Always someone who feels the need to "offer up a quote" that says the EXACT same thing stated in the video at hand. What makes you people? Why do you need the attention your additional quote provides you?
A great man. I listen to him over and over and over. He really helped me to think critically. Critical thinking should be taught in schools, but the problem is, critical, intelligent people are hard to control because they think for themselves, while sheep in a flock follow a leader unquestioningly. Question everything or remain stupid! =)
@@mikefufuffalo8487 Not to my scrutiny and certainly not to others. How anyone can claim that John Wyclife and Miles coverdale were burnt alive is beyond me...both died of natural causes in their own beds. It takes some chutzpah to make such egregious claims with out checking.. And gNG is a veritable treasure trove of mendacity.
I called him the Gratheist Atheist of all time. He was the best! Christians really blame him atheism for the cancer he got. And they say we’re the evil ones. It’s insane
@@AnitaHanjaaab I wonder what those Christians have to say about religious people, and even innocent young children, getting cancer, or other nasty terminal diseases, too. If such a thing is a punishment by God, then God punishes in really vast numbers, and also very indiscriminately, doesn't he?
@@dinispaulino7512 that's a bit much. Atheist have killed more people than Muslims and atheist have only been around for four to five hundred years. Maybe you aren't worth "enlightening". Read Quran 65:4, I don't believe in Islam. Just exposing what I was lied too about.
@@pathfinder1273 The Crusades. The Spanish Inquisition. The Salem witch hunts. Residential schools for original peoples in Canada and the United States and Australia. Religious genocide in India. The atrocities in Bosnia. The bombing of the Twin Towers in the United States. Female genital mutilation in Africa. That's just off the top of my head, and I claim no expertise. This is all common knowledge. What rock have you been living under?
@@pathfinder1273 You are a living proof of what being a cultist (religions are massive cults) can do to a human, you become a semi human who is mentally challenged and live in denial to reality, facts, science, rationality, reasoning and more, you asking the OP to "name one" makes you a living talking and walking proof of what a belief in a cult can do to the human mind, if you wake up you will see what people who woke up see ..
@pathfinder1273 The damage? Do you want to start with the physical and mental damage from those wonderful Catholic priests who have been raping little boys for centuries? Does that ring a bell Skippy? Did you ever here of the dark ages? Why was it called that? That's when religion ruled you idiot. Great times! No wars? Really? Guess what? You can wait until the second coming of your favorite false deity before I do anything for a lazy turd like you. Do you want answers? GO GET THEM YOURSELF YOU SKY WIZARD LOVING DING DONG. I'm not your mommy.
Hitchens always looks like he woke up from a semi-drunken slumber just an hour before his lecture....and still demolished whatever the opposition was. I really miss him being in our world. I didn't always agree with his position but I did more hard thinking while reading his books. He probably added ten functioning years to my brain. I wish I could have given him some more years.
“But if the while I think on thee dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.” -Shakespeare sonnet. Dedicated to a man I profoundly respect and admire, and think of everyday. Hitch I sorely miss you. 🥃
It still pains me to have discovered Christopher Hitchens after he passed. If he ever had come to Europe for a reading or debate I would have gone out of my way to be present. The weird thing is, that everything he says, I already grew up with. I'm 61 and both of my parents were atheists; my dad mostly like Christopher himself: born a roman catholic, and around the age of 10 realized that it couldn't be true. My mom came from an atheist family herself and had a pic of Bertrand Russell on her desk. That was HER hero. So I was born and raised an atheist myself. I have experienced first hand how you become like the family you're born in, depending on how fanatic your parents were/are. I'm thankful, that my dad let me watch Jesus Christ Superstar at 11 (one of the greatest pieces of modern music ever written, in my opinion. I still listen to it) and took me to mass with Christmas when I wanted to know more about religion. After three times I got very bored, so we stopped going.😂 I believe Christopher and my father would have gotten along very well. And now they're both gone and I don't even know if my dad knew who Hitchens was...he owned Dawkins' "the Delusion of god". Of course. One thing I'm sure of: they haven't met in heaven. It's a nice thought, I know. But nope.
@wingit7335I've been on the side of truth since I realized that religion was a con job when I was in bible glass when I was 8, I hope that you too grow up one day.
@@carlgranados7106 I do not know the right religious people apparently. Most I have known were well educated standup citizens who often disagreed with their churches stance.
To my knowledge there is not another human being on this planet who possesses the debating and scintillating oratorical authority of this truly exceptional man.
Sacrificium Intellectus: The sacrifice of free thinking - to force oneself willingly into intellectual slavery. Such is the Christian way. But, to each his own- those who choose to blindly accept what is preached and taught - will remain mentally and spiritually immature.
We do not know, nor can we know, whether or not any god or gods exist. We DO know that people lie. So, how are we to separate the liars who claim they saw a god, not surprisingly to suit their own ends, from a person who sincerely believes they saw god? So far no one has been able to offer a reliable method to filter the two. Finally, if such a winnowing COULD occur, how do we determine that the sincere person wasn't themself deluded or tricked? Again, no such filter is forthcoming.
@@SMHman666 Good one! The same species that produced Newton, Carver, Einstein, Fleming and Hawking also produces flat earthers and creationists. I must wonder along with you!
After being brought up as an atheist and having great debates with my father about filosofy and religion and discovering Christopher Hitchens (my dad had of course "the god delusion" by Dawkins.), I came to some conclusions about religion. I think there are more than one reason for people to believe in a deity. a) Fear. The idea of a celestial powerful being that looks out for us, seems to be soothing to people. It's like a strange addiction. b) close to a) is "maladaptive daydreaming" and wishful thinking. I can still hear my father, when he cried over my mom's death, calling out:"I WISH I could believe! That I will see her again, one day! I WISH!" Which was one of my personal experiences, that proved to me that when you believe you believe, and if you don't you just....don't. c) there's a large group of "religious" people that take it for granted. They were born religious, brought up religious, never gave it much thought and went with the flow. No debating. No thinking. I DO believe this "flock" is the largest group. d) there's a LOT of misunderstanding about atheism. A friend of my bf at the time thought atheists were people that worship the devil. e) there must be something in our evolutionary developement, that makes mankind crave for some way to deal with all the hardships and tribulations that life is, in the end. We are mentally not very well equipped to deal with disappointments, bad breaks, death, loss, sadness, pain and all that negative stuff. It's unpleasant. And we're obviously (still) wired to search for a state, in which we DO feel pleasant. Overall: in prehistoric times, people didn't know how things worked. Couldn't explain it. Having that prefrontal lobe though, by the time of "homo erectus", we looked to make sense of it all- we're wired like that: curious, wanting to make sense of things. In such a way, that what could not be explained at that time, was replaced by a god or more gods. Until further notice. Leaders discovered that was a great way to keep large groups of people under control. Tell them it's gods will. Generation after generation passed these ideas and rituals on. In Europe the Enlightment (17th century) came about. God was finally quiestioned, science made leaps forward. This goes parallel to the first, very carefull steps towards the idea that we might not need a god. Maybe, we could explain and work out some stuff ourselves. The men in power went against it with all their might and still are. The idea, that morality came from god is most ridiculous, when you know anything about how primates treat each other and form a society. This taught us how empathy developed: we're a social species. We can't do without others. We need each other to accomplish bigger things. We need a mate, we need social structures and the bigger small settlements became, the more structure was needed. Because, just like with primates, when we live too close to each other, we get unpleasant and aggresive. I do also believe/think, that the discrepancy between the prehistoric parts of the brain and the prefrontal cortex is too big.(nobody ever said, that evolution was perfect. Or was ment to be perfect. It's more like a chain of certain events, good or bad.) In other words: we suffer from that crocodile-part of our brain that whispers: "fight! Big animal is coming towards you! Gimme that testosteron!Impregnate every woman! Pass on that unique DNA! Spread it as widely as you can!" vs: "we need to think, be reasonable, be kind to each other, take responsability for our actions, treat each other well. How do we know how to work that?? Hm, this is difficult. We need order and rules." This gap is not going away anytime soon. We are wired to evolve and we will. Even when we evolve ourselves straight into extinction. We are more than halfway there already. And I can well understand, coming to that ultimate conclusion, that most people WANT to think wishfully.
