Christopher Hitchens interview + Q&A on God is Not Great (2007)
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- The program discusses religion and politics with journalist and author Christopher Hitchens. His most recent book is “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.”
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Oh how i miss hitch. So glad he lives on in his books, his articles, and on youtube.
He's living on now hope he had a change of heart before he died
Hello Debbie, are you an atheist?
@@chesterswortham5197 He did not have a "change of heart." How silly.
Where is best to look for a comprehensive list of his works? Books, articles and videos ect?
@@chesterswortham5197Complete and utter nonsense.
One of the most elaquant, learned men I've ever watched. A giant among those pushing humanity away from magic and towards reason.
Wish you were here Hitch. You are needed so much...right now.
My only regret is that I "discovered" him in his later life as I was walking away from the "faith"... with that being said, Mr Hitchens guided me in the right direction. Thank you sir, u are surely missed & dare I say needed today...
Hello Jose, how do you think vision came to be? How did the cornea, tear ducts, pupil, iris, lens, retina, rods, cones, optic nerve and visual cortex come to be?
Please note, I am not asking if you "know" but what is your best explanation? Thank you!
@@pincessdogg5222 Ever hear of a natural process called biological evolution?
@@Gwaithmir Please explain to m how humans got corneas, lenses, pupils, irises, rods, cones, retinas optic nerves and visual cortexes.
And the associated circulatory, nervous and muscular systems to support vision.
Thank you!!!!
@@pincessdogg5222 There is a natural process called biological evolution. I suggest you acquaint yourself with it.
@@Gwaithmir Oh, I know it my hominid buddy.
Please explain the detailed process how vision came to to be ...
a few details on how corneas, lenses, pupils, irises, rods, cones, retinas optic nerves and visual cortexes came to be.
Don't just say "biological evolution" and sashay away, provide an explanation (you won't though).
I may be in the minority here, but I found it a pleasure to listen to two people talking in conversational tones instead of the debate format or with multiple people talking over one another in raised tones. Very good conversation indeed. Intelligent callers and well written emails. Another one of my favorite videos is when Hitch was "unopposed" in Seattle. It was funny though, that he brought up questions from his "imaginary" opponent as they always bring up similar points no matter who the opponents are.
You are very much in the same camp as myself, whether that's a majority of 2 I wouldn't know...😊
I count myself in that camp as well. My problem is that I want to agree with him on other topics as well, such as the Iraq war, just because we share secularist beliefs. However, his arguments have made me accept that it wasn't all bad, even if the motives might have been.
Add me also. One fine writer, commentator,Hella intelligent with a wit I'll always admire. Miss his presence, support the next intellectual when I can.
Which appearance in Seattle R U talking about ? He has made several......
@@kevincarrigan635 Don’t know. It was on CZcams. And he was supposed to be debating somebody but they weren’t available so he had the whole stage to himself.
Truly amongst the most unequalled minds ever to have spun words with his tongue. I raise my tumbler of scotch to you, Hitch! That only he were here now to see just how much we need him now.
I’ve only just discovered Christopher Hitchens within the past year, he truly is an interesting bloke and this is a very good interview, not enough credit goes towards this interviewer he’s very good at his job.
Enjoy the journey 😊
I'm in San Francisco. I heard Krazy a lot for a while but he's very annoying.
your use of the present tense is unsettling
wow, hitch at the top of his game - and that's saying something.
what a pleasureable hour
Brilliant minds make you feel smarter when you listen to them.
He was an iconoclast and relished the role. However, most of his arguments were strawman arguments. A true adherent to truth would have admitted the strongest arguments in favor of the existence of God and logically refuted them.
Do brilliant minds become alcoholics, chain smokers and live a life of hate?
@@alexh1524 I don't mean to be rude, but I grew up in the south, in a Christian home, and I have never heard any actual evidence that God exists.
@@Boiphamet Sometimes the evidence is there, but we don’t see it as evidence because we fail to employ proper reasoning.
St. Thomas Aquinas posited a proof for God that goes as follows: Let’s take this response. I am writing it because it was caused by your comment regarding lack of evidence. Your comment was itself caused by you reading another comment. That other comment was caused by the youtube video and the youtube video also came into being by other prior causes. If we follow the causation chain, where will it lead us? It will either lead us to infinite regression with no beginning, or it will lead us to a first cause.
Which possibility is more reasonable? We know that infinite regression is not possible because this moment would never have the chance of existing given the infinite number of causations that would first need to have happened if infinite regression is true.
