objective standard of measure exactly?
“MADE A FOOL OF HIM” according to the standard of an overgrown amoeba with illusions of grandeur? Or “MADE A FOOL OF HIM” according to nothing more substantive than the delusions of an ULTIMATELY MEANINGLESS, HOLLOW AND SOULLESS APE who shares half their DNA with a POTATO?
Your worldview, your absurdity, Your ULTIMATELY MEANINGLESS, HOLLOW AND SOULLESS APE, your existential crisis, your epistemological crisis not the theists - right?
There’s still hope though because perhaps Hitchens “MADE A FOOL OF HIM” according to nothing more substantive than the standard of the blind, mindless, ultimately meaningless, accidental arrangement of [random atoms] and [brain chemicals] creating the illusion of stable patterns and regularities - yes?
Your worldview, your absurdity, your ULTIMATELY MEANINGLESS, HOLLOW AND SOULLESS APE, your existential crisis and your epistemological crisis not the theists!!
There’s still hope though because perhaps Hitchens “MADE A FOOL OF HIM” according to nothing more substantive than [brain fizz] creating the illusion of stable patterns and regularities?
That is nothing more substantive than the science project of vinegar and baking soda accidentally bubbling over!! Nothing more substantive than the blind, mindless, ultimately meaningless accidental arrangement of POND SLIME evolved to an allegedly “HIGHER” order - right?
Your worldview, your absurdity, your ULTIMATELY MEANINGLESS, HOLLOW AND SOULLESS APE, your existential crisis, your epistemological crisis not the theists!!
I mean, everyone has a right to believe what they want and everyone including theists have a right to find it totally ridiculous, totally fatalistic, totally nihilistic and totally and utterly self refuting!! Prove me wrong? I’ll wait!!
@@jamieshannon9019adopting others ideas as your own? That’s quite literally what religion is 😂😂😂😂😂
Great video. You nailed it.
Damn one of the best videos on the internet.
Thank you. Truly A cwime to humanity. My father left the seminary before being ordained as a catholic priest. Sadly I am very grateful for his early death that allowed me to heal the indescribable damage he did to his family, particularly to my mother and me against whom he turned his hatred of women.
We need today Christopher Hitchens and George Carlin!
He had a quick wit and a way with words. Christopher Hitchens and his intellect will be missed.
He wasn’t that special he was snobbish and facile and LIED about mother Teresa!!
Ive seen every debate and lecture that mr.Hitchens has done . There was never an intelligent arguement against what he said. Ever !
I bet you’re a blast at Christenings, birthday parties, and especially at golden wedding anniversaries and especially at funerals!!
At least be a consistent strictly reductive materialist, atheist or philosophical naturalist because according to the greatest atheist thinkers who ever lived with possibly the highest IQs…
Logic is an illusion (Nietzsche)
“Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”
- (Nietzsche, Reference from: On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense).
“Should I kill myself?” is the essential philosophical question.” (Albert Camus).
Merry chap but at least he’s “logically” consistent with his strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism - right?
Life is an “horror” and “truth” is “illusory”. (Nietzsche)
Moreover, according to the prominent atheist Foucault…
“Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent.” (Foucault).
Imagine telling all of these little stories to someone as a Christmas bed time story!! And you mock our beliefs!!
I bet you’re a blast at Christenings, birthday parties, and especially at golden wedding anniversaries and especially at funerals!!
At least be a consistent strictly reductive materialist, atheist or philosophical naturalist because according to the greatest atheist thinkers who ever lived with possibly the highest IQs…
Logic is an illusion (Nietzsche)
“Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”
- (Nietzsche, Reference from: On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense).
“Should I kill myself?” is the essential philosophical question.” (Albert Camus). Merry chap but at least he’s “logically” consistent with his strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism - right? Life is an “horror” and “truth” is “illusory”. (Nietzsche). Moreover, according to the prominent atheist Foucault…
“Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent.” (Foucault). Imagine telling all of these little stories to someone as a Christmas bed time story!! And you mock our beliefs!!
I bet you’re a blast at Christenings, birthday parties, and especially at golden wedding anniversaries and especially at funerals!!
At least be a consistent strictly reductive materialist, atheist or philosophical naturalist because according to the greatest atheist thinkers who ever lived with possibly the highest IQs…
Logic is an illusion (Nietzsche)
“Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”
- (Nietzsche, Reference from: On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense).
