We'd be better off without religion: Christopher Hitchens

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  • @christopherp.hitchens3902
    @christopherp.hitchens3902 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3208

    “And since god never actually shows up to talk to us...it is left to human representatives to speak FOR HIM. What could possibly go wrong?”

    • @tedmalley7636
      @tedmalley7636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      Faith and belief aways comes up...Sorry..for me to have some semblance of " faith " I first need at least a modicum of irrefutable personal evidence..

    • @niteriderband4713
      @niteriderband4713 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      He talks through your heart, if you only would listen.

    • @BeachsideHank
      @BeachsideHank 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@niteriderband4713 *Sapient Wisdom* If you take it that the poet has words, the novelist a story, the painter his paints, then a believer’s material is emotions. Emotions are the mortar they construct with.

    • @austinej2785
      @austinej2785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Everything

    • @tonygoodkind7858
      @tonygoodkind7858 4 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      @@niteriderband4713 Why does God say contradictory things to different people? All those different sects of Christianity are convinced God spoke to them telling them their particular brand of Christianity is the right one -- yet obviously these sects differ significantly, sometimes in outright contradictory ways. Do you simply ignore this problem and pretend like all those other sects are faking it while yours is the true religion? (Wouldn't that seem awfully convenient?)

  • @wayno5655
    @wayno5655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1251

    He was a gifted orator and a masterful ambassador for reason. Simply put, an intellectual giant who could expound his thoughts to a level where we all could feast on the riches of it. Much missed.

    • @lukeb8045
      @lukeb8045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      He was a gifted orator and right about some things but wrong about a great many things as well. I'm not sure I would agree with the ambasador of reason part, his language is as religious as anyone and his followers worship him as such. You only need to read the comments to see this. The truth of the matter is to be human is to be religious. It doesn't matter if your athesist or not. Athesism isn't a non-belief, atheists believe a great many thing and behave as religious as any.

    • @Jer0867
      @Jer0867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@lukeb8045 “To be human is to be religious”. On what basis do you make that claim? Are you saying that the default setting of humans is to have a belief in the irrational & illogical, and that anything else is to be a deviation of that condition? As for atheists believing a great many things; what's your point? Are you saying that, without religious faith, a person cannot believe anything? Do I really need to explain what's wrong with that statement, or why it is bigoted and ignorant? Probably not, but I will. I am an atheist (which, by the way, is the default setting of ANY human baby born, irrespective of race, culture or nationality...but that is an argument in itself). But I “believe” in a great many things. I won't list them, as they are too numerous. However, suffice it to say, the things that I believe in are those for which there exists empirical evidence to support their validity. In other words, if something makes sense to me, in terms of logical plausibility and probability, I will believe it. By definition, of course I will. Only an imbecile would not. And, as for you saying that “atheism isn't a non-belief”; well, how ELSE would you describe it? That statement alone really does highlight your complete and utter misunderstanding of the term “atheism”, and serves to expose your stupidity, ignorance and woeful lack of logical capacity!

    • @ForumCat
      @ForumCat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@lukeb8045 Luke B Not much of what you have said makes sense. 1) Many humans don't have religion. Some countries are almost devoid of it. 2) I know of no worshipers of Mr Higgins unless you are just choosing the word as a synonym for "respect", or "admire". 3) Atheism by definition means "without theism". 4) I looked up the word "religion" this is the definition "

    • @jwright3417
      @jwright3417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@lukeb8045 let me guess... your a religious most likely Christian hence assuming everyone is like you unable to accept people can live without all you know.
      I'm atheist and have no religious feelings at all and no beliefs.
      You shouldn't judge people by your own standards.

    • @poetry7260
      @poetry7260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Jer0867 Well aren't you the superior thinker? I think it is illogical to possess an ego stronger than your accomplishments.

  • @Aaberg123
    @Aaberg123 12 ปีที่แล้ว +743

    @metalifytheworld
    Threatning me with hell, is like a hippy threatning to punch me in my aura. Also, remember, you're in the minority. The majority of the population of Earth doesn't believe what you believe. All religions can't be right, but they can all be wrong.
    I'd rather live and die a as good, honest and non-superstitious man, than to pretend to believe the absurd, just to avoid some laughably stupid punishment.
    Never stop questioning what you think is true.

    • @Glicksman1
      @Glicksman1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      A hippy would never threaten to punch you or anyone else in you "aura" or anywhere else. I get and agree with what you're saying, but that is a poor example.

    • @zforbes839
      @zforbes839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      paul mortimer did you even read what you said

    • @zforbes839
      @zforbes839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      paul mortimer thats great and all but religion as a whole has been the reason for so many deaths of innocent people in so many areas so many continents in so many countries and has represented itself as nothing more than a power house that can do whatever it wants. Everything about religion is corrupt and sheep like you just prove Hitchens case

    • @zforbes839
      @zforbes839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      paul mortimer you’ve surrendered to a dictator who you’ll live your life in fear of

    • @zforbes839
      @zforbes839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      paul mortimer you know for a fact? really? through science and reason? what science and what reason? what facts? your thinking is irrational and will never be backed up by factual evidence

  • @JoyoSnooze
    @JoyoSnooze 2 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    This man was colossal, and remains so in his works and in the minds of people who were inspired by him and by those who newly discover him still. What an intellectual pathfinder we lost way before his time.

    • @frankytrevor7
      @frankytrevor7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @ggalaxy9065
      @ggalaxy9065 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@frankytrevor7 Yeah, I'll second that. I don't have a religious cell in my body, but the Hitchens/Dawkins variety of intellectualism is WAY overblown

    • @ggalaxy9065
      @ggalaxy9065 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Generic NameLet me suggest something. Read a book entitled 'The 12th Planet.' Almost everything you see about it on the internet is either ignorance or disinformation. But by familiarizing yourself w/the AAE, the Ancient Astronaut Evidence, you'll understand the origin of that "archaic book." It's well worth understanding, because we thereby see the truth of human origins, which decades ago should've replaced the nonsense on the subject still being taught in school, as well as the literal interpretation of the Old Testament.
      There's a lot more I could tell you, but I'll stop there. Should you take my suggestion & read that book w/an open mind, you'll soon realize why I emphasize it.
      Just adding one thought here. Dr Arthur C Clarke's most famous quote was, "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Getting one's mind fully around that, & keeping it in mind, is indispensable to grasping the big picture.

    • @ggalaxy9065
      @ggalaxy9065 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Generic Name No lesson there folks, just a typical display of ignorance, dime a dozen variety.
      There's no connection between the AAE & 'ufology.' The Coast to Coast show has largely been a disinformational vehicle for some time now. My suggestion (probably wasted here) would be to relax that death grip on the irrational belief in non-belief, & take a shot at actually learning something. Who knows, you might like it.

    • @Badumtss2468
      @Badumtss2468 ปีที่แล้ว

      A Godless country is what America is now. Trans people grooming kids, mass school shootings, drag queen story hours.😂 degenerates

  • @66Viscount
    @66Viscount 4 ปีที่แล้ว +495

    I am always in awe of his eloquence. He proves what a beautiful language we have and how we have come to cheapen it. What a huge loss Christopher is to intellectual debate regardless of which side of that debate you are on. How I would have loved to have heard his views of some of the world events that he sadly did not live long enough to see.

    • @Garyskinner2422
      @Garyskinner2422 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Frankie Teague He knew the truth whilst living as do i

    • @patrickoneill7070
      @patrickoneill7070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I completely agree with you I'm on the opposite side of the debate then he was but I think it's important that a person sharpen their views and challenge their mind and he did an excellent job of challenging my beliefs and even though I disagree with him there is no denying that he was a very intelligent and very articulate man and the world is a poorer place without him

    • @andyecheandia8375
      @andyecheandia8375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      eloquence is not to be equated with intelligence, Hitler, Obama etc

    • @66Viscount
      @66Viscount 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@andyecheandia8375 Certainly in my humble opinion Christopher had eloquence and intelligence....buckets full of both. I think anyone who has listened to Christopher would be hard pressed to deny he was a man of intellect.

    • @andyecheandia8375
      @andyecheandia8375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@66Viscount To BE a man of INTELLECT, one has to have MORE than eloquence. CORRECT solutions and answers have to also be arrived at. Not enough to be just a good talker. Hitchens was wrong AT LEAST on a FUNDAME NTAL question on which all reality rests.

  • @bobbailey7235
    @bobbailey7235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +560

    Mark Twain summed it up best, '' Religion was created when the first con man met the first fool"

    • @elijahdick9568
      @elijahdick9568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@HarouneOff when you don't understand what atheists believe but your indoctrination gave you the confidence to argue with people about religion

    • @trusttruth6097
      @trusttruth6097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Twain is guilty of plagiarism, God said it Best: Psalm 13 (14) Verse 1 The fool says in his heart, There is no God. Such are corrupt; they do abominable deeds; there is not one who does good. Here the Godless live in the greatest dissolution calling down vengeance, both understanding and the will we’re gone astray. Repent.

    • @elijahdick9568
      @elijahdick9568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@bluesapphire3737 I understand that your beliefs mean a lot to you and you've probably found a lot of peace in them, but the rest of us have heard what you have to say a million times before. We don't want your god.

    • @bluesapphire3737
      @bluesapphire3737 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@elijahdick9568 that's up to you it's your choice. Elijah Elijah sitting by the brook look up Elijah look look look See the Ravens as they fly bring you bread through the sky. 🦋✌️❤️

    • @EagleOneM1953
      @EagleOneM1953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Best way to describe it....It's all about control of the gullible to benefit the ones who can continue making them feel guilty. My best way to prove this is evangelists like Joel Osteen who preach to live a modest life of devotion in poverty and righteousness while he lives in a lavish mansion with his 'partner' paid for by the donations of his followers so big he needs a golf cart to go from his kitchen to one of his 14 bathrooms....But keep donating because 'God loves a cheerful giver'....