Therefore, there must have been a first cause. This first cause then by definition did not need to be caused by anything. Nothing came before it. Furthermore, the first cause must have had the ability to cause everything that we see in the universe. This first cause was God.
@@alexh1524 Don’t wish to be rude, but…I was brainwashed in a house of god for many years, when I attained the age of reason (for me anyway) in my mid 20’s I got out of it and never looked back, I get my information from scientific evidence, testing analysis and data.
For all the years I was made to pray on my knees, I never saw, nor heard nor felt any kind of evidence of a god, devil, spirits, imps or ghosts.
Since all religions assert to have the truth, and their beliefs is the only truth, the most obvious reasoning is that they are all wrong.
Hitch gave me are encouraged me think about life and to be critical. Thank you Hitch
u know no shame.
@@articulatedintelligence-cd4661 *PRICK.*
I miss this man!
"I should have said that" has got to be one of the highest instances of praise I've ever heard, considering the source.
With one "I should have said that" from Hitchens I could power an entire small village.
I got out my phone and opened the comments to say this as well. If he chuckled and said that to something I had quipped, I doubt I'd need another compliment my entire life.
The film "Sideways" (2004) was so named because bottles of wine are stored on their sides. With Paul Giamatti.
What a great mind... gone too soon.
We miss you.
Never forget him and learn from him.
Stay Free
Mr. Hitchen was indeed a very intelligent man.
Yes he was and thats what makes it so sad
Unequalled. Now and forever, amen 😆
Atheistic fanaticism...funny, how one the foremost atheist of our age is soon on his way to join the pantheons of gods. How deeply religious we are?
Nope. Nowhere near any pantheon at all. He remains a voice advocating free speech in a beautifully articulate wa, nothing more. Keep your gods thanks all the same!
@@melroycorrea7720 well just as many religious have been hit by buses and died of cancer,,,,what is your point?
Hitch has a greater presence than Jaysus. And tons more evidence he at least existed. And a thousand times more intelligent than the hippy bronze age fool you worship.
Awomen
Top Drawer. What a giant of a man.
I've only in the last few days discovered the existence of Christopher Hutchins and was very sorry to hear he had died. I find him incredibly honest and factual even taking full responsibility for his illness by saying his lifestyle contributed to cancer, something most humans do, including myself. I live in good old Catholic Ireland and remember very clearly being 6 years old wearing my communion dress at a procession, where a badly made statue of " the blessed virgin" on a cart being transported through the town, and thinking to myself " their all mad". As I grew older I learned that my Dad who I adored was 3 weeks from being ordained as a priest and didn't go through with it, and proceeded to travel to Britain and took his 2 of 3 sisters out of the nuns, all this took place in the late 50s early 60s. Needless to say we were seen as odd in our small rural community. I am not religious and I really believe that religion is responsible for incredible suffering and violence in the world and the other thing that really bothers me is that with all the gods that alledgely exist on the planet, why is not even one female or at least partly female ! I cannot say whether God exists or not because I Don't Know and neither does anyone else
Sorry Christopher Hitchins
@@margaretryan4887 Hitchens.
Hitch. The man gave me, in my mind, permission for coming out of the atheistic closet.
I didn't need to come out of the closet, I figured out that nothing made sense when I was a teen, but he convinced me that I was correct.
@@gr122 ya.. same
You NEVER NEEDED PERMISSION in the first place.
If he could talk to you now he would tell you how wrong he was
@@chesterswortham5197 You can make those kind of assertions until you're blue in the face, and nobody could disprove you. Far, far more honest, braver, and harder, to deal with the reality and truths of life that can be proven. Truths that make the LIFE that actually does exist right here, and right now, a thing of wonder and awe. Truths that enable us to live it better.
Instead, from people who believe unprovable assertions of faith, all we have are nasty, petty threats, whether stated or implied, that "if you don't believe what I believe you will live to regret it".
It's not a good look to any honest person. And you are not taking a stand for anything other than your own ignorance, I'm afraid to say.
"Thank God for Christopher Hitchens" indeed!
"Thank God"? Ha ha, that's a good one! I'm reminded of Ricky Gervais's quote, "I'm so glad God made me an atheist".
Yes. My grandfather, b.1897, said that human meat was called "long pork" during the great depression.
The ham, of course, being the thigh, up to the buttocks. (from a human it's thinner and longer).
Living on in video, send it far and wide.
Stay Free
Nice interview...
This is truly a great interview. You can hear how pleased Hitchens is with his interviewer asking on-point questions and describing things accurately. Anybody knows the name of the interviewer?
Michael Krasny
Don’t all religions have some cult like elements?
yes
No, ALL religions ARE IN FACT CULTS.