I don't know if you know it and this may come as a shock to some, but Christopher Hitchens had a deathbed conversion. He asked for a priest and converted him to atheism.
@@williamrenz3141 Please take time to work on your reading comprehension. Slow down. Read every word. Parse each sentence. Double check your reasoning against what was actually written.
@starfishsystems Why would an atheist need a PRIEST to convert him to atheism? If he was trying to be funny, his comment was poorly worded. Also, piss off!
I swear I learn several new words every time I listen to Hitch. And it’s not the junk words that mean nothing like Peterson or Chopra, he always uses his words correctly and honestly and always in proper context. His command of the English language is incredible.
Judging should not be possible by an intelligence that knows everything who supposedly created everything to a perfect plan, The sequence of events to everything should be known and if it isn't that intellect in fact does not know everything, anyway it asserts perfection "And god "saw" everything is good" It does not see but rather "saw" anyway it's asserted it's perfect plan is God like, therefore the only reason to judge is if there is an anomaly that defies what it knows to be the perfect plan. so as sequences of events occur, it all must have been prejudged way before asserted creation "PLAN" as to all be good, so my question is, Why judge something that has gone perfectly to plan? I mean what's the point of judging if everything is already known about everything even eons before an entire sequence of events pans out by ALL generations past, current and future and all of them way before they all came to exist? does it know everything or not? Sounds all contradictory to me, Or to be blunt extremely illogical. YUP... contradictory. as in pure fiction..
Religious belief in a God has to be, and can only be a belief. It is impossible for it to be a fact because there is no way to prove it. The bible is a man made interpretation of a belief.
Everything is a belief, buddy. Facts are only so because we agree on them. Go study the scientific method. And no one with a brain ever said belief in God was a fact. Where do you people come up with this stuff?
My challenge to Christians or religious people. Prove your religion is UNDENIABLY True without refering back to your religious figures, books or scriptures, and using certified 100% confirmed facts.
@jennifersmith4864 See, this is what I mean. You don't respond with evidence for Christianity, but rather ask me to prove atheism (which cannot be proved as it is not a religion).
If you leave out: the inquisition, the treatment of new world natives, the pedophilia scandals, the support for slavery and nazis, the suppression of science and women etc. religion hasn’t been too bad.
@@65verse4 Lame reply. Those guys didn't do what they did explicitly in the name of atheism but for reasons of, first, some socio-political ideology (pseudo- or ersatz-"religious" in some cases one might argue), second, personal power & control, and third, sheer psychopathy. Sure, many atrocities that religious people did also resulted simply from the above reasons two and three, but many other ones had been done explicitly in the name of religion/faith, by people who were otherwise just regular, "goodwilling" human beings.
@iancavon7125 lmao ppl would think I'm picking on the lowest fruit. The goal of a certain community based ideology is to replace religion, get this, BC they don't believe in any. Ik shocking but you use their same titles, same dialectics, same analogies and bad arguments, how are u not like them? Around 200 million in the last 300 years is a bad look and none of u can deal with it. You don't even know how to respond without what about this and that. In every context, secular atheist governments are the worst belief systems on the planet. Based on the numbers
I'm still trying to understand how Lennox can be such a blithering idiot regarding religious belief, while at the same time being a fairly well respected mathematician in Group Theory. Maybe he thinks that both are just empty word games, which would be a pretty sad comment on his engagement with life, but in any case he clearly doesn't apply anything like the same degree of intellectual rigor to both. His religious arguments are nonsensical, and they would get him absolutely nowhere in mathematics.
I'm sure hitch would disagree. I'm sure the would have preferred a religion free world for our collective betterment. There would be no lack of topics to argue.
I doubt that. There’s not a single passage in the Bible directed at the current population. Refer to, this generation shall not pass. With our minds we can commit adultery, with this same mind we can have eternal life and are required to kill our closest relatives, including our own children. How ludicrous? If not for the sense of euphoria for the many who gloat in unearned power and honor, only afforded outside proof and facts, reading the horrors exacted on the unfortunate who existed among believers, would affect us as though we were witnessing them.
@@SpoopyS. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. If you claim the existence of something -- a deity -- for which there's no proof in a scientific, empirical, logical sense (i.e. no other "proof" than a questionable 2,000 year old book, and the faith based thereupon) the burden of proof is on you, not on people who deny the existence of a being that's obviously more than elusive. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If there were such evidence, not only would all people on earth be staunchly religious, they'd also very probably adhere to basically the same religion. The mere fact that historically there's been like 100,000 different deities, religions, denominations, and cults, as well as (in every stage of modern mankind) considerable numbers of people who weren't able to believe in anything supernatural at all, shows that the "evidence" is insufficient, to put it very mildly.
Guys! quick question: can free will be a possibility if only the physical realm exists? I would think not, because if it is only the physical that exists, and physical entities are bound to obey physical laws, then everything that happens is due to cause and effect (kinda like dominos, iykyk)
“the physical” as opposed to what? Your brain is physical. Your brain creates consciousness. What it seems you are trying to do is make consciousness/thinking into something ethereal so you can conflate it with fairy tales (i.e. the supernatural). Don’t do that. Well, do that if you want, but that’s nonsense.
You cannot both claim to believe something, and also know it for certain at the same time. Because the sheer act of knowing it, removes any incentive for believing it. It is a lot like saying "This thing that I saw, is unidentifiable, so therefore it has to be...". The sheer act of subsequently attempting to define or identify it, instantly nullifies the former categorization of it being unidentifiable.
You can identify characteristics without understanding how everything in the subject works. I believe the sun is in the sky even though we don't know where the matter came from for it to start burning.
@@65verse4 That is not what I am getting at. - If "you" claim to believe in God, that's all perfectly fine. But then "you" cannot also claim, that "you" know for a fact that God exists. It is a matter of "exclusive or" which means that it can be one or the other, but never both. And of course, the "knowing for a fact" part requires solid proof, otherwise one just ends up being a person, who cannot tell the difference between knowing and believing. Semantics maybe? - But if we didn't need to distinguish we wouldn't have both words. - The simple act of knowing, removes the need for faith and "you" cannot believe without at lease some level of faith.
@Zhixalom I could see that. I don't use the word know in my teleology or theology but can we agree atheism has killed more people than any other religion?
Exactly why I am an agnostic... I live with the uncertainty and meaninglessness of existence. One day I will die. Life is meaningless and then We die. That is the mantra I say to Myself every day. I find it helps. Maybe if We were less certain then We might live on Earth with more peace and less greed. Who can be certain about other humans?
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!
This person sums up the I think completely. I just wish I could express myself as well as he. His name Christopher (Greek:Christ bearer) is kind of ironic . I love it
@@jennifersmith4864 Nope, unlike Joel Osteen, Hitchens didn't con/scam people out of millions of tax-free dollars with false promises of going to a special place for giving him money.
Can’t blame them if for no other reason then I used to be one. And I think your wrong about his influence. People are becoming less religious and more reasonable because of his efforts. People don’t “grow up” all at once but slowly over time.
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!
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!
I saw Hitchins shut up by The Reverand Al, of all people. Hitchins was going on with great oratory about flaws in the Bible & Rev Al said like if the bible is total BS, it doesn't mean there is no higher power. Hirth was speechless. The vid is on here somewhere.
Christian: Jesus saved me from my addictions. Jesus speaks to me daily. Jesus appeared to me in my dreams. I know Gods will, by reading Gods word. I'm living proof God exists. God's spirit & love empowers me. I walk within God's spirit. Jesus is returning this year... Delusion: 'Characterized by or holding false beliefs or judgments about external reality that are held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, typically as a symptom of a mental condition.' Question: Why do some wake up or snap out of this delusion and some don't?
6:08 - The guy in this section has a PhD in _Mathematics,_ which in no way qualifies him to speak authoritatively about Science _or_ Religion! He says Joseph was _not_ pre-scientific, despite the fact that the story to which he refers is set 1600 years before the codification of Scientific Method...in a book that never once references _anything_ outside a tiny region of the Middle East _and_ which gets nearly every testable description of the natural world _wrong!_ Joseph's world had _wonders,_ but widespread _scientific literacy_ wasn't among them. Such _remains_ the case for those who wallow in the delusion that faith is a rational position, while applying a _diminished_ standard of evidence and reason to _their own_ beliefs.
The dedication page of “The Portable Atheist”, Hitchens about Levi Primo’s “experiences” at Auschwitz is a good indicator of Hitchen’s inability to reason. Not to be believed: neither Hitch nor Primo.
@ “Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things “, Virgil. The OT has yet to be translated. The little- but significant- parts Kamal Salibi has tells different stories. The Bible contains myth, legend, history and science. Separating them is not easy. THM in Gen.1:2 refers to the Tihamah regions- Hijaz, Asir and Yemen- in western Arabia,not the ‘deep.’ Junaynah at Dn- garden of Eden- is located at 20/20 by 42/55 in Asir region western Arabia with the 4 rivers and gold etc. Still Adam and Eve mythical and the trees, cherubim etc. “The Bible Came from Arabia “, Kamal Salibi,1985, plus his 3 other bible study books and blog for facts not fantasies. The religious message is man made gobbledygook like all religions. So what: facts are facts. Grow up; too late for Hitchens!
I am both a former Christian and a former Muslim. I am now an ardent atheist and skeptic. I say this because I think Hitchens' words on Islam are a little misguided and shaped by the time in which he was saying them. He and the other "Four Horsemen" tend to go in hard on Islam mostly because of positions that are held by those that even the majority of Muslims would call extremists. Christianity and Judaism are just as misogynistic (honestly, I would say Judaism much more so people want to point towards burkhas but those are a cultural creation that existed before Islam), open to violence, just as bad at sexualizing children, just as devoid of logical thinking, and just as filled with atrocities. And, I would say Islam is no more focused on forcing one to be tolerated than its two predecessors.
Belief transcends rationality. I prefer to think there is a God. I know no one else is remotely interested in what I think, so I keep it to myself. I certainly would not let someone else talk to me about what they believe. (People have actually tried that, and I instantly shut them off.) If they have to talk about them, I don't really think people HAVE beliefs.
Aaaaawwww, sad poor you. Look at you, coping so hard. It's pretty ridiculous. Has anybody ever told you that? That you're ridiculous? Better late than never...
If Christopher Hitchens doesn't want to follow religion, he just needs to say so. Be honest. He doesn't WANT to believe it, so it is not "his truth". Why make excuses? Own your decision. It isn't like he would be open to changing his mind. Religion isn't convenient for him.
@@louseveryann2181 Ha, I'm not at all angry --- I'm not the nut going around trashing people's religion in an angry & desperate attempt to validate your own goofy beliefs.
LOGIC requires postulates and premises. Religious teachings provide postulates and premises. The Qur'an offers the postulate of numbers. The postulate of the numbers 0 and ∞ in the number system would be very difficult to be born in human thought without revelation. For more than 10 thousand years, humans have only known what can be received by the five senses. The five senses in question are touch, smell, hearing, taste, and sight which then developed the premise of reincarnation.
Revelation of numbers through the Qur'an "0" . QS Al Baqarah [2]:117 "∞". (QS. Al-Hajj ayat 62) "1", (QS. Al Ikhlas[112] ayat 1)
All gods started out as figments of somebody else's overactive imagination, they have then convinced gullible fools like you that they are real and exist.
@@louseveryann2181 , Humans know absolute nothingness until issuing an independent null number after receiving the teachings of the Qur'an. Both Roman, Indian, Mesopotamian numbers are not known as independent zero numbers.
for more then 10k years humanity has been stupid and primitive we have computer you using rn to make bs comment, invented last century soo, we can say that the quran that inspired planes to crash into building didnt have that much of a good impact on society, while science and industrial revolution did those are facts like come on, killing an comics artist for a joke about mohammad how is that good for society? like you know the quran was literally, a high piece (on hashish) right?
If you're religious to the point of actually thinking that there's something above you, in the room, sky, or above the depIeted Ozone... I really can't have a conversation with you... it'd be a waste of time... you know, I don't even want you on my Team.... Jus sayin
@@lightatthecape2009 it’s religious people who are intolerant of people who don’t believe in their same religious stuff. They’re the people who think non believers need to be “saved.”
@jennifersmith4864 It most certainly can be denied! The A in atheist/atheism means without... Without theism, without religion, without faith and without beliefs. It has no leaders, many atheist for example don't like hitch yet many Christians respected him. He like no atheist tells us how to think and live, they say question everything even them... The opposite to a cult/ religion. Christianity is a cult, a death cult built around an individual and his interpretation of religious beliefs and his wants.
(^^;))) Consciousness is the particle and wave double slit experiment. The cones and rods of your eyes preserve the particle and wave duality so your vision don't look like a flat screen television. It's supposed to be a violation of physics but it is the only exception in the whole universe.
Personally I have no issue with people of faith, as long as they practise that faith in the church, mosque or temple that suits their particular brand of piety. When people of faith come to my door I don't treat them with rudeness or disrespect as I quite enjoy holding them to task on issues I find quite distasteful within their respective religions. Much as I enjoy Hitchens, Dawkins, Krauss, Harris et al sparring with Turek, Craig, Wolpe, D'Souza etc.
Blessed are those who read my "Evidence of God", for they shall obtain proof of God. Find my Evidence of God in the comments. To make that easier, change the comment settings on the video to Newest and then scroll down gently. Thanks!💫📚✍️
KRIYA YOGA PROVED GODS REALITY TO THOSE WHO ARE AWAKE ONE HUNDRED PLUS YEARS AGO, STUPID, BEEN ASLEEP HAVE YOU, YOU MORTALLY IDENTIFIED BUFFOON. ATHEISM HAS BEEN REDUNDANT, IRRELEVANT AND OBSOLETE FOR ALL THAT TIME AND YOU KEEP EMBARRASSING YOURSELF LIKE YOUR OBSOLETE HEROES OF IRRELEVANCY. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 WAKE UP AND UPDATE YOUR USELESS LIMITED IMPERFECT AND UNRELIABLE HUMAN INTELLECT. KRIYA; THE GREAT DESTROYER OF ATHEISM HAS SWEPT THE WORLD AND THERE'S NOTHING YOUR DICKY DAWKINS, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, SAM HARRIS, KRAUS, FRY, GERVAIS CAN DO TO STOP IT. AND THE LONG OVERDUE EMBARRASSMENT OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE IS DYING 😢😢😢😂😅😊
Anyone who doesn’t believe in God, must believe that from a nothingness, magically a wave form or particle appeared. To believe in God, (which I do), we must believe God appeared from a nothingness. Or from a dimension beyond our limited understanding. Both beliefs begin with something appearing from literally nothing. Which within our understanding of physics means we can’t actually truly exist.
You “Anyone who doesn’t believe in God must believe that from nothingness, magically a wave form or particle appeared” Me - that is false, i don’t believe in a god and do not hold that belief
@@fibonacimike4110 neither do I or anyone else. That is why, based on our understanding of physics 101 (nothing comes from nothing) the conclusion must be that we don’t actually exist. A paradox. Of corse that’s somewhat sarcastic, obviously there is a time/reality piece that humans don’t understand. Somehow something was produced by nothing.
@ i am no physics expert but i would love to see where physics says nothing comes from nothing. And if we don’t have any evidence for and don’t have any evidence against something, then the most rational thing would be to say “i don’t know” right?
(^-^; Natural selection is the character flaw in evil that is integrity is more important than life otherwise evolution is tragic circumstances with nothing intelligent happening. Almost everyone survive until they reproduce. Nothing is getting selected except for the character flaw in evil. I found a replacement for the character flaw in evil that I liked but God makes me forget things that will cause me trouble.
Do you agree or disagree with the following? If not please clarify if you disagree with one of the premises or if you disagree with the validity of the syllogism. Premise 1: it is irrational to believe in something without sufficient evidence to justify the belief Premise 2: i don’t have sufficient evidence to believe in a god Conclusion: it would be irrational for me to believe in a god.
@@jennifersmith4864 The universe proves nothing as far as your imaginary friend is concerned, the scientific explanation with the Big Bang theory not only proves how and even when the universe came into being and had nothing to do with your or any other magical mystery man from the other 18,000 gods, goddess and deities.
I’ve never heard anyone with equal oratory brilliance. The command of the English language is otherworldly
I would love to listen to him rip into you for suggesting he has an extraterrestrial gift for speaking.
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Oration will not bring salvation, belief in Jesus will
Unworldly would have been a better choice. Also, he had a hole in his rear just like you. Calm down.
@@erictjones
He has a gift for spewing BS, that's fer sure.
Susan B Anthony: "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires"
@@thunderbird3694 I have noticed the same.
Susan B Anthony believed in God and worshipped Him
He (God) also doesn't seem to be good with money. Always needs more.
Always someone who feels the need to "offer up a quote" that says the EXACT same thing stated in the video at hand. What makes you people? Why do you need the attention your additional quote provides you?
@@skiphoffenflaven8004 "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun" - Ecclesiastes 1:9
"I'm not going to be tolerated by these people."
Hail. My sentiments eternally.
Yes if you openly mock and lambast someone for their religion then they're not going to tolerate your malignant presence at all times.
A great man. I listen to him over and over and over. He really helped me to think critically. Critical thinking should be taught in schools, but the problem is, critical, intelligent people are hard to control because they think for themselves, while sheep in a flock follow a leader unquestioningly. Question everything or remain stupid! =)
Question everything-absolutely! And, that includes Hitchens.
@@lightatthecape2009 of course it doesn't make sense otherwise why would add that
@@lightatthecape2009 Agreed. Having done that now for many years, he stands up to scrutiny.
@@mikefufuffalo8487 Not to my scrutiny and certainly not to others.
How anyone can claim that John Wyclife and Miles coverdale were burnt alive is beyond me...both died of natural causes in their own beds. It takes some chutzpah to make such egregious claims with out checking.. And gNG is a veritable treasure trove of mendacity.
Its a bone headed heavy handed assertion that is simply refuted
I miss this man.
Sensible humanity does too.😔
We all do 😢
I loved him 💜
Yea
There’s an AI Hitchens by the by
Hitch was absolutely brilliant. His valuable teachings will live and on! Thank goodness.
@@pb5640 Just what valuable teachings did Hitchen's promote?
@@lightatthecape2009 Think for yourself.
@@lightatthecape2009 That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
@@AJ-iq9ng, there are tons of evidence, we just chose to ignore them.
One of reason’s greatest champions
He was a hopeless alcoholic repeating the same thing day in day out for 30 years
He was a legend and a force of nature, I know there are equivalents around today but none of them have the gravitas of this man in my opinion.
I called him the Gratheist Atheist of all time. He was the best! Christians really blame him atheism for the cancer he got. And they say we’re the evil ones. It’s insane
@@AnitaHanjaaab I wonder what those Christians have to say about religious people, and even innocent young children, getting cancer, or other nasty terminal diseases, too. If such a thing is a punishment by God, then God punishes in really vast numbers, and also very indiscriminately, doesn't he?
Hitchens work must be translated and taught in all Muslim schools around the world. What a dream
As if they would ever allow that. It only works when they keep people dumb, they have no reason to "enlighten" them towards logic and reason.
@@dinispaulino7512 that's a bit much. Atheist have killed more people than Muslims and atheist have only been around for four to five hundred years. Maybe you aren't worth "enlightening". Read Quran 65:4, I don't believe in Islam. Just exposing what I was lied too about.
Religion. The deaths and damage it's caused are incalculable.
Name one. Go ahead, I will wait...
@@pathfinder1273
The Crusades. The Spanish Inquisition. The Salem witch hunts. Residential schools for original peoples in Canada and the United States and Australia. Religious genocide in India. The atrocities in Bosnia. The bombing of the Twin Towers in the United States. Female genital mutilation in Africa.
That's just off the top of my head, and I claim no expertise. This is all common knowledge. What rock have you been living under?
Project 2025 behind donolds handling of the pandemic.
@@pathfinder1273 You are a living proof of what being a cultist (religions are massive cults) can do to a human, you become a semi human who is mentally challenged and live in denial to reality, facts, science, rationality, reasoning and more, you asking the OP to "name one" makes you a living talking and walking proof of what a belief in a cult can do to the human mind, if you wake up you will see what people who woke up see ..
@pathfinder1273
The damage? Do you want to start with the physical and mental damage from those wonderful Catholic priests who have been raping little boys for centuries? Does that ring a bell Skippy? Did you ever here of the dark ages? Why was it called that? That's when religion ruled you idiot. Great times! No wars? Really? Guess what? You can wait until the second coming of your favorite false deity before I do anything for a lazy turd like you. Do you want answers? GO GET THEM YOURSELF YOU SKY WIZARD LOVING DING DONG. I'm not your mommy.
Hitchens always looks like he woke up from a semi-drunken slumber just an hour before his lecture....and still demolished whatever the opposition was. I really miss him being in our world. I didn't always agree with his position but I did more hard thinking while reading his books. He probably added ten functioning years to my brain. I wish I could have given him some more years.
I think you got it very close, but I would say he spent his life in a fully drunken slumber. One must be awake and lucid to see the truth.
@@pathfinder1273
That's a good old fashioned Ad Hominem fallacy. Bzzt. Shot into your own net. Two points off.
@@starfishsystems The guy was an alcoholic who more than once puked on people attending debates. A fact is not an ad hom
@@starfishsystems No it’s not. I wasn’t trying to prove anything logically. I was simply bashing him. BZZT. 3-pointer at the buzzer for the win.
Frank Turek never recovered from their debates.
I miss Hitchens, Sagan and Carlin each and every day.
Religion? No, thanks!
Nah. Religion? Fuck that disgusting bullshit!
More like Organized Lie
More like Organized lies with tons of retcons and plot holes in their stories
@@Khn_2102which religion? Because it isn't Christianity more like the Muslims with the Quran.
@@Khn_2102, religion can't save us, personal relationship with Jesus Christ as our God and Savior 'until the end' will save us.🙏
What a man! A man for the ages.
Not really
@@SpoopyS. He was a long winded drunken blowhard who made a living trotting out the same shit for 30 years on tv
@@michaelmarron8441
resolve your sad issues, child
@@SpoopyS.
No, not for the stone ages.......
Like you.
@SpoopyS. Really. He's 💯. Your religion (whatever it may be, there are too many to count) could never truely counter his logic.
We miss Christopher Hitchens.
Yes, we do.
I have a poster log Christopher in my garage, I cheer up when I look at it. He is a man for the ages, the modern Thomas Payne.
Hitch was a present to humanity!
@@narmac01 Really? What did he do for humanity?
@lightatthecape2009
What do you care? You're obviously not part of it.
@@lightatthecape2009 The fact that you don't know shows much.
@@louseveryann2181 nono dont insult him
he his chosen to end the apocalypse, ehh
be careful and pray to sky people 🤣
I miss Hitch SO much. I just wonder what he would think about the times we are in now?
@wingit7335nobody cares about your hurt little feels...
Everything he said was true and irrefutable.
Cope and seeth.
He’d be appalled. I’d love to hear him excoriate Trump, Musk, Ramaswamy and all the cronies.
Nothing about organized Religion is logical or consistent. And religion has done far more harm than good throughout human history.
No one has ever replied with a comment like that before on this topic. My gosh, it is amazing!!
Mankind's greatest blessing is that none of our gods are real.
Brilliant.
Gone way too soon.
“But if the while I think on thee dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.” -Shakespeare sonnet.
Dedicated to a man I profoundly respect and admire, and think of everyday. Hitch I sorely miss you. 🥃
It still pains me to have discovered Christopher Hitchens after he passed. If he ever had come to Europe for a reading or debate I would have gone out of my way to be present.
The weird thing is, that everything he says, I already grew up with. I'm 61 and both of my parents were atheists; my dad mostly like Christopher himself: born a roman catholic, and around the age of 10 realized that it couldn't be true. My mom came from an atheist family herself and had a pic of Bertrand Russell on her desk. That was HER hero.
So I was born and raised an atheist myself. I have experienced first hand how you become like the family you're born in, depending on how fanatic your parents were/are. I'm thankful, that my dad let me watch Jesus Christ Superstar at 11 (one of the greatest pieces of modern music ever written, in my opinion. I still listen to it) and took me to mass with Christmas when I wanted to know more about religion. After three times I got very bored, so we stopped going.😂
I believe Christopher and my father would have gotten along very well. And now they're both gone and I don't even know if my dad knew who Hitchens was...he owned Dawkins' "the Delusion of god". Of course.
One thing I'm sure of: they haven't met in heaven. It's a nice thought, I know. But nope.
Believers pride themselves with ignoring reason or evidence since this demonstrates their "faith".
@wingit7335, Yours are the most stupid statements I've read in quite some time. Enjoy your idiocy.
@wingit7335I've been on the side of truth since I realized that religion was a con job when I was in bible glass when I was 8, I hope that you too grow up one day.
@@carlgranados7106 I do not know the right religious people apparently. Most I have known were well educated standup citizens who often disagreed with their churches stance.
@wingit7335
Can you actuality physical cope any harder than this?
@@lightatthecape2009
So, a bunch of hypocrites...
I know I would have the worst conversation with this man because Hitchens would increase my world perspective leaps and bounds.
To my knowledge there is not another human being on this planet who possesses the debating and scintillating oratorical authority of this truly exceptional man.
I miss Hitch
His intelligence & delivery was 1 of a kind
Needed now
Thanks, very helpful in strengthening my viel.
Steadfast, friend. Be solid, be positive, be optimistic, be productive, be healthy. My best to you.
demon girls strenghten my viagra, not the veil 😭
Sacrificium Intellectus: The sacrifice of free thinking - to force oneself willingly into intellectual slavery.
Such is the Christian way. But, to each his own- those who choose to blindly accept what is preached and taught - will remain mentally and spiritually immature.
Great video... Great Knowledge! Thank you
‘Never go full religion.’
Kirk Lazarus.
"Supernatural Dictator"! Well said!!
So much hate for an imaginary being 😅
This is what Brilliance looks like and sounds like. ❤
Where are all the other Brilliants? Please help me find them.
Alex O'Connor is doing quite well for his age, if he developed a bit more wit he could be the next torch carrier of reason.
Aron Ra, for one……
@wingit7335 Huh?
@wingit7335
Please enlighten me as to what ‘personality disorder,’ he suffered from?
A new Hitchens drop!
"... and you wonder why I'm not keen." 😎
Miss you Christopher.
Savage but true.
@wingit7335Go ahead then, let's hear it
The ability to see that which the majority refuses to see, that is the strength.
What a pleasure.
Hitch brought light and real knowledge to humanity. He certainly left us too soon, but his work and unique talent will live forever!
Except for in apologetics
Hitch was the lord and savior for atheists
We do not know, nor can we know, whether or not any god or gods exist. We DO know that people lie. So, how are we to separate the liars who claim they saw a god, not surprisingly to suit their own ends, from a person who sincerely believes they saw god? So far no one has been able to offer a reliable method to filter the two. Finally, if such a winnowing COULD occur, how do we determine that the sincere person wasn't themself deluded or tricked? Again, no such filter is forthcoming.
@Informationistheedge.....If everyone had similar thought processes to you the world would be a better place 👍
@@SMHman666 Wow! That is high praise indeed. Thank you!
@InformationIsTheEdge Mate, I read through the comments and I often wonder if we all belong to the same species 😂
@@SMHman666 Good one! The same species that produced Newton, Carver, Einstein, Fleming and Hawking also produces flat earthers and creationists. I must wonder along with you!
After being brought up as an atheist and having great debates with my father about filosofy and religion and discovering Christopher Hitchens (my dad had of course "the god delusion" by Dawkins.), I came to some conclusions about religion. I think there are more than one reason for people to believe in a deity.
a) Fear. The idea of a celestial powerful being that looks out for us, seems to be soothing to people. It's like a strange addiction. b) close to a) is "maladaptive daydreaming" and wishful thinking. I can still hear my father, when he cried over my mom's death, calling out:"I WISH I could believe! That I will see her again, one day! I WISH!" Which was one of my personal experiences, that proved to me that when you believe you believe, and if you don't you just....don't. c) there's a large group of "religious" people that take it for granted. They were born religious, brought up religious, never gave it much thought and went with the flow. No debating. No thinking. I DO believe this "flock" is the largest group. d) there's a LOT of misunderstanding about atheism. A friend of my bf at the time thought atheists were people that worship the devil.
e) there must be something in our evolutionary developement, that makes mankind crave for some way to deal with all the hardships and tribulations that life is, in the end. We are mentally not very well equipped to deal with disappointments, bad breaks, death, loss, sadness, pain and all that negative stuff. It's unpleasant. And we're obviously (still) wired to search for a state, in which we DO feel pleasant.
Overall: in prehistoric times, people didn't know how things worked. Couldn't explain it. Having that prefrontal lobe though, by the time of "homo erectus", we looked to make sense of it all- we're wired like that: curious, wanting to make sense of things. In such a way, that what could not be explained at that time, was replaced by a god or more gods. Until further notice. Leaders discovered that was a great way to keep large groups of people under control. Tell them it's gods will.
Generation after generation passed these ideas and rituals on. In Europe the Enlightment (17th century) came about. God was finally quiestioned, science made leaps forward. This goes parallel to the first, very carefull steps towards the idea that we might not need a god. Maybe, we could explain and work out some stuff ourselves. The men in power went against it with all their might and still are. The idea, that morality came from god is most ridiculous, when you know anything about how primates treat each other and form a society. This taught us how empathy developed: we're a social species. We can't do without others. We need each other to accomplish bigger things. We need a mate, we need social structures and the bigger small settlements became, the more structure was needed. Because, just like with primates, when we live too close to each other, we get unpleasant and aggresive.
I do also believe/think, that the discrepancy between the prehistoric parts of the brain and the prefrontal cortex is too big.(nobody ever said, that evolution was perfect. Or was ment to be perfect. It's more like a chain of certain events, good or bad.) In other words: we suffer from that crocodile-part of our brain that whispers: "fight! Big animal is coming towards you! Gimme that testosteron!Impregnate every woman! Pass on that unique DNA! Spread it as widely as you can!" vs: "we need to think, be reasonable, be kind to each other, take responsability for our actions, treat each other well. How do we know how to work that?? Hm, this is difficult. We need order and rules."
This gap is not going away anytime soon.
We are wired to evolve and we will. Even when we evolve ourselves straight into extinction.
We are more than halfway there already.
And I can well understand, coming to that ultimate conclusion, that most people WANT to think wishfully.
I miss Hitchens now more than ever
I don't know if you know it and this may come as a shock to some, but Christopher Hitchens had a deathbed conversion. He asked for a priest and converted him to atheism.
Hahahahahahha yeah right
No, he actually did not. The claim is a baseless one and has been debunked repeatedly.
@@williamrenz3141
Please take time to work on your reading comprehension. Slow down. Read every word. Parse each sentence. Double check your reasoning against what was actually written.
@starfishsystems Why would an atheist need a PRIEST to convert him to atheism? If he was trying to be funny, his comment was poorly worded.
Also, piss off!
Greta 😂😊
I swear I learn several new words every time I listen to Hitch. And it’s not the junk words that mean nothing like Peterson or Chopra, he always uses his words correctly and honestly and always in proper context. His command of the English language is incredible.
Judging should not be possible by an intelligence that knows everything who supposedly created everything to a perfect plan,
The sequence of events to everything should be known and if it isn't that intellect in fact does not know everything, anyway it
asserts perfection "And god "saw" everything is good" It does not see but rather "saw" anyway it's asserted it's perfect plan is
God like, therefore the only reason to judge is if there is an anomaly that defies what it knows to be the perfect plan.
so as sequences of events occur, it all must have been prejudged way before asserted creation "PLAN" as to all be good, so
my question is, Why judge something that has gone perfectly to plan?
I mean what's the point of judging if everything is already known about everything even eons before an entire sequence of events
pans out by ALL generations past, current and future and all of them way before they all came to exist? does it know everything
or not?
Sounds all contradictory to me, Or to be blunt extremely illogical. YUP... contradictory. as in pure fiction..
Never trust anyone who has only read one book
The bible is minimum 66 books.
Especially if the book tells you that the stars will fall to earth. Repeated twice in the bible.
Religious belief in a God has to be, and can only be a belief. It is impossible for it to be a fact because there is no way to prove it. The bible is a man made interpretation of a belief.
this. if there is a creator he’s hidden and indifferent at best. cruel and sadistic (problem of suffering) at worst.
@@kenzboard The God of Abraham certainly meets the criteria for a sadistic psychopath.
Agreed.
Everything is a belief, buddy. Facts are only so because we agree on them. Go study the scientific method. And no one with a brain ever said belief in God was a fact. Where do you people come up with this stuff?
buddy
The Hitch!s brain worked 24/7. Love it.
My challenge to Christians or religious people. Prove your religion is UNDENIABLY True without refering back to your religious figures, books or scriptures, and using certified 100% confirmed facts.
Prove atheism is true.
@jennifersmith4864 See, this is what I mean. You don't respond with evidence for Christianity, but rather ask me to prove atheism (which cannot be proved as it is not a religion).
Prove your religion first using the guideline I have set, then I will give you my arguments.
@@jennifersmith4864 Atheism is not a truth claim. It is a simple statement of lack of belief. We atheists have nothing to prove.
@@jennifersmith4864 Prove atheism is true.
I do not believe any god has ever existed, there proof.
How can any religious person of even some respectable reasonable thought blowoff this man’s arguments
The skills involved in defending one’s belief in God are well practiced.
@@paulmillbank3617
Easily blown off --- prove atheism is rational.
Loved Hitch
If you leave out: the inquisition, the treatment of new world natives, the pedophilia scandals, the support for slavery and nazis, the suppression of science and women etc. religion hasn’t been too bad.
If you ignore mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Kim jong il, and Napoleon Bonaparte, atheism might not be the worst idea in history.
@@65verse4 Lame reply. Those guys didn't do what they did explicitly in the name of atheism but for reasons of, first, some socio-political ideology (pseudo- or ersatz-"religious" in some cases one might argue), second, personal power & control, and third, sheer psychopathy. Sure, many atrocities that religious people did also resulted simply from the above reasons two and three, but many other ones had been done explicitly in the name of religion/faith, by people who were otherwise just regular, "goodwilling" human beings.
@iancavon7125 lmao ppl would think I'm picking on the lowest fruit. The goal of a certain community based ideology is to replace religion, get this, BC they don't believe in any. Ik shocking but you use their same titles, same dialectics, same analogies and bad arguments, how are u not like them?
Around 200 million in the last 300 years is a bad look and none of u can deal with it. You don't even know how to respond without what about this and that. In every context, secular atheist governments are the worst belief systems on the planet. Based on the numbers
lennox is just plain silly
I'm still trying to understand how Lennox can be such a blithering idiot regarding religious belief, while at the same time being a fairly well respected mathematician in Group Theory.
Maybe he thinks that both are just empty word games, which would be a pretty sad comment on his engagement with life, but in any case he clearly doesn't apply anything like the same degree of intellectual rigor to both. His religious arguments are nonsensical, and they would get him absolutely nowhere in mathematics.
I love him and miss him dearly.
I’m so grateful that religions exist, because otherwise Mr. Hitchens could have never argued against them. Try to imagine what we would have missed…
Not much at all, really.
Predictable Pathfinder
@@cunever nothing.
I'm sure hitch would disagree. I'm sure the would have preferred a religion free world for our collective betterment.
There would be no lack of topics to argue.
@@jennifermclick9050 my comment was supposed to be ironic…
By the time I knew a man of this intellect existed, he was gone.... I wish i knew and read him early in life ❤
I wish Jordon Peterson was able to debate this Hitchens guy. He would set him straight. If you believe that, you probably believe in God.
I doubt that. There’s not a single passage in the Bible directed at the current population. Refer to, this generation shall not pass.
With our minds we can commit adultery, with this same mind we can have eternal life and are required to kill our closest relatives, including our own children. How ludicrous?
If not for the sense of euphoria for the many who gloat in unearned power and honor, only afforded outside proof and facts, reading the horrors exacted on the unfortunate who existed among believers, would affect us as though we were witnessing them.
Sorry! I hadn’t finished your comment.
“… this Hitchens guy…” lol
I wish this Peterson guy was able to debate Mr. Hitchens. He’d leave the scene (Peterson would) crying like a little boy.
Why argue. If someone wants to believe in an imaginary “ friend “ let them get on with it.
Agreed. As long as believers don't push their idiocy onto me, let them alone .....
Prove that it's imaginary. We have arguments you all don't, other than I don't like the evidence. Yet, we're immature.
@@SpoopyS. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. If you claim the existence of something -- a deity -- for which there's no proof in a scientific, empirical, logical sense (i.e. no other "proof" than a questionable 2,000 year old book, and the faith based thereupon) the burden of proof is on you, not on people who deny the existence of a being that's obviously more than elusive. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If there were such evidence, not only would all people on earth be staunchly religious, they'd also very probably adhere to basically the same religion. The mere fact that historically there's been like 100,000 different deities, religions, denominations, and cults, as well as (in every stage of modern mankind) considerable numbers of people who weren't able to believe in anything supernatural at all, shows that the "evidence" is insufficient, to put it very mildly.
God is good and the devil is evil
or…god is not all good bc of the suffering he allows on earth and desires not to have an actual understandable relationship with us.
@@kenzboard not only the suffering god allows but the suffering he causes.
Did god give me cancer? As likely that as the devil.
😂
Both the sole creations of man, and in reality, NIETHER exist.
Guys! quick question: can free will be a possibility if only the physical realm exists?
I would think not, because if it is only the physical that exists, and physical entities are bound to obey physical laws, then everything that happens is due to cause and effect (kinda like dominos, iykyk)
sad child
“the physical” as opposed to what? Your brain is physical. Your brain creates consciousness.
What it seems you are trying to do is make consciousness/thinking into something ethereal so you can conflate it with fairy tales (i.e. the supernatural). Don’t do that. Well, do that if you want, but that’s nonsense.
You cannot both claim to believe something, and also know it for certain at the same time. Because the sheer act of knowing it, removes any incentive for believing it. It is a lot like saying "This thing that I saw, is unidentifiable, so therefore it has to be...". The sheer act of subsequently attempting to define or identify it, instantly nullifies the former categorization of it being unidentifiable.
You can identify characteristics without understanding how everything in the subject works. I believe the sun is in the sky even though we don't know where the matter came from for it to start burning.
@@65verse4 That is not what I am getting at.
