Listening to Christopher Hichens makes aware of my inability to articulate the thoughts of my mind. Too much math and science and too little word power. I miss him terribly. He was a treasure for all times. Reason and ideas were his weapons and none could take the measure of him. We are so much the better for hearing him articulate a thought against the best thinkers of the Christian faith of our times. He beat them all.
Agreed on all points except for Turik being a great thinker. I’m not left with that impression of him. He might be one of the best known apologists, but he’s not very good at it. Then again, how could he be? What he’s defending isn’t true, or at least can’t be proven so.
If I was in a debate with Christopher Hitchens about the color of the sky and I was advocating for blue, I wouldn't like my chances! He's been gone for 12 years, yet all his content is still relevant.
He definitely has talent for rhetoric, and in that probably some who would argue for one religion or another could equal him. but unlike them, he is free to apply logic unrestrained by any religious doctrine or nonsensical belief system. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to tangle with him either😂
Idk if i'm a masochist here, but i could love to get a verbal spanking by the great Hitchens. Also, the man could never argue against an objective true. He rather, climb down the pulpit tell you he was wrong and then climb back up again and tell how that the sky is not only blue but beautifully so.
My favourite Hitchens observation: "Where does evil come from?"......."Religion!" Quick as a flash. OK, it's a cheap shot, but it always makes me laugh! 😉😉
Where does religion come from? Capitalism (who else paid for the churches???) Where does capitalism come from? Ancestral species of man that... were greedy... because that's how natural selection operates! #MoveAlongTheContinuumToANTITHEISM
@@NeilMalthus While I agree with antitheism wholeheartedly, some of what you said here is not accurate. Religion long predates capitalism and capitalism can only truly thrive in a mostly or completely religion-neutral environment (like the US). Theocracies like Iran, Saudi Arabia, they are not capitalist societies. Who pays for churches depends on the culture and the economy. In Saudi Arabia, they are simply mandated. In the US they are paid for by donations and government subsidy (via tax exemption which I agree with Hitch should not be legal, and if it is then they cannot campaign, support candidates, interact with schools, etc.). Natural selection does not predicate itself on greed, but really simply what works, even if it isn't that good (like our eyes...we have to blink because our ancestors evolved eyes for aquatic climate not terrestrial...so they just are adapted). Opossums and cockroaches are literally unchanged for 10s of millions of years...but I wouldn't call them greedy. Just they evolved to a state that persists and survives "as is" even with other branches evolving off of them. Where capitalism comes from is actually deeper than that and relatively interesting. Feudalism is what fueled both birth of US as well as capitalism, although at didferent times. That shift to mercantilism evolved into capitalism, largely credited to Adam Smith and Wealth of Nations. But how "purely" capitalist a country is, that is up for debate. US is not only a capitalist economy, there is a mix of socialism, redistribution of wealth, social services, etc. as well as some straight "federalism" and some industries almost qualify as mercantilism (oil trade is a big one, not capitalistic or socialist or government owned...but a mix of gov control + industry self regulation, etc).
What I love most about Hitchens is that he doesn’t let red herrings get in the way. For some people it might seem like he keeps dodging the question (and he is in some way), but that’s because he goes to the heart of the matter instead. “How do I counter the fine tuning argument or the argument from design or first cause? Who cares? Even if there was one, how do you go from a designer (deism) to a dictator (theism)? That’s what matters!” What a great debater and a great man.
I don't regret believing in Christianity when I was young. I learned from my mistakes and have grown and evolved from it. 'I am' much a better person, now that I moved past that stage of my life.
@@angrypidgeon1714 Christianity is unworthy of trust. Being called a Christian is not worthy of anything worthy but deception and lies. If you claim to be Christian, I no longer trust you. Are you Jim Jones type? Deceptive evangelical type? Fake Christian type? Who are YOU! I now see Christians as the evil type.
The conditioning one receives during their formative years can be mostly absorbed by the developing intelligences of later life. To have a world view that is open ended and free of contradictions becomes a source of fascinations and inspirations. If we are lucky enough we evolve into non-religious spiritual people who embrace life with ever-deepening insight and a loving heart. Well done. 🍀💚
Morality is a part of being a social creature. It’s about what helps the society - the group - thrive and survive and be happy and healthy, whatever achieves those goals. We live together and that means how we treat each other is an evolved thing.
It always seemed to me that morality was just an innate sense of fairness cascading into complexity by language. Language allows us to explain this sense in specific scenarios. Even dogs and cats and infants recognize fairness.
Altruistism is selected for in most social creatures of our genetic stock. Hit the nail on the head. It's what causes the instinct to call out a warning to others of your kind, even while drawing the attention to yourself of predators, when you spot danger. Rather than being quiet and letting the nearest friendly get picked off, we call out and find survival benefits in reciprocation.
I think everyone but psychopaths and some few others have this feeling. The feeling of belonging, and subsequent responsibility for whatever you feel you belong to - social group, family, humanity as a whole, whichever. You get a whole lot closer to it with psychedelics, but meditation also helps you start noticing it: As much as you feel like an individual, you also feel like you are part of, or maybe a little more potently, you ARE in some sense your social group (I think Alan Watts' thoughts on stuff like this are beautiful) - that feeling of the ego having the company of your social group in a visceral sense, and that both must co-exist and thrive, or wither and die. I think it varies from person to person how important each is in relation to the other - which is why some people act to help others at great cost to themselves, most freeze, and some think mostly or only of themselves when in dire circumstances. I don't think I'm even close to doing it justice with the above, but hey, I tried.
@cheopatius2579 sociopathy is a complete lack of empathy. About 1% of people are born this way. Biological empathy IS the source of social altruism. It takes abuse and trauma to turn a sociopaths into a psychopath. Many sociopaths go on to productive lives as CEOs, politicians, etc. This is part of the problem with our corporate culture. Sociopathic leadership and a lack of ethics drives the current 'avaricious short-term profit over sustainable growth and service' model in our corpracratic system.
This is a fantastic compilation! Thank you for the definitions. I’ve seen most of these clips before, but was ignorant of many of the terms and references. You have added enlightenment to Hitch’s pearls of wisdom.
I can’t stress enough how important it is to become as educated as you possibly can, in as many fields as you possibly can. Religion is excellent at preying on people’s ignorance.
More than that: religion not only wants you to be ignorant, it strives to keep you that way. Have you not noticed the outright war that American evangelical Christianity has been waging on public education? Moms for Liberty are about freedom, freedom from factual knowledge so that priests can make kids victims of their lies.
I was a very staunch Atheist, then I studied theoretical physics and became Muslim. The thing about Hitchen's opening rant is the blind eye he turns to the secularism and markets he worships. By simply redefining theism so he's no-longer an idolator (he would have clearly been from ancient Greece through all belief systems up until the Europeans changed the definition to elevate themselves above all others and then go on a worldwide rampage of death). Then the reactions to that rampage of death are analysed as if there's nothing the US did to civilians elsewhere before Sept 11th! You couldn't make it up. As the quran says; totally blind and wandering.
@@blackagendermuslim7198 you don’t deserve a response and the op was above you and didn’t respond. Good for them. You’re being a troll. You’re being the most insignificant, annoying, aggravating, small and futile aspect of the internet which is a religious troll. The op was better than I am because they didn’t entertain your small and petty attempt to argue about nothing worthwhile. Have a lot of fun and find joy in these very worthy endeavors of yours.