It's called cult-ture
We need Hitch right now on this 4th of July 2024! How his faith in his adopted country, the USA, would be shattered due to recent events. There is no commentary even close to his intellect on the planet today. Much missed
The Hitch.
The wine reference to sideways ...you store your wines horizontal or sideways
“It’s my Muslim (or pick your poison) duty”
Another way of saying
“When you do good, its for nothing, even though you feel good about it, but when I do good its for something because I feel good”
World needs this mind back nowadays.
What a great interviewer
Thank god this is 60fps.
Hitch was an intellectual God.
Michael Krasny is rather good here. At 41:10, Hitchens says "God is love, though the corollary does not seem to hold..." and Krazny replies "Unless it's Eros". Hitch chuckles and says "I should have said that".
Christopher Hitchens was a great thinker.
Just came to say, Johnnie Walker Black is great, but JW Blue is far superior. Would have loved to share one with Hitch
How about some Pappy van Winkle, Glenlivet, or Glenfiddich? A strong shot sipped slowly and savored is good end of the day
Hitch might say get your own.
Great writer.
Good brain.
When i was 8 years old i became an atheist i said to my self i need to make a choice Believe or Atheist i choose Atheism
Join us tollfree. I wish I could do that now.
This is a perfect summary into the mind of the modern Left.
"Islam is identified on the whole with brown skinned countries; subliminally, some on the Left feel it must be a religion of the oppressed, whereas its the religion of the Saudi Arabian royal family."
Can someone pleases inform in what year this was recorded?? Thanks!
Never mind! I see it in the freaking title.
Then why answer yourself instead of deleting?
"Sideways" refers to being intoxicated.
What a good person. No need for
10 commandments to be a good person. Like all atheists.
BiG FaN OF HitcH, A GreaT MaN SayinG ThingS NeedeD TO BE SaiD.
InDeEd
WoRd
I would love to know what he thinks about 'now'. Mid-2020, mother fuckers.
Fact's arrive as Fantasy leaves the room......
Sideways is how life goes off track.
I was able to change my criminal, alcoholic psyche. I changed my whole outlook, my guiding essence, by practicing the Dharma of Buddhism, but in an entirely secular way, as per Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn. Thay,(teacher), taught that Lord Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, the prophet Mohammed, et al...were men. Only men. Not magical, supernatural, or anything other than men. They, and others, however, were enlightened beings.
I've learned to love others, and myself, and to live my.life based on Loving Kindness and Compassionate Understanding.
I've been sober and clean for 4 years now and have no desire go back to the old ways. I omly want to help others find their way to;
Peace Love Kindness Respect, the more you give the more you get. Start with yourself, because you deserve it 💖 🙏 (💜🙏🤠)
A beautiful comment, and unexpected here in this context.
The interviewer is also great. Who is he?
I got it - Michael Krasny, KQED
Yes, he since retired, but he was so very good at his job.
God is not great? God is not real.
And never has been!, 2000 year old myths, legends & fairy stories!
@@kevinparker461 Ya.
All good works can be done in the absence of religion. "Kill the altruistic infidel" is a Quranic exortation. Bonkers!
go read the whole verse kiddo
39:25
Haha, the idea of "proselytizing" people into thinking critically for themselves just kills me.
I’m an atheist but a protestant atheist. Lol
I could not agree more that believing in god is stupid
I guess the Republican party was a little different back in the day
Yes, less religious, at least publicly. Now they are using it as a marketing strategy.
Rep and demo have switched sides multiple times in history …it was republicans that were more liberal in past .
10:52 “This stuff either *is or is not* the word of God.” 🤷🏾♂️🚫✝️
One of the 4 Norsemen. They did not believe in dragons either. 🤣
I disagree with Christopher Hitchens regarding religion. WHY? Because he cannot prove the fallacy in it. AND I respect him in virtually everything else. WHY? BECAUSE HE PROVES IT RIGHT. Johnny Walker Black as supreme whiskey is such an example
Do you base your belief on the inability to DISPROVE the concept? Surely that must give you a jarringly large list of beliefs?
@@markdoldon8852 C
Because Johnny Walker Black is the best scotch
There are alot of people l,ll like to come back to earth he is in first place. I caught a crook stealing 750 from my friends poker machine l,m an atheist but it could have been me.,thats why l did my duty.
37:09 Wouldn't it FEEL AWESOME to know you were being "topped off" with the blood of Christopher Hitchens.... ??? Those were some Lucky people, who of course, had know ideal why they felt SO MUCH Better in Life. (-:
I realize the commentator is like a devil’s advocate, however his questions are annoying and ignorant and I have more and more respect for Hitchins unwavering patience with him.