“Should I kill myself?” is the essential philosophical question.” (Albert Camus). Merry chap but at least he’s “logically” consistent with his strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism - right? Life is an “horror” and “truth” is “illusory”. (Nietzsche). Moreover, according to the prominent atheist Foucault…
“Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent.” (Foucault). Imagine telling all of these little stories to someone as a Christmas bed time story!! And you mock our beliefs!!
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Very well put together. I think The Hitch would be happy with that summary. I'm sure he's smiling in heaven. 😮
I am so thankful that i am heating this man..
To Quote .." If you want good people to do wicked things, you will need religion
..
What a sentence....
I wish i had heard of this guy before 3 days ago...
He is the most sense speaking man i have ever heard
They were never that good.
He isn't against the church, we simply quotes facts
He is definitely against the church.
We must keep Christopher Hutchings words alive
A great speaker, journalist, and author. RIP Mr. Hitchens. Thank you for your wit and courage. I am a proud but humble atheist.
i miss christopher hitchens very much. He was wise and spoke so dearly to my heart
Can you just imagine what Hitch would’ve said about Trump? The way evangelicals support him……. I wish Hitch were still here!
Hitch would wipe the floor & ceiling with DT.
So the Bidens are the picture of morality. And joining nato,urging Ukraine to join as well so we can put weapons on Russia's borders, forcing them to react is cool, oh most Americans dont know that cause the major news spinned it another way, awesome? Big countries like them and us won't allow weapons on their borders. We was about to do the same thing over the Cuba missile crisis if they didn't stop. Oh, do you think out borders should be wide open for anyone to come in? Do you know the problems millions of illegal immigrants in all our states is causing? And the mind-boggling amounts of money we are spending just on these two issues I've raised? We're broke. If you think it's OK, just go to a major city and invite a bunch to your home and quit locking your doors. Would you do that? Well, that's what our country is doing. I don't like Trump either but he's is the best choice for the country, if you actually vote what's best for the country or do you vote for who you like better and screw the country. The hell with the country, I'd rather have someone that supports a pride parade down main st.😅
@@georgedoyle2487 Not the MAGA-right. And not with right wing crap like women’s bodily autonomy, democracy and so many others
The fact is that after 9/11 and Bosnia and after the threats to Rushdie Christopher Hitchens main conclusions were that religion, and specifically Islam, was an underestimated force for dominance and evil in world affairs. He also concluded that the US empire could be a countervailing force for good, but that the left had become so detached from any international working-class movement it was incapable of challenging capitalism and Islam, and was on the wrong side of history - right?
I think Christopher Hitchens may have been partly right because the left wing THOUGHT POLICE are spineless when it comes to speaking out against Islamic sharia law being imposed in England. Something that has been demonstrated at speakers corner where it is actually Christians that are working like Trojans and actually risking their lives to turn Muslims away from backwards thinking sharia law, Arabisation and Islamic religious apartheid!! [see Bob at speakers corner, Soco films]
Mr hitchens made more sense about morals than any preacher ive ever heard.
Hopefully one day religion wont exist it benefits noone.
Where does he get this idea of morals? In a world of randomness there are no morals just opinions. It's not like morals are material so how did they evolve? If there's no God anything goes. Your morals and the nazis morals were quite different. I guess they evolved differently out of nothing . It's a ridiculous premise for anyone who thinks for themselves for 5 min.
I follow the Ten Commandments of Christopher Hitchens. They make more sense to me than the Ten in the Bible.
Its very simple. God was created by mankind not the other way around
Nope!! Look up Genetic fallacy!! Be better!!
Mother Teresa was a despicable human being though..
She was a selfish, sadistic Monster who let people suffer on purpose even though she had the resources to help them.
True. Mother Teresa, Torture Teresa, Narcissist Teresa, Lier Teresa,
is actually the same person. But no prob, the sectarians, have their, "good and have" Jesus, who in a disturbing way, take all their blame.
Got any actual evidence that mother Teresa was “Despicable” beyond Hitchens very flimsy pamphlet “THE MISSIONARY POSITION”? I’ll wait!!
@@slcncrright
god makes her into a devil
@@banjogebright
I wasn't familiar with the "Who wants this to be true?" argument. It's stunning how it turns the "benefit" of religion on its head (because people believe what they want to be true, not what they discover to be true through honest examination) and shows that Christianity is so bad that it's a character flaw to even wish it were true.
Nope!! You’re in la la land. Hitchens wasn’t that special he was snobbish and facile and LIED about religious expression and mother Teresa!!
Spending an infinite future in heaven with christians would be hell, for me.
why?
@@Doc-Holliday1851 Seriously?
@@anothermike4825 yeah seriously. Why do you think it would be obvious?
@@Doc-Holliday1851 christians are an uneducated and judgmental group. Most are governed by fear or anger. I should know better than to think christians can self-judge how others might see them.
There is no HATRED like left wing so called “liberal” atheistic love for their fellow man!!
I feel the world became less enlightened when Hitch passed.
Nope!! He was a snob and he was facile!! He told a pack LIES about mother Teresa and went from the left over to the right. The fact is that anyone who seriously believes that a book title the “God Delusion” or a book title “How Religion Poisons Everything” is a thoughtful and “rational” examination of religious expression as a phenomenon really doesn't have much of a grip on reality!!
Thanks for sharing 👍
Can anyone fill this void? Hitchens was so insightful and articulate. What a great human.
Yes!! Anyone could fill his “VOID”. He wasn’t that special he was snobbish and facile and LIED about mother Teresa!!
A lot of things about Christianity confuse me. I struggle with them, religiously. I don't know why God had to send himself to save us from himself. But I do know one thing: Jesus never walked on water - unless it was frozen.
You should watch what Hitchens said about the allegedly virgin birth.
You should watch what Hitch said about mother theresa. I refuse to capitalize that criminal's name.
You know nothing under atheism. Fact is that under this materialistic, causally closed, atheistic, fan fiction “you” and your claim to the “MORALLY COURAGEOUS” high ground has no more “TRUTH” value than leaves blowing in the wind!! The ELEPHANT in the room is that under a strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism “you”, the leaves and your very ironic whining about having a “HONEST CONVERSATION” are destined for the same place [THE FERTILISER PIT/THE GRAVE/THE ROTTING SH…T PILE/THE VOID]
@@campfireaddict6417
I didn’t know mother Teresa was tried and convicted under court of law. Do you mind sending me your sources? I’ll wait!!
Very well said, Christopher. I hate religion too
If Hitchins does not believe in God, would reason to believe he doesn't believe in the Bible either. So what is the point of reading the Bible and critique it when at the end of it? He's just gonna say. I don't believe it. There was absolutely no point in that.
Could you IMAGINE the tongue lashing our government in the US would get if Christopher were with us today? Ain't enough popcorn in the world for that show.
Wow! So much clearly expressed thinking in 10 minutes and 19 seconds!
Nope! More like how to be unbelievably facile in 10 minutes about people who just don’t happen to share your naive empiricist world view!!
Very eloquent indeed.
I'm a Muslim myself but I have a great respect for atheists.
I like the way they honestly, to the best of their abilities, challenge the status quo, and attack ignorance with reason.
There's a lot I disagree about but I admire the dare to speak and refusal of blind faith.
Spirituality can be a beautiful thing. Organized religion has always been and always will be corrupted. When pushed or forced on to people it’s evil.
After listening to this great man, I can say with certainty: Thank God I'm an atheist
The fact is that most atheists/relativists are just believers who are hopeless at it!! It speaks volumes that if even the most devout militant atheist was startled in some way he or she would exclaim “Oh, my god!!” instead of “Oh, my cosmic accident!!” or “Oh my pond slime evolved to a higher order!! or “Oh, my overgrown amoeba with illusions of grandeur” or “Oh my brains user illusion of self” or even “Oh my Nietzsche, oh my Bertrand Russell or Oh my Hitchens!!”
The list of the gods of relativism goes on!!
Oh my Hitch 🙏❤️
God I miss this man!
God 😆
Don't say God you miss him because he doesn't believe in God. He might be offended
Freudian slip because everyone knows what is ultimate and personal/God exists really!! It’s all ultimately meaningless word games from atheists. You’ll find out one day!!