  • @dhutch71
    @dhutch71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +608

    During my University years, studying Geoscience, I realized that I couldn't rationalize the incongruency of what I was learning with what I had been taught in Sunday School and Church as a child and adolescent. Mr. Hitchens book, "God Is Not Great" reinforced my feelings that religion is one of the worst things mankind has ever conceived.

    • @thedarkdivinity7525
      @thedarkdivinity7525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Because you dont know how to combine and are merely using your fixed perspective to view the stories of old.
      All stories have it essence, if you know what it is then everything will relate even if they are different in perspective.

    • @azilius5302
      @azilius5302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thedarkdivinity7525 that's exactly right

    • @thedarkdivinity7525
      @thedarkdivinity7525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Angelwing Nipple And for someone who is taking biology class out of interest she have never looked at a human's body before? And she is in college you say? Are you lying your ass off, or did you went to community college for people who cant afford actual score? Because that would explain how dum% she is, and why your story would be believable.

    • @azilius5302
      @azilius5302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Allison Bauch ik ik you're right to some extent but this is not rationality because if it is then where are the numbers? I advice to watch lesley hazleton on youtube or read her books. Religion these days is just seen as oppression while I'm not proclaiming that every religious person is arrogant misleading and fake but i do wanna say that a religion as big as including millions and billions of followers has mixed people in it , some who recognize the truth and humble themselves in front of others and some who believe in conviction rather than faith and eventually lead to their own boastful downfall.

    • @thedarkdivinity7525
      @thedarkdivinity7525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Allison Bauch Wait a mins, are you that shallow to think that human with ambition and greed wont kill each other for power if religion didn't exist? Are you blind to what happened in communist Russia and china? Do you even read history? You sound like someone who has no experience with human history, only cherry picking and omitted details.

  • @acxezknightnite1377
    @acxezknightnite1377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +266

    Not only was his eloquence incredible, but his knowledge of the politics and religions was absolutely unrivalled. I’ve not known anyone since who could match the Hitch. RIP, sir.

    • @Cookie-ri9pz
      @Cookie-ri9pz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Try Steven Frye...he is a friend of Christopher and just as worldly and highly educated.

    • @sendit1924
      @sendit1924 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There's also Richard Dawkins...

    • @acxezknightnite1377
      @acxezknightnite1377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      True, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Fry are both intellectuals and eloquent with it. But the Christopher had that wit and confrontational style that was capable of ‘the HitchSlap’ that made his opponents cower and hide. That’s what I think is missing today.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@acxezknightnite1377 they're all losers and you losers admire them.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
      God is the reason for us and all we have.
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    • @nektekket852
      @nektekket852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nonsense, Hitch was a giant, and I'm definitely better off without religion. Wake up!

  • @roberttee8426
    @roberttee8426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    His use of the English language was a thing of beauty!
    A deadly poem....

  • @dmwalker24
    @dmwalker24 13 ปีที่แล้ว +396

    Hitch, you would be my hero... If I had heroes. You were the Thomas Paine, the George Orwell, the embodiment of rhetoric and reason of this contemporary age. You will be remembered. There will be no life eternal for any of us, but I promise to keep your memory alive, and to expose others to your great work, and to keep fighting the good fight. That fight that you championed in your unique way, with a glass of scotch and an amazing wit. We love you Chris.

    • @dmwalker24
      @dmwalker24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @paul mortimer Still alive and kicking. I might say now after nearly a decade, that what I appreciated about Hitch was his natural inclination to make others uncomfortable by highlighting contradictions.
      I didn't agree with his views on the Iraq War, or his drift away from the Marxism of his youth, but unanimity is not required for me to enjoy his contrarianism, or his beautiful prose. You may not know this, but Hitchens was quite a fan of some of the writing in the Bible as well. He quoted Philippians 4:8 at his Father's funeral.

    • @abigailslade3824
      @abigailslade3824 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If you loved him you would not call him Chris he hated that apparently

    • @dmwalker24
      @dmwalker24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@abigailslade3824 That was nearly a decade ago, but thanks for the vital info.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I hate the dingbat liar. He was just a clown.
      Your Hitch is dead then will be judged by God, shamed, then thrown into the lake of fire to be now more, just as you fools are heading.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      ---"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”--- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the dumbass didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word farting to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Only fools follow Hitchens.

    • @abigailslade3824
      @abigailslade3824 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@2fast2block I find it strange how all these followers of a so called peace loving God reveal in the hopeful ( in their view) eternal torture of someone who doesn’t share there beliefs and who pointed out a number of the flaws in their religion also who would want to worship a God who condemned anyone to eternal torment in a lake of fire and fry.

  • @NeedsEvidence
    @NeedsEvidence 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1213

    It is always a pleasure to listen to Christopher Hitchens.

    • @hammer-r
      @hammer-r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Pure intelligence and logic. Sharp as all get out...sad he is no longer around.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@hammer-r pure dung for clowns like you who believe his junk.
      Your Hitch is dead then will be judged by God, shamed, then thrown into the lake of fire to be now more, just as you fools are heading.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      ---"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”--- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the dumbass didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word farting to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Only fools follow Hitchens.

    • @LifeOfRy
      @LifeOfRy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@2fast2block copy and pasting your whiny bible babble. Just like a true Christian.
      Have fun believing in a magical being invented during the infancy of our species. What a moron you are.

    • @jerometaperman7102
      @jerometaperman7102 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@LifeOfRy - @2fast2block has some serious anger issues.

    • @LifeOfRy
      @LifeOfRy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@jerometaperman7102 of course he has issues - he’s a Christian!

  • @kpax45
    @kpax45 2 ปีที่แล้ว +316

    It is hard to believe Hitchens has been gone for 10 years. His brilliance is sadly missed

    • @grateful3300
      @grateful3300 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He’s in heaven now. No need to be sad

    • @cringekiller348
      @cringekiller348 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @jeff
      B
      Heaven doesn't exist

    • @ChillAssTurtle
      @ChillAssTurtle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@grateful3300 thatd be hell for hitchens XD

    • @grateful3300
      @grateful3300 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ChillAssTurtle lol. True

    • @ChillAssTurtle
      @ChillAssTurtle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@grateful3300 imagine having to live forever on your knees singing to a guy thats just spamming childhood bone cancer spells on our friends and families below XD i'd just keep tryna shank that sicko

  • @mp5249
    @mp5249 3 ปีที่แล้ว +582

    Still recovering Catholic. I know my children have a better life without experienced the cloud of browbeating and taught self-hatred along with sexual predation.

    • @patrickoneill7070
      @patrickoneill7070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I am a Catholic what church did you go to I'm sorry that the people there were all really horrible to you and the priests raped you the church I go to everybody's pretty nice and to the best of my knowledge the priest doesn't rape anybody but he's a young man so I guess we'll see

    • @TheKamikazenaz
      @TheKamikazenaz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@patrickoneill7070 And when he does he can simply be moved to fresh pastures and all the hullabaloo can be covered up.

    • @mookiestewart3776
      @mookiestewart3776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@patrickoneill7070 I am an agnostic atheist but I have noticed over the last 10 years the Catholic Church has softened.....a bit. It still does not absolve them of the ridiculous things they believe, or that any religion believes for that matter. I’m glad you guys are a bit softer now but there are so many things in your book that contradict each other it invalidates the entire scripture. That’s the issue

    • @Juiceboxdan72
      @Juiceboxdan72 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Congrats, and thank you for not subjecting your descendants to it!

    • @Juiceboxdan72
      @Juiceboxdan72 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@patrickoneill7070 Lol did they forget to teach punctuation in Sunday school? Eh, priorities I guess.

  • @the_road__warrior6185
    @the_road__warrior6185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +407

    Yep, It’s 2020 & your still on our minds, Christopher. Rest In Peace M8.
    -Love From America

    • @annmargaret8763
      @annmargaret8763 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The ToeCutter I can’t imagine what he would say at the state of affairs at the moment, which is disastrous. I’m sure he’d have a lot to say.

    • @Avengers24-sw7cv
      @Avengers24-sw7cv 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He will be glad to know that you are thinking of him as he burns in hell.

    • @Diviance
      @Diviance 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Avengers24-sw7cv
      Thanks for further proving the point that we are better off without religion. Especially ones like yours, that desire control through fear.

    • @Avengers24-sw7cv
      @Avengers24-sw7cv 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Diviance Desires such as what?

    • @philaypeephilippotter6532
      @philaypeephilippotter6532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Avengers24-sw7cv
      You tell us, after all you're the expert.

  • @alphacause
    @alphacause 13 ปีที่แล้ว +759

    Hitchens has died, but his intellectual legacy lives on, and to me that is the only form of "immortality" that we can be certain of, and that is the only form of immorality that really should matter to us. Hitchens gave voice to those who of us who had no voice. His scathing critique of religion and other irrationalities gave so many of us, who were previously silent, the courage to speak up. He not only imparted great knowledge to the world, but strength to those who valued reason.

    • @windcatcher331
      @windcatcher331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Not only the courage to speak up, but to speak up with confidence and conviction. We stopped being "good atheists" who keep our mouths shut. We have stated, emphatically, that we will shut up when theists do.

    • @rayolight9744
      @rayolight9744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@windcatcher331 if they just die where do we keep coming from

    • @srp01983
      @srp01983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@rayolight9744 All your questions can be properly and honestly answered by ‘I don’t know’. But instead you have made the first fatal step down the ludicrous path of the logical fallacy of presuming that you do know, and that somehow you have been given knowledge denied those who are really interested in the correct answers. Such arrogance is entirely normal in religious people. But worse, much worse, is the fact that by answering all those questions with ‘a god did it’ the religious have stopped thinking and questioning- their curiosity about the natural world is stifled by their nonsensical reasoning.

    • @srp01983
      @srp01983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@rayolight9744 I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about - it’s nothing more than incomprehensible gibberish.

    • @rayolight9744
      @rayolight9744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@srp01983 Archeology is confirming bible characters and places

  • @mikeash7193
    @mikeash7193 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    Astronomer Carl Sagan: We'd be much better off with questions we can't answer, than answers we can't question.

    • @frighteningenius
      @frighteningenius 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      that was Feynman i believe

    • @SleepyPenguin-8og
      @SleepyPenguin-8og 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Neither. Never happen3d. Coronavirus. 19. 86d. ​@@frighteningenius

    • @johno1954
      @johno1954 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ask questions, then. God isn’t stopping you

    • @Venturai
      @Venturai 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johno1954 We noticed.

    • @georgistarkov717
      @georgistarkov717 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How's that SETI working out I wonder?

  • @dadcooks1347
    @dadcooks1347 4 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Every time I hear him speak i feel a need to applaud afterwards

    • @mysticwine
      @mysticwine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I usually puke!

    • @dadcooks1347
      @dadcooks1347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mysticwine I know, he’s that good right

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mysticwine If CH makes certain people throw up that means he is being effective.

    • @mysticwine
      @mysticwine 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kiwitrainguy Satan is very effective. CH is not Satan but he has been well indoctrinated, as we all have. Saint Paul was a killer and torturer of Christians, until he was set straight by Christ.

    • @danidejaneiro8378
      @danidejaneiro8378 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mysticwine - nobody here believes in your fairytales

  • @jwgoon
    @jwgoon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    I miss Christopher Hitchens. May his words live on for a long long time and save the human race from the idiocy of religion.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Save us from your crap religion Hitch advocated. How absurd to believe we can get the creation of the universe without God. How absurd to believe we can get the laws of nature without a Lawgiver. Hitch wants his dumbass absurd religion to reign. Not all of us are that stupid.

    • @forcedtohaveahandle
      @forcedtohaveahandle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      2fast2block what religion

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@forcedtohaveahandle I said, "How absurd to believe we can get the creation of the universe without God. How absurd to believe we can get the laws of nature without a Lawgiver. Hitch wants his dumbass absurd religion to reign. Not all of us are that stupid."
      It's a belief system. Just because fools make up dumb rules about having no religion does not make their religion go away.
      creation.com/atheism-a-religion
      answersingenesis.org/world-religions/atheism/atheism-is-religion/
      www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_is_a_religion
      www.wnd.com/2005/08/31895/

    • @Avengers24-sw7cv
      @Avengers24-sw7cv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Enjoy eternity burning in hell.

    • @jwgoon
      @jwgoon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Avengers24-sw7cv Way preferable than being stuck with someone like you

  • @rishabhsethi5956
    @rishabhsethi5956 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Love how Hitchens, Fry and Dawkins form the forefront of British Intellectual Atheist group with Fry being an absolute polite darling and Hitchens being ready to kill you with his sarcasm and would not even look back at your corpse.

  • @lostandnotfound927
    @lostandnotfound927 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment this man was taken too early, but take solace in the fact he walked the earth late enough to have been captured digitally for us all to enjoy for years to come.

  • @stuartjones2812
    @stuartjones2812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +543

    Christopher Hitchens should be remembered as the genius he was

    • @Fullyautomagic
      @Fullyautomagic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He will be

    • @elvarg991
      @elvarg991 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@QUEENOFPATTAYAThaiGirl Please shut up your stupid mouth. You are a disgrace to humankind. Hell doesn't exist by the way. It is just in your stupid and brainwashed head.

    • @QUEENOFPATTAYAThaiGirl
      @QUEENOFPATTAYAThaiGirl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sorry who is disgraced to human kind we see already - people that not respect other people opinions and use negative vocabulary.

    • @yess1191
      @yess1191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@QUEENOFPATTAYAThaiGirl man I'm calm but what the fuck is even your grammar lmfao + you came on a 8y/o hitchens video just to disagree and argue your points in the comments? lmao what even

    • @DocBree13
      @DocBree13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      he is

  • @jerrybrownell3633
    @jerrybrownell3633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +571

    Because of people like Christopher and Richard Dawkins I proudly proclaim that I am a born again Atheist.

    • @Malkav1805
      @Malkav1805 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Would call myself an not dead yet atheist both guys helped me to educate me a lot

    • @jerrybrownell3633
      @jerrybrownell3633 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @Wildlife Warrior - Atheists don't need an imaginary being in the sky or a book(The Bible) to tell us how to love and live our lives or do good.

    • @davidmccarroll8274
      @davidmccarroll8274 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just for the record born again means you have been both born physically in the normal conventional way but then you have also had a spiritual birth to be in companionship with the god atheists deny exists.a contradiction in terms

    • @НААТ
      @НААТ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@davidmccarroll8274 🤡🤡🤡

    • @davidmccarroll8274
      @davidmccarroll8274 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jerrybrownell3633 that depends on what your definition of good is.In an atheists world I have been advised by other atheists that there is no such thing as absolute right and wrong

  • @SasapessoS
    @SasapessoS 13 ปีที่แล้ว +540

    R.I.P.
    You will be sorely missed even here, in Azerbaijan.

    • @Fullyautomagic
      @Fullyautomagic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I recently found out my ancestors came from Azerbaijan. I look white as paper.

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      RIP..... Requiescat In Pace... Part of the Catholic prayer for the dead.
      LMAO

    • @siim605
      @siim605 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@Kitiwake RIP can also just be "rest in peace". It's not that complicated.

    • @ifyoueverfind78
      @ifyoueverfind78 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      he s never been there.

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@siim605 Requiescat in Pace means rest in peace.

  • @sol029
    @sol029 3 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    If Hitchens doesn't have the lexicon to describe his contempt.... No one does. The man is a wordsmith and he is dearly missed.

    • @shouygui4955
      @shouygui4955 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      except he was jewish so this only applies to other religions

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes indeed. The king has no clothes.

    • @MOGGS1942
      @MOGGS1942 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Kitiwake And you have no sense.

    • @TonyEgg93
      @TonyEgg93 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@shouygui4955 so you've not actually listened or read any of his work? He proudly belonged to no religion.

    • @frankytrevor7
      @frankytrevor7 ปีที่แล้ว

      NOT!🤣🤣🤣

  • @georgecorrea8530
    @georgecorrea8530 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Christopher Hitchens was a brilliant intellectual and a force to be reckon with. His rhetorical skills were extremely impressive. He was well informed on a wide variety of subjects and a skillful debater. He was razor sharp and had such amazing wit and command of the English language. He was undoubtedly well read. He is sorely missed but his legacy lives on through his works he left behind and in our memories and hearts he will forever be cherished, admired and remembered ♥.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is the way it is. I do not expect any of you to agree but I hope that maybe these words will get you off of that evil path that you are on. We fell here from heaven to redeem ourselves and to return to heaven. Not to get rich and fat, then get diseased and die. Both Buddha and Christ came here to point that out and if we do not at least try to redeem ourselves we will end up in Hell. That's all folks, good luck.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why would anyone want to deny the existence of God so powerfully, why?

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gee, I wonder if he went to heaven or hell, not.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jack Probert Because the entire world has lost it's ability to discern.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jack Probert Education is nothing without wisdom. In case you have not noticed, this is the End of Times, exactly what Buddha predicted 2500 years ago. We all should be seeking our lost divinity instead of playing in the mud.

  • @nataliecolbourne7741
    @nataliecolbourne7741 4 ปีที่แล้ว +320

    I can listen to him forever - we are a lesser species without him.

    • @ekowagyeman4183
      @ekowagyeman4183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I’ll rather put it this way: “WE ARE A LESERE SPECIES WITHOUT THE LIKES OF HIM”

    • @ekowagyeman4183
      @ekowagyeman4183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lesser

    • @johnpresser2367
      @johnpresser2367 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Love him and will always miss him

    • @Adam-John
      @Adam-John 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@2fast2block Faith is what you call when you believe in something without sufficient evidence. It is the foundation of all religions. You quoted a bunch of stuff above as if they are all true. There are other world religions out there that have their own view points and often times in contradiction to christianity. How do you know that they are all wrong and your interpretation alone is right. You can only do this by clinging on to your faith: something that you force to believe yourself without sufficient evidence....

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Kitalia the kitsune where in your dung reply did you get around what I wrote?

  • @Wesssss84
    @Wesssss84 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    That’s how you debate!!!!!!!

    • @santos122122
      @santos122122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Especially when you cannot distinguish between debate and a monologue

    • @srp01983
      @srp01983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@santos122122 You need to watch the complete debate to understand the format, which is the traditional debating format conducted at all U.K. universities (and other institutions) where both sides state their cases, both sides have an opportunity to respond, and the whole process is choreographed by the chairman.

    • @santos122122
      @santos122122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@srp01983 Here we cannot see what the other side has to say, so this clip by itself it is not a debate.

    • @srp01983
      @srp01983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@santos122122 Yep you’re right, this is a clip and not the whole debate. And it necessarily consists of a number of ‘monologues’ if you want to use that word because that is how these debates are formatted and conducted. If you want to watch all the ‘monologues’ then you have to watch the whole debate. Try th-cam.com/video/tWOZi_OUQL8/w-d-xo.html

  • @davidmcnalus7550
    @davidmcnalus7550 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I played with the jigsaw of atheism for many years. Some pieces fit where they could, some pieces were left scattered and without form. Then I found Mr. Hitchens, who unselfishly handed me the box lid, with the whole picture in view.
    I am now, thanks to him, a devout and unerring atheist, with all the freedom and joy that that brings.
    Thank you sir.

    • @born2win262
      @born2win262 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really? What do you think about all the things going on right now in the world?

    • @TrippyKenpachi
      @TrippyKenpachi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@born2win262 What do you think of them?

    • @bartbannister394
      @bartbannister394 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@born2win262 When Ronald Reagan first let evangelicals into government, he sowed the seeds for the immoral world we presently have.

    • @davidwilliams-yh7if
      @davidwilliams-yh7if 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@born2win262 assuming you're referencing war, famine, climate crisis etc etc...they're largely, if not entirely, man made. Where does superstition kick in on these disasters?

    • @purpleskies3419
      @purpleskies3419 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@born2win262 what's the sick people money hungry for power got to do with an invisible man in the sky who allows all this ...oh but he loves us atleast Jeffery dahlmer found God and will be in heaven now ..wake up

  • @VelvetCzar
    @VelvetCzar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Christopher intellectually changed me 10 years ago. He's the reason why I'm the only one in my friend circle that watches debates of all kinds and wants historical and intellectual stimulus. Half the time, I feel like some people think I'm a know-it-all, when on the converse, I feel like I'm the one trying to discuss major issues that effect people's lives (obviously depending on the vibe and other contributing factors) and supercede Tik Tok and other mindless scrolling platforms. Does anyone else feel this way sometimes?

    • @Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King
      @Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Absolutely. People spend their time watching other people's phony reactions to stuff or watching others play video games, but apparently I'm the weird one because I'd rather learn about something. Modern culture is depressing.
      Also, long live The Dead!

    • @dhutch71
      @dhutch71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Brandon - don't worry what others think of you. Stay interested in intellectual pursuits.... and never stop learning!

    • @anniebeeee
      @anniebeeee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yes! Feels lonely sometimes.

    • @VelvetCzar
      @VelvetCzar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King ✌❤ brother

    • @markdomar4944
      @markdomar4944 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes, I oftentimes feel that way. I discovered Hitchens on my journey to de-conversion, and I have never looked back. I’m certainly more careful around some folks, but like you, I love having the discussions, so I’m always willing and confident to share my views. It’s okay to be who you are now, so enjoy your life.

  • @airwolf5826
    @airwolf5826 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    His points about sectarianism clearly shows how intelligent he was. It's a curse upon our Irish and our British friends lands. We have to wipe the blackboard. We should be friends.

    • @iarlais80
      @iarlais80 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Absolutely, and Hitchens has been a hero of mine...but it was ill-advised of him to state that the ' cause origin of the sectarianism was partition.' It's goes much further back of course. I'm always fascinated by the irrelevance if your creed if you live in Dublin 4 or the Malone road in Belfast or Belgravia in London. No quarrel there. The opportunity to pursue advancement with a decent education standard- unhindered by the social circumstances you find yourself born into, is the key to a more stable future

    • @jaja9081
      @jaja9081 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hitchens was an Idiot...
      One thought Experiment.
      You are in Power of a strong Nation and a cult beside you is sacrificing their babies by cooking them alive in the hands of an Idol and taking ppl of your Nation as captives Peeling their skin off.
      What would you do?
      A: conquer and destroy that cult
      B: let then keep going
      And what would be more evil. A or B?

  • @DEPARTMENTOFREDUNDANCYDEPT
    @DEPARTMENTOFREDUNDANCYDEPT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    Hitch gave me the PERFECT WORD to describe my attitude toward ALL religion: CONTEMPT! I "respect" religion to the same degree I "respect" so called "psychics," astrologists, Tarot card readers, creationists, faith healers, mega-church millionaire preachers and all other examples of silly, childish, ancient superstition and primitive magical thinking.

    • @tonycottingham169
      @tonycottingham169 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The early 20th Century American journalist H.L. Mencken said that you should respect your neighbours religious faith, the same way you respect his belief that his wife is pretty and his children are clever.

    • @fredriklofgren1791
      @fredriklofgren1791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Theramintrees is a youtuber that has tackled that very question.
      th-cam.com/video/r_5yUXjXizQ/w-d-xo.html
      It can be boiled down to that your neighbours belief that his wife is pretty is a estetic judgement. Something subjective to him alone and there for only matters to him.
      While his belief in a god doesn't just affect him alone, but all people since he's arguing for a reality which everyone are part of.
      Similare logic as in
      "The earth can't be a flat disk to you, while it's a sphere for me"

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Religion is usually manmade and you were created by the Lord.

    • @DEPARTMENTOFREDUNDANCYDEPT
      @DEPARTMENTOFREDUNDANCYDEPT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jeffforsythe9514 Your arrogant presumption is astounding, but typical for followers of Iron Age superstitions.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DEPARTMENTOFREDUNDANCYDEPT It appears to me that your hero, the guy in the video, tried his best to kill God and something went wrong with his plan. Not my fault.

  • @popeagapitusi8
    @popeagapitusi8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    i will have an immense respect for this man for the rest of my life

  • @unggrabb
    @unggrabb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +316

    A brilliant mind. You changed my thinking. Thank you

    • @terrytibbs5678
      @terrytibbs5678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My pleasure.

    • @santos122122
      @santos122122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ah yes he seems very adept at drawing conclusions from faulty statements

    • @ImGoingSupersonic
      @ImGoingSupersonic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Technically you yourself changed the way you were thinking. Hitchens may have just planted the seed, thank yourself. Thank yourself for having the ability to not have blinders on and be afraid of not believing anymore. So many just want to believe their beliefs so bad they don't even entertain anything that argues against what they already believe.

    • @rayolight9744
      @rayolight9744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A man lives a short fast living self explained existence . That's just a child writing his fantasy a body and mind that doesn't allow anything to be above him ,his laws are only his own ,
      There it's all in his own lunch box. What school did he go to learn about beginning and end .God give man science to study plants and creatures not to lie about what he truly doesn't know

    • @mortishanocturnal71
      @mortishanocturnal71 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes exactly....the doubts were always there...he just solidified it for me ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

  • @RikerLovesWorf
    @RikerLovesWorf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Hitchens and his great mind lives on forever. Thankfully we have a lifetime of these great speeches and debates to enjoy.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He had great emptiness, not a great mind.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the dumbass didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word farting to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Only shallow people follow Hitchens.

    • @mysticwine
      @mysticwine 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would love to see this moron in a hot war foxhole!

  • @mindofown
    @mindofown 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Sadly missed, an Intellectual Giant with Amazing Charisma

  • @akshatvyas7387
    @akshatvyas7387 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    christopher hitchens is a man who speakes in such a way that it inspires me to be an atheist speaker like him...rip mr. hitchens you were an intellect mind who had some great ideas

    • @ossiedunstan4419
      @ossiedunstan4419 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hitchen`s only spoke the truth , nothing more ,nothing less, that`s why religion was shaking its boots every time he corrected religious spin doctors.

    • @edgarlawson1251
      @edgarlawson1251 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you notice how tightly he gripped his podium, how white his knuckles became he was defending the space given him and his chance to vent against that he hated most. These are signs of people overcoming all the good in themselves.

    • @FirstnameLastname-bn4gv
      @FirstnameLastname-bn4gv 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@edgarlawson1251
      What do you mean “overcoming all the good in themselves”?

  • @cpt_pumper1875
    @cpt_pumper1875 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    The best wordsmith I've ever heard. RIP brother

    • @rep10101
      @rep10101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      simply impossible for him to rest in peace, he made that impossible

    • @con.troller4183
      @con.troller4183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@rep10101 Awwwwww. Does it arouse you to fantasize about people writing in eternal agony? Saint Thomas Aquinas agrees with you. He said that the greatest joy of the redeemed was to hear the shrieks of the damned.

    • @rep10101
      @rep10101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

    • @con.troller4183
      @con.troller4183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@rep10101 That's all you have to say when confronted with your gleeful sadism? You need professional help.

    • @Gumpmachine1
      @Gumpmachine1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@rep10101 pretty sick to worship a authority that would behave like that. This is exactly what Hitchens hated about religion

  • @angrylambie
    @angrylambie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "We do believe in evidence, we do believe in skepticism, we do believe in reason. We hold our views with as much conviction and principle as any God-botherer does... and don't let anyone dare to imply there's a moral equivalence between us and the fanatics and the fools and those who think they know God's will, and can tell you what it is!"

    • @playtime5051
      @playtime5051 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Christians place their proof for Jesus on Flavious Vespasian Ceasar's adopted scribe Flavious Josephus. At the time the Jews burned down Rome in 66AD. Josephus was hired to spin doctor and divide the Jews with propaganda designed to keep spreading antisemetism forever. In 69AD the Romans lead by Vespasian destroyed the Jewish sacred city of Jerusalem.Then they built the Coliseum with the spoils that included their menorah. Together the new bible and the Coliseum were a perpetual machine - destroying the Christians for entertainment and spreading hate. People paid to see the slaughter. They were the perfect combo that kept working for many years to come.

    • @jonathonrobinson7236
      @jonathonrobinson7236 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The purpose of Jesus dying for all of humanity is to save us from eternity with the devil and these demons. He came to share with us that there's life after death and our choice will determine our destination whether it's heaven or hell.
      Sadly that the world would rather take the chance and die believing that there's no afterlife when they know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them.
      For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities his eternal power, and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
      Demon possessions have happened every day around the world for over 2000 years.
      th-cam.com/video/CEg5M1Qk_M8/w-d-xo.html
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Amorth
      th-cam.com/video/pwH2i8_KKtQ/w-d-xo.html
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      th-cam.com/video/AnM2dHsHK_Y/w-d-xo.html
      There's nothing phony about demon possession. I challenge you to research what led to the making of the following movies:
      The Exorcists, Poltergeist, The Rite, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Veronica, The Haunting in Connecticut, The Amityville Horror, The Conjuring, Ouija Experiment, and Annabelle.

  • @davidholt2960
    @davidholt2960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    He really gets going when he gets into abuses, then you really see his humanity.

    • @andyecheandia8375
      @andyecheandia8375 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So human beings that do not act perfectly make something they are in charge of DISQUALIFIED?
      Does that same standard apply to Martin Luther King because he was unfaithful to his wife?

    • @VRDejaVu
      @VRDejaVu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@andyecheandia8375 "So human beings that do not act perfectly make something they created out of thin air of DISQUALIFIED"
      Here, i fixed your shitty comment.

    • @andyecheandia8375
      @andyecheandia8375 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VRDejaVu No the shitty part is what little you know. The REALITY of God is not " created out of thin air "

    • @VRDejaVu
      @VRDejaVu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@andyecheandia8375 You seriously wanna discuss your imaginary friend?
      " No the shitty part is what little you know." - your fairytale book sais that you can't judge others. Only your imaginary friend can. Guess you are going to imaginary hell now.

    • @dianahill7239
      @dianahill7239 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Christopher Hitchens was intelligent enough to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court! Chief Justice Christopher Hitchens.

  • @MrSophbeau
    @MrSophbeau ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Few are the number of people who's use of the English language elevates it into artistry and joy as Chris Hitchens does. Never mind the content for a moment....listen to the the sounds the chosen words make when strung together. It's beautiful.

  • @Adrian-zd4cs
    @Adrian-zd4cs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    This sums up everything I've ever tried to verbalize when I left religion as a teen. I'm now 38. Plus being a nurse for over a decade... I just want more realistic and science based thinking instead of religion. How else will we survive?

    • @thedarkdivinity7525
      @thedarkdivinity7525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What words can you offer someone who only have hope left? Do share your experience in dealing with terminally ill patients. Hope and acceptance is what religion offer, hope and miracle to heal the ailing mind.
      So before you spew more shits out without any relevant story attached, think of one and then relate it to your "Realistic and science" when dealing with people who are in a very dire situation.

    • @Adrian-zd4cs
      @Adrian-zd4cs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@thedarkdivinity7525 did you miss the part of being a nurse or did you even read. Not only have I taken care of terminally ill patients, I just lost both my parents and took care of them at home. Don't tell me I'm spewing stuff when it's my opinion. We are allowed to think and feel how we want. You choose to be rude to me so take your triggered self somewhere else

    • @jameshogan6142
      @jameshogan6142 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Adrian-zd4cs Sorry that your parents have died. I agree that people should be kinder addressing others online. One never knows what burdens others are carrying. I believe in the afterlife myself and that you will be reunited with your Mam and Dad again

    • @con.troller4183
      @con.troller4183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@thedarkdivinity7525 "You've seen abundant evidence for God. "
      Argument from emotions, logical fallacy. Just because it feels good doesn't make it right. Cocaine feels good. I guess we should all use it then. Right?

    • @thedarkdivinity7525
      @thedarkdivinity7525 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@con.troller4183 Pick a scenario and let's talk about it. Are you that inept to the point where you say abundance and CANT EVEN PICK ONE? It seems to me you are scared of a discussion and merely want to strawman behind vagueness.

  • @freedomofspeech2238
    @freedomofspeech2238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I am forever grateful to have heard Mr. Hitchens talk out of reason. There is a void since he has passed and I hope to see him replaced by someone else, we need more of this type of hero now in 2020 and beyond.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is the way it is. I do not expect any of you to agree but I hope that maybe these words will get you off of that evil path that you are on. We fell here from heaven to redeem ourselves and to return to heaven. Not to get rich and fat, then get diseased and die. Both Buddha and Christ came here to point that out and if we do not at least try to redeem ourselves we will end up in Hell. That's all folks, good luck.

    • @johnhendry6636
      @johnhendry6636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Men like this come but once

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnhendry6636 no, there are MANY losers like Hitch.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
      God is the reason for us and all we have.
      th-cam.com/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/w-d-xo.html
      The odds are NOT there.
      th-cam.com/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/yW9gawzZLsk/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/ddaqSutt5aw/w-d-xo.html

    • @MrLJT1
      @MrLJT1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jeffforsythe9514 Hail Satan.

    • @theboombody
      @theboombody 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm pretty sure Mr. John Lennox is capable of reason as well. I guess he's a hero too.

  • @marjangjurkovik7914
    @marjangjurkovik7914 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Master of words. Brilliant thinker👏

  • @frankronald5761
    @frankronald5761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    What a great speaker. Respect and appreciation.

  • @christinet6336
    @christinet6336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    This man was so eloquent and brilliant. I miss his intelligence in the world.

    • @dianahill7239
      @dianahill7239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Christopher Hitchens was intelligent enough to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court! Chief Justice Christopher Hitchens.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is the way it is. I do not expect any of you to agree but I hope that maybe these words will get you off of that evil path that you are on. We fell here from heaven to redeem ourselves and to return to heaven. Not to get rich and fat, then get diseased and die. Both Buddha and Christ came here to point that out and if we do not at least try to redeem ourselves we will end up in Hell. That's all folks, good luck.

    • @moonboot3820
      @moonboot3820 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you realize how stupid that sounds? Do you? Huh?

    • @daisyhoward5472
      @daisyhoward5472 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      trumps eloquent intelligence of 'inject bleach' not doing for you? 😋

    • @digital6string1
      @digital6string1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeffforsythe9514 Buddhism is not a religion,it's a philosophy,don't get the two mixed up.

  • @iandhr1
    @iandhr1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +321

    "A chruch founded on the family values of Henry VIII." LMAO

    • @donaldgoodinson7550
      @donaldgoodinson7550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's spelt CHURCH.

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Why would anyone want a church founded on any man's values when they can found a church on _God's_ values? That's why we have the Bible.

    • @donaldgoodinson7550
      @donaldgoodinson7550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@rubiks6 And the Mahabarata,Koran and Homer.All regigions are true to those believe in them.Christian belief is a pagan religion.

    • @MrRazorblade999
      @MrRazorblade999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@donaldgoodinson7550 It's spelled religion

    • @donaldgoodinson7550
      @donaldgoodinson7550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MrRazorblade999 Sorry,bad spell day.

  • @MattSingh1
    @MattSingh1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    *Love the fact that Hitchens gave this opener at the oppositions' podium, albeit unknowingly.*

  • @KITLEVEY
    @KITLEVEY 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    When it comes to logic and reason Christopher Hitchens is who I hold up as my primary example.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's your example because you're a loser too.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
      God is the reason for us and all we have.
      th-cam.com/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/w-d-xo.html
      The odds are NOT there.
      th-cam.com/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/w-d-xo.html
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    • @lawrence1318
      @lawrence1318 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rather, his ideas are the very antithesis of logic.

  • @galaxylinds
    @galaxylinds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    When we figure out how to bring humans back to life, Hitch has to top the list of humans first to bring back.

    • @Sorryitwasplanned
      @Sorryitwasplanned 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      God replied " good luck on figure things out "

    • @galaxylinds
      @galaxylinds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@Sorryitwasplanned God doesn’t exist lol

    • @jayadams681
      @jayadams681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@onewon264 only the intelligent recognise a creator......that statement is every bit as ridiculous as the belief in a non existent god.

    • @okije
      @okije 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@onewon264 recognize which "creator" tho?

    • @NoNo-cz3un
      @NoNo-cz3un 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jayadams681
      You aren't recognizing a creator, now are you?

  • @ExistentialNights
    @ExistentialNights 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    The last 4 minutes-ish of this is so powerful. What an absolute treasure of a human being.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean now that he is dead?

    • @lorenzobianchini4415
      @lorenzobianchini4415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jeffforsythe9514 The memory of such a wonderful man lives on

    • @digital6string1
      @digital6string1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeffforsythe9514 How intelligent.

  • @somjitchakrabarty3145
    @somjitchakrabarty3145 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Changed my life.
    What a man. What a voice. What a mind.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What a clown.
      Your Hitch is dead then will be judged by God, shamed, then thrown into the lake of fire to be now more, just as you fools are heading.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      ---"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”--- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the dumbass didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word farting to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Only fools follow Hitchens.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Rritobak Dutta what?

    • @ingebygstad9667
      @ingebygstad9667 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@2fast2block The only clown here is you, writing a temper tantrum, not having an effing clue about what you're writing about, - which is patently obvious to anyone who understands this better than you. What more - Hitches does not mention _a word_ about _evolution,_ but about the atrocities done in the name of religion, or where religion is the petty excuse for doing petty atrocities, regardless of religion. But most most importantly - how it is done by vile, blind, mindless - thugs! - it should be obvious this is purely _man made,_ and nothing divine, and has never been divine. But.... Atheism is somehow all about evolution it seems, so that's where you're at, and you play with scientific words that is difficult to many. _"The second law of thermodynamics!"_ Arh... good days....
      Whenever you want to use the _Third Way of Aquinas_ argument, or the Kalam Cosmological Argument - it really does not matter. They're both equally fallacious, been debunked too damn many times for me to go another round, you don't have a single ground to stand on, and you base your beliefs on ...Yes what _exactly?_
      The only fool here is _you._ And you are running a fool's errand, by even fooling yourself.
      You criticize solid science you don't understand, while not giving a single evidence for your own position, because you have none, and you know it. Nothing but _words._ Literally. How fragile a position that is.
      You don't like Hitchens because he speaks the truth too eloquently, and you clearly have a distaste for truth. Religion comes first, and you're blinded by it. The fool and the clown is you. Merry Christmas.

    • @connorgrynol9021
      @connorgrynol9021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@2fast2block firstly, it’s pretty arrogant of you to presume to know what your God might do (unless of course he is an imaginary character and thus the only decisions He make are the ones believers make for Him). Secondly, in what way does the law of the conservation of energy and entropy point toward a supernatural lawgiver? Thirdly, if there was actually a lawgiver- and that’s a big if- then how do you know he is your God? How can you be so certain he is not a Hindu or a Muslim or even the Greek gods? The answer to if course is, you can’t, you just have faith. An ignorant faith you were most likely exposed to since you were small.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ingebygstad9667 "not having an effing clue about what you're writing about,"
      And what you gave that proved what I wrote on faith and creation is wrong is....
      (blank)
      Funny how you Hitch followers always leave that out but somehow you think your empty words mean something.

  • @cecillec2331
    @cecillec2331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I so miss Christopher Hitchens. His presence at least evened out the playing field especially when we are playing with religious lunatics.

    • @plasticmoon222
      @plasticmoon222 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well you will be reunited with him someday in the torments of Hell

  • @iainrae6159
    @iainrae6159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    'A Catholic priest , Jewish Rabbi and Muslim Iman walk into a New York bar,
    the surprised barman looks up and says, " hey ! Is this some kinda joke?".
    Christopher Hitchens

  • @dkompres6889
    @dkompres6889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    We need Christopher now more than ever!

  • @mattycollins3137
    @mattycollins3137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    He really just inspires me to always be curious and actively seek knowledge as well as wisdom. He really was a force of nature and I am going to work hard to spread his work, it really is what humanity needs to evolve!

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Richard was not curious or sought knowledge. You're easily deceived.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the dumbass didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word farting to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Only shallow people follow Hitchens.

    • @Camsteak
      @Camsteak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@2fast2block You have the burden of proof backwards. but I'll humor you.
      The uncreatable nature of energy does not prove the existence of a creator in fact it disproves it.
      The fact that unstable energy was at one point more unstable does not point to ay supernatural substance since we have observed the change in energy from inert to unstable.
      since you seem to believe you have all the answers would you care to answer the Epicurean paradox?

    • @trustprojects
      @trustprojects 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I missed out on meeting him closely 2 or 3 times, before it was finally too late. I had to console myself with his suggestion that we should visit the hall of human origins at the smithsonian in DC and see the remarkably curated exhibits there. So we 3 weary Brits travelled to ontario, Canada, and drove to DC - taking it in turns to drive and sleep.
      He was right, it was fabulous. I only found out after checking in that my room was mere yards away from his Connecticut Ave former home, and actually overlooked it.
      This mans output was truly the pinnacle of intelligent discourse. I’ve not seen wit nor eloquence like this before or since. We are so very much poorer for his absence. His voice would be more important and relevant now than ever. Thank goodness for these records.
      Thanks for everything, Christopher.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is the way it is. I do not expect any of you to agree but I hope that maybe these words will get you off of that evil path that you are on. We fell here from heaven to redeem ourselves and to return to heaven. Not to get rich and fat, then get diseased and die. Both Buddha and Christ came here to point that out and if we do not at least try to redeem ourselves we will end up in Hell. That's all folks, good luck.

  • @jamesluby6705
    @jamesluby6705 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Men like this scare the crap out of governments and religious leaders the world over, long in the memory live Christopher Hitchens...

  • @wtf_usa5597
    @wtf_usa5597 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    The main thing that impresses me about him is that he used his valuable life's energy to even argue against just stupidity. But I guess that was his calling. RIP Mr. Hitchens. You are greatly missed.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is the way it is. I do not expect any of you to agree but I hope that maybe these words will get you off of that evil path that you are on. We fell here from heaven to redeem ourselves and to return to heaven. Not to get rich and fat, then get diseased and die. Both Buddha and Christ came here to point that out and if we do not at least try to redeem ourselves we will end up in Hell. That's all folks, good luck.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He tried his best to kill God but guess who won that battle.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I sort of do not imagine that he will RIP, sorry.

    • @jameshogan6142
      @jameshogan6142 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeffforsythe9514 LOL,

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hitch was a loser and only losers don't see that.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
      God is the reason for us and all we have.
      th-cam.com/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/w-d-xo.html
      The odds are NOT there.
      th-cam.com/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/yW9gawzZLsk/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/ddaqSutt5aw/w-d-xo.html

  • @mxnolis
    @mxnolis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I only recently found out that he died 10 years ago. And I was so shocked and devastated. But, even though he is sorely missed and needed still, it’s good he left a legacy and footprint on all who watch him. He is truly remarkable and a definite hero of mine. What an icon. No one debates like him. There’s no way you can hate him even if you disagree with him. He is so charming, funny, endlessly intelligent and has thought of every single angle for an argument. Love him; truly elite.

    • @jamesstorey2476
      @jamesstorey2476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @D Sullivan Concur; however, one must believe in Christianity's trappings to be affected by them.
      I don't believe in "hell", "heaven", "the devil", or in "god"....and I'll bet you don't either.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is the way it is. I do not expect any of you to agree but I hope that maybe these words will get you off of that evil path that you are on. We fell here from heaven to redeem ourselves and to return to heaven. Not to get rich and fat, then get diseased and die. Both Buddha and Christ came here to point that out and if we do not at least try to redeem ourselves we will end up in Hell. That's all folks, good luck.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You were devastated? Wow, quite dramatic. And at the same time you and him are trying to kill God, good luck with that one.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jack Probert Grown up? Ha ha ha ha ha . Sitting on a sofa, I phone in one hand and a cool one in the other, ha ha ha ha

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jack Probert I am 72 so that would put you at least at 112. What's your secret.?

  • @TerlinguaTalkeetna
    @TerlinguaTalkeetna 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Always find myself thinking MORE clearly after listening to Hitch. Thanks for posting

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is the way it is. I do not expect any of you to agree but I hope that maybe these words will get you off of that evil path that you are on. We fell here from heaven to redeem ourselves and to return to heaven. Not to get rich and fat, then get diseased and die. Both Buddha and Christ came here to point that out and if we do not at least try to redeem ourselves we will end up in Hell. That's all folks, good luck.

    • @CronoXpono
      @CronoXpono 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeffforsythe9514 😂 I hope that as most persons do, you reflect on the ultimate wickedness and evil threats of eternal torture for your fellow man. Shameful and absolutely baseless. An awful, awful thing to wish upon someone.

    • @jameshogan6142
      @jameshogan6142 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CronoXpono I don't think he is wishing it upon someone. He is saying that we must try to repent and believe and seek the eternal life which God offers us. If we reject this of our own volition then we have no alternative but everlasting misery.

  • @ChaoThing
    @ChaoThing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Amazing and brilliant man, I will miss Hitchens for the rest of my life.

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Aron Ra, the TH-camr, has lots to say about this. He has a pretty hard Stance and even many other Atheist-TH-camrs are softer.
      But damn, he has good, good arguments that Religion has 'inheret' Problems that, no matter ohw un-armed and nonextreme
      a Theist is, it would still better if he de-constructed his Religion and stzopped
      believing in ancien superstitition.
      In fact, he has so good Arguments for his harsh, not-sugarcoated Words, that many cant even finish his videos - aint that telling?

    • @quigonjinn3567
      @quigonjinn3567 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nenmaster5218 I like Aron Ra aswell cuz he is a original & stays true to himself.

  • @vashna3799
    @vashna3799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Although Hitch passed in 2011 these videos make him more alive than ever

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, they keep spewing his garbage. How nice.
      Your Hitch is dead then will be judged by God, shamed, then thrown into the lake of fire to be now more, just as you fools are heading.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      ---"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”--- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the dumbass didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word farting to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Only fools follow Hitchens.

    • @vashna3799
      @vashna3799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@2fast2block I’m glad we don’t live in medieval times anymore when the likes of you were taken seriously. Go accuse someone of practicing witchcraft hey?

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vashna3799 wow, so the evidence I gave about faith and creation was somehow disproved by you with your evidence of...
      "I’m glad we don’t live in medieval times anymore when the likes of you were taken seriously. Go accuse someone of practicing witchcraft hey?"
      And more incredible, you actually think that was a good reply. You should know, you're a waste of life.

    • @onlyechadtherebellious2467
      @onlyechadtherebellious2467 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@vashna3799 Ignore him, he's a troll. If you wanna silence him, use the words of Jesus to love your enemiez.

    • @josephconstant7443
      @josephconstant7443 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely

  • @AGoodVibe
    @AGoodVibe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This is just an incredibly display of word craft. What an orator. He manages to not only debate the topic well, but speak with such eloquence and sophistication. And he does it without saying “uh” and “um.” Just wow.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is the way it is. I do not expect any of you to agree but I hope that maybe these words will get you off of that evil path that you are on. We fell here from heaven to redeem ourselves and to return to heaven. Not to get rich and fat, then get diseased and die. Both Buddha and Christ came here to point that out and if we do not at least try to redeem ourselves we will end up in Hell. That's all folks, good luck.

    • @dhutch71
      @dhutch71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I always tell young people to learn language skills the best they can, since it is the first evidence people have sizing you up, intellectually. In the professional world in which I toiled for 30 years, one's verbal communication skills were always more important than writing skills. Being able to think on one's feet along with the 'gift of gab' is always an advantage.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dhutch71 Yes and know.

    • @daveatkin7557
      @daveatkin7557 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You people are all deaf or just not paying attention as I've heard 5 uh's in the last two minutes! His language and style is unquestionably skillful and enthralling!

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@daveatkin7557 His teachings have only one hitch. When you follow him, your chances of going to Hell increase by 500%.

  • @vernonrobinson4504
    @vernonrobinson4504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    HItchens died a long time ago,but what he said is as relevant now as then. Religion has caused more cruelty and misery than any other human endeavour.

    • @sallycarroll6329
      @sallycarroll6329 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What a load of nonsense. Educate yourself please and stop repeating what you have heard. Christopher Hitchins became a Christian on his deathbed. So much for his ramblings.

    • @ynwa73
      @ynwa73 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      By that logic Science has caused the most harm so we should stop learning

    • @willypeeters6136
      @willypeeters6136 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I am sure most Native Americans would agree... they were driven from their land and robbed of their culture and way of life to 'convert' to the Mayans in the south.... And remember the Crusades?

    • @maresnite
      @maresnite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sallycarroll6329
      You were there, while he was on his death bed ? I seriously doubt it.
      All you are doing is repeating something you heard. How funny that you should tell someone else to stop repeating what they heard. 🤔😜🤪😂🤣

    • @sophielophey8686
      @sophielophey8686 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@ynwa73 What on earth do you mean? I don't think evolution has caused any harm that can be equated with genocides and wars provoked by religion and religious differences.

  • @robbase5235
    @robbase5235 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In 2022.... we need Christopher more than ever.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, only you dolts do.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
      God is the reason for us and all we have.
      th-cam.com/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/w-d-xo.html
      The odds are NOT there.
      th-cam.com/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/yW9gawzZLsk/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/ddaqSutt5aw/w-d-xo.html

  • @worldaerialview6907
    @worldaerialview6907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love the search for truth. Christopher Hitchens
    LIVES WITH ME FOREVER...................

  • @sinprelic
    @sinprelic 13 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    hitchens was much more educated and more accomplished than you haters. you can disagree with some of his conclusions but you just simply cannot find flaws in his argumentation. he was a true master of language, of polemic criticism and of history, politics and a devout defender of just causes. he wasn't afraid of facing evil head on, unlike many of you people who have never even fathomed questioning your parents' brainwashing. it's HOW you think, not WHAT. you can't beat hitchens on that. ever.

    • @santos122122
      @santos122122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh i can find quite a few flaws for example blaming religion as ideology instead of blaming the people that lead religious institutions. I'ts like saying democracy is bad as a system just because politicians are corrupt.

    • @thapelomaraisane8705
      @thapelomaraisane8705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pretty beautiful how most supporters of his never thoroughly investigate his premises and the claims he makes from them. It would almost seem that their support is an article of belief and not a result of critical thought

  • @missgolightly44
    @missgolightly44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I could listen to him talk forever...so thankful for the wealth of Hitch content on TH-cam...intellectual porn

    • @Netroníq
      @Netroníq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly that!

    • @MrMagusperde
      @MrMagusperde 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have listened and continue to listen endlessly hoping to find more gems

    • @johndemetrii809
      @johndemetrii809 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrMagusperde I'm running out :( ration it!

  • @wilmathewisp8252
    @wilmathewisp8252 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    The problem with religions is, that their followers think , the rules of their religion should also apply to those,who do not belong to their cult.

    • @DennisMerwood-xk8wp
      @DennisMerwood-xk8wp ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And theirs is the ONLY religion that has it right!

    • @dynaa4168
      @dynaa4168 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why not? Because God is a God for all humanity, not just them

    • @umarmustapha6211
      @umarmustapha6211 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dynaa4168which of the god? Yahweh or Allah, or any of the over 5,000 today? 🤡

    • @TheMadLad99
      @TheMadLad99 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dynaa4168which god exactly? The one of which faith do you say applies to those over their own faiths?

    • @latitudeselongitudes1932
      @latitudeselongitudes1932 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This! Especially Christianity and Islam.

  • @Soc-q7j
    @Soc-q7j 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Catholic here, rip Hitchens, whilst I didn’t agree with his views, he were certainly a very intelligent mind, and raised some thought provoking questions

  • @deangonzalez2996
    @deangonzalez2996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    We miss you Christopher. You were one of the great thinkers.

    • @rep10101
      @rep10101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      gosh its sounds like a religion, Hitchens the god of nothing (after all atheism is based on nothing ......... nothing exploded and made everything we see)

    • @dianahill7239
      @dianahill7239 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Christopher Hitchens was intelligent enough to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court! Chief Justice Christopher Hitchens.

  • @chandrakanth3875
    @chandrakanth3875 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I am from India Tamilnadu state I love Hitchens from my bottom of my heart.

    • @rep10101
      @rep10101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well you obviously have a lot to learn

    • @jameshogan6142
      @jameshogan6142 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rep10101 I loved Hitch from the heart of my bottom too.

  • @mateostaplez7497
    @mateostaplez7497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there's 10 things he doesn't want you to do or else you'll go to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! - George Carlin

    • @margott.244
      @margott.244 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is a prescription of an ABUSER.

  • @SouLLeSS313
    @SouLLeSS313 13 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Never forgotten Hitch

    • @rep10101
      @rep10101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I can, he was a good speaker but wrong on so many points

  • @gregesch5058
    @gregesch5058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    The longer he is gone, the more relevant he becomes!

  • @CD-pq1yv
    @CD-pq1yv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Hitchens speaks truth like poetry.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, he was simply a loser.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
      God is the reason for us and all we have.
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      The odds are NOT there.
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    • @CD-pq1yv
      @CD-pq1yv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I can see you are practiced at self referential faith based justifications. Rather less eloquent and compelling than CH though 😂

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CD-pq1yv I'm looking for how you got around the evidence I gave. Oh, you couldn't give any.

  • @FlandiddlyandersFRS
    @FlandiddlyandersFRS ปีที่แล้ว +31

    The main difference between Hitchens and God is that Hitchens actually existed.

    • @markusbaker1161
      @markusbaker1161 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Damn right he did and we’re the better for this!

    • @philsymes
      @philsymes ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@markusbaker1161
      Exactly. 👍

  • @targetservicer2221
    @targetservicer2221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Religion was born when the 1st con man met the 1st fool. How true

  • @jonydepp9484
    @jonydepp9484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Hitch will missed but it will remains in our hearts. ... One of best author who deserve the noble prize for his mankind and contribution ....

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Christopher Hitchens had nothing to contribute but his hatred. His was a wasted life. You should follow his brother. He has more sense.

    • @badgerlife9541
      @badgerlife9541 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The young generation is carrying on the flame of Hitchens! You might enjoy the Channel CosmicSkepic if you miss Hitchens :)

    • @jonydepp9484
      @jonydepp9484 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Rapid Dragon335 y'all clown know that religion is cancer , nothing else just to blind people , the leads the blind nothing else ....

    • @jameshogan6142
      @jameshogan6142 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rubiks6 His anger, hatred, contempt, calumny and detraction for everyone and everything he disagreed with shows how shallow was his claim that religion alone was a force for evil.

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jameshogan6142 - Indeed. He was an evil man. He hated God and today he spends eternity in darkness and fire experiencing only God's wrath.

  • @paullever3713
    @paullever3713 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Absolutely amazing

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amazing how people like that clown.
      Your Hitch is dead then will be judged by God, shamed, then thrown into the lake of fire to be now more, just as you fools are heading.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      ---"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”--- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the dumbass didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word farting to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Only fools follow Hitchens.

  • @nowandafter3258
    @nowandafter3258 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    RELIGIONS AND IGNORANCE ARE THE MOST POWERFUL TOOLS THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED TO CONTROL HUMANITY...

    • @philsymes
      @philsymes ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Religion and ignorance go hand in hand.
      Just look at Islam or the Creationists who don't even believe in evolution.
      It infuriates me.

  • @genevievecaldwell213
    @genevievecaldwell213 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Christoper Hitchens is one of my biggest inspirations. He, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Matt Dillahunty are the four horsemen of atheism and reason.

    • @toaster4693
      @toaster4693 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dennett, not Dillahunty.

    • @davesteadman1226
      @davesteadman1226 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@toaster4693 Agreed! "Hang-up" Dillahunty shouldn't even be considered in the same universe as the others you mention.

    • @juliaabadi6812
      @juliaabadi6812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@toaster4693 I think Aron Ra holds his own, although he speaks so quickly he probably leaves behind a lot of those
      for whom English is not a primary tongue.Matt is too loud and confrontational in a way that is not always helpful. I also like Dan Barker and Stephen Fry who speak with a calm rationality, I watch a lot of debates and talks with other atheists and anti-theists, but always return to Christopher Hitchens.

    • @sushilaanand7850
      @sushilaanand7850 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      All 4 are Aries. So also, Daniel Dennett and Madalyn O' HaIr.

    • @jonathonrobinson7236
      @jonathonrobinson7236 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The purpose of Jesus dying for all of humanity is to save us from eternity with the devil and these demons. He came to share with us that there's life after death and our choice will determine our destination whether it's heaven or hell.
      Sadly that the world would rather take the chance and die believing that there's no afterlife when they know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them.
      For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities his eternal power, and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
      Demon possessions have happened every day around the world for over 2000 years.
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      There's nothing phony about demon possession. I challenge you to research what led to the making of the following movies:
      The Exorcists, Poltergeist, The Rite, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Veronica, The Haunting in Connecticut, The Amityville Horror, The Conjuring, Ouija Experiment, and Annabelle.

  • @ivahardy4885
    @ivahardy4885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Need this man more than ever right now.

    • @jeffforsythe9514
      @jeffforsythe9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why do you think that you need a corpse?

    • @asdf-bm4df
      @asdf-bm4df 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      we needed him the most before he ever spoke though

    • @ivahardy4885
      @ivahardy4885 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@asdf-bm4df eh?

    • @asdf-bm4df
      @asdf-bm4df 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ivahardy4885 now he has set an example for us all

  • @_-4232
    @_-4232 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Total genius, severely underrated and under exposed. May he rest in peace.

    • @nibsvkh
      @nibsvkh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not underrated by the intelligent ...only by the brainwashed cult members.😉

  • @eddieperez7132
    @eddieperez7132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It’s funny when a religious person says something to the effect of:
    “You atheists think you KNOW it all…”
    (Btw, I’ve probably heard/read this probably thousands of times by this point in my life.)
    Which is funny because atheists are literally saying that there is no actual proof of a God’s existence, while it is IN FACT the religious person who is ACTUALLY making the absolute claim to “KNOW” it all, and usually because of what they read in an absolutely absurd (and obviously man-made) ancient book, which btw has proven itself over and over again to be a book which actually DOES NOT KNOW even the basics of nature and other issues of science.
    Once again, it is an example of religious projection.
    Religion is a mind virus.

    • @sendnoodles5437
      @sendnoodles5437 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I get more affronted when they express surprise at how moral atheists can be.
      Yep, and we dont even need to be threatened with punishment of eternal hellfire.. we do good for goodness sake :)

  • @annelieswallace237
    @annelieswallace237 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I never tire of listening to my revered Christopher Hitchens!

    • @andyecheandia8375
      @andyecheandia8375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YOU must not have much IN your life then

    • @simplychiseled4649
      @simplychiseled4649 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What If You Could Listen To Hitchens's Screams And Pleas For Mercy In HELL, Would You Ever Tire From Listening That?!?? 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

    • @RuSosan
      @RuSosan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@simplychiseled4649
      The true face of religious folks shows itself.
      _Thanks for the reminder about how vile you lot are._

  • @davidjones8965
    @davidjones8965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The epitome of eloquence and reason

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      HE EQUALLY INTELLIGENT BROTHER PETER WOULD DISAGREE WITH HIM, EVER HEARD PETER SPEAK, THEN YOU SHOULD. ONE MANS ARGUMENT ALWAYS SOUNDS RIGHT UNTIL IT IS PUT TO THE TEST.

    • @budd2nd
      @budd2nd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @
      Yes I’m familiar with Peter, but I come from a scientific background, so I require EVIDENCE to believe something.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The epitome of bozo the clown.
      Your Hitch is dead then will be judged by God, shamed, then thrown into the lake of fire to be now more, just as you fools are heading.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      ---"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”--- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the dumbass didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word farting to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Only fools follow Hitchens.

    • @Jspore-ip5rk
      @Jspore-ip5rk 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Kitalia the kitsune bruh

    • @dianahill7239
      @dianahill7239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Christopher Hitchens was intelligent enough to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court! Chief Justice Christopher Hitchens.

  • @floramaesarona1865
    @floramaesarona1865 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I agree with Hitch. Religion is a craving for power. I enjoy listening when his power of logic leads the open minded.

    • @unkownoflife5959
      @unkownoflife5959 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you agree with the teachings of Christ?

    • @petezipardi4022
      @petezipardi4022 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@unkownoflife5959 do you? Best Christian I ever knew was a Sikh.

  • @exessex3522
    @exessex3522 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was baptised into the CofE. None of our family never went to church so I don't really know why they bothered. I rejected Christianity and religion in general quite early on. I was in the Boy Scouts. At one point a new lad joined our Scout troop and shortly afterwards our excellent scoutmaster Bob resigned. It turned out that the new lad was a Catholic and the vicar of the church we were affiliated with barred him. That set me thinking about whether all the brotherly love and tolerance my church was preaching was actually practised by them. As Hitchens points out, the new lad was the wrong kind of Christian. This wasn't in Northern Ireland, however, it was in an east London borough in the 1960s.

  • @fredthompson1674
    @fredthompson1674 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    14:05 minutes of perfection.
    Unbelievable to say that in 2020, America is well on its way to a fascist dictatorship. Rest easy Hitch.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's no rest for your Hitch.
      Your Hitch is dead then will be judged by God, shamed, then thrown into the lake of fire to be now more, just as you fools are heading.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      ---"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”--- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the dumbass didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word farting to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Only fools follow Hitchens.

    • @fredthompson1674
      @fredthompson1674 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@2fast2block .
      Rest easy dude.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fredthompson1674 Nah, it's too much fun crushing dingbats.

    • @jc.1191
      @jc.1191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Glad others are aware of the fascism going on. The republicans have had an authoritarian agenda for a while now, and won't fade easily.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jc.1191 wow, coming from the democratic fraud factory itself.

  • @TheWorld_2099
    @TheWorld_2099 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    It is impossible to listen to him and not be rendered more intelligent for it.
    Your videos should be played in school for everyone.

    • @grendelsm21
      @grendelsm21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I would agree, but see 2fast2block above. LOL!

    • @lefantomer
      @lefantomer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now more than ever. March, 2021.

    • @1234poppycat
      @1234poppycat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hopefully with the counter case.. Hitchens almost exclusively deals in opinion ... He misrepresents Christianity as somehow against science (coning up to the 100th anniversary when the Belgium physicist came up with the "Big Bang theory" btw he was also a Catholic priest ) He convienently ignores that overwhelmingly most genocides and mass murders on an industrial scale were perpretrated by athiests (stalin Hitler Pol Pot Mao etc) .. That the biggest charity is the Catholic Church (financially the Gates foundation but even then Melinda Gates describes herself as "a devout Catholic " .. [BBC World Service March 2021] ..

    • @ANTINATALIST_lewis
      @ANTINATALIST_lewis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The system doesn't want that.

    • @TheWorld_2099
      @TheWorld_2099 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Rapid Dragon335 that might be the smartest answer in the whole world...
      Well done.

  • @Patrick77487
    @Patrick77487 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Lucky for Hitch he missed latest Evangelical attempts at theocracy in US, along with its utter failure in leadership, moral accountability, supreme hypocrisy. RIP

    • @josephconstant7443
      @josephconstant7443 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Christopher Hitchens had left enough intellectual contents to continue to diffuse the Evangelicals and their missions

  • @peasantsrevolt4780
    @peasantsrevolt4780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Ladies and gentlemen, that's what a bonafide genius sounds like.

  • @PlaidDad
    @PlaidDad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That intro totally made me think that it was a Monte Python intro.

  • @anghusmorgenholz1060
    @anghusmorgenholz1060 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hitchens has helped me put words to many of the thoughts I've had but lacked the eloquence to properly articulate. I am forever indebted to him for those words.

  • @lisawise9849
    @lisawise9849 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I love Christopher Hitchens and it's too bad he's gone because he was brilliant

    • @upturnedblousecollar5811
      @upturnedblousecollar5811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I always found it incredible how he could talk in such vast depth and with such conviction, with practically no pause for breath or rethink. I honestly couldn't talk this convincingly if the subject was what I had for dinner.

    • @Heprishence
      @Heprishence ปีที่แล้ว

      He's diabolical that how.

  • @richardbuttigieg5406
    @richardbuttigieg5406 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The best is sorely missed but will always be remembered. If anyone wants to worship a god like being simply think of Mr. Hitchens for his logic, wisdom and love for mankind.

  • @danbuell492
    @danbuell492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Well said sir, thank you for your efforts

  • @donaldcook2484
    @donaldcook2484 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hitch was and always will be the most honest and incredible truth of the harm religion has caused on civilization.

    • @you-in5iy
      @you-in5iy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Religion isn't good or bad. It's just part of human nature

    • @StopMAGA
      @StopMAGA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@you-in5iy It is naive to be indifferent about a belief that may very well bring about the extinction of mankind.

    • @TagSpamCop
      @TagSpamCop ปีที่แล้ว

      @@you-in5iy If it isn't and doesn't result in the overwhelmingly good, then you've just argued for its abolishment. Why would we keep around a large, influential, money-draining artifice when, per your own admission, it doesn't do better or worse than not having religion at all?

  • @mcgert466
    @mcgert466 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I cant say enough how he motivates me

    • @johnpaul3019
      @johnpaul3019 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Motivates you for what? Spending your whole life talking against something that is unseen only felt in prayerful life?

    • @connorgrynol9021
      @connorgrynol9021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@johnpaul3019 while deities are unseen their impact on humans are clearly observable. Witch trials, inquisitions, Al’Qaeda, the Final Solution, Holy Wars, etc. Some people argue that you should just let a person believe in what they want but Hitchens argues that religious beliefs are harmful, not just to the believer, but to others as well.

    • @johnpaul3019
      @johnpaul3019 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@connorgrynol9021 fortunately I don’t believe your theory or agree with your imagination brother! It was thru only the religious humans the first hospitality towards the poor and the forsaken ones by society or family members they found shelter and compassion in the religious orders formed by the command of Christ the messiah church ordered such establishments for the poor back then kings were not interested in the poor! Christ taught us his followers to be merciful and mindful for the neighbour for he gave an example of the person who was robbed by thieves who took care of him! Wasn’t a politician or a rabbi but a Good Samaritan! This is the example that followers of the most holy trinity follow that inspiration! Christ was not and is not interested in politics but thy soul alone! Salvation for your soul how to be before we depart this world and enter into the eternity! So religious humans in Jesus Christ gave hope to poor and gave them food! Let ask you this if you wise truly and not pathetic what did Christopher did for his neighbour!!!??

    • @colinderricott5727
      @colinderricott5727 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who Cares, to listen to Hitch is more effective than Mogadon for insomnia.

  • @giuseppersa2391
    @giuseppersa2391 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2022 here..I could listen to this man for hours.