- If "you" claim to believe in God, that's all perfectly fine. But then "you" cannot also claim, that "you" know for a fact that God exists. It is a matter of "exclusive or" which means that it can be one or the other, but never both.
And of course, the "knowing for a fact" part requires solid proof, otherwise one just ends up being a person, who cannot tell the difference between knowing and believing. Semantics maybe? - But if we didn't need to distinguish we wouldn't have both words.
- The simple act of knowing, removes the need for faith and "you" cannot believe without at lease some level of faith.
@Zhixalom I could see that. I don't use the word know in my teleology or theology but can we agree atheism has killed more people than any other religion?
Thanks for your service bro.. ❤ save me a chair😊
Exactly why I am an agnostic... I live with the uncertainty and meaninglessness of existence. One day I will die. Life is meaningless and then We die. That is the mantra I say to Myself every day. I find it helps. Maybe if We were less certain then We might live on Earth with more peace and less greed. Who can be certain about other humans?
Awh, you are so cute when you are feeling sorry for yourself. ;-)
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 Why would I share your bullshit? Are you going to pay me? ;-)
@@lepidoptera9337
Agnostics are peaceful and not greedy??????
@@jennifersmith4864 Agnostics are full of themselves. ;-)
I thought I saw somewhere that something like 86% of world`s population have spiritual aspiration, even if not following a religion.
This person sums up the I think completely. I just wish I could express myself as well as he. His name Christopher (Greek:Christ bearer) is kind of ironic . I love it
Did he name himself then??
@@VisshanVis
Hitchins = the Joel Osteen for atheists.
@@jennifersmith4864 Nope, unlike Joel Osteen, Hitchens didn't con/scam people out of millions of tax-free dollars with false promises of going to a special place for giving him money.
a once in a while intellectual philosophical break after watching some fun skibidi toilet and animes
this is gud channel 🗿
Can’t blame them if for no other reason then I used to be one. And I think your wrong about his influence. People are becoming less religious and more reasonable because of his efforts. People don’t “grow up” all at once but slowly over time.
Amen brother!
4:37
unassailably brilliant
Christopher Always Asked : The Thinking-Persons Questions ! Not The Gullable Sheeps' Contentment !
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!
My favorite argument of his (ok, top 5) 10:53
I lost a dear friend when he told me what god would say to me when I pass.
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 LOL
I saw Hitchins shut up by The Reverand Al, of all people.
Hitchins was going on with great oratory about flaws in the Bible & Rev Al said like if the bible is total BS, it doesn't mean there is no higher power.
Hirth was speechless. The vid is on here somewhere.
poor you
Stumped by stupidity*
@@louseveryann2181
Hitchins, the great atheist guru genius --- stumped by the Rev, Al.
Awesome!!
@@louseveryann2181
Poor Hitchins.
@@jennifersmith4864
"Hitchins, the great atheist guru genius --- stumped by the Rev, Al."
So, by stupidity personified.
Would pay much $$$ to watch Hitch debate Peterson
@@papashort13 They would have to pay me to go.
That’d be a neat trick. Are you able to raise the dead?
Christian: Jesus saved me from my addictions. Jesus speaks to me daily. Jesus appeared to me in my dreams. I know Gods will, by reading Gods word. I'm living proof God exists. God's spirit & love empowers me. I walk within God's spirit. Jesus is returning this year...
Delusion: 'Characterized by or holding false beliefs or judgments about external reality that are held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, typically as a symptom of a mental condition.'
Question: Why do some wake up or snap out of this delusion and some don't?
Because some want to stay frightened children and some don't...
@louseveryann2181
Guess I'm the later.
“Article 58 Thoughts Against The State”
I'm just here laughing about, and at, cultists.
Such frightened children.
bro, have you ever seen
a christian vs muslim debate
its fukin hilarious 💀🤣
@@randomguy2210
I know, but I don't like dramacoms...
@@louseveryann2181 a mind numbing experience for sure
@@randomguy2210 a christian vs muslim debate
My imaginary friend is better than your's, not it's not my imaginary friend is better, LOL.
@@VisshanVis humanity should debate about animes not this bs fr
6:08 - The guy in this section has a PhD in _Mathematics,_ which in no way qualifies him to speak authoritatively about Science _or_ Religion! He says Joseph was _not_ pre-scientific, despite the fact that the story to which he refers is set 1600 years before the codification of Scientific Method...in a book that never once references _anything_ outside a tiny region of the Middle East _and_ which gets nearly every testable description of the natural world _wrong!_ Joseph's world had _wonders,_ but widespread _scientific literacy_ wasn't among them.
Such _remains_ the case for those who wallow in the delusion that faith is a rational position, while applying a _diminished_ standard of evidence and reason to _their own_ beliefs.
We all miss you Hitch
BB )O(
Don't know why his apologetics suck.
about 5 billion humans need to watch this. now.
No it'll get debunked to many times
@ you need to look up debunk in the dictionary.
@@bimfred Used it correctly.
@@SpoopyS. you can’t debunk facts
It is your assumption, not a fact.
The dedication page of “The Portable Atheist”, Hitchens about Levi Primo’s “experiences” at Auschwitz is a good indicator of Hitchen’s inability to reason. Not to be believed: neither Hitch nor Primo.
Aaaaaw, cope harder, oh sad one
@ “Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things “, Virgil. The OT has yet to be translated. The little- but significant- parts Kamal Salibi has tells different stories. The Bible contains myth, legend, history and science. Separating them is not easy. THM in Gen.1:2 refers to the Tihamah regions- Hijaz, Asir and Yemen- in western Arabia,not the ‘deep.’ Junaynah at Dn- garden of Eden- is located at 20/20 by 42/55 in Asir region western Arabia with the 4 rivers and gold etc. Still Adam and Eve mythical and the trees, cherubim etc. “The Bible Came from Arabia “, Kamal Salibi,1985, plus his 3 other bible study books and blog for facts not fantasies. The religious message is man made gobbledygook like all religions. So what: facts are facts. Grow up; too late for Hitchens!
@@davidrandell2224
"The Bible contains myth, legend, history and science."
As I said, you poor poor sad child.
Keep coping on.
I am both a former Christian and a former Muslim. I am now an ardent atheist and skeptic. I say this because I think Hitchens' words on Islam are a little misguided and shaped by the time in which he was saying them. He and the other "Four Horsemen" tend to go in hard on Islam mostly because of positions that are held by those that even the majority of Muslims would call extremists.
Christianity and Judaism are just as misogynistic (honestly, I would say Judaism much more so people want to point towards burkhas but those are a cultural creation that existed before Islam), open to violence, just as bad at sexualizing children, just as devoid of logical thinking, and just as filled with atrocities.
And, I would say Islam is no more focused on forcing one to be tolerated than its two predecessors.
Islam is a clear and present danger right now. He knew what he was talking about
Belief transcends rationality. I prefer to think there is a God. I know no one else is remotely interested in what I think, so I keep it to myself. I certainly would not let someone else talk to me about what they believe. (People have actually tried that, and I instantly shut them off.) If they have to talk about them, I don't really think people HAVE beliefs.
What you said doesn’t follow. Makes no sense
Aaaaawwww, sad poor you.
Look at you, coping so hard.
It's pretty ridiculous. Has anybody ever told you that? That you're ridiculous? Better late than never...
@@fibonacimike4110he means reason isn't necessary for truth
@@louseveryann2181ah yes, atheism is superior
God and organized religion are not the same. Arguing against organized religion is not atheism.
Name a god not associated with religion.
It is to be areligious.
If Christopher Hitchens doesn't want to follow religion, he just needs to say so.
Be honest. He doesn't WANT to believe it, so it is not "his truth".
Why make excuses? Own your decision. It isn't like he would be open to changing his mind.
Religion isn't convenient for him.
Cope harder, sad child.
@@louseveryann2181
Hitchins is just like the Billy Graham for atheists.
@@jennifersmith4864
"Hitchins is just like the Billy Graham for atheists."
