I loved Hitchens but I really lost patience with his "Andromeda galaxy
collision" routine. He made it sound like two trucks were going to collide.
It's more like two vast swarms of bees in which there are hundreds and
hundreds of miles between every single bee. The odds of any two bees
actually colliding, rather than merely influencing each other's courses, is
astronomincally low... literally. Anyone alive then is hardly going to
regard it as a catastrophe, or even be aware it's happening if they're
insufficiently versed in science. - PatchesRips
Is there a "Hitchens" today?Clever,provocative and funny - suffern63
At 17min 37sec of the broadcast Hitch states that Hubble's expansion proves
Newton wrong. It isn't Newton who is proven wrong it is Einstein's static
universe that Hubble's findings over turn. Furthermore Hubble's expansion
corroborates a Catholic prelate's finding of an expanding universe and his
name is George Lemaitre. Sorry Hitch. - ronald brignoni
And at the end his own ideas were becoming more and more dangerous and not
so clever at all... - bandwagon22
Is there a higher resolution version of this? - Jonofwrath
Can anyone recommend a book from Hitch other than God/not great, Mortality
and Hitch 22 (already read). I was next considering "Letters/Contrarian" or
"Arguably". I also would like to get something of his early works so that
is specifically why I'm asking. Thanks - PlntPeace
My hero. Long live the HITCH! - skip KEG
Our Junior High School voted for the greatest Americans ever, here are the
results:
1) Jackey Robinson
2) Simon Weisenthal
3) Abraham Lincoln
4) Annie Frank
5) Jack Dawson of the Titanic - Horace Ball
The argument about Dr King's Christianity is highly flawed. Mr King *did
not introduce Christianity to the United States!* The slave owners of the
antebellum South used the Bible to justify their ownership of slaves.
Slavery is Biblical, and *not* just in the "Old Testament", it's in the New
as well, along with many other immoral teachings. And I quote:
"Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God,
honor the emperor.
Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only
to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.
For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust
suffering because they are conscious of God." 1st Peter 2:17-19 New
International Version.
Similar verses are found in Colossians and Ephesians.
Most of the people in opposition to the US civil rights movement considered
themselves and were considered by their contemporaries, to be Christians.
So how, then, did Christianity inspire Dr King? Or could it be that, like
so many others before and after him, he used the prevailing religion of his
day to underpin his cause and legitimise his teachings?
The so called "Beatitudes" say that poverty, far from being a curse, is a
blessing from god and that you should do good to those that do evil to you,
i.e. that you should accept oppression and tyranny. - colourmegone
Dangerous ideas? Karl Marx have one, that killed more innocent people in
our lifetime than all religions in all of human history. Could be as much
as 100 million in China and Soviet union alone. - Edward Dongres
Love listening to the hitch. Though there's one opportunity I think he
missed in this, when questioned about the inherent good in religion in
regards to the couple who ran the food shelter in Australia. Who's to say
they aren't inherently good and benevolent in their core and that even
without faith they would have been just as charitable? To say that someone
was only charitable because of their religion is a slur against their very
human nature. I certainly know many atheists who are charitable, I donate
to three charities every single year without the support of faith, I just
don't have the backing of a church or the funding associated with it to do
so on a larger scale. - Graham Lamb
"Religion Poisons Everything" - Mark Roberts
Marriage min is 11. Well that's progress of a kind, but note:the age of
high risk pregnancy is women over 35 and teenagers below 18. - Valkyrie Sardo
22:04 the famous Hitchens folded arms - Brett Robbins
- Carmen Gonzalez
You listen to hitchens once, you've heard everything he ever had to
say............ - 2tuque2
Intelligence is specialized. We can see very clear examples in extreme
cases like Bobby Fischer. But we all have it to a degree -- we're better at
some things than others -- including people we'd call "geniuses" (or even
the rare individuals known as "polymaths"). It's unreasonable to expect a
scientist, or a mathematician, or an author, etc... to be perfectly
knowledgable in every field, or completely immune to fear and superstition.
As Hitch would've said, we're primates. So, it shouldn't be so surprising
to us that experts in certain fields fail miserably in others. You may
write persuasive prose, or beautiful symphonies, or solve mind-bending
equations, or engineer wonders of design, but that doesn't mean you're
comfortable with the random nature of your finite existence. - Dieuaimebeethoven
22:00 The point he is trying to make here has an answer from Islam's
perspective, that every tribe or group of people had a messenger to inform
them about god, and there are 1000s of messengers through out humanity.
PLEASE NOTE: Im a skeptical muslim myself and not trying to defend
anything, and definitely wont be dragged to a religious flame war, if you
have something intelligent to say go ahead. - Voids
Don't believe anything now, but did almost all my life. I liked Hitches in
either state. Wish he was still around. - Jason Wright
I SO much liked his closing oncore. I'd like to learn it, and probably
will, by playing that part over and over. Best part of this talk I recon. - Khang Fre Y
It's now time to evolve consciously, life knowing life is the way ~~► go to
TruthContest◙com and read "The Present". - Fiona Mia
once more, budhism is no religion! - robsteries
Guys! respect every religion that don't tell a single lie! Oh--- well
fuck.. there goes atleast 99% of all religions, but im beting on 100% - Jerónimo Villarreal
My favourite atheist and the man who helped me dispel my many doubts about
the pointless idiocy and the stupidity inherent in the supernatural hocus
pocus that is religion. - The Duchess of Muanenguba
It wasn't Christianity that helped MLK, it was Bayard Rustin, a gay
socialist, who convinced MLK to implement nonviolent tactics Bayard learned
from Gandhi, a Hindu, who developed his philosophy and social activism from
Jainism - LightMatter2525
Who cares whether God exists -- SWEET REASON!!! A functioning mind!
Assuming God, God bless this man's soul (assuming souls). - noah gentry
Array - skip KEG
“Our creator, van Wezel?” Only the mentally diminished and compromised need
to be led by a dictatorial overlord, subscribe to biblical fantasy, an
imaginary afterlife, exist as slave under the fear of eternal punishment,
and ultimately segregated from the rest of their own species. Humans
gravitate to religion because they’re frightened by their own ineptness,
lack intellectual acuteness, and unable to come to terms with their innate
fear of death. Religion, and the parties of god, robs its subscribers of
self determination, becoming self-reliant, intellectually resolved and
advanced human beings—free of religion, its childish and fallacious
narrative. - Donnie SonOfTheDon
:) - Mark Wright
Hitchens hasn't tried to persuade me to being an unbeliever. I was an
unbeliever due to studying religion and was happy to find someone who
agreed with my findings. - Pat Rudine
This video is worth a very careful listen. The late Christopher Hitchens
was a thoughtful and fiercely honest debater who will not soon be
forgotten. - TheFolksinger
1:41:29 Christopher: "Are you going to show this? Am I covered in sweat?" - Andi Levicky
Until Hitchens, I felt alone in a crowd. Though he phrases his views more
elegant than I could ever hope, his opinions mirror mine to a "T". So
glad I stumbled on to him. Though he's gone, I no longer feel alone. - Kevin Craighead
He is an amazing linguist. I really enjoyed this lecture. If only more
atheists were like him. - Orceloi
Ignore Shamnon M's comment, it's nonsensical and wrong. I would reply to
him/her but there is no reply button under the comment for me to click.
"Alternative hypotheses and explanations for redshift such as tired light
are not generally considered plausible. Burbidge and Halton Arp, while
investigating the mystery of the nature of quasars, tried to develop
alternative redshift mechanisms, and very few of their fellow scientists
acknowledged let alone accepted their work." - Wikipedia on redshift. Only
took me 5 seconds to find an argument against him. Redshift occurs when
light wavelengths are longer due to the object emitting the light moving
away from the observer. So yes, it is related to movement. - Tom Freeman
we need someone with his character…… even though I don't totally agree……
why cant god be an emotion?……. like love, intangible, but real ……
connecting us to each other, our land, earth and the universe…… god is just
a another human need, ridiculous, but…….. - Boof Timex
Everyone seems to have belief. Even Hitchens :) - Edward Dongres
Feth i miss Hitch. - Spider Pope
Array - Alexander Pedersen
5:35-5:37
I've never heard Hitch go falsetto before, twas dope)) - Ryan Ewy
My wife asked me what I want for Christmas in 2013 I said I'd like several
Christopher Hitchens books. " For Christmas" ? she asked. I said " and can
I also have the God delusion by Richard Dawkins"? - WildPhotoShooter
Can anyone please spell out for me the author that Hitchens mentions at the
start o the talk? An australian author - sounds like required reading :) - Kirk Bushell
He not dead yet - anglosaxonbreed
"The attempt to live without illusions." Nachtrag: "That's why I favour
compulsory religious instruction in schools. I know of no other way to
guarantee the steady mass production of atheism." - Jörn Loviscach
Religion gets its morality from us when It's not preaching death and hell
for the nonbeliever. All the people that believe every word of the Bible or
Koran know very well that a modern science education will make children
reconsider the word faith. Religion forces otherwise honest people to lie
about reality and to be sure of what they do not know. - Joseph Nordenbrock
Science = "God does not appear to exist"
Religion = "SHUT THE FUCK UP"!
Religion is nonsense. - sweetshaman
Does Hitchens really believe God is "one being among many".Is he that
stupid that he does not realize our creator is a Divine Power - not a
"person".Oh grow up and smell the roses Christopher - Raymond van Wezel