Jesus said: If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall into a pit.
Nonsense
@@matimus100 Its is total nonsense!, nobody could prove what he said or even if he ever said it, all a fairy story!!
God is great forever and always. Hope more people can find the truth. It's not about being religious, it's about having faith. Amen.
Faith. What you use when you have no good reason to believe
the golden rule, treat others as u would have them do unto you.
While it's true it doesn't take religion to get people to behave honorably, it does take a good upbringing, and an honest spirit. But taking an example of one good non-religious person and generalizing it to the whole of humanity is a logic flaw, and I suspect Mr. Hitchens knows that. Not everyone would have returned her money. Plenty would have said "snooze you lose". Religion may very well have prompted some of those folks to behave honorably against their natural inclinations.
Yet prisons are full of believers
How Mr Hitchins would have ripped a new bottom hole in the current 'progressive' woke.
What a great brain and thinking man. I think God couldn't wait to prove him wrong and took him early
In Christianity God hasn't taken anybody, yet. That only happens after the bodily resurrection of the dead by the returning Christ and the judgement. Do any of you know anything about Christianity???? ;-)
@@schmetterling4477 that sounds like some lord of the rings shit
@@clgraff76 😂😂 they're right though that's what it says
I believe human beings are hard wired for belief and to search for meaning and purpose in the world. We have to have it as a species. It grounds us, centers us and is the prism through which we view ourselves, our relation to ourselves and our relation to the world at large. Five hundred years ago religion provided an overarching structure and system by which people ordered their lives. It gave people moral and ethical guidance, attempted to explain natural phenomena, comforted the sick, the dying, the bereaved, was a symbolic representation of inner psychic states and most importantly gave rise to myths which are the stories by which we know ourselves and by which human consciousness expands and develops. The death of God and religion in the 19th century is the primary reason for the resulting horrors of the 20th century, a point Hitch completely ignores and glosses over in his books- the stabilizing influence of religion on society. Without the underlying values which constituted religious beliefs, the values which undergirded and supported Western civilization for 2500 years since the time of the ancient Greeks, humanity fell into nihilism which is the total absence of meaning belief and purpose. With no moral guidance or direction society fell into depravity and barbarism- the rise of extreme nationalism, totalitarianism, antisemitism, two destructive world wars, the obliteration of entire cities and populations and the descent into genocide. With nothing to fill the vast existential void humanity turned to base materialism, rank consumerism, social and cultural decadence and the satiation of the death drive which manifested in irrational anti humanist ideologies and collectivist movements like National Socialism and communism. That is what awaits us when the human psyche is allowed to run amok untethered to any eternal values and beliefs. The terminus point of the death of God was the Gulag, Auschwitz and Hiroshima, man-made horrors which far outstrip in evil and depravity anything religion has ever been responsible for in history.
Yeah, sure. Things were going just perfectly - no violence, no wars, no conflict at all just peace, love and kumbayar - until "The death of God and religion in the 19th century" (!?).
@@donthesitatebegin9283 that's not what I said. Don't put words in my mouth and attribute something to me that I never said. Check your history. The bloodiest and most destructive century on record was the 20th. Ever hear of World War I World War II and the Holocaust you moron? The rise of fascism communism and national socialism?? All due to pathologies being unleashed due to the decline of faith and mankind falling into nihilism. Religion isn't responsible for anything. Religion is an inanimate neutral object. Its a tool. Tools dont act. Only people act. What you meant to say was all the war and death and destruction in history was caused by evil men down through the centuries who twisted and perverted religion to serve and advance their military political and economic ends. Tools dont act. Only people act.
Your reply didn't make it through the censorship algorithm. Tut, tut tut.
What drooling nonsense.
The Spanish Inquisition, initially launched in Spain under the blessing of the Pope, was a direct persecution of Jews and Muslims living in the country. When it had run its course and there were no more people to torture to death, they changed their focus to targeting FORMER jews, the very people they had just forced to covert. It spread across Europe, following anti-jewish pogroms, always preached from the Pulpit. Jews were expelled entirely from half of the countries of Europe, their goods and properties stolen, and massacred where they were found under make-believe stories of blood libel and eating children.
What is the difference between that and the Nazis, save that the Nazis had access to far better technology to complete their genocides?
Hitler LITERALLY cites the entire history of the Church and its endless massacres and genocides and expulsions of the jews as JUSTIFICATION for his hatred in Mein Kampf. His greatest inspiration was the Catholic Church, and he saