Author and journalist Christopher Hitchens discusses his critics, TH-cam, and the relationship between drinking and writing with Asylum's Anthony Layser.
Almost surreal to see Hitch make a direct reference to his content being on TH-cam. He is sorely missed. TH-cam is certainly how I came across him and I’ve been improved greatly ever since.
David Tucker ah yes, the only thing in the entire universe that can improve a human being... is a supernatural Bronze Age myth. Not art, or poetry. Landscape or beauty. Philosophy or sex. Heartache or forgiveness. Some made up magical deity from a book written thousands of years ago by desert dwelling goat herders and peasants. About talking snakes, dead men that don’t really die, virgins who can conceive, bushes that burn forever. Oh and don’t forget Noah’s Ark. Or are you one of those “modern” Christians who accepts that the _really_ stupid shit is of course not true, but I better be careful cos I’m STILL going to hell if I don’t hand myself over to this celestial authority. Or the BIGGEST insult: that withOUT this divine authority, I would have NO way of being able to discern morality for myself. You are a FOOL if you believe ANY religion or ANY thing that claims to contain “divine” bloody revelation. Religion is MAN made and it’s about time we moved on from all this archaic superstitious tribalism. Whatever you’re selling, I ain’t buying.
Miracles were a joke to Hitch. He just ignored them no matter what the evidence. 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
@@2fast2block This is just self serving nonsense. What we know is that the universe bubble we are a part of goes back to a small unit of time (the planck time), before it would converge into a singularity according to the classical theory of general relativity. But that doesn't take quantum effects into account, so before that the simple answer is we don't know what happened. It is perfectly possible, as some cosmological models propose, that there is a greater cosmos outside our universe that may be infinite and eternal, whatever that might mean outside of the laws of physics in this universe. In any case gods don't solve anything when you just hand wave away the need for any explanation of them. It is just an extra and vastly extravagant assumption that we can discard with Occam's razor. Worse, there is absolutely no connection between some fundamental substance outside of our universe and the prosaic god invented by ancient tribes who didn't know any better thousands of years ago. Even if we accepted the notion that some kind of deistic god existed you would still have all your work in front of you, as Hitchens said. And he is right. As to taking miracles seriously, there just isn't close to close enough evidence to accept any of them and the Christians one are really no different to the miracle claims of other religions in their absurdity and lack of evidence: No Mohamed didn't split the moon in two or fly around heaven on a winged donkey and no Jesus didn't rise from the dead or turn water into wine and there were not talking animals either. The fact that people who claim to be intelligent believe these preposterous unevidence claims is thoroughly depressing and not a good sign for our ability to cooperate in addressing the world's problems. Really, wake up already.
@S M Nobody is perfect. Your bro George W. Bush actually STARTED that war, and people like you supported it FULL-ON. PS: Trump lost. Get over it. Womp womp. Thoughts and prayers, girlfriend.
He was 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. 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
@AMT you are one stoooo-pid person. You can't get around what I wrote and your empty self decided to reply anyway that did nothing but fill in space with baseless words.
This was excellent!!! I wish I could have met him. He's inspiring. When I feel down I reach for something he wrote or watch a video he's in. He's just AWESOME.
When I come into some money. I plan to create scholarships in the names of three people. My Dad - He was a Black revolutionary. My Mom - She was a feminist and organic farmer..and Christopher Hitchens. All three contributed to my intellectual development. I think any fan of Hitch, that has money should create a lasting scholarship in his name to the school of their choice because in essence what Hitch promoted was critical thinking. Think for yourselves dammit!!! 😀👍🏾🙏🏿
People, including myself, spend too much time on youtube watching news we like and people we like. If you want to learn English, listen to Hitchens There are others that handle the English language better, but not in debate. And debates are so entertaining.
A great loss for us. Rest in peace, hitchens we need you now more than ever. I can't imagine what a field day Hitchins would have had in this day and age. I'm forever hurt in the grand scheme of things that I never got to hear his thoughts on so many subjects of the future.
There was about a three period in the mid to late 2000s when I must've watched every Christopher Hitchens interview and TV appearance that was uploaded on TH-cam.
@@jeffmilroy9345 Well, I presume Hitch would have said he and Leonardo were from different eras and different interests, I know what you’re saying but though I like Da-Vinci, I’m merely expressing my admiration and feelings for wordsmith that was Christopher, his well researched ideas and opinions as well as his verbatim puts him, in my opinion ahead of the contemporary pack.
1:22 Hitchens : There appears to be huge archive of me on the internet ". Well sir you would surely have been pleasantly surprised by the vast vast videos of you on youtube today...