@@blackagendermuslim7198you cannot see a god with your own eyes. No one who has ever lived has seen a god. All we have are peoples claims of seeing such (hallucinations(. So what is your point of your pitiful attempt to cause an argument?
As of 2023, this man has become (apart from parents and family) the greatest influence in my life. I’m slowly reading and owning all of his books and pabnflits.
Don’t be afraid to find fault and what Hitchins says. There might be few people with a gift for arguing and debating as well as he does, but many more of us can find ways to improve on his arguments and come up with alternative arguments that might work better sometimes. Remember, he’s not some holyprophet . He’s just a guy gifted, but just a guy.
I cannot thank the person who put this together enough. The explanations are so helpful. I've been a huge admirer of this great man for many years and yet this video has items I've never seen before which is just wonderful. A man whose ferocious intellect was matched by his courage. Miss him everyday. I often wonder if his family read any of these comments. I hope they do to realise, as if they didn't know, how much respect and admiration he will always have. Such a loss.
knock knock --"Who is it?" -"It's me, Jesus. Let me in." --"Why do you want in?" -"I want to save you."... --"Save me from what?" -"From what I'll do to you if you don't let me in.
It requires a truly staggering level of arrogance to cling to religious dogma, dismissing any scientific discovery that dares challenge its tenets, while in the same breath exploiting the fruits of science to prop up flimsy theological claims. All the while, they luxuriate in the comforts and advancements of a modern, science-driven society, blissfully unaware of the rank hypocrisy at play.
I'm not convinced it's arrogance in the sense you mean it; rather I see the perverse exploitation of scientific knowledge as a coping mechanism for the massive amount of cognitive dissonance created when faced with that scientific knowledge.
😂 There is the story of a minister that would have his wife look over his sermons and make suggestions and a common suggestion was “ weak point, speak loudly”.
“God Damn” I miss Hitchens. Just the antitheistic Hitch. Who will care enough about his fellow man enough to step up to the plate? If not wear his shoes, at least step into his footsteps. He was a rare one.
That first guy arrogantly asked that question, and you could hear in his voice that regardless of whatever Hitchens said, it would go in one ear and out the other.
A question for adults: if you were deciding where to send your children to a particular university or college and prior to their admission, you were to receive a letter of explanation from a few of the universities that stated: a) that several of their professors, for the past century and more, were regrettably, in fact, guilty of raping thousands of college students, both boys and girls b) that the university was well aware of who these offenders were C) it was current school policy and within the scope of their authority of that the university did not report these rapists to police d) the university insisted instead on a policy of secrecy and shelter and offered these raping professors a salary, sinecures and substantial legal protection. e) the rights of the raping professors exceeded those of the victims Who would, for a nanosecond, consider sending their child to this college or university? Shall I answer my own question? Not one thinking adult would do such a horrific thing to their very own flesh and blood. Why is it then, that millions still send their kids to Catholic elementary or high schools, or still donate money, or stocks, bonds, art or land to the Catholic church? The millions of people that still support this atrocious organization are to me, intellectually defective and questions of abnormal psychology have to be raised. Rid yourself of religious beliefs, shed them like a snake sheds it's own skin. Think for yourself.
It’s amazing that in any other part of life if a person were to have relations with a child, that person would be torn apart. In any jail it’s just a matter of time before someone does something to that person who hurts a child. But millions of people turn a blind eye and in fact give them money once a week. Mind blowing how powerful the church is on the simple and weak minded. Pure evil is the church
My favorite part is when Hitchens basically takes the shot after being asked, “what makes your life worth living and gives it purpose” and he basically retorts as a religious cult member thinks, “the misery of others” (a clear joke about how some take this pleasure of thinking they get the reward and others don’t) and the apologist he’s “debating” doesn’t even get the jab….followed by him making a quip about the irony of it all, magic! Right to his opponents dumb face, hahahahaha GOLD
Frank's biggest mistake was assuming that there could ever be such a thing as objective morality. Morality is the evaluation by an agent of an agent's actions (either in the past, present, or possible future) as to whether those actions further or hinder an empathy-derived goal, usually that of increasing human thriving and decreasing human suffering. Because it depends on an agent's perception, it can only be subjective. What Frank wants is the ability to proclaim the things he finds immoral to be affronts to the universe and to have divine sanction to enforce his morality upon others. The reality is that all he can ever have is an opinion.
My thinking is the roots of morality are in the natural world. A mother caring for her offspring is probably the beginning of morality . Some animals make better mothers than others. Apparently cooperation and caring have turned out to have value outside of the mother child relationship. I would say it’s are you a bowl? That moral decisions were being made long before they were human beings, at least among the higher mammals. I think people sometimes need to look add what is before they start in on their intellectual concepts.
Religious people claiming objective morality is so frustrating. God is literally the SUBJECT, his laws change over time, and every moral act is not moral in every scenario. Quite literally the opposite of objective.
@@johns1625 I've pointed this out for years. A question that I haven't had answered is if a theist believes that their morality is objective how is it that in the last 2000 years god hasn't made any proclamations as to morality changing yet morality, in almost all societies, continues to evolve.
And then all you can have is an opinion. And Hitchens as well. We are but dust the wind has swirled into a temporary, imaginary consciousness, and what then are our opinions but vapors of dust…? Albeit it is admitted that our opinions, nay, our beliefs provide the light and path for how one acts. Whether those beliefs are of God or of antigod.
Such articulation and moral clarity without a trace of pomposity or arrogance Religion does poison everything because it proposes simplistic irrational and unprovable solutions to very complex enigmas thereby preempting further research and contemplation
You cut off the most important part of the audience members question....at the end he asks: "Why don't you just stay home?".....and this was Hitch' s epic response.
1 It would be embarrassing to explain the difference between miracle and a singularity ..lol. 2. All you would be left with is an empty sac.. .. I think Christopher had a lot of fun with the Christian guy at the end. His ending of explanation of what is purpose of life just proves my point further ( crowing over peoples misery..lol)
Why do religious people keep getting away with this argument that the “ universe” came into existence out of nothing? Is there any reason to believe that there was a time where nothing existed? Is there any reason to believe that matter and energy in some form haven’t always existed?
Through the work of Einstein, Hubble and Lemaitre it was demonstrated that the universe had a beginning, now refined to have been about 13.8 billion years ago. The atheist position is that the nothingness that preceded the Big Bang created the universe. The Christian position is that an intelligent agent created the universe by willing it into existence from nothing.
@@judbergan8967You incorrectly state the ‘atheist position’. We don’t know what preceded the Big Bang or indeed what sat outside the compacted singularity. Something came from something.
@@roberthaley7317 The Big Bang is NOTHING to do with ‘something from nothing’. Only internet theists think it does and use it again and again as if it’s a gotcha. I think you might be misunderstanding the basics of Big Bang theory, even though the OP tries to make it clear.
@@roberthaley7317 The universe, as we know, it did not start from nothing . The universe, as we usually think of it is is not necessarily all there is and in fact, the observable universe is definitely not all there is. There is no reason to think of the Big Bang in any truly ultimate sense .
I love how there are thousands of Hitch compilations on TH-cam, but virtually none of the people he debated. Atheism is winning and 60% of generation Z are non-religious.
(***The biologically immortal organisms that lack senescence are already extremely great proof for God and his design but if you want more..... The 3 main forms of evidence that would be acceptable and legitimate in a court of law for the existence of God would be..... "Life after Death experience studies where people witness a creator God- " iands.org/resources/education/recommended-reading.html " " time.com/68381/life-beyond-death-the-science-of-the-afterlife-2/ ", .......... Multiple Studies on the effectiveness of prayer from multiple religions involving a creator God like in the book "The Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden" " www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=divine +matrix+gregg+braden&sprefix=divine+matrix%2Cstripbooks%2C195&crid=3BXKVNJABO9OK " along with other such studies proving a positive co-relation, ...... Positive co-relation to prayer in a peer reviewed study.......... jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/485161 ............ and scientific facts mentioned in the Bible before their human discovery by a divine influence, www.eternal-productions.org/101science.html ....... For example….. 1. The singing stars. Job 38:7 declares the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. It sounds like a bit of Bible poetry but not much more. After all, stars shine, not sing, right? Well, it turns out scientists have been able to convert patterns from start light into audio wavelengths, according to Discovery News. The “amount of hiss” in the audio reportedly allows scientists to measure the surface gravity on a star and gauge where it is in its stellar evolution. 2. Weight of the winds. In Job 28:25, we are told that God weighed out the wind. This one may be no more self-evident to us than it was to an ancient Israelite reader of this text. But, we know from modern science that air, since it does have mass, weighs something. You might be surprised to know how much though: an estimated one ton of air is weighing down on shoulders, according to this science site (which explains that we don’t feel it because the air is exerting its force in all directions). This is pretty basic stuff for modern scientists, but it’s quite a credit to the inerrancy of Scripture that the author of Job got it right so long ago (approximately in the second millennium BC). 3. A massive fountain of water deep beneath the Earth!!! Genesis 7:11 "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." www.thesun.co.uk/news/2242110/scientists-discovered-water-from-biblical-great-flood-in- worlds-deepest-hole/ www.express.co.uk/news/weird/733026/Russia-science-Kola-borehole-Noah-floodwater-Bible- Genesis-theory-of-12 creation.com/oceans-of-water-deep-inside-the-earth "Scientists dig the world’s deepest hole - and find ‘water from NOAH’S FLOOD’ at the bottom The revelation also reportedly "disproves the myth" that the earth is made up of dry rocky layers" All these would stand the scrutiny of a judge and jury for the case of a creator Gods existence and the legitimacy of the Christian Faith!!! But I am feeling generous so I will give you two more great forms of evidence, how about this book where a forensic officer who is atheist studies and researches the Bible to see if it proves a historical Jesus and if he was murdered wrongfully? Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels www.amazon.com/Cold-Case-Christianity-Homicide-Detective-Investigates/dp/1434704696, afterward he became Christian!!! Also, why don't you just pray to God yourself and ask him if he is real? What more can I say??? Then you would have personal evidence and proof of Gods interaction yourself..... I mean, there is actually way way way more evidence for God than this but it either would go over your head or you would not understand it properly and you would question it, but this is really solid evidence and proof I have given you up above that would hold up in a court of law........... if you decide to RUN from it, at least admit to yourself that is what you are doing........ Do you believe your life, body, family and the ground you walk on are all a gift or something else? If you believe they are all something else then what do you think they all are then?***)
Frank Tureks ignorant projection is so frustrating. He claims atheists believe the universe came from nothing when the only people who believe that are the religious. He claims he has a foundation for objective morality when god is literally the subject of it and it changes and is not true in all scenarios.
Hi Bill - Do we have proof Hitch existed? I guess you mean apart from people who knew him, family friends, colleagues, not to mention all the people who saw him at lectures, TV and radio appearances, vids like this one, his writing books and articles etc. Yes I think we can safely say Hitch existed. I mean, it's not like accepting his past existence was based just on the word of some lonely goat herder or the like, who claimed Hitch spoke to him in secret and that he met him far away from people on some remote mountain somewhere is it?
@@Boxspot does hitch exist, now? do you believe in someone who does not exist? is it logical to believe in someone you think does not exist? do you have a problem with Christians who believe in Jesus Christ/God whom you think does not exist? LOL LOL
Wow!!! Thanks for this great little compilation of such truly great thinking & truth-telling (from CH). It recalls me to the most clearly important issue and biological "value" at stake in this post-normal/post-truth era: the normalized ecocidal mania of Status Quo kleptopianism.
1:40 - that guy that asked the question looks so ANGRY. This I just don't get - I'm all for people believing whatever they want, but I do think they should let OTHER people believe whatever they want. In a whole lot of cases that just doesn't seem to be how it is.
of the estimated 109 Billion people who have ever lived only 144,000 are going to heaven? as a creator he is not very good at it. hows that for statistics?
The Catholic priest/professor at the university of Louvain/Leuven who "invented" the Big Bang theory was Georges Lemaître. Sorry for the late answer Christopher Hitchens... miss you!
Hell is where Satan rules ,,,could be anywhere even here on earth in some places . and heaven is where God rules ,,,,,also here on earth in some places , and also keep in mind that the universum has no limit .
Very well put Hitchens. However, the people that have the power of believing in something because they lack the ability to have humanistic humility to understand that they know nothing about something extremely complex during Sciences infancy.. Can never be forgiving and will never back down. Forever will they back peddle through out the existence of time until we either perish or we push them into a corner to almost nothingness. The fear of God once needed to have moral high ground. We have evolved to be better humans even without it. But now we detest most religious practices and have a new surge of people believing but not practicing because they think the Fear of god or fear taught in the Bible was a misinterpretation of how God truly is. Now they have back peddled thousands of years of famine,war, humiliation, assault, and malevolent teachings in order to virtue signal their belief in what, I would suppose, logical people would deem irrelevant today and no longer needed in order to survive.
@@mattorr2256 Though that may be true, the rise of other misinformed "religions" that are just as harmful are arising thanks to misinformed echo chambers on the internet. Some of which may just take an aspect of already popular religion and put a new spin on it to defend itself from questions they could not answer 5 years ago when I first made the comment.
My first two schools were religious schools and never, never were we taught that there would be an intervention of any kind whatsoever to save the cosmos. On the contrary, we were taught that the World WOULD end someday and that we should be always prepared because of the verse in the Bible that speaks of God coming " Like a thief in the night ", in other words one would never know the hour or the day of his appearance.
"Mysticism is the acceptance of allegations without evidence as proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one's senses and reason. " -Ayn Rand-
That “Christian” guy keeps shouting his arguments at Christopher. It’s extremely rude (& annoying). Christopher makes his points in a calm reasoned manner.
The one thing that actually irked me about Hitchens is the way he kept misrepresenting Thomas Jefferson's position on religion. Jefferson was not a proper Deist. He didn't reject the notion that God played some role in the world, or even an afterlife. He certainly rejected many points of Christian doctrine, but rejecting particular points of a particular religion's doctrine does not a Deist make. If anything, he was closer to a Unitarian than a Deist.
What is outside? The Universe may be finite, if so there is nothing outside, if there is something outside then it is part of the universe since the universe includes everything by definition. So we have to understand what this 'nothing' means. Not what is contained in an empty box. Not what is contained in the voids between the galaxies but absolutely nothing, not even the quantum vacuum. Asking what is outside a finite universe is like asking what is north of the North Pole.
