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"And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake."
"The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on-only henceforth in my absence. (It's the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing.) Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall."
"One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody-not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms-had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell."
"The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on-only henceforth in my absence. (It's the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing.) Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall."
"One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody-not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms-had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell."
Christopher Hitchens - Liberty is worth fighting for
The Long war. Liberty vs. Tyranny and Theocracy.
“The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war” - Christopher Hitchens
“It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war without end.' I never saw the point of this plaintive objection. The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war. In protean forms, it is fought and refought in every country and every generation. In bin Ladenism we confront again the awful combination of the highly authoritarian personality with the chaotically nihilist and anarchic one. Temporary victories can be registered against this, but not permanent ones. As Bertold Brecht's character says over the corpse of the terrible Arturo Ui, the bitch that bore him is always in heat. But it is in this struggle that we develop the muscles and sinews that enable us to defend civilization, and the moral courage to name it as something worth fighting for.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or 'objectify' them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse would be unfeasible without the use of portmanteau terms-like 'Stalinism,' say-just as the most scrupulous insistence on historical forces will often have to concede to the sheer personality of a Napoleon or a Hitler. I thought then, and I think now, that Osama bin Laden was a near-flawless personification of the mentality of a real force: the force of Islamic jihad. And I also thought, and think now, that this force absolutely deserves to be called evil, and that the recent decapitation of its most notorious demagogue and organizer is to be welcomed without reserve. Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy
Christopher Hitchens, Kurdistan, Islamic State, ISIS, Freedom, Free Speech, Tyrants, Islam Democracy, Syria
“The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war” - Christopher Hitchens
“It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war without end.' I never saw the point of this plaintive objection. The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war. In protean forms, it is fought and refought in every country and every generation. In bin Ladenism we confront again the awful combination of the highly authoritarian personality with the chaotically nihilist and anarchic one. Temporary victories can be registered against this, but not permanent ones. As Bertold Brecht's character says over the corpse of the terrible Arturo Ui, the bitch that bore him is always in heat. But it is in this struggle that we develop the muscles and sinews that enable us to defend civilization, and the moral courage to name it as something worth fighting for.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or 'objectify' them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse would be unfeasible without the use of portmanteau terms-like 'Stalinism,' say-just as the most scrupulous insistence on historical forces will often have to concede to the sheer personality of a Napoleon or a Hitler. I thought then, and I think now, that Osama bin Laden was a near-flawless personification of the mentality of a real force: the force of Islamic jihad. And I also thought, and think now, that this force absolutely deserves to be called evil, and that the recent decapitation of its most notorious demagogue and organizer is to be welcomed without reserve. Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy
Christopher Hitchens, Kurdistan, Islamic State, ISIS, Freedom, Free Speech, Tyrants, Islam Democracy, Syria
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Christopher Hitchens on the Indifference of Heaven
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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in chi...
Christopher Hitchens on Fascism, Ba'athism, Assad
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www.hrw.org/news/2012/07/03/syria-torture-centers-revealed Every time I see the droopy, callow face of Bashar al-Assad - a man in possession of those two awkwardly coexisting qualities identified by Hanna Arendt, utter banality and a fantastic capacity for evil - I think of Christopher Hitchens’s spot-on description of the Syrian tyrant, which he deployed for both Assad and former Argentina dic...
Christopher Hitchens - Man Made God
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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody-not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms-had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attem...
Christopher Hitchens - Remember the Love Bit
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The Foundation Beyond Belief has set up a donation page for the Syrian American Medical Society Foundation to benefit the region Barakat was trying to help. www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/02/11/if-youre-looking-for-a-positive-way-to-respond-to-the-chapel-hill-shootings-heres-one-way-to-help/ AronRa video On behalf of Deah, Yusor, and Razan: czcams.com/video/TOezEFJfqvs/video.html E ...
Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan with Tim Russert
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Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan with Tim Russert
Christopher Hitchens on Bill Clinton - "No One Left To Lie To"
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Christopher Hitchens on Bill Clinton
Christopher Hitchens vs. Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)
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Christopher Hitchens vs. Islamic State The essential point that a religiously neutral state is the chief guarantee of religious pluralism is the one that some of today's would-be theocrats are determined to miss. Liberty, Theocracy, Tyranny, Freedom, Extremism, Takfirism, Jihadism, Islam, Christopher Hitchens, Islam debate, ISIS, Islamic extremism, radical religion, paris attacks, Syria .the la...
Christopher Hitchens - The Philosopher's Song
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“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament-the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana-is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at...
Christopher Hitchens - All of Life is a Wager
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Christopher Hitchens - All of Life is a Wager (CSPAN) "Christopher Eric Hitchens (April 13, 1949 December 15, 2011) was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-selling books - the most ...
Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
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Christopher Hitchens CSPAN 2001 "I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit. I therefore have no choice but to find something suspect even in the humblest believer. Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in ...
Christopher Hitchens - Politics and Prose Bookstore
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Christopher Hitchens 2007 Politics and Prose
Christopher Hitchens debate with Timothy Jackson
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www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/how-to-debate-religion_b_4876997.html "Christopher Eric Hitchens (April 13, 1949 December 15, 2011) was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-sel...
Christopher Hitchens - A Conversation (2010)
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"Christopher Eric Hitchens (April 13, 1949 December 15, 2011) was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-selling books - the most famous being god Is Not Great - made him a staple of t...
Christopher Hitchens debate with Boteach
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Christopher Hitchens debate with Boteach
Christopher Hitchens on America's role in the World (2005)
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Christopher Hitchens on America's role in the World (2005)
Christopher Hitchens - Anderson Cooper Interview
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Christopher Hitchens - Anderson Cooper Interview
Christopher Hitchens - Why Orwell Matters (2005)
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Christopher Hitchens - Why Orwell Matters (2005)
Christopher Hitchens London Hay Festival 2007
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Christopher Hitchens London Hay Festival 2007
Christopher Hitchens - A Matter of Principle
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Christopher Hitchens - A Matter of Principle
Christopher Hitchens - Hitch Hike Documentary
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Christopher Hitchens - Hitch Hike Documentary
Christopher Hitchens and William F. Buckley Jr (Firing Line)
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Christopher Hitchens and William F. Buckley Jr (Firing Line)
Christopher Hitchens and William F. Buckley Jr interview
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Christopher Hitchens and William F. Buckley Jr interview
Christopher Hitchens - Freedom of Expression
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Christopher Hitchens - Freedom of Expression
Christopher Hitchens -Books and Ideas
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Christopher Hitchens -Books and Ideas
Christopher Hitchens on News, Politics, Religion (1996)
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Christopher Hitchens on News, Politics, Religion (1996)
The sheer joy at finding a ‘ Hitchens Thing’ that you haven’t listened to when you convince yourself that you’ve exhausted his online content…. It made my daily commute to and from work so much more enjoyable. Mr Hitchens thank you for all of your common sense and superb articulation ❤️
For the question at 14:00 minutes in: In addition to Pres. Clinton's ill fated Sudan strike, one of the most striking failures of the Clinton Administration was the continued use, funding and support of networks affiliated with, either financially or logistically or politically, a burgeoning Al-Qaeda network, during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990's. Particularly, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) -- one of the principle recipients of CIA & DOD largess, training, and weapons -- had discreet ties with Al Qaeda in the form of Ayaman Al Zawahiri, who during the slaughter by the Serbs of Bosnian and Croatian civilians, capitalized on the previous relationship the US had with Al Qaeda during the Afghan-Soviet War supporting the Arab-Afghan legion of fighters coming in from all over the Middle East and diluting the original indigenous resistance movement. During the 90's, Zawahiri is reported to have traveled to Bosnia in order to lead various Special Operations Elements within the KLA. This leads us down a rabbit hole, but even after the '83 Beirut Barracks Bombings, the '93 WTC Bombings, the '96 NY Landmarks "Day of Terror" Plot, and the '98 Kenya and Tanzania Embassy Bombings, the US Govt demonstrated a continued relationship with dangerous Jihadist elements throughout the US (Al-Khifa Center & Maktab Al Khidimat National Arab Afghan Volunteer Recruitment Network) and Middle East into the 1990's as Al Qaeda began to spread and openly declare their hatred and jihad against the United States. One interesting connection that surfaced and illuminated this continued relationship was Egyptian double agent, Ali Mohammed. Worked for CIA, FBI, and US Army, took US Army leave in 1981 (while on a Egyptian-US military partnership training program at Ft. Bragg) to go fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, trained 2 of the hijackers in airplane hijacking techniques (Nawaf Al Hamzi & Khalid Al Midhar), provided surveillance photos to Bin Laden in early 90's which was used to carry out the '98 embassy bombings, was the source for the Aug 2001 President's Daily Brief "Bin Laden Determined to Strike the US", and continued to be on US Govt payroll up until 2001, when he was detained and interrogated by George Cloonan of the FBI. I have not been able to find any updated information on Ali Mohammed, but he is almost certainly in witness protection.
Good points... with insidious anti-Christian drivel mixed in
26:58 "...that KGB goon and thug Vladimir Putin..." Hitch had the true measure of him long before most of the rest of us.
The callers who support the Clintons are a perfect representation of the collective brainpower present in the democratic party of today. Seems as things change, the more they stay the same.
total ignorance of the Founding Fathers and their spiritualism
As ive watched a lot and a lot of footage of ww2, its pretty undeniable there were extermination and concentration camps..
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God the father God the son Jesus Christ God the Holy Spirit! I am pray for this world! Heaven is real Hell is real which one u gon choose! Amen
Eat it😊
2:46:24 this one hurt 😢
As an atheist (as I am), Hitchens seems to have a lot of time for the Israeli state. Zionism? I wonder if he were alive now what he'd think about the current goings on in Gaza. There's an inconsistency.
As most people in the Western world, he is very ignorant about the subject, which is understandable, so I think his opinion, whatever it is, would be misinformed
Has anybody else noticed, that throughout this discussion, Christopher Hitchens is framed in camera in a very awkward position? What i mean is the rule of thirds concept of framing someone in a shot. William Buckley and that idiot Emmett Tyrrell are framed just right in the thirds rule, but the camera angle on Christopher looks awkward. I wonder if because he was a liberal (i hate the term, but for arguments sake) and the other 2 are conservative, this was an intentional ploy in the hands of the producers and director? Just a running thought, not seeking an argument. Fantastic example of someone being ripped to shreds intellectually. RIP Hitch
Hitch (not sure if u can hear me),M8 I've followed + loved your wit + how you've destroyed your opponents in religious debates with your intelligence for years. But I honestly believe that you have sold out to the "american establishment + the zionists ", m8 look back on who you were - and who you come across as now.
Nature is my god, it's bounty is my love and conscience, & science my religion. By....I don't remember who.☺️
First: who can claim to be sinless or have the power to be with God for eternity without God's intervention? Second,:"For all care l can go to hell."Wish granted .
What was the outcome of the final ballot?
“Almost certainly a rapist” 😂😂
It’s clear that Peter Hitchin was a Communist who was intent on spreading poisonous lies. Look at South Africa now in 2024, a failed state thanks to his Communist buddies, the ANC.
Chris had a real wake up call when he made his pilgrimage to Havana and realized how wrong he had been about the Marxist Utopia he had previously fawning over so much
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I admire Hitch’s ability to stay calm, measured, and on-point. He’s unflappable…makes him a force to be reckoned with. I miss you Hitch! ❤
The fella in the blue suit , is Dan the High Talker from Seinfeld
We Trump supporters need to be careful getting too cocky( as they were here in 1984) when he wins this election. We will not be witnessing a conservative renaissance. The left will be extremely fired up and likely take it back in 2028. There will be no more Trump's. He was one of a kind.
that cough. 😢
This guy was a fat sack of nothing. Having issues with Mother Teresa? I noticed he didn't have the sack to debate her because she would have destroyed him. He hated her because she wanted to eliminate unborn child slaughter and contraception. He believed that those two evil acts would reduce the poor. In other words he wants the government, of course, to sterilize the destitute, slaughter any babies that happened to make it through, and then once that's completed just sit back and let the poor die off. This is how he means to decrease the surplus population. That's demonic.
that cheeky look on Christopher’s face. ❤
Tyrell is a dope.
When he died I wept. We lost something. Cannot be replaced. In the intervening years I have only cried two other times. I cannot put into words what he did for my life.
lord he was so brilliant
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Watching these videos and trying to educate yourself further can cost u your life in modern "society".
I love rewatching this but two thoughts keep coming back to me. First is Hitchens stand on the war in Iraq. I think it’s been established and confirmed that the war was a boondoggle, that the Bush Jr. administration repeatedly lied to the public in the build up and throughout the war. And yet knowing this and denouncing Bush and all his warmongering cronies multiple times he was still in lockstep with them. And while I completely agree that we could never appease Muslim fanaticism, to not acknowledge at all that Americas entanglements in the Middle East contribute to the overall dislike of the west is just not being honest. It’s the only thing I ever heard Hitchens say I took a little exception to. And the second thing is the host of the show. Why does his head look comically small sitting on top of his head? It’s a little distracting to me, especially when they are shown in profile. lol.
Would have been great on Rogan
Hitchens had some weird fixations, like attacking Mother Teresa. He liked being a contrarian, that was a big part of who he was. And he was a Marxist, which explains the rationale behind a lot of the people he attacked.
That "two cheeks of the same arse" line that George Galloway has made hay with for three decades - turns out it belongs to his arch rival! 16:07
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Tonight, instead of candles, let the stars burn for Hitch.
Both Buckley and Hitchens talk too fast and say very little. "Maybe I can impress them with my vocabulary if I speed-speak." I'd rather listen to Elon any day; a real genius of real-world achievements, not an academic.
59:31 another example of the callers being cut off when asking about Israels involvement
18:12 I find it totally suspect That everytime the questioning of Jewish involvement is brought up This bellend just cuts the caller off Seen it on more that one occasion
I just read the quote by Thomas Paine, and it encompasses how I feel, but could not fine the words to express. Thank you.
Look at Hitchen's blue socks!
Watching in April 2024. Christopher Hitchens is very inspiring. He will be missed.
Reading these comments, I can tell that Hitchens has elevated everyone's (including me) grammar and vocabulary. It's fascinating that a person can have such an influence on people. Like an organic, unspoken encouragement
I prefer peace, but if trouble may come. Let it come on my time so my children may have peace. Thomas Paine
2024 anyone?
Had to watch this again after reading about the ridiculous new Scottish trans hate bill BS. 😂 I do watch this occasionally just to remind myself how magnificent this speech was.
Every year my dude, every year.
Blow way by the elegance and intellectual breadth of this man. And to think that Kissinger, indeed, outlived CH to a lofty 100. No compassionate god would have allowed such a disgrace.
safeguarding consensus. that's fucking over.
Interesting Hitchens said that he was appalled that Clinton could get away with all his lies and atrocities and yet the liberal media won’t bring it up. Yet, if it were a republican they’d be alll over the news. Sound familiar?
4:41 you just learn to discriminate is a crazy thing to say about your brother 🤣