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I love that jon and hitchens were able to have a conversation

"I miss him" Do you mean you realised listening to alan watts doesn't make you look intellectual so you switched to something else? 😂😂😂

That first clip is so important

Don't think I'll ever get over the occasional sense of some incredible world of love and joy and beauty "aliveness" beyond the veil where one day everything sad is going to become untrue. Though I admit it's been a long time between drinks

They wear red baseball hats bro

The Hitchens of old would have been far more schooled in the history before allowing himself to be a cheerleader for the neoconservative crusade. (the Hitchens of old would have never become a cheerleader in the first place).

Christians know Trump is God!❤

Imagine if the US wasn’t so hypocritical & had the same standards about Israel !!

Jon Stewart was right here

I like it when he refers to the audience as ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters!

2:49 Israel is no longer sovereign, then.

I have no use for people who believe in fantasy. You can watch Star Trek all you want. You can go to conventions, buy the merchandise and wear the apparel proudly. But don’t try to convince me it’s real. In fact, I wish all “believers” wore their nonsense (clothing, crucifix, tattoos,etc) all the time. It lets us know who the crazy people are.

More abortion happens naturally not by doctors, so the supposed God does more abortions by far than human doctors!

Bill Maher lays out both sidesism in the early oughties. He just didn’t know how right he was.

I just listened to this whole video and I stand strongly with Mr Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens is like a favorite book or movie with which one (me) can reread or rewatch and entertain and consume repeatedly and without growing weary or losing taste for and will not stop craving. I think I worship the edict of this, the late Christ. Opher Hitchens.

Absolute intellectual powerhouse. We will never see anyone like him in our lifetime.

Turek dismissed Huthchins' reference to Zeus as Zeus being of the material world. However, the Greek myths regarding Zeus, son of Cronus, son of Ouranos were all very much residents of a supernatural realm.

From where does morality come? Evolution. As a social primate, we learned what behaviors by the group members resulted in a greater chance of survival, and which ones resulted in a lesser chance. After judging these behaviors for millennia, we have much of it ingrained in our genetics. And for that which isn't, we create laws. No gods required.

Turek is brilliant, Hitchens is a master of dressing up shite

They are ' overlapping magesteria '. If there's a god or not, this factor changes the way things like: gravity, electromagnetism , mass and energy are understood. Right now this is thought to work on it's own But a supernatural being means they don't. 😮.🤔🤔🤔

Smart 🧠 man 👨 ❤

Take A Moment let's relax and enjoy a genius at play 🎉 Thank you Hitch 4:15

Christoper closer to any divinity than any religious person', true?

Common sense , logic and being reasonable tells me that religion is mythical and contrived by man , and if it isn’t as religious people believe , why would God punish me for having common sense , logic , and being reasonable

4:53 Dr Turek opens

4:53 Dr Turek opens

What in the #### does Frank do that's Evil?? 🤣 I just hear delusional thinking, no reason or logic.

🌹 Birth Of Religion 1/2 🌿 When did religion first start, how did it start, and why did it start? ... 🌿 Humans are born without worldly knowledge. Your knowledge is not of your own making. You gain your knowledge from your parents or from whomever your parents allow you (as a little child) to learn knowledge (such as teachers and church leaders, for example). You learn knowledge from the teachers to whom your parents send you to learn. ... 🌿 Before there were books and schools, before there was writing and arithmetic, whatever the parent knew was the complete source of a child's learning. How could members of a family or community learn something if no one else knew it? How much did our ancient ancestors actually know? 🌿 Anciently, when a child was born into a family, the child was a valuable asset to the community. As explained, ancient children also served the needs of the parent. New children were needed to help feed, support, and protect the parent-based family unit. A woman desired a man whom she believed was most capable of providing food, support, and protection for her and her children. 🌿 As human families encountered other families, they learned that cooperation with each other led to more food, more support, and more protection than could be obtained by a single-family unit. It was much easier to protect human life from a pride of lions, for example, if there were 20 men with spears rather than just one. Humans learned that cooperating with each other in communities was to their advantage. 🌿 Humans developed these communities based on their physical similarities. White-skinned people recognized physical resemblance in other white-skinned people. 🌿 This made them feel more comfortable and more connected. To white-skinned people, darker-skinned people didn't seem quite right. Soon, the whiter races united together to protect themselves against the darker races, and vice versa. 🌿 As these ethnic-based communities developed throughout the world, a united human race did not exist, nor did it seem possible. At that time, the only knowledge available to the child-received from the familv and community-was that the color of human skin was important to self-preservation. Many vears of these ethnic divisions created the misguided belief that one color of skin was preferable over another. ... 🌿 Once isolated in white-only communities, there were still men who were physically less attractive to the women, and generally less important to the community. These physically inferior men could not hunt and protect the community like the stronger males could. While the stronger men hunted and protected the community, the weaker men were left behind to do whatever they could, albeit in a less important supportive role. They wanted to prove their importance to the community and to the women. 🌿 So the weaker men learned to organize supplies for the other men who would go hunt or fight other tribes (communities). When the hunters returned with food, the weaker men accounted for the food and made sure that it was equally distributed to the rest of the community. When the stronger men left to fight, the weaker men made sure their weapons were avallable and ready. 🌿 This accounting of food, tools, armaments, and other commodities that were used by the community led to the creation of early numbering systems. These numbering systems eventually led to culture-based (community-based) written languages. The weaker men had a lot more time on their hands than the men who hunted and protected the community. With this abundance of time, these men perfected and developed their skills. Soon they learned to use these skills to their own advantage. 🌿 These men learned to entertain the children of the community while their mothers attended to those needs of the community that the stronger males did not attend to. The physically weaker men invented games for the children to play and then noticed how the children played. They were aware of the abundance of imagination that children use when they play. Seeing this, these ancient male babysitters began to invent stories that fascinated and entertained the children. Their babysitting techniques became very valuable to the mothers and fathers of the community, who had to work all day. 🌿 As the stories that the male babysitters told became more complex, language developed faster. In other words, the better their stories became and the more imagination they used, the more words they had to invent. The stories became more detailed as the children asked more questions.

🌹 Birth Of Religion 2/2 🌿 Children are inquisitive and ask a lot of questions. Many innocent questions cannot be answered by their parents' limited knowledge. So if these male babysitters didn't know how to answer a child's question, they simply made something up. Children believe whatever adults tell them, especially the adults in whose care and trust their own parents have placed them. 🌿 At first, the stories the babysitters told were very simple and based on the people's limited knowledge. These ancient people didn't know much about the world in which they lived. They were too busy trying to survive and protect themselves from wild animals and other tribes in their limited sphere of existence. 🌿 If a child asked a question about the sun, for example, a story was invented to explain it. Fascinated and in complete awe and attention to the explanation, the child's mind began to learn things that were not real, taught to them by the make-believe stories. 🌿 When the parents got home from work and saw their children well cared for and happy, they wondered about the stories that created such excitement and entertainment for their children. At first, the parents realized that the stories were not real, but were just used to entertain their children. The children heard the stories time and time again over the years. Later, when the children grew up and became parents themselves, the stories they had been told as children became more real to them and began to affect their reality. 🌿 The aged children (now adults) who had heard the tales of fantasy from their babysitters began to desire more stories. The more the adults desired stories, the more complex and adult-like the stories became. After a long day's work, nothing was more relaxing than sitting around the fire listening to a good story. 🌿 The storytellers began to realize how important the stories were to the community. These stories became the oral history of the ancient world. Eventually, the storytellers developed a system of writing that helped them tell the same story over and over again. 🌿 The stories that benefited the unattractive men the most were used the most. Before long, the storytellers were just as important to the community as the hunters and protectors. In many cases, much more important. 🌿 Children ask questions that often cannot be answered by adults. Aged children (in other word, adults) also ask questions that cannot be answered by other adults. For this reason, some people make up answers to adult questions and then convince others that their answer is the correct one. When this happens, other adults find comfort in believing that at least someone (supposedly) knows the answers. 🌿 The invention of the concept of an all-knowing God gives comfort to people who do not know the answers. When the answer to the question is, "Well, God has all the answers," then the advantage goes to the person who can answer the question, "Who is God?" 🌿 The idea of "God" changes according to the knowledge of the people. If the people know the answers to their questions, then they don't need God, nor do they need the person who taught them about God. 🌿 The most important part of the stories told to people is the concept that there is a God who knows everything. To maintain their advantage over the masses, the storytellers had to convince the people of the existence of a God that only talked to them. This was because it increased their value in the community. 🌿 These weaker men soon became the authority of the people. Their stories convinced the people to give them the "firstfruits of (their labors," the best part of the communitv's produce, and the best parts of the people's flocks. In other words, these became the religious priests. 🌿 No one questioned their authority because no one questioned their stories. From the time that they were little children, the people had learned all that they knew-outside of the rudimentary daily tasks that provided them with their basic necessities-from the telling of stories. 🌿 The children learned how to "ill the ground" from their parents; but they learned how to please an imaginary god from the stories that they heard from their teachers. These were teachers that their parents were convinced knew a lot more than they did. 🌿 Remember, children only know what their parents teach them. Parents only know what their parents taught them. And outside of daily labors that support and protect a community, the only other knowledge that was available to ancient peoples came from the stories that they heard during childhood. 🌿 Many, many people continue to be influenced by these same stories today. Its effect on the mortal experience is devastating. The ancient philosophers (who had more time on their hands to sit around thinking) created these philosophies and religions to justify their existence and create value for themselves. As previously stated, human nature is responsible for these philosophies and the tragedies that they have created.☘️☘️☘️☘️

His take on Isreal & Palestine were dead on even back then

Finally I have discovered sanity in the world, in the voice of the "never too late" great Christopher Hitchens, says one Genome identity to and amongst the endless trillions of others that were that are and that are to come. And despite the oppressions and hardships enforced upon us all it's 😂😅❤😅😂great to be alive. Heck I feel so vibrant...

Christopher Hitchins even from the grave a voice in the wilderness

This debate is a good example of an atheist saying a lot but meaning nothing His clever question is religion has to EXPLAIN the start of life ?? Wow even if we did EXPLAIN it would not be accepted So why bother !!! One thing is for sure Man is born with sin!! Religion is for you to have responsibility You can't be religious if you break these laws!! But atheist can do what ever they want ! Get responsible join a religion !!!!

Theists trying to prove the existence of their god only use scientific “evidence”. They’re using science to prove an invisible being living in an imaginary realm. Unfortunately for them, science disproves EVERYTHING religious texts say about the material universe. People who believe this nonsense are wishful thinking fools.

Why is Turek yelling the entire time?

This is my real name, handles are for cowards. Hitchens was to kind and refused to lower himself to the level this pathetic man skulks about. I will never use religious tactics such as manipulation, coercion, false promises, threats or slandering the memory of a child's deceased friend. However, warranted and factual insults, creating a strong, articulated, truth found argument that captivates and engages the emotions of anyone that may be listening, hatred for what faith allows to happen, are things I will use, the last being the only one Mr. Hitchens doesn't and I think you all were lucky he didn't.

Turek is just preaching and misrepresenting Christopher Hitchens statements but there is not a shred of evidence for the existence of ANY god or Allah or whatever name they gave to their non-existing celestial dictator! And science and especially evolution have already debunked the crux of christianity and the crux of all the other religions I know of ages ago. A god is not detectable in any way. That's very suspicious isn't it because that is exactly the same characteristic of something that does not exist in reality! A god is supposed to "exist" "out of space and out of time". Does this demagogue Turek even understand what that means himself? It is a ridiculous, complete abstract and contradictory concept! Something can not exist for zero seconds because then it does not exist. And neither can something exist for eternity "out of time" because eternity IS an indication of time! And neither can something "exist" "out of space" because something that exists takes space itself. Religions are the biggest scam ever!

Being raised a Jehovah’s Witness, I like to spend my Sundays, listening to Christopher Hitchins, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris. Voices of reason, voices of reality.

lol @ bill o'reilly saying hes not a partisan. what a fucking hack.

Turek is the perfect theological "used car salesman". Tries to be relatable, funny, but ultimately attempts to sell junk.

This is like the bar scene in good will hunting, with Hitchens as Will.

You can tell the interviewer thinks that he is the intellectual equivalent of Hitchens, but you can see him slowly realise, like a stroppy teen in a boxing ring with Ali, just how out of his depth he truly is.

CH very insulting in this interview with a pleasant interlocutor. He was better than that normally.

Jaysus. Stewart won't let him talk.

"Tucker don't do that, don't do it"... Yeah he didnt hear your voice

Turek sounds like a whiny teenager on her periods

,,, hitchhikers guide to reason ... greetings frum berlin ...

Well well well… didn’t believe in containment but when his home city was attacked, Hitchens suddenly turned from war protester to into a war hawk.

GREAT STUFF. !!!!!!! LOVE IT. !!!!!!!