'The Ribbon Store' debacle- 'They made me do it!' - just so funny...😂 Christopher had such a range of talents but a great sense of purpose and humour lay behind it all
I encourage everybody go and read "Unacknowledged Legislations: Writers in the Public Sphere." A fine book by Hitchens, though I haven't read a book of his that wasn't fascinating at least to a certain extent.
Sadly he would have been “protested” by fuckwits who didn’t know why they were protesting & universities would have caved in to the mob and banned him.
Then miss your 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. 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
@@2fast2block , blah blah blah crap. Just spewing page after page of crap does not make it true. Hitch will live on in TH-cam for other enlightened people, not you, to discover as religion recedes and science and facts take over.
@@danielthomas8507 if you didn't realise sarcasm then you need help. Your idol now is answering for those innocent people's death for which he so so wanted and pushed for.
We owned a rather rusty Remington machine we kept moving house with that I kept promising to try and spool a fresh ribbon from some newer model onto if I could. I never got round to it, moved away from the parental home and it eventually went into the skip for the house clearance firm after the next move. Surrendering your old devices and switching over is indeed painful for some of us. Curse the ribbon store! I swear we had to do the folk dancing as part of PE.
Hitchens had the inkling that he would become a posthumous TH-cam sensation. Such cruel irony. Me and surely thousands of others have discovered him through it.
I will concede this - he bravely did not hide the alcohol when the camera was rolling. He cheerfully displayed his demigod. Different approach than Dawkins.
Its ok Hitch, i am a bit more better at using the phone but avoid social media like the plague. But thank muatube, I realised what an amazing person exists apart from many others.
@@corneliuscapitalinus845Religion is a social construct created by humans thousands of years ago. Religion was created more or less to answer questions that early humans couldn't figure out. When a human saw lightning they came to the conclusion some god was causing that. Overtime religion became more of moral institution as human civilization became more complex. Most religions of the ancient era were polytheistic but the modern era gave birth to many monotheism''s, like Christianity and Islam. Religion for many centuries was instrumental in passing laws and determining who could fill government positions. All governments were theocracies. Until around the 17 and 1800's when many countries like the United States and France started a trend. Countries shouldn't be run by the clergy, but by intellectuals and elected officials. This led to a new ideology, Atheism, the lack of belief in any god/s. It is a far stretch to say that every single bad thing that happened was because of religion but almost every single war, genocide was caused in some part by religion. At this point religion is losing it's moral authority almost everywhere in the world and probably for best. However, forced Atheism is something I am against, especially when I see the suppression of Uyghurs and Tibetans in China. I definitely said something that was wrong or I oversimplified events so please feel free to critique this.
I and I hope others will honour you and continue your work as best as our ability allows us. So please don’t just remember him. Get out and write! If I can every body can.
There's a variation of that line in the opening monologue to the 2000 film Essex Boys that goes something like "I'll try anything once, me; except bestiality. Oh, and Morris dancing"
Most of us who defend drinking and smoking are lying both to ourselves and family. Had Hitch survived his cancer, he would’ve surely quit both REGARDLESS of wether it was “more of a slave than a master”.
What 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. 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
Why would you miss a man who refused to believe in Jesus Christ and encouraged many to become hell bound sinners if they do not repent of their wickedness?
Loser 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 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
@@slowfuse I have actually read the bible, which is why I'm an atheist. I also cannot recall ever reading anywhere where it says saying "shit " is a bad thing. Would you be kind enough to give me chapter and verse so I can read it myself ? Thanks
He supported what he believed to be a just war. If you read his work you will discover that he was never indifferent nor callous about the loss of life, especially at hands of tyrants.
@@sonnyirish3678 Yes. That it is indiscriminate in slaughtering people of all political persuasions and religious belief. It also allowed the ignorant and illiterate a voice via social media, to promote the most bizarre ideas about Covid, thus contributing to the onslaught of the disease.
A pity seeing a non-descript, almost devout person, taking an interview from a god mostly at ease with the adoration rightly so bestowed upon him; sorryful interviewer, indulgent intervewee. (edited, because hey, typos)
''And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.'' (Romans 1:28)
David Tucker all of you just said is contradictory, how can you say that god gives us free will, then punish us for exercising free will especially when the all loving, all knowing god in question contradict his own definition, and no atheists lean on each other people figured out for themselves that religion doesn’t make any sense.
@@mallardofmodernia8092 Well said.The comments posted here by his fan club are plain embarrassing.They no nothing of the British class system, or England of the 1980s.They no nothing of his back ground in supporting every anti American cause from Vietnam onwards.They know nothing of the seething anti American feeling, propagated by Hitchens and his fellow travellers in Europe.Every American reverse Vietnam 75, and Iran 79 was celebrated like a world cup amongst the Bloomsbury and Hampstead.Then when they wanted to make money, these hypocrites moved to the USA to grift from gullible Americans.Americans on the east coast always fall for a plummy voice from Britain. And as always the easiest mark to make money off is attacking Christianity.Its strange that the great "Hitch" who shouted loud and wide about religion never went to real Godless country like China.They always head to a country founded by Christians.America can never win,its hated by atheists because of its deep Christian heritage (TV evangelists are not Chrsitian but grifters).Its told its racist, but 150 and nationalities have been picked up at its Southern border. As for Hitchens,the man was so deeply flawed its hard to know what he was ever right on.
@@sonnyirish3678 I wasnt agreeing with you , I was just responding to why what you said makes no sense and saying China is godless (or insinuating its atheist) is funny seeming as though they have a large population of muslims (although the CCP despises muslims), buddhists, spiritualists (cant remember what they call it), even some christians etc, Chinese philosophy and its current collectively organised society isnt just a product of its history of the past 70 years but its spiritual, religious history too. The Chinese government openly supports spiritual martial arts which is something hitchens would despise. China in its agricultural areas is even more religious, spiritual than the US. You're lack of knowledge of other nations is showing... He's attacking something he sees as a scam, something that doesnt deserve to exist in a modern civil society, its not grifting, its called having ideals. And he has to live somewhere, presumbly somewhere that caters to his needs and wants, plus if he wanted to change the world to be more atheistic why would you go to an atheist country? Thats just preaching to the choir. Missionaries dont go, preach at the places already fully devoted to their god, so why would Hitchens? If you're criticising Hitchens on his thoughts on Iraq and Afghanistan then thats fine but you should hold the same standards for those with the same beliefs as you who also wanted intervention nameably those within government. And if the US kept its promise of separating church from state then Hitchens wouldnt be there giving seminars, speeches, interviews etc.
@@sonnyirish3678 and on racism a nations people in many areas can be racist whilst its government arent and vice versa. And the US does have a racism issue, a very visible one hence why its reported so often, although other nations also have these issues but on a smaller scale like the UK or France and especially China, China's is a massive issue (although many audiences find this a sensitive topic so it doesnt get reported often).
@@mallardofmodernia8092 The church and state are seperated in America.Hitchens choose to live in the USA because its a wealthy country he could make money in. And no offence have you not heard of the genocide against the Uyghyurs,thats how much the CCP like religion.China is a police state end of story.I think you should find out more about its treatment of its own population.As for the US government I hold them in total contempt.The day I would be in league with Bush,Cheney,Powell,Rumsfeld and co is a day that would never happen.Howver this man Hitchens stood four square with them .Even in 2011, when it was obvious he was wrong,he would never concede that he was wrong
Why would anyone be afraid of this dead man? He's entitled to his opinion but that's all it is. He never had any proof that God doesn't exist. It's just his own belief. It means nothing. I have felt the presence of the Most Holy so I know that He exists. It's not just my belief.
That’s all you have - your opinion. You have no proof that God exists. Having an emotional experience in feeling that a supernatural entity exists is not evidence. Don’t you realise that you have contradicted yourself? And stop dancing on corpses. It’s a cheap and despicable tactic. Shame on you.
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
He never said anything like that; on the contrary, he rejected any attempt by others to compare him to Orwell. Why don’t you stop putting words in a dead mans mouth? Have you no shame?
@@PureSwedishViking Hitchens may have told people to not compare him, but the fact of the matter is he was drawing a very clear line between his own journalistic methods and Orwell's in letters to a young contrarian. This comparison, of course, was rendered meaningless when Hitchens became a shameless apologist for imperialist violence.
steiner333 So why not write that, instead of slandering the man? Why write a false statement if you knew it was not true? As for being an apologist for ”imperialist violence”; if that’s the term you want use for describing someone advocating intervention to overthrow dictators, then by all means you are free to do so. I was just wondering if you would also apply that to Hitchens when he was stating the case that an intervention should have taken place in Rwanda against the genocide, and that Brittain did a noble thing in pushing back the liberian invasion of Sierra Leone, thus preventing another genocide. Imperialist violence, indeed...
@@PureSwedishViking Sure, the US and Britain have nothing but the best interests of these people mind, particularly when we were selling Hussein guns and obstructing efforts within Iraq to overthrow him. But I suppose when we support dictators it's only a problem when we say it is.
@@nothingmatters321 If selling weapons to him was so bad; aren´t you happy then that it was decided by the coalition that having him in power was a huge mistake and he should have been overthrown? All the past blunders and crimes should, in my opinion, warrant a responsibility by those guilty of this crime to make up for this and overthrow the dictator that had been supported in the past. Every attempt to overthrow him in the past by the iraqi people had actually been prevented by the FOUR secret police forces Hussein had at his disposal (which you fail to mention). And you didn´t answer my question. Is it ``imperial violence´´ to apply the same need for taking responsibility in using intervention to prevent genocide, which is what Hitchens was arguing for.
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Almost surreal to see Hitch make a direct reference to his content being on TH-cam. He is sorely missed. TH-cam is certainly how I came across him and I’ve been improved greatly ever since.
David Tucker you don’t see how a person can improve someone... if they aren’t a Christian?
Is that what you’re really saying here?
David Tucker oh right. So you’re either a troll, a nutbag bible basher or something in between.
David Tucker ah yes, the only thing in the entire universe that can improve a human being...
is a supernatural Bronze Age myth.
Not art, or poetry.
Landscape or beauty.
Philosophy or sex.
Heartache or forgiveness.
Some made up magical deity from a book written thousands of years ago by desert dwelling goat herders and peasants. About talking snakes, dead men that don’t really die, virgins who can conceive, bushes that burn forever. Oh and don’t forget Noah’s Ark. Or are you one of those “modern” Christians who accepts that the _really_ stupid shit is of course not true, but I better be careful cos I’m STILL going to hell if I don’t hand myself over to this celestial authority.
Or the BIGGEST insult: that withOUT this divine authority, I would have NO way of being able to discern morality for myself.
You are a FOOL if you believe ANY religion or ANY thing that claims to contain “divine” bloody revelation. Religion is MAN made and it’s about time we moved on from all this archaic superstitious tribalism.
Whatever you’re selling, I ain’t buying.
David Tucker you’re talking utter random drivel. Like a crackpot preacher. Please go do something else. Anything else.
David Tucker I couldn’t care less who or what you are.
TH-cam: Footage of Hitchens you've never seen before.
Me: Yes please.
The water turned to wine is most useful miracle..ha h ha h ah ha classic.
An Oscar Wilde wit....yes?
Downing street wouldnt have had to to send someone out with a suitcase if they had mastered this trick.
Miracles were a joke to Hitch. He just ignored them no matter what the evidence.
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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@@2fast2block the only miracle I can see is that you’re still alive. You must be what, 80? 85? You look about 120 in your videos.
@@2fast2block This is just self serving nonsense. What we know is that the universe bubble we are a part of goes back to a small unit of time (the planck time), before it would converge into a singularity according to the classical theory of general relativity. But that doesn't take quantum effects into account, so before that the simple answer is we don't know what happened. It is perfectly possible, as some cosmological models propose, that there is a greater cosmos outside our universe that may be infinite and eternal, whatever that might mean outside of the laws of physics in this universe. In any case gods don't solve anything when you just hand wave away the need for any explanation of them. It is just an extra and vastly extravagant assumption that we can discard with Occam's razor. Worse, there is absolutely no connection between some fundamental substance outside of our universe and the prosaic god invented by ancient tribes who didn't know any better thousands of years ago. Even if we accepted the notion that some kind of deistic god existed you would still have all your work in front of you, as Hitchens said. And he is right. As to taking miracles seriously, there just isn't close to close enough evidence to accept any of them and the Christians one are really no different to the miracle claims of other religions in their absurdity and lack of evidence: No Mohamed didn't split the moon in two or fly around heaven on a winged donkey and no Jesus didn't rise from the dead or turn water into wine and there were not talking animals either. The fact that people who claim to be intelligent believe these preposterous unevidence claims is thoroughly depressing and not a good sign for our ability to cooperate in addressing the world's problems. Really, wake up already.
A very beautiful and humanizing man. I'm grateful that I was able to discover his writing and to some extent who he was.
@S M Nobody is perfect. Your bro George W. Bush actually STARTED that war, and people like you supported it FULL-ON.
PS: Trump lost. Get over it. Womp womp. Thoughts and prayers, girlfriend.
He was 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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@AMT you are one stoooo-pid person. You can't get around what I wrote and your empty self decided to reply anyway that did nothing but fill in space with baseless words.
Such a sad loss to us all and so glad he lives on in you tube
Petyr Kowalski wish we had 7.5 billion more of hitch. What a great fucking world we would be living in.
Wall Street Hamster at least he wasnt a judgemental, self righteous, pompous homophobe like you.
Vinnie P. Perfectly well put. Bravo
In a way I feel as though he’s not gone. Not afterlife though.
My hero. 💪🏻
This was excellent!!! I wish I could have met him. He's inspiring. When I feel down I reach for something he wrote or watch a video he's in. He's just AWESOME.
When I come into some money. I plan to create scholarships in the names of three people. My Dad - He was a Black revolutionary. My
Mom - She was a feminist and organic farmer..and Christopher Hitchens. All three contributed to my intellectual development. I think any fan of Hitch, that has money should create a lasting scholarship in his name to the school of their choice because in essence what Hitch promoted was critical thinking. Think for yourselves dammit!!! 😀👍🏾🙏🏿
On religion, he WAS awesome.
On illegal wars based on lies, he became a delusuonal war hawk.
On women, he has some less than awesome opinions.
@@huepix didn't he say the holocaust was a bit of a lie
He is very sorry now, but too late
Awesomely stupid.
What I would give to have a drink with Christopher!
I totally agree.. he had things all in the right perspective.
Great man.
"I've hardly got my trousers off."
😂😂
A long evening in the pub with Mr Hitchens would have been a pleasure to remember. Alas, never to be.
"who made you do it"
"the people that closed the ribbon store"
That brief look in Hitch's face
He realized it was not as funny as he thought would be
@@vineeth547 No, he realized the person he was sat across from was a complete dope who couldn't follow.
@@bobobandy9382 I had the exact some thought. That guy was too quick to open his mouth and too slow to think.
What a great man I still miss him
Rubbish
@R e P little yisus fanboy is butthurt
The way he looks at him and says "No" at 02:00
2:00
"You don't text people"
"[God] no"
People, including myself, spend too much time on youtube watching news we like and people we like.
If you want to learn English, listen to Hitchens
There are others that handle the English language better, but not in debate. And debates are so entertaining.
Fry
A great loss for us.
Rest in peace, hitchens we need you now more than ever.
I can't imagine what a field day Hitchins would have had in this day and age.
I'm forever hurt in the grand scheme of things that I never got to hear his thoughts on so many subjects of the future.
There was about a three period in the mid to late 2000s when I must've watched every Christopher Hitchens interview and TV appearance that was uploaded on TH-cam.
The world 🌍 is a poorer place without Hitchens, god dammed! I miss this man, he was as close as you can get to being the best polymath.
I say he ain't no da Vinci. He should have gone cryonic - he could have proved me wrong! Still time for Dawkins!
@@jeffmilroy9345 Well, I presume Hitch would have said he and Leonardo were from different eras and different interests, I know what you’re saying but though I like Da-Vinci, I’m merely expressing my admiration and feelings for wordsmith that was Christopher, his well researched ideas and opinions as well as his verbatim puts him, in my opinion ahead of the contemporary pack.
1:22 Hitchens : There appears to be huge archive of me on the internet ".
Well sir you would surely have been pleasantly surprised by the vast vast videos of you on youtube today...
“I’ll try anything once except incest and folk dancing” - Christopher Hitchens
He's quoting Sir Thomas Beecham.
Hi , miss him alot. Great speaker and a true en lighted man.
'The Ribbon Store' debacle- 'They made me do it!' - just so funny...😂 Christopher had such a range of talents but a great sense of purpose and humour lay behind it all
I'M very very sad he's gone , he was always so much fun to listen to , god bless RIP
what a waste to include that background music!
I encourage everybody go and read "Unacknowledged Legislations: Writers in the Public Sphere." A fine book by Hitchens, though I haven't read a book of his that wasn't fascinating at least to a certain extent.
We need him now. :-(
The most useful of the miracles...(water into wine)😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
A very missed man. Would love to hear his take about all the bravo Sierra in this world today.
Sadly he would have been “protested” by fuckwits who didn’t know why they were protesting & universities would have caved in to the mob and banned him.
*"Bravo Sierra"* ... clever
Oh how I miss Mr. Hitchens. :(
Then miss your 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.
th-cam.com/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/w-d-xo.html
The odds are NOT there.
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@@2fast2block , blah blah blah crap. Just spewing page after page of crap does not make it true. Hitch will live on in TH-cam for other enlightened people, not you, to discover as religion recedes and science and facts take over.
Last line: I hardly got my trousers off.
Christopher Hitchen TH-cam immortalized.
I wish someone would make a movie about his life...
I love the part where he fueled the fire that killed millions of innocent people!
I have a good title.How to grift off dopes.
@@HappyBloke81 wow...get help
@@danielthomas8507 if you didn't realise sarcasm then you need help. Your idol now is answering for those innocent people's death for which he so so wanted and pushed for.
@@HappyBloke81 what are talking about??? and if that was sarcasm you didn't articulate very well at all....
We owned a rather rusty Remington machine we kept moving house with that I kept promising to try and spool a fresh ribbon from some newer model onto if I could. I never got round to it, moved away from the parental home and it eventually went into the skip for the house clearance firm after the next move. Surrendering your old devices and switching over is indeed painful for some of us. Curse the ribbon store!
I swear we had to do the folk dancing as part of PE.
So Hitch didn't spend a lot of time worrying about what his critics thought then, Imagine that.
Hitchens had the inkling that he would become a posthumous TH-cam sensation. Such cruel irony. Me and surely thousands of others have discovered him through it.
I will concede this - he bravely did not hide the alcohol when the camera was rolling. He cheerfully displayed his demigod. Different approach than Dawkins.
I’ve always found it amazing that alcohol has anything to do with Jesus given the violence which can come with it
Jesus was a pretty violent man
Yes, Christopher, we'd hardly had our trousers off and you were gone.
Would have loved to see his reaction to the #blessed 🙌 crowd (shivers.)
"i took a long time to get onto email" lmao
I guess I've seen this one three or four times Can't Get Enough, Thomas Sowell Christopher Hitchens
“...on the cyber-web,” lolz
I'm against all positions (including the one that I have to be in in order to be against a position).
Its ok Hitch, i am a bit more better at using the phone but avoid social media like the plague. But thank muatube, I realised what an amazing person exists apart from many others.
What did he say at the end, "I'll try anything once except incest and ....?? It sounded to me like he said "folk dancing".
Legend.
Alonso was interviewing Hitchens before joining ChelseaFc
If it weren’t for TH-cam I wouldn’t be as informed about religion as I am now.
Tell me about religion.
@@corneliuscapitalinus845Religion is a social construct created by humans thousands of years ago. Religion was created more or less to answer questions that early humans couldn't figure out. When a human saw lightning they came to the conclusion some god was causing that. Overtime religion became more of moral institution as human civilization became more complex. Most religions of the ancient era were polytheistic but the modern era gave birth to many monotheism''s, like Christianity and Islam. Religion for many centuries was instrumental in passing laws and determining who could fill government positions. All governments were theocracies. Until around the 17 and 1800's when many countries like the United States and France started a trend. Countries shouldn't be run by the clergy, but by intellectuals and elected officials. This led to a new ideology, Atheism, the lack of belief in any god/s. It is a far stretch to say that every single bad thing that happened was because of religion but almost every single war, genocide was caused in some part by religion. At this point religion is losing it's moral authority almost everywhere in the world and probably for best. However, forced Atheism is something I am against, especially when I see the suppression of Uyghurs and Tibetans in China. I definitely said something that was wrong or I oversimplified events so please feel free to critique this.
@@PatrickH6973 here here
That ribbon joke totally went over the kid's head.
I would to here a conversation between Christopher Hitchens and Brendan Behan. That would have been amazing.
Hardly as Behan was a man of action where as "Hitch" was a money grabber.
I and I hope others will honour you and continue your work as best as our ability allows us. So please don’t just remember him. Get out and write! If I can every body can.
I wonder how much water he mixed his whisky with. It looks very diluted. I'm just curious as I want to try it the way he drank it.
So jealous of that guy getting to meet him
He also got to have a drink with him, so jealous.
Me too man. What i wouldnt give to get drunk with this man while picking his brain.
Incest & folk dancing! Hitch was awesome.😀
That’s what I thought he said. I guess we would agree- a Clever line
There's a variation of that line in the opening monologue to the 2000 film Essex Boys that goes something like "I'll try anything once, me; except bestiality. Oh, and Morris dancing"
i would have loved to be able to call Hitchens a Boomer
Very intelligent insightful etc but I feel he underestimated the potential of women to some degree...I mean generally as a person
I’m pretty sure I know which side of the vaxx mandate debate Hitchens would be on….
Good interviewer.
Why with the elevator music?? If sucks
I great contributor to the world!
Who did he mention was his favourite hard drinking writer? I couldn’t hear clearly
Kingsley Amis
@@TruthSika thank you
9 years ago. Sad
He was very serious about not texting 😂 Almost like fear
I'll try anything once except incest and ???. Couldn't understand the second thing so I'm HIGHLY curious.
Folk dancing
He won't try once, he will try it many many times
Please share my two brief videos with other people. Thanks!
Okay then!
i wish he had taken a better care of himself .gone way too soon .there is no one like him
Love that bastard!
« I’ll try anything once except incest and folk dancing ». Brilliant.
Well he did try bisexuality.
God - pun intended - I miss Hitch
Hey...
Most of us who defend drinking and smoking are lying both to ourselves and family. Had Hitch survived his cancer, he would’ve surely quit both REGARDLESS of wether it was “more of a slave than a master”.
Who is the writer he mentions? Hard drinking one
Kingsley Amis.
@@emho5135 Thanks!
Cameraman needs a slap.
Christopher…what a legend😁🤘🏻
What 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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doesnt the interviewer look like vinnie chase from entourage?
No. Hair is similar.
I bet he is very sorry now he didn’t listen
HOW SO?
"I'll try anything once except incest and folk-dancing"
RIP donnie
I completed a undergrad and masters course whilst being baked the whole time. It can be done.
except for incest and "*what*" I couldnt make out and CC is wrong. 4:35
folk dancing
@@oliverholmes-gunning5372 hah. Obvious now that I know. Ty for that
counting crows
Sadly missed. I wonder what he would have had to say about the current madness.
Probably would have supported another war on false pretences where millions of people would die. He'll go around the world promoting and fuelling it
He and his sort helped create it.
Why would you miss a man who refused to believe in Jesus Christ and encouraged many to become hell bound sinners if they do not repent of their wickedness?
That interviewer is hot
TermsofService none of your business
@TermsofService Good for you sweetie! X
Really - ugh the interviewer looks like Screech
And that's all you get from the interview?
Nah, he's a dickhead. What a waste of an opportunity for enlightenment.
Does this mean he would have tried being a trump supporter?
Not in a million years. He would have been astonished at and disgusted by how many weak-minded Americans worshipped the orange idiot.
He was not smart enough.
Prolific mind.
Loser 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 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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@@2fast2block found yet ANOTHER comment to troll in, I see?
thanks for censoring the sh*t word, I'm a Christian
'thanks for censoring the sh*t word, I'm a Christian' - Is it wrtten anywhere that Christians must not hear the word shit?
@@channelfogg6629 yes a little thing you may have heard of called the bible
@@slowfuse I have actually read the bible, which is why I'm an atheist. I also cannot recall ever reading anywhere where it says saying "shit " is a bad thing. Would you be kind enough to give me chapter and verse so I can read it myself ? Thanks
@@donnablair4559 I have never read the bible as I never felt the need. I feel sorry that you do.
So, seeing or hearing "shit" would offend you but you are fine with "sh*t". Please explain.
Very shallow.
"There seems to be a community of people who seems to be scared of you..." 🤣 how dishonest can you be?
(ps) I love you..
squiffy whiffle!
when he refers to other writers smoking dope is he referring to heroin or marijhuana?
i love Hitch but let us never forget he promoted war from an arm chair and didnt care who lived or died .
He supported what he believed to be a just war. If you read his work you will discover that he was never indifferent nor callous about the loss of life, especially at hands of tyrants.
That's because he was a classic liberal.Scracth one and you will find a real little fascist.
@@sonnyirish3678
Perhaps a contrarian but never a liberal. Your notion of liberals being fascists under the surface is a fatuous generalisation.
@@tonygarrett7214 Oh yeah.Have you learned nothing from Covid.
@@sonnyirish3678
Yes. That it is indiscriminate in slaughtering people of all political persuasions and religious belief. It also allowed the ignorant and illiterate a voice via social media, to promote the most bizarre ideas about Covid, thus contributing to the onslaught of the disease.
A pity seeing a non-descript, almost devout person, taking an interview from a god mostly at ease with the adoration rightly so bestowed upon him; sorryful interviewer, indulgent intervewee. (edited, because hey, typos)
"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." --Atheism and Nihilism in a nutshell.
Satan is well pleased with this fool of his!
''And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.'' (Romans 1:28)
Ed Wellington your argument from the bible doesn’t make sense, if God made them that way, why punish those who don’t believe?
Fake god.
“Created sick and commanded to be well”
Very nice
@David Tucker - AND we're all guilty for the sins of our fathers
Also very nice
David Tucker all of you just said is contradictory, how can you say that god gives us free will, then punish us for exercising free will especially when the all loving, all knowing god in question contradict his own definition, and no atheists lean on each other people figured out for themselves that religion doesn’t make any sense.
A man who was wrong on two massive issues.Iraq and Afghanistan and still they post about how smart he was.
Yes because an intelligent man can still be wrong. Hes not omniscient ffs.
@@mallardofmodernia8092 Well said.The comments posted here by his fan club are plain embarrassing.They no nothing of the British class system, or England of the 1980s.They no nothing of his back ground in supporting every anti American cause from Vietnam onwards.They know nothing of the seething anti American feeling, propagated by Hitchens and his fellow travellers in Europe.Every American reverse Vietnam 75, and Iran 79 was celebrated like a world cup amongst the Bloomsbury and Hampstead.Then when they wanted to make money, these hypocrites moved to the USA to grift from gullible Americans.Americans on the east coast always fall for a plummy voice from Britain.
And as always the easiest mark to make money off is attacking Christianity.Its strange that the great "Hitch" who shouted loud and wide about religion never went to real Godless country like China.They always head to a country founded by Christians.America can never win,its hated by atheists because of its deep Christian heritage (TV evangelists are not Chrsitian but grifters).Its told its racist, but 150 and nationalities have been picked up at its Southern border.
As for Hitchens,the man was so deeply flawed its hard to know what he was ever right on.
@@sonnyirish3678 I wasnt agreeing with you , I was just responding to why what you said makes no sense and saying China is godless (or insinuating its atheist) is funny seeming as though they have a large population of muslims (although the CCP despises muslims), buddhists, spiritualists (cant remember what they call it), even some christians etc, Chinese philosophy and its current collectively organised society isnt just a product of its history of the past 70 years but its spiritual, religious history too.
The Chinese government openly supports spiritual martial arts which is something hitchens would despise. China in its agricultural areas is even more religious, spiritual than the US.
You're lack of knowledge of other nations is showing...
He's attacking something he sees as a scam, something that doesnt deserve to exist in a modern civil society, its not grifting, its called having ideals. And he has to live somewhere, presumbly somewhere that caters to his needs and wants, plus if he wanted to change the world to be more atheistic why would you go to an atheist country? Thats just preaching to the choir. Missionaries dont go, preach at the places already fully devoted to their god, so why would Hitchens?
If you're criticising Hitchens on his thoughts on Iraq and Afghanistan then thats fine but you should hold the same standards for those with the same beliefs as you who also wanted intervention nameably those within government. And if the US kept its promise of separating church from state then Hitchens wouldnt be there giving seminars, speeches, interviews etc.
@@sonnyirish3678 and on racism a nations people in many areas can be racist whilst its government arent and vice versa. And the US does have a racism issue, a very visible one hence why its reported so often, although other nations also have these issues but on a smaller scale like the UK or France and especially China, China's is a massive issue (although many audiences find this a sensitive topic so it doesnt get reported often).
@@mallardofmodernia8092 The church and state are seperated in America.Hitchens choose to live in the USA because its a wealthy country he could make money in.
And no offence have you not heard of the genocide against the Uyghyurs,thats how much the CCP like religion.China is a police state end of story.I think you should find out more about its treatment of its own population.As for the US government I hold them in total contempt.The day I would be in league with Bush,Cheney,Powell,Rumsfeld and co is a day that would never happen.Howver this man Hitchens stood four square with them .Even in 2011, when it was obvious he was wrong,he would never concede that he was wrong
Why would anyone be afraid of this dead man? He's entitled to his opinion but that's all it is. He never had any proof that God doesn't exist. It's just his own belief. It means nothing. I have felt the presence of the Most Holy so I know that He exists. It's not just my belief.
That’s all you have - your opinion. You have no proof that God exists. Having an emotional experience in feeling that a supernatural entity exists is not evidence. Don’t you realise that you have contradicted yourself? And stop dancing on corpses. It’s a cheap and despicable tactic. Shame on you.
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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blah blah...I am the greatest thing since Orwell...blah blah...
He never said anything like that; on the contrary, he rejected any attempt by others to compare him to Orwell. Why don’t you stop putting words in a dead mans mouth? Have you no shame?
@@PureSwedishViking Hitchens may have told people to not compare him, but the fact of the matter is he was drawing a very clear line between his own journalistic methods and Orwell's in letters to a young contrarian. This comparison, of course, was rendered meaningless when Hitchens became a shameless apologist for imperialist violence.
steiner333
So why not write that, instead of slandering the man? Why write a false statement if you knew it was not true? As for being an apologist for ”imperialist violence”; if that’s the term you want use for describing someone advocating intervention to overthrow dictators, then by all means you are free to do so. I was just wondering if you would also apply that to Hitchens when he was stating the case that an intervention should have taken place in Rwanda against the genocide, and that Brittain did a noble thing in pushing back the liberian invasion of Sierra Leone, thus preventing another genocide. Imperialist violence, indeed...
@@PureSwedishViking Sure, the US and Britain have nothing but the best interests of these people mind, particularly when we were selling Hussein guns and obstructing efforts within Iraq to overthrow him. But I suppose when we support dictators it's only a problem when we say it is.
@@nothingmatters321 If selling weapons to him was so bad; aren´t you happy then that it was decided by the coalition that having him in power was a huge mistake and he should have been overthrown? All the past blunders and crimes should, in my opinion, warrant a responsibility by those guilty of this crime to make up for this and overthrow the dictator that had been supported in the past. Every attempt to overthrow him in the past by the iraqi people had actually been prevented by the FOUR secret police forces Hussein had at his disposal (which you fail to mention).
And you didn´t answer my question. Is it ``imperial violence´´ to apply the same need for taking responsibility in using intervention to prevent genocide, which is what Hitchens was arguing for.
Thank you. Now get to work.