The fact is that most atheists/relativists are just believers who are hopeless at it!! It speaks volumes that if even the most devout militant atheist was startled in some way he or she would exclaim “Oh, my god!!” instead of “Oh, my cosmic accident!!” or “Oh my pond slime evolved to a higher order!! or “Oh, my overgrown amoeba with illusions of grandeur” or “Oh my brains user illusion of self” or even “Oh my Nietzsche, oh my Bertrand Russell or Oh my Hitchens!!”
The list of the gods of relativism goes on!!
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Yes the only way to really honour this person is in the way you lead your own life.
Where did all his “Best Bits” compilation videos go? There used to be part 1, 2 etc. I miss watching them.
I came to realise that a lot of people on the planet need religion because they lack the intellectual capacity to deal with life in another way. Thinking for yourself is no easy task and believing is so much easier.
1) Some-thing can only come into existence out of a state of no-thing. Otherwise some-thing couldn’t be anything else than every-thing. The state of no-thing on the other hand has the potential to manifest every-thing. Therefore, some-thing and no-thing are of equal value. Not surprisingly the same result is obtained in mathematics but I prefer my own thought via a philosophical approach. Thinking for yourself has proven to be a great way to keep devils, angels, goblins, leprechauns and god(s) at a distance, but that aside.
2) There are good reasons to compare the coming into existence of universes with something we all enjoyably know: ejaculations. Most spermatozoa are destined for the drain and only one amongst the million losses viable. We are living in one of the universes viable for life, probably amongst many failed or disabled universes; hence the absolutely not miraculous fine tuning of our cosmic surroundings. We’re lucky and we are translating our luck, a very common human characteristic, into pride, prejudice and the preposterous idea that a super being is overseeing each of us and sad or happy depending on the position of our hands above or below the sheets.
3) So, the absolute beginning from the very first universe must have started from a very fine tilting point in a state where there was no difference between some- and no-thing. Quantum mechanics has learned us that energy can be borrowed for such a short time that the balance between the two states isn’t affected. Unimaginable stretches of time and evolution have done the rest in a trial, error and rarely, but in view of the incredible time lapses, unavoidable success way. We perceive the end result like a magic trick. Conclude that the pigeon out of the head is pure wizardry until the magician explains every step of the astonishing experience.
4) if an all powerful god existed, why in the name of the one no one should believe in, would that being make the billion of years detour instead of just creating a made and ready universe? Unless you reject the fact, no, no longer the theory, but the fact of evolution. If that’s the case, then you are worshipping a god created or accepted out of pure and maybe even wilful ignorance.
5) if god existed there would be no need to prove his existence because he / she / it would be perceived or at the very least be experienced by believers and non believers alike and since that’s clearly not the case it’s safe to say that god(s) are man made and not the other way around. That’s also why there are approximately, at present, 4.300 religions with matching super bff to suit different cultures, regions and tribes.
6) Seneca, ancient Roman philosopher: ‘for common people religion is true, for wise men false and useful for rulers’.
The story of Jesus, his miracles and resurrection
Ask 1000 followers of Kenneth Copeland if he can heal the sick, paralysed and disabled. Well, you know the answer.
Ask 1000 followers of Copeland if he could resurrect someone from the dead. You know the answer
Ask 1000 followers of Copeland if they witnessed a resurrection performed by Copeland and at least 100 will testify on their life and the life of their children that they witnessed a resurrection done by one of the biggest spiritual con men in our day and age.
Should give you some idea about the value of testimonials in Jesus time.
People turn their wishes into beliefs and from that principle all religions are born.
Let's also not forget that resurrections where far from exceptional in the days of the Jesus. I wouldn't go as far as to say: 'one resurrection a day kept the gravedigger away', but still.
Jesus was a mediocre prophet and so delusional that he convinced himself to be the son of a non existing being. And it’s because of his mediocrity and the fact that his ‘teachings’ serve the rich, rulers and common people alike that he became so popular.
Just to be clear, in a nutshell what you’re basically saying is that as an atheist and as a “genuine freethinker” and as a “real” truth seeker you have the “RATIONAL” high ground because your many years of study and your many years of research into the “natural sciences” and your many years of study of the two millennia of scholarship on the subject of logic and analytical philosophy have lead to the “PROFOUND” and ultimately USELESS and ultimately MEANINGLESS conclusion that….
“Birth is an accident, life is ultimately MEANINGLESS, ultimately PURPOSELESS and ABSURD and DEATH simply ends the absurdity and illusion that birth began” [Atheism].
Glad we cleared that one up!!
What a “PROFOUND” insite!! Thanks for the “HELP”!! Spread the word quickly before someone steals you and “genius”!!
At least be a consistent strictly reductive materialist, atheist or philosophical naturalist - right? That is at least be a consistent perspectivist, relativist or absurdist yes? Because according to the greatest atheist thinkers who ever lived with possibly the highest IQs…
Logic is an illusion (Nietzsche)
“Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”
- (Nietzsche, Reference from: On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense).
“Should I kill myself?” is the essential philosophical question.” (Albert Camus).
Merry chap but at least he’s “logically” consistent with his strictly reductive materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism - right?
Life is an “horror” and “truth” is “illusory”. (Nietzsche)
Moreover, according to the prominent atheist Foucault…
“Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent.” (Foucault).
Imagine telling all of these little stories to someone as a Christmas bed time story!! And you mock our beliefs!!
The fact is that language inevitably becomes meaningful, that is beautiful, transcendent, sacred and metaphysical because our [FAITH] in the ability to convey meaning and purpose and value using language transcends blind, mindless, ultimately meaningless “matter”. Beauty is a mark of eternity, that is the eternal logos, the word!!
Reality and existence and in particular the qualities of experience such as language, that is meaning, purpose and love, that is inexplicable and intangible values such as Truth and goodness are not made of “matter” they are made of what [matters].
Furthermore, “we actually have a domain of deep language. When we fall into the domain of the deep language we are in the domain of the sacred”
We have this innate sense of literary depth and meaningfulness. Some stories are shallow and meaningless, some stories are incredibly deep, poignant and meaningful, and everyone feels that and knows it with every ounce of their being!!
And everyone pretty much appreciates and accepts that. You experience it with music. You experience it when observing the beauty in nature and more so when you observe inner beauty in others!! Any art form or experience there’s shallow aspects and there’s deep aspects!! And deep aspects move you and they move you so deeply they have emotional resonance!! And they call to you and challenge you to listen as well! They call you to a better version of your self!!
Continued….
The fact is that Jesus of Nazareth using deeply beautiful and meaningful language, spread a universal message of love, without money, weapons, armies or political power, called to more people and conquered more millions than Alexander the Great, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without modern biology, chemistry, physics or cosmology, Jesus Christ using deeply beautiful language called to more people, shed more light on things more human, more poignant, more divine and more beautiful than all philosophers and scholars combined!!
Jesus Christ using the art of language produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; he called to more people and set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art, and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times!! This is just an historical fact!!
If you took the best qualities of all the greatest people that you have ever known share, and boiled those qualities down into one person that would be your archetypal hero. Furthermore, if you took the courage, bravery, self sacrifice, altruism, empathy and compassion of all the greatest archetypal heroes that ever lived, and boiled them down to one central figure that’s Christ [The One/The Logos/The Word].
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The Greatest person in History... Jesus had no slaves or servants, yet they called Him Master. Had no degrees, yet they called Him Teacher. Had no drugs or medicines, yet they called Him Healer. He had no army, yet kings feared Him and wanted his followers dead. He won no great military battles, yet He conquered the world by bringing light into the world. He did not live in a palace, a castle or own vast lands and property and servants and yet they called Him Lord and king,
He ruled no nations, he did not seek to conquer all the world through force like the ancient Roman emperor’s or Islam or like Stalin’s atheist regime that was defined by atheism through its anti religious policies and death camps did. Jesus never carried out any of these depraved war monger like behaviours and yet they called Him Mightiest of Kings, Jesus committed no crime, yet they tortured and crucified Him. He was buried in a tomb and his followers despaired as they could not grasp the TRUTH he brought into the world and thought it could be completely extinguished by DEATH, Jesus still lives today.
“There is in the world only one figure of absolute beauty: Christ. That infinitely lovely figure is, as a matter of course, an infinite marvel.” (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Letter to niece Sofia Alexandrovna)
According to one of the greatest authors that ever lived Fyodor Dostoyevsky…
“Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old” (Dostoyevsky).
His legacy endures.
Amazing speaker.
Wow wonderful indeed❤
I wish if God is real, because by now, he'd have met Christopher and took some moral lessons to be actually, good.
That was unbelievably LAME!! And similarly Hitchens was a facile snob and a blatant LIAR.
Equally, Hitchens actually claimed that the Christian pastor Martin Luther King JR wasn’t even a real Christian because he wasn’t vindictive enough? Really? Anyone who could seriously claim that the Christian pastor Martin Luther King JR was not a real Christian because he was a civil rights hero really does not have much of a grip on reality and is clearly self deluded and is a fanatic!! It’s hardly surprising that in the end Christopher Hitchens became a willing apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire and it’s even been shown that, in fact, Christopher Hitchens directly plagiarised materials from the old Soviet (League of the Militant Godless) word for word in his book “God is not Great”!!
Christopher Hitchens even actively promoted the idea that American intervention in the Balkans and Middle East was a great idea and he even had to be water boarded to see if water boarding was actually torturous when used on people with a particular skin colour- right? Wake up!! Torturing humans is objectively evil and depraved not just an arbitrary subjective opinion, not just an arbitrary subjective taste - yes?. Christopher Hitchens was a Trotskyist and so called “Enlightenment” Snob!!
It gets even worse because according to Christopher Hitchens associate Sam Harris torture and nuclear first strikes may be an “ethical” necessity…To quote Hitchens associate directly…
“The only thing likely to ensure our survival may be a nuclear first strike of our own ” (Sam Harris).
Christopher Hitchens should be made a saint.
HE WAS A WONDERFUL MAN....AMAZING❤
That would not sit well with him at all.
@@19snips No it certainly wouldn't, he was however a wonderful man and I admired him greatly. ❤
@@lorenzobianchini4415 he is a hero of mine as well and someone I respect immensely. We could really use his wisdom and insight these days.
@@19snips LOl!!!!!
There is no sane or rational argument FOR religion.
But there's even a lower level of ridiculous stupidity that seems to be accepted that we came from a bunch of goop, accidentally all of us with catches's and brains and everything, and that's just so rational to believe that lol That's like saying there's no rational reason at all that somebody designed this iPhone. It must have just designed itself lol Because believing that nothing created something as opposed to something created all of this Is Saul reasonable? Isn't it I mean think? How many times you walked on the street and boom? All of a sudden things just popped out of nothing and holy cow. Look at this house just built itself in The Middle of the street. What a coincidence. Oh, my God, look a car. Just just popped out of thin air and cool. We can drive it nice. We needed one of these. Yeah, that happens all the time. There's no logical rational reason for you to say such an arrogant statement when there's plenty of reasons to believe even if you choose not to. For example, I believe that statement is totally ignorant that you made. I can't prove that scientifically but it's kind of self evident kinda like that
I miss him
The guy just made sense.
Rip hitch ❤
Trump is the best argument that there is no god.
the more i study about atheism more i notice that atheism is just a anserw of the terroble theology we have today, the majoriry of people just didnt understud the bible, and because of this miscompreention they turned to be a non beliver
Actually reading the Bible is one of the fastest way to becoming an atheist
@@caracomfotodeanime3404people who wrote books of the bible refer to it as holy scripture and it is treated as such
@@benjaminjenkins2384 show me 1 verse that is writed that the bible is the world of God
@@caracomfotodeanime3404 show me one verse that god wrote itself,
I’ll wait
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Nope. One of the great things about being an Atheist is that I don’t ever feel compelled to perform mental gymnastics to justify slavery and incest and other disgusting immoral things in your story book.
So what’s the "correct" way to read it then and what method did you use to determine that?
Forever indebted for writing the books that opened my eyes. As a Christian I was blind, but now… I see!
That’s ironic because Hitchens really strengthened my faith in Christ. Why do put so much trust in such a facile and snobbish individual as Christopher Hitchens?
Furthermore, the irony is that Richard Dawkins right hand man, Josh Timonen, recently had an epiphany and actually totally rejected atheism after decades of being Dawkins protege - yes?
That is Josh Timonen, Richard Dawkins right hand man, who was a committed atheist for decades, recently totally and utterly rejected atheism/fatalism and epistemological nihilism and became a follower of Christ - right?
The fact is that Josh totally and utterly rejected the claims made in Dawkins books including his famous book the “God Delusion” because he had become unconvinced by Dawkins straw man fallacies and philosophically illiterate mockery and attacks on Christian’s.
MThat is Josh totally rejected the same book that has Josh’s name printed in it as a dedication to Josh for his help in deconstructing religious expression. This total rejection of atheism was due to the fact that Josh had a change of heart because he had actually made the effort to study the arguments for theism properly and with an open mind and and a open heart!!
Bravo, Christopher Hitchens.
(I'm being facetious, here. But it suddenly struck me that, outside of the eternity aspect, it's an analogue to the way I'm expected to show gratitude to my employer for letting me work.)
God bless Jesus Christ the Lord and may all of Gods people rejoice in the salvation that is Jesus Christ the Almighty. O death where is thy sting? O death where thy Victory?
Poetic, now start using critical thinking skills in addition to romantic dreams, and you might go somewhere.
@@Goldenhawk583critical thinking is what lead me to believe in the truth. Morality comes from God. The fool has said in his heart there is no God.
@qualitypaversinc Seems like you didn't watch the whole video. Maybe even read the whole Bible and tell me how manmade it is. I was Christian and I went through nothing but trauma because of religion. You're clearly not okay and coerced into this thing you called Christianity and I'm sorry that you're like that. Sure not everyone in religion is bad but the problem is that they don't realize that the Bible isn't the truth and seeing the problematic verses that's in there. Like when it says that the raped should marry their rapist and basically conditional love (John 3:16 is the best example). Proverbs 3:5-6 just proves that it's a cult by shutting down critical thinking and thinking for yourself entirely. So please do your proper research for now on. Thank you.
@@AngelOrrandMoreI'm a Catholic my good brother. Jesus is the truth my friend. The one who conquered death. The Bible is clearly a holy and spiritual book that was giving to us by God. All the people who wrote it claimed to be divinely inspired and that one book is the most sold book in all of human history. That name Jesus stands above all names. And that book will be here until the very end. Us Catholics not only have a book from Heaven but we have supernatural miracles here on earth that not even NASA nor top Nobel piece prize winner in science could explain. Supernatural miracles that defy the laws of nature, of time and space. Miracles that should not exist yet they stand strong in beautiful Catholic churches all around the globe. Those miracles are not there to pursade the unbeliever. Because we understand to a non believer even if one were to rise from the dead he would not believe. Even if God himself appeared to you , the non believer would think it was a dream. Those supernatural miracles that science cannot explain are there to further strengthen the church and God's people to show us that the things of God are from another dimension and no scientist, scholar or laboratory can deny what we know to be true to the depth of our core. We all must face death and judgement for our sins. But on that day I will have the blood of Christ and Jesus by my side. Hope he has mercy on us all.
@@qualitypaversinc If the Bible is our moral guide, then how can it make pornographic statements such as: “…they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you” (2 Kings 18:27)? Also consult Numbers 31 where a whole tribe of people, including the elderly and children are slaughtered. The only survivors were the virginal women, who were later raped by the “just and perfect” Moses and his men. Is that what you want your children reading on Sunday?
Biblical morality is pure horror, and if christians really followed all gods commands, we would need to build a lot more prisons.
People were moral long before christianity was invented, and it will exist long after its gone.
True morality comes from tht heart of each of us, no matter our belief or lack thereof. No matter our origin, our color or culture... Christians do not act from the heart, but from fear of punishment or groveling for favors and rewards.
Good people are good because thats who they are..period.
I feel more intelligent just listening to…. Enlighten 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹
The late, great Hitch certainly made some excellent and compelling arguments against religion, though there are certainly many more not mentioned here. I only wish the editors of the video had modified the sound levels on the various clips to match. I had to keep adjusting my volume!
I miss the Hitch. He was an inspiration to all of us who stand for reason and rationality against the insidious cancer of delusion, deception, ignorance, intolerance and, yes, _immorality_ that religion has inflicted upon the world. Though I can't claim to match his knowledge or eloquence, I do my best every day to follow his example.
Christopher Hitchens is my Pope, and I go to him for my weekly sermons.
He had the rare ability to see clearly, think clearly and speak clearly.
This man spoke in poems 🥹
I miss him so much.
I don’t think about religion much anymore, as I became very comfortable with my position of having no god belief decades ago. I still love to hear people like Christopher Hitchens put forward logical arguments against religion though. RIP Hitch.
Who wants this to be true? Is the best question here.
Umm, this is true.
@@dorkception2012 religion is certainly a very real delusion for many.
Educate women and you educate the children.
This is a great man. Brilliant beyond brilliant. This man should have lived 100 lifetimes. Another reason to believe there is no god. There will never be another one like him. If you search for the truth you will find it.
Word salad and beyond cringey!! He wasn’t that special he was snobbish and facile and LIED about mother Teresa!!
@@georgedoyle2487what did he lie about. Tell me what he lied about when it comes to Mother Theresa. That is wasn’t a place to go and die??What did she do with all the money. I am just asking respectfully
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He lied about her refusing to give morphine to patients who were in agony because she was a religious fanatic. It’s a total and utter LIE and is taken from an half truth about access to Morphine in India and poor palliative care right across India. But Hitchens is very slippery and knows that if you throw enough mud some of it will stick. So all you need to do is provide a source from this period demonstrating Teresa definitely has the facilities in place to give very dangerous drugs such as opiates and morphine etc and that she just simply kept class A drugs locked away. You won’t because the laws on opiate use in India were so strict it was very difficult to even get morphine in the main hospitals and you required a prescription and a qualified nurse to titrate the drug safely so as not to kill any patients . This alone is an enormous defeater for Hitchens diatribe. I can even provide medical references if you want them. You could not get access to proper palliative care anywhere in India during this time never mind morphine and definitely not in a hospice that was created specifically for the sick and homeless and diseases. And Teresa actually gave the drugs she could get hold of - . right? Hitchens is untrustworthy and is a terrible journalist and a Trotskyist during this period of time. But he eventually became an apologist for the dirty deeds of the American empire which is beyond ironic!!
Just to let you know Im being SHADOW BANNED so I will post some of my responses, that’s if you’re genuinely interested in truth, at the beginning of this post to no one in particular. So you have the choice to read it or not and I can’t be accused of bullying or badgering anyone - ok Because UA-cam and the left wing THOUGHT POLICE are constantly deleting my comments if I respond to anyone and accuse me of “HATE” speech. Particularly when I critique atheist Marxism, communism or Islam!! So look out for my comments at the top of this post if you’re genuinely interested in truth.
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With regard to money and the accusations of Teresa mixing with criminals…For instance, Christopher Hitchens book starts off talking about a photo that exists of MT with Michele Duvalier. And the Duvaliers are bad. And there she is, right there in the photo with one of them. And they're holding hands and looking at each other. Right there in that photo. With the bad woman. And she's smiling. And she doesn't deny it. And therefore MT is clearly a criminal and a horrible person, the worst kind of person, and it's totally obvious. Bloody Hell shook hands with thousands of people and was photographed with all sorts of characters - right? So what?
Hitchens goes on for pages and pages with total b…. Sht like this, and it's lapped up by his Trotskyist fan base and is a very very tedious read. He also weirdly makes Mother Teresa out to be this horrible and fanatical little woman and mocks her celibacy in a demeaning way because she takes Christian stances, like being anti-abortion. Really? The missionary Christian nun buys into the Church's position on abortion? Shocking! Or not. It's also apparently her fault that people claim that she performed miracles that she NEVER EVER ONCE CLAIMED to have performed - right?
I mean, he's bashing her because the Church sainted her and he thinks her miracles were a sham. Yet, he's not just an an atheist, he’s an anti theist- yes? which means that he thinks all miracles and saints are a sham. Why is MT somehow worse than the rest? It’s a personal attack because she’s an easy target. He's also fixated on her forgiving people, questioning by whose authority she forgives, and what right does she have to forgive, and no one asked her for forgiveness - right?
As if each of us doesn't have the RIGHT to forgive others in our own way for the slights and errors we perceive in them. The only semi-valid points Hitchens makes are that she might have spent the money that was donated to her in a more constructive way, and that she took money that maybe she shouldn't have taken, or that she should have returned. But he doesn't even do a good job validating those positions.
This planet upon which we all live would be so much better off with Christopher Hitchens still living.
Ataturk - the man who dragged Türkiye out of the dark ages in the early part of the twentieth century, said, "I wish all religions were at the bottom of the sea."