Since the Universe is a singular entity-One-thing, a Whole, a Totality, the sum of existence-described by the General Theory of Relativity as a finite-yet-boundless non-Euclidean hypersphere (a sphere without an "edge" or an "outside"), it does not expand into anything. Not even "nothing" exists "outside of the Universe"; indeed, there is no "outside" and no "nothing." This concept of Oneness and Wholeness is challenging for humans to grasp. We are binary thinkers, accustomed to dichotomies such as yes/no, true/false, 1/0, inside/outside, and before/after. Additionally, the Universe we perceive appears to be three-dimensional, Euclidean, or "made of straight lines", consequently, we naturally think in binaries and straight lines. However, it is not impossible to understand the Universe's true nature if one studies non-Euclidean geometry-a type of geometry where "parallel lines meet at infinity" and the shortest distance is not a straight line but a "curve" or geodesic. For a good starting point, I recommend the book Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott.
@@donthesitatebegin9283 As it happens I have, with far fewer words, very recently attempted to explain somewhere here what nothing means when it applies to the nonexistenet 'outside' of a finite universe. Are you aware that Einstein's General Relativity is widely thought to be incomplete? Your attempt to explain or illustrate some of the concepts says nothing to the point. You have completely ignored the simple point that anything that exists is part of the Universe so it is nonsense to say that something created the Universe from nothing when that something is part of the Universe. I read Flatland many years ago when it was mentioned in Mathematical Games in the Scientific American, which was edited by Martin Gardner. I recommend anything by him.
We simply experience life and realize hey I shouldn’t lie to everybody or be violent or kill others because we don’t want them to do that to us.. it’s survival.
The assertion that a thing is evidence of something is itself an assertion that depends upon the ignorance of the listener. There was an evolution of consciousness. A very interesting book by Princeton Psychologist, Julian Jaynes on the subject "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" provides a good roadmap of how the stages of human self-conscience developed. The process included and includes minds that "get stuck" somewhere between the schizophrenic and the brain that is lateralized enough for a person to know that they are who they are and the voices they hear are not another person or, as occurred when the right charisma or social conditions.
Turek's career as a top tier apologist: 'If there is anything that we don't have the answer to, or can't explain, that means... "God!" Now we can fully understand that thing ;-)
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Listening to Christopher Hichens makes aware of my inability to articulate the thoughts of my mind. Too much math and science and too little word power. I miss him terribly. He was a treasure for all times. Reason and ideas were his weapons and none could take the measure of him. We are so much the better for hearing him articulate a thought against the best thinkers of the Christian faith of our times. He beat them all.
A valuable insight.
Agreed on all points except for Turik being a great thinker. I’m not left with that impression of him. He might be one of the best known apologists, but he’s not very good at it. Then again, how could he be? What he’s defending isn’t true, or at least can’t be proven so.
@@dougwood8499 You were right the first time. He's just as full of shit as Kent Hovind, though at least I haven't heard of Frank being behind bars.
@dougwood8499 I'm uncertain where you saw Turik advocated for (perhaps another comment was deleted), but beyond that... I agree fully.
He was wrong about germ theory. He must not have looked into it. Pure dogma.
If I was in a debate with Christopher Hitchens about the color of the sky and I was advocating for blue, I wouldn't like my chances! He's been gone for 12 years, yet all his content is still relevant.
He definitely has talent for rhetoric, and in that probably some who would argue for one religion or another could equal him. but unlike them, he is free to apply logic unrestrained by any religious doctrine or nonsensical belief system.
Anyway, I wouldn’t want to tangle with him either😂
Idk if i'm a masochist here, but i could love to get a verbal spanking by the great Hitchens.
Also, the man could never argue against an objective true.
He rather, climb down the pulpit tell you he was wrong and then climb back up again and tell how that the sky is not only blue but beautifully so.
It will be relevant for a long time.
Hopefully the younger generations will see his talks earlier than later in their lives.
I understand your sentiment but I feel that, knowing the science, he would have agreed with you
My favourite Hitchens observation:
"Where does evil come from?"......."Religion!"
Quick as a flash. OK, it's a cheap shot, but it always makes me laugh! 😉😉
Turek needed that.
One of my fave responses.
Ha true it is sound bite type reply ...but, it is also true.
Cheap and accurate.
Where does religion come from? Capitalism (who else paid for the churches???)
Where does capitalism come from? Ancestral species of man that... were greedy... because that's how natural selection operates!
#MoveAlongTheContinuumToANTITHEISM
@@NeilMalthus While I agree with antitheism wholeheartedly, some of what you said here is not accurate. Religion long predates capitalism and capitalism can only truly thrive in a mostly or completely religion-neutral environment (like the US).
Theocracies like Iran, Saudi Arabia, they are not capitalist societies.
Who pays for churches depends on the culture and the economy. In Saudi Arabia, they are simply mandated. In the US they are paid for by donations and government subsidy (via tax exemption which I agree with Hitch should not be legal, and if it is then they cannot campaign, support candidates, interact with schools, etc.).
Natural selection does not predicate itself on greed, but really simply what works, even if it isn't that good (like our eyes...we have to blink because our ancestors evolved eyes for aquatic climate not terrestrial...so they just are adapted). Opossums and cockroaches are literally unchanged for 10s of millions of years...but I wouldn't call them greedy. Just they evolved to a state that persists and survives "as is" even with other branches evolving off of them.
Where capitalism comes from is actually deeper than that and relatively interesting. Feudalism is what fueled both birth of US as well as capitalism, although at didferent times. That shift to mercantilism evolved into capitalism, largely credited to Adam Smith and Wealth of Nations.
But how "purely" capitalist a country is, that is up for debate. US is not only a capitalist economy, there is a mix of socialism, redistribution of wealth, social services, etc. as well as some straight "federalism" and some industries almost qualify as mercantilism (oil trade is a big one, not capitalistic or socialist or government owned...but a mix of gov control + industry self regulation, etc).
Composed, confident & on point…”Mr. Hitchens you are the man!”😎
What I love most about Hitchens is that he doesn’t let red herrings get in the way. For some people it might seem like he keeps dodging the question (and he is in some way), but that’s because he goes to the heart of the matter instead.
“How do I counter the fine tuning argument or the argument from design or first cause? Who cares? Even if there was one, how do you go from a designer (deism) to a dictator (theism)? That’s what matters!”
What a great debater and a great man.
I don't regret believing in Christianity when I was young. I learned from my mistakes and have grown and evolved from it. 'I am' much a better person, now that I moved past that stage of my life.
you don't believe in Christianity (which is in fact unworthy of trust). You believe in Christ (and do like he sais), that's called being a Christian
@@angrypidgeon1714
Christianity is unworthy of trust. Being called a Christian is not worthy of anything worthy but deception and lies. If you claim to be Christian, I no longer trust you. Are you Jim Jones type? Deceptive evangelical type? Fake Christian type? Who are YOU! I now see Christians as the evil type.
The conditioning one receives during their formative years can be mostly absorbed by the developing intelligences of later life. To have a world view that is open ended and free of contradictions becomes a source of fascinations and inspirations. If we are lucky enough we evolve into non-religious spiritual people who embrace life with ever-deepening insight and a loving heart. Well done. 🍀💚
@@angrypidgeon1714it’s called being a sheep.
@@Dankpuffin it's called being a man. Animals have no religion and concept of justice
Morality is a part of being a social creature. It’s about what helps the society - the group - thrive and survive and be happy and healthy, whatever achieves those goals. We live together and that means how we treat each other is an evolved thing.
Your comment should have more thumbs up’s
It always seemed to me that morality was just an innate sense of fairness cascading into complexity by language. Language allows us to explain this sense in specific scenarios. Even dogs and cats and infants recognize fairness.
Altruistism is selected for in most social creatures of our genetic stock. Hit the nail on the head.
It's what causes the instinct to call out a warning to others of your kind, even while drawing the attention to yourself of predators, when you spot danger. Rather than being quiet and letting the nearest friendly get picked off, we call out and find survival benefits in reciprocation.
I think everyone but psychopaths and some few others have this feeling. The feeling of belonging, and subsequent responsibility for whatever you feel you belong to - social group, family, humanity as a whole, whichever.
You get a whole lot closer to it with psychedelics, but meditation also helps you start noticing it:
As much as you feel like an individual, you also feel like you are part of, or maybe a little more potently, you ARE in some sense your social group (I think Alan Watts' thoughts on stuff like this are beautiful) - that feeling of the ego having the company of your social group in a visceral sense, and that both must co-exist and thrive, or wither and die.
I think it varies from person to person how important each is in relation to the other - which is why some people act to help others at great cost to themselves, most freeze, and some think mostly or only of themselves when in dire circumstances.
I don't think I'm even close to doing it justice with the above, but hey, I tried.
@cheopatius2579 sociopathy is a complete lack of empathy. About 1% of people are born this way. Biological empathy IS the source of social altruism.
It takes abuse and trauma to turn a sociopaths into a psychopath. Many sociopaths go on to productive lives as CEOs, politicians, etc. This is part of the problem with our corporate culture.
Sociopathic leadership and a lack of ethics drives the current 'avaricious short-term profit over sustainable growth and service' model in our corpracratic system.
To listen to Christopher in person..a dream unfulfilled.
You are allowed to listen to him in eternal life. Wonder how he will plain to you that he was wrong after all. That Jesus appeared to be real.
@@edk484 the idiot hath spoken.
@@tigerbc _Best to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt._ -Lisa Simpson
To listen to Christopher Hitchens is eternal beauty and reason.
@@SolitariusLupus7 I will not be there, but I wonder how he will explain his devote audience that he was wrong after all once in hell
This is a fantastic compilation! Thank you for the definitions. I’ve seen most of these clips before, but was ignorant of many of the terms and references. You have added enlightenment to Hitch’s pearls of wisdom.
me too 👍🏽
Yeah..
I can’t stress enough how important it is to become as educated as you possibly can, in as many fields as you possibly can. Religion is excellent at preying on people’s ignorance.
AG - Well said.
Bravo
More than that: religion not only wants you to be ignorant, it strives to keep you that way. Have you not noticed the outright war that American evangelical Christianity has been waging on public education? Moms for Liberty are about freedom, freedom from factual knowledge so that priests can make kids victims of their lies.
I was a very staunch Atheist, then I studied theoretical physics and became Muslim. The thing about Hitchen's opening rant is the blind eye he turns to the secularism and markets he worships. By simply redefining theism so he's no-longer an idolator (he would have clearly been from ancient Greece through all belief systems up until the Europeans changed the definition to elevate themselves above all others and then go on a worldwide rampage of death). Then the reactions to that rampage of death are analysed as if there's nothing the US did to civilians elsewhere before Sept 11th!
You couldn't make it up. As the quran says; totally blind and wandering.
What was it in physics that convinced you to become a muslim?
Well done compilation and annotations. Thanks!
Glad you liked :)
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, and brilliance unbound.
Turek makes my brain feel like it's being smeared on a brick wall in the spokes of a tricycle.
I admire Hitch for strength to exchange words with him.
he is dead, I dont believe in people I cant see with my own eyes.
Hitch who? he doesnt exist
@@blackagendermuslim7198 either you are blind or amnesiac or a theist
@@blackagendermuslim7198 you don’t deserve a response and the op was above you and didn’t respond. Good for them. You’re being a troll. You’re being the most insignificant, annoying, aggravating, small and futile aspect of the internet which is a religious troll. The op was better than I am because they didn’t entertain your small and petty attempt to argue about nothing worthwhile. Have a lot of fun and find joy in these very worthy endeavors of yours.
@@blackagendermuslim7198you cannot see a god with your own eyes. No one who has ever lived has seen a god. All we have are peoples claims of seeing such (hallucinations(. So what is your point of your pitiful attempt to cause an argument?
I love the way Hitchens answers the question about the purpose of life. Give an absurd answer to an absurd question.
Damn i miss Christopher Hitchens.
Me too!!! Always and forever.
As of 2023, this man has become (apart from parents and family) the greatest influence in my life. I’m slowly reading and owning all of his books and pabnflits.
He has a lot to give humanity in his words.
Same here , what a guy we need him now more than ever
Don’t be afraid to find fault and what Hitchins says.
There might be few people with a gift for arguing and debating as well as he does, but many more of us can find ways to improve on his arguments and come up with alternative arguments that might work better sometimes.
Remember, he’s not some holyprophet . He’s just a guy gifted, but just a guy.
Christopher Hitchens is immortal. ❤
Thank you friend
@@adamparker5696He would disagree with you. But indeed he is.
I cannot thank the person who put this together enough. The explanations are so helpful. I've been a huge admirer of this great man for many years and yet this video has items I've never seen before which is just wonderful. A man whose ferocious intellect was matched by his courage. Miss him everyday. I often wonder if his family read any of these comments. I hope they do to realise, as if they didn't know, how much respect and admiration he will always have. Such a loss.
knock knock
--"Who is it?"
-"It's me, Jesus. Let me in."
--"Why do you want in?"
-"I want to save you."...
--"Save me from what?"
-"From what I'll do to you if you don't let me in.
Religion in a nutshell!
The intellect just oozes out. Christopher Hitchens is impossible to match.
HITCHED TO A STAR HIS LEGACY WILL CARRY ON
THANK YOU HITCH YOU ARE MISSED YOU LEFT US STRONGER
"The atheist position is not that there is no god. It is that there is no good reason to believe there is."
He was a great speaker, a unique mind. Wish I'd seen him when he was live, and sad that he died so young.
It requires a truly staggering level of arrogance to cling to religious dogma, dismissing any scientific discovery that dares challenge its tenets, while in the same breath exploiting the fruits of science to prop up flimsy theological claims. All the while, they luxuriate in the comforts and advancements of a modern, science-driven society, blissfully unaware of the rank hypocrisy at play.
I'm not convinced it's arrogance in the sense you mean it; rather I see the perverse exploitation of scientific knowledge as a coping mechanism for the massive amount of cognitive dissonance created when faced with that scientific knowledge.
When you have no argument, scream!
😂
There is the story of a minister that would have his wife look over his sermons and make suggestions and a common suggestion was “ weak point, speak loudly”.
Thank goodness for Hitchens
Thank God for sending Jesus
@@edk484 you are welcome
@@TheMcmansilla very funny! Seriously, everybody is welcome to spend eternity with Jesus. It is an invitation you either accept or reject. Free choice
@@edk484 " Choose ye this day, this hour, for no Redeemer liveth! "
-Arthur Desmond-1890
@@BeefT-Sq no Christopher Hitchens liveth, Jesus killed him.
Hitchens dropped some devastating logic bombs at the end there, wow.
I became a fan of Hitch while he was still here.
I couldn't get enough of his videos.
I wish I could watch them for the first time all over again.
Christopher Hitchens was an absolute superstar, a very intelligent man who spoke common sense, a real loss who will never be forgotten.
“God Damn” I miss Hitchens. Just the antitheistic Hitch. Who will care enough about his fellow man enough to step up to the plate? If not wear his shoes, at least step into his footsteps. He was a rare one.
Alex O’Connor comes to mind.
@@lauriethomasmd3760no not him. I am a fan of his ,but as an extension of Hitchens? No way…
Im trying everyday and it’s working I must say ,usually people are speechless after my comments but that takes 9 years of studying of hitch
Why dont you and stop waiting and whining
Alex O'Connor. Dude is rad. Not Hitchens. Nobody will. He's worth a listen.
That first guy arrogantly asked that question, and you could hear in his voice that regardless of whatever Hitchens said, it would go in one ear and out the other.
A question for adults: if you were deciding where to send your children to a particular university or college and prior to their admission, you were to receive a letter of explanation from a few of the universities that stated:
a) that several of their professors, for the past century and more, were regrettably, in fact, guilty of raping thousands of college students, both boys and girls
b) that the university was well aware of who these offenders were
C) it was current school policy and within the scope of their authority of that the university did not report these rapists to police
d) the university insisted instead on a policy of secrecy and shelter and offered these raping professors a salary, sinecures and substantial legal protection.
e) the rights of the raping professors exceeded those of the victims
Who would, for a nanosecond, consider sending their child to this college or university?
Shall I answer my own question? Not one thinking adult would do such a horrific thing to their very own flesh and blood. Why is it then, that millions still send their kids to Catholic elementary or high schools, or still donate money, or stocks, bonds, art or land to the Catholic church? The millions of people that still support this atrocious organization are to me, intellectually defective and questions of abnormal psychology have to be raised.
Rid yourself of religious beliefs, shed them like a snake sheds it's own skin. Think for yourself.
It’s amazing that in any other part of life if a person were to have relations with a child, that person would be torn apart. In any jail it’s just a matter of time before someone does something to that person who hurts a child. But millions of people turn a blind eye and in fact give them money once a week. Mind blowing how powerful the church is on the simple and weak minded. Pure evil is the church
Very well put!!!!!
This definitely needs many more likes. Brilliant
Hit the nail right on the head. On target..well put sir
My favorite part is when Hitchens basically takes the shot after being asked, “what makes your life worth living and gives it purpose” and he basically retorts as a religious cult member thinks, “the misery of others” (a clear joke about how some take this pleasure of thinking they get the reward and others don’t) and the apologist he’s “debating” doesn’t even get the jab….followed by him making a quip about the irony of it all, magic! Right to his opponents dumb face, hahahahaha GOLD
Thank you for the definitions! Very smart to add on behalf of my ignorance.
Mine too. Hitchens made reference to a lot things / people I wasn't familiar with. I wish I could retain and readily access learning the way he did.
I can’t believe it has been 13 years since we lost this man.
Terrible
He is lost forever I am afraid
Frank's biggest mistake was assuming that there could ever be such a thing as objective morality. Morality is the evaluation by an agent of an agent's actions (either in the past, present, or possible future) as to whether those actions further or hinder an empathy-derived goal, usually that of increasing human thriving and decreasing human suffering. Because it depends on an agent's perception, it can only be subjective.
What Frank wants is the ability to proclaim the things he finds immoral to be affronts to the universe and to have divine sanction to enforce his morality upon others. The reality is that all he can ever have is an opinion.
My thinking is the roots of morality are in the natural world.
A mother caring for her offspring is probably the beginning of morality . Some animals make better mothers than others. Apparently cooperation and caring have turned out to have value outside of the mother child relationship. I would say it’s are you a bowl? That moral decisions were being made long before they were human beings, at least among the higher mammals.
I think people sometimes need to look add what is before they start in on their intellectual concepts.
Religious people claiming objective morality is so frustrating. God is literally the SUBJECT, his laws change over time, and every moral act is not moral in every scenario. Quite literally the opposite of objective.
@@johns1625 I've pointed this out for years. A question that I haven't had answered is if a theist believes that their morality is objective how is it that in the last 2000 years god hasn't made any proclamations as to morality changing yet morality, in almost all societies, continues to evolve.
And then all you can have is an opinion. And Hitchens as well. We are but dust the wind has swirled into a temporary, imaginary consciousness, and what then are our opinions but vapors of dust…? Albeit it is admitted that our opinions, nay, our beliefs provide the light and path for how one acts. Whether those beliefs are of God or of antigod.
@@roberthaley7317 Since no god relevant to our existence exists, no human opinion is "of god" or "of antigod".
Oh god May 2021 and this sounds soo topical it’s like he’s still here criticizing current events. 2:50
Such articulation and moral clarity without a trace of pomposity or arrogance
Religion does poison everything because it proposes simplistic irrational and unprovable solutions to very complex enigmas thereby preempting further research and contemplation
I would call Frank Turek a used car salesman, but when you leave a used car dealership, you have something useful
Hellooo
Superb by hitchens once again....
The Jimmy Hendrix of atheism
Well put?
13 years gone, and thus far he has proven irreplaceable.
I love looking up the words he uses. So powerful to have those in your holster!
Thanks for the definitions. Very helpful.
I just love Hitch,
Wish he was still with us.
He was such a eloquent man
When you argued with Hitchens, you were arguing with a man who had every arrow of recorded Western thought in his quiver.
To use tool of torture as main symbol of your religion could be easily connected to sadism/masochism and master/slave relationship indeed.
It's sad to me that Turek still has followers today in 2024. 🤦♂️
We live in interesting times. 🥴
Brainwashing is a very real thing
Interesting? Frustrating times. Religions hold humanity back
@@mattorr2256
I agree.
Thank god for Chris Hitch, and his disciples Dawkins, Harris, Chomsky, Gervais, et al😊
Christopher.
I tear up every time I watch him. Thank you for a great video!
Thanks Morgan - glad you liked it -live long and prosper!
you are not watching him, he is dead. I am not sure he ever existed
is this your imaginary best friend, I dont believe in something that doesnt exist?
still no is one responding to you…
@@blackagendermuslim7198you are a very low, small, petty, arrogant and contentious person. You are a person I hope I never come across
You cut off the most important part of the audience members question....at the end he asks: "Why don't you just stay home?".....and this was Hitch' s epic response.
Sorely miss this great mind/man.
The very first place where I was bullied was my church. My Methodist minister blamed me for being attacked.
1 It would be embarrassing to explain the difference between miracle and a singularity ..lol.
2. All you would be left with is an empty sac.. ..
I think Christopher had a lot of fun with the Christian guy at the end. His ending of explanation of what is purpose of life just proves my point further ( crowing over peoples misery..lol)
Just the best.
I love the informational edits!
Why do religious people keep getting away with this argument that the “ universe” came into existence out of nothing?
Is there any reason to believe that there was a time where nothing existed?
Is there any reason to believe that matter and energy in some form haven’t always existed?
Through the work of Einstein, Hubble and Lemaitre it was demonstrated that the universe had a beginning, now refined to have been about 13.8 billion years ago. The atheist position is that the nothingness that preceded the Big Bang created the universe. The Christian position is that an intelligent agent created the universe by willing it into existence from nothing.
@@judbergan8967You incorrectly state the ‘atheist position’.
We don’t know what preceded the Big Bang or indeed what sat outside the compacted singularity.
Something came from something.
Religious people…? What you describe is basically the “big bang,” the current scientific hypothesis of the beginning. No?
@@roberthaley7317 The Big Bang is NOTHING to do with ‘something from nothing’. Only internet theists think it does and use it again and again as if it’s a gotcha.
I think you might be misunderstanding the basics of Big Bang theory, even though the OP tries to make it clear.
@@roberthaley7317
The universe, as we know, it did not start from nothing .
The universe, as we usually think of it is is not necessarily all there is and in fact, the observable universe is definitely not all there is.
There is no reason to think of the Big Bang in any truly ultimate sense .
Love the parts with Frank Turek. Frank has never been able to present a real, coherent, cognitive thought in any of the debates he has been in.
The best video of Hitches
Glad you liked.
do you believe in people you cant see?
@@blackagendermuslim7198hey idiot. Why are asking the same futile question over and over? You must be the absolute worst ever…
i've seen this a couple of times, and I feel sorry for this guy Turik more and more, he had no chance against Hitch.
I love how there are thousands of Hitch compilations on TH-cam, but virtually none of the people he debated. Atheism is winning and 60% of generation Z are non-religious.
Some design by the way... it's the one line dismissal of creationism.. i miss him too.
(***The biologically immortal organisms that lack senescence are already extremely great proof
for God and his design but if you want more.....
The 3 main forms of evidence that would be acceptable and legitimate in a court of law for the
existence of God would be.....
"Life after Death experience studies where people witness a creator God-
" iands.org/resources/education/recommended-reading.html "
" time.com/68381/life-beyond-death-the-science-of-the-afterlife-2/ ", ..........
Multiple Studies on the effectiveness of prayer from multiple religions involving a creator God
like in the book "The Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden" "
www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=divine
+matrix+gregg+braden&sprefix=divine+matrix%2Cstripbooks%2C195&crid=3BXKVNJABO9OK " along with
other such studies proving a positive co-relation, ...... Positive co-relation to prayer in a
peer reviewed study..........
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/485161 ............
and scientific facts mentioned in the Bible before their human discovery by a divine influence,
www.eternal-productions.org/101science.html .......
For example…..
1. The singing stars. Job 38:7 declares the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God
shouted for joy. It sounds like a bit of Bible poetry but not much more. After all, stars shine,
not sing, right? Well, it turns out scientists have been able to convert patterns from start
light into audio wavelengths, according to Discovery News. The “amount of hiss” in the audio
reportedly allows scientists to measure the surface gravity on a star and gauge where it is in
its stellar evolution.
2. Weight of the winds. In Job 28:25, we are told that God weighed out the wind. This one may be
no more self-evident to us than it was to an ancient Israelite reader of this text. But, we know
from modern science that air, since it does have mass, weighs something. You might be surprised
to know how much though: an estimated one ton of air is weighing down on shoulders, according to
this science site (which explains that we don’t feel it because the air is exerting its force in
all directions). This is pretty basic stuff for modern scientists, but it’s quite a credit to the
inerrancy of Scripture that the author of Job got it right so long ago (approximately in the
second millennium BC).
3. A massive fountain of water deep beneath the Earth!!! Genesis 7:11 "In the six hundredth year
of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the
fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."
www.thesun.co.uk/news/2242110/scientists-discovered-water-from-biblical-great-flood-in-
worlds-deepest-hole/
www.express.co.uk/news/weird/733026/Russia-science-Kola-borehole-Noah-floodwater-Bible-
Genesis-theory-of-12
creation.com/oceans-of-water-deep-inside-the-earth
"Scientists dig the world’s deepest hole - and find ‘water from NOAH’S FLOOD’ at the bottom The
revelation also reportedly "disproves the myth" that the earth is made up of dry rocky layers"
All these would stand the scrutiny of a judge and jury for the case of a creator Gods existence
and the legitimacy of the Christian Faith!!!
But I am feeling generous so I will give you two more great forms of evidence, how about this
book where a forensic officer who is atheist studies and researches the Bible to see if it proves
a historical Jesus and if he was murdered wrongfully?
Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels
www.amazon.com/Cold-Case-Christianity-Homicide-Detective-Investigates/dp/1434704696,
afterward he became Christian!!!
Also, why don't you just pray to God yourself and ask him if he is real? What more can I say???
Then you would have
personal evidence and proof of Gods interaction yourself.....
I mean, there is actually way way way more evidence for God than this but it either would go over
your head or you would not understand it properly and you would question it, but this is really
solid evidence and proof I have given you up above that would hold up in a court of
law........... if you decide to RUN from it, at
least admit to yourself that is what you are doing........
Do you believe your life, body, family and the ground you walk on are all a gift or something
else? If you believe they are all something else then what do you think they all are then?***)
Hitch doesnt even exist. is this hitch your imaginary best friend?
@@blackagendermuslim7198notice how no one is responding to you???? We know what you are…
@@blackagendermuslim7198 "To the [mystic], emotions are tools of cognition , and wishes take precedence over facts."
-Ayn Rand-
Frank Tureks ignorant projection is so frustrating. He claims atheists believe the universe came from nothing when the only people who believe that are the religious. He claims he has a foundation for objective morality when god is literally the subject of it and it changes and is not true in all scenarios.
Frank Turek is Fake. One of the WORST apologetics on this planet.
@@johns1625 where does the universe come from in your opinion ?
@@edk484there are many scientific theories but a cosmologist will not say or claim they know how the universe was created
Any one that can orate as well as Hitch could at a “B” Team level him I
would consider an exceptional speaker and one I would like to hear.
Brilliant
Best. Hitchslap. Forever, now.
There's a person who should not have left the world so early.
He hasn’t left the world. His biological function ceased.
I miss Hitch...
Same here. Good to still have him with us through vids.
who is that? is that your imaginary friend?
do you have any proof Hitch, even exists? is he your imaginary friend?
Hi Bill - Do we have proof Hitch existed? I guess you mean apart from people who knew him, family friends, colleagues, not to mention all the people who saw him at lectures, TV and radio appearances, vids like this one, his writing books and articles etc. Yes I think we can safely say Hitch existed.
I mean, it's not like accepting his past existence was based just on the word of some lonely goat herder or the like, who claimed Hitch spoke to him in secret and that he met him far away from people on some remote mountain somewhere is it?
@@Boxspot does hitch exist, now? do you believe in someone who does not exist? is it logical to believe in someone you think does not exist? do you have a problem with Christians who believe in Jesus Christ/God whom you think does not exist? LOL LOL
Hitch's words and sentences contain wisdom and razor sharp definition , definetely god is not great. How l miss him.
Hitch destroying religious bs from beyond the grave. If you still believe: feel better.
"..and im not gonna move an inch." Good man!
The greatest explanation in a comical way is to watch Dave Allen - The Pope and an Atheist - 58 seconds that sums it all up. You're welcome !
Wow!!! Thanks for this great little compilation of such truly great thinking & truth-telling (from CH). It recalls me to the most clearly important issue and biological "value" at stake in this post-normal/post-truth era: the normalized ecocidal mania of Status Quo kleptopianism.
One of the few philosophical types I can stand to listen to while speaking on death, quite an accomplishment.
"If men hold a rational philosophy, including the conviction that they possess free will, the image of a hero guides and inspires them."
-Ayn Rand-
1:40 - that guy that asked the question looks so ANGRY. This I just don't get - I'm all for people believing whatever they want, but I do think they should let OTHER people believe whatever they want. In a whole lot of cases that just doesn't seem to be how it is.
My atheism: you don’t believe in all those past fictitious gods. I’m just honest enough to include the ones you cling on to as well.
RIP Hitch 🙌
@@clintparkinson129 If he still exists, I doubt he’s resting in peace.
Empathy, like love and hate, are the words we humans use to describe naturally occuring emotions and actions
of the estimated 109 Billion people who have ever lived only 144,000 are going to heaven? as a creator he is not very good at it. hows that for statistics?
Christopher Hitchens may be dead, but his words will live forever!!!
The Catholic priest/professor at the university of Louvain/Leuven who "invented" the Big Bang theory was Georges Lemaître. Sorry for the late answer Christopher Hitchens... miss you!
The best quote i ever heard was from an atheist ...which is I WILL GO TO HELL FOR THE COMPANY ..BUT I WOULD PREFERE HEAVEN FOR THE CLIMATE ...
Hell is where Satan rules ,,,could be anywhere even here on earth in some places . and heaven is where God rules ,,,,,also here on earth in some places , and also keep in mind that the universum has no limit .
what do dead atheist know?, Nothing
@@blackagendermuslim7198clever sir. So extremely clever.
I do hope that wasn’t Pepsi in that cup. 😂
Good old Hitch.
Yes, one ignorance oppressed by the other.
Very well put Hitchens. However, the people that have the power of believing in something because they lack the ability to have humanistic humility to understand that they know nothing about something extremely complex during Sciences infancy.. Can never be forgiving and will never back down. Forever will they back peddle through out the existence of time until we either perish or we push them into a corner to almost nothingness.
The fear of God once needed to have moral high ground. We have evolved to be better humans even without it. But now we detest most religious practices and have a new surge of people believing but not practicing because they think the Fear of god or fear taught in the Bible was a misinterpretation of how God truly is. Now they have back peddled thousands of years of famine,war, humiliation, assault, and malevolent teachings in order to virtue signal their belief in what, I would suppose, logical people would deem irrelevant today and no longer needed in order to survive.
Religion worldwide is eroding away every year
Look up the statistics
@@mattorr2256 Though that may be true, the rise of other misinformed "religions" that are just as harmful are arising thanks to misinformed echo chambers on the internet. Some of which may just take an aspect of already popular religion and put a new spin on it to defend itself from questions they could not answer 5 years ago when I first made the comment.
Come on people, make your voice known. What a beautiful man of reason!
My first two schools were religious schools and never, never were we taught that there would be an intervention of any kind whatsoever to save the cosmos. On the contrary, we were taught that the World WOULD end someday and that we should be always prepared because of the verse in the Bible that speaks of God coming " Like a thief in the night ", in other words one would never know the hour or the day of his appearance.
"The thief comes to steal, murder and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and have it abundantly."
"Mysticism is the acceptance of allegations without evidence as proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one's senses and reason. "
-Ayn Rand-
Mr Hitchens was so calm cool n collective the smooth apperator so versed he didn't even had to think hard to answer the question from the loquito
That “Christian” guy keeps shouting his arguments at Christopher. It’s extremely rude (& annoying). Christopher makes his points in a calm reasoned manner.
I think Jesus was a nut job fanatical preacher. All “prophets” as well.
The alternate story is that Jesus was actually a homosexual with a following of homosexuals, preaching homosexuality, which is why he was crucified.
I sometimes cry because he is gone
Yup. Why I love these TH-cam videos. Keeping the Hitch/Love alive!
The one thing that actually irked me about Hitchens is the way he kept misrepresenting Thomas Jefferson's position on religion. Jefferson was not a proper Deist. He didn't reject the notion that God played some role in the world, or even an afterlife. He certainly rejected many points of Christian doctrine, but rejecting particular points of a particular religion's doctrine does not a Deist make. If anything, he was closer to a Unitarian than a Deist.
What is outside? The Universe may be finite, if so there is nothing outside, if there is something outside then it is part of the universe since the universe includes everything by definition. So we have to understand what this 'nothing' means. Not what is contained in an empty box. Not what is contained in the voids between the galaxies but absolutely nothing, not even the quantum vacuum. Asking what is outside a finite universe is like asking what is north of the North Pole.
Since the Universe is a singular entity-One-thing, a Whole, a Totality, the sum of existence-described by the General Theory of Relativity as a finite-yet-boundless non-Euclidean hypersphere (a sphere without an "edge" or an "outside"), it does not expand into anything. Not even "nothing" exists "outside of the Universe"; indeed, there is no "outside" and no "nothing."
This concept of Oneness and Wholeness is challenging for humans to grasp. We are binary thinkers, accustomed to dichotomies such as yes/no, true/false, 1/0, inside/outside, and before/after. Additionally, the Universe we perceive appears to be three-dimensional, Euclidean, or "made of straight lines", consequently, we naturally think in binaries and straight lines. However, it is not impossible to understand the Universe's true nature if one studies non-Euclidean geometry-a type of geometry where "parallel lines meet at infinity" and the shortest distance is not a straight line but a "curve" or geodesic.
For a good starting point, I recommend the book Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott.
@@donthesitatebegin9283 As it happens I have, with far fewer words, very recently attempted to explain somewhere here what nothing means when it applies to the nonexistenet 'outside' of a finite universe.
Are you aware that Einstein's General Relativity is widely thought to be incomplete? Your attempt to explain or illustrate some of the concepts says nothing to the point. You have completely ignored the simple point that anything that exists is part of the Universe so it is nonsense to say that something created the Universe from nothing when that something is part of the Universe.
I read Flatland many years ago when it was mentioned in Mathematical Games in the Scientific American, which was edited by Martin Gardner. I recommend anything by him.
@@philipsmith1990Riiight (what a wanker!).
Search Neil D Tyson “nothing”. It’s mind blowing what is actual nothingness.
We simply experience life and realize hey I shouldn’t lie to everybody or be violent or kill others because we don’t want them to do that to us.. it’s survival.
The assertion that a thing is evidence of something is itself an assertion that depends upon the ignorance of the listener. There was an evolution of consciousness. A very interesting book by Princeton Psychologist, Julian Jaynes on the subject "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" provides a good roadmap of how the stages of human self-conscience developed. The process included and includes minds that "get stuck" somewhere between the schizophrenic and the brain that is lateralized enough for a person to know that they are who they are and the voices they hear are not another person or, as occurred when the right charisma or social conditions.
@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 😮 I always wondered how consciousness came about. Thanks.
Franks struggle with reality....
Terrified to die lol he (like many) just want more and more!
His frustration about his own conflicted mind is on full display here
Turek's career as a top tier apologist:
'If there is anything that we don't have the answer to, or can't explain, that means... "God!"
Now we can fully understand that thing ;-)