Translation: "I am an angry child."
We know, dear. We know...
@@louseveryann2181
Ha, I'm not at all angry --- I'm not the nut going around trashing people's religion in an angry & desperate attempt to validate your own goofy beliefs.
@@jennifersmith4864 You sound very desperate for attention. How comes Adult Santa is not enough for you? ;-)
Love and miss hitch
Mary was a liar. Poor Joseph.. (my favorite saying)
LOGIC requires postulates and premises. Religious teachings provide postulates and premises.
The Qur'an offers the postulate of numbers. The postulate of the numbers 0 and ∞ in the number system would be very difficult to be born in human thought without revelation. For more than 10 thousand years, humans have only known what can be received by the five senses. The five senses in question are touch, smell, hearing, taste, and sight which then developed the premise of reincarnation.
Revelation of numbers through the Qur'an "0" . QS Al Baqarah [2]:117 "∞". (QS. Al-Hajj ayat 62) "1", (QS. Al Ikhlas[112] ayat 1)
All gods started out as figments of somebody else's overactive imagination, they have then convinced gullible fools like you that they are real and exist.
poor you
Keep hiding behind things you don't actually understand.
@@louseveryann2181 , Humans know absolute nothingness until issuing an independent null number after receiving the teachings of the Qur'an. Both Roman, Indian, Mesopotamian numbers are not known as independent zero numbers.
for more then 10k years humanity has been stupid and primitive
we have computer you using rn to make bs comment, invented last century
soo, we can say that the quran that inspired planes to crash into building didnt have that much of a good impact on society, while science and industrial revolution did
those are facts
like come on, killing an comics artist for a joke about mohammad
how is that good for society?
like you know the quran was literally, a high piece (on hashish) right?
If you're religious to the point of actually thinking that there's something above you, in the room, sky, or above the depIeted Ozone... I really can't have a conversation with you... it'd be a waste of time... you know, I don't even want you on my Team....
Jus sayin
@@daleneparole1502 Given your intolerance most people are likely to avoid you.
@lightatthecape2009 , Ok... I'm pretty much fine with that... "jesus is coming to make it all better", right ?
@@lightatthecape2009
Given your incredibly SHALLOW mindset, I would avoid you like the plague.
@@lightatthecape2009 it’s religious people who are intolerant of people who don’t believe in their same religious stuff. They’re the people who think non believers need to be “saved.”
The irony of Chris’s followers’ blind, unquestioning devotion feels quite religious.
Maybe that says more about you my fellow ape.
@@jameswright...
Atheism is a type of religion or maybe just a weird cult with it's own gurus like Hitchins & weird beliefs. That's undeniable.
@jennifersmith4864
It most certainly can be denied!
The A in atheist/atheism means without...
Without theism, without religion, without faith and without beliefs.
It has no leaders, many atheist for example don't like hitch yet many Christians respected him.
He like no atheist tells us how to think and live, they say question everything even them...
The opposite to a cult/ religion.
Christianity is a cult, a death cult built around an individual and his interpretation of religious beliefs and his wants.
Can you physically cope even harder or not?
@@jennifersmith4864 ⬅️ another cope hard
so sad
(^^;))) Consciousness is the particle and wave double slit experiment. The cones and rods of your eyes preserve the particle and wave duality so your vision don't look like a flat screen television. It's supposed to be a violation of physics but it is the only exception in the whole universe.
Reported
bs so stupid, bro watching cartuns fr
Personally I have no issue with people of faith, as long as they practise that faith in the church, mosque or temple that suits their particular brand of piety.
When people of faith come to my door I don't treat them with rudeness or disrespect as I quite enjoy holding them to task on issues I find quite distasteful within their respective religions. Much as I enjoy Hitchens, Dawkins, Krauss, Harris et al sparring with Turek, Craig, Wolpe, D'Souza etc.
Or when they infect the public media with their idiocy.
Morals predate religion.
😂 why do you feel the need to say that?
Atheism kills more than any other religion in history so probably not. We were worse in the past shown by how slavery just recently got outlawed.
the man who prays, is certain god has a plan.
hes equally certain god needs his advice on how to correct the mistakes.
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Blessed are those who read my "Evidence of God", for they shall obtain proof of God. Find my Evidence of God in the comments. To make that easier, change the comment settings on the video to Newest and then scroll down gently. Thanks!💫📚✍️
LOL still trying to convince yourself your imaginary friend is real??.
KRIYA YOGA PROVED GODS REALITY TO THOSE WHO ARE AWAKE ONE HUNDRED PLUS YEARS AGO, STUPID, BEEN ASLEEP HAVE YOU, YOU MORTALLY IDENTIFIED BUFFOON.
ATHEISM HAS BEEN REDUNDANT, IRRELEVANT AND OBSOLETE FOR ALL THAT TIME AND YOU KEEP EMBARRASSING YOURSELF LIKE YOUR OBSOLETE HEROES OF IRRELEVANCY.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
WAKE UP AND UPDATE YOUR USELESS LIMITED IMPERFECT AND UNRELIABLE HUMAN INTELLECT.
KRIYA; THE GREAT DESTROYER OF ATHEISM HAS SWEPT THE WORLD AND THERE'S NOTHING YOUR DICKY DAWKINS, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, SAM HARRIS, KRAUS, FRY, GERVAIS CAN DO TO STOP IT.
AND THE LONG OVERDUE EMBARRASSMENT OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE IS DYING 😢😢😢😂😅😊
@@billyryland When you can provide conclusive evidence that proves that your imaginary friend exists, I will no longer be an atheist until then.
Another delusional imp
@@billyryland ⬅️ another asylum dweller
Anyone who doesn’t believe in God, must believe that from a nothingness, magically a wave form or particle appeared.
To believe in God, (which I do), we must believe God appeared from a nothingness. Or from a dimension beyond our limited understanding.
Both beliefs begin with something appearing from literally nothing. Which within our understanding of physics means we can’t actually truly exist.
You “Anyone who doesn’t believe in God must believe that from nothingness, magically a wave form or particle appeared”
Me - that is false, i don’t believe in a god and do not hold that belief
@@fibonacimike4110 👍 good response and a fair one. So, what is your belief about where the first wave forms or particles came from?
@@DEKKD my response is that i don’t know where the first wave form or particle came from
@@fibonacimike4110 neither do I or anyone else. That is why, based on our understanding of physics 101 (nothing comes from nothing) the conclusion must be that we don’t actually exist. A paradox.
Of corse that’s somewhat sarcastic, obviously there is a time/reality piece that humans don’t understand. Somehow something was produced by nothing.
@ i am no physics expert but i would love to see where physics says nothing comes from nothing. And if we don’t have any evidence for and don’t have any evidence against something, then the most rational thing would be to say “i don’t know” right?
(^-^; Natural selection is the character flaw in evil that is integrity is more important than life otherwise evolution is tragic circumstances with nothing intelligent happening. Almost everyone survive until they reproduce. Nothing is getting selected except for the character flaw in evil. I found a replacement for the character flaw in evil that I liked but God makes me forget things that will cause me trouble.
The religious fanatic does what god would do if god had all the facts.
The logical fallacies of atheism are more interesting & goofier.
Do you agree or disagree with the following? If not please clarify if you disagree with one of the premises or if you disagree with the validity of the syllogism.
Premise 1: it is irrational to believe in something without sufficient evidence to justify the belief
Premise 2: i don’t have sufficient evidence to believe in a god
Conclusion: it would be irrational for me to believe in a god.
When you can show any evidence that your imaginary friend is anything else other than imaginary I will no longer be an atheist but till such time.
@@VisshanVis
the universe
@@jennifersmith4864 The universe proves nothing as far as your imaginary friend is concerned, the scientific explanation with the Big Bang theory not only proves how and even when the universe came into being and had nothing to do with your or any other magical mystery man from the other 18,000 gods, goddess and deities.
@@VisshanVis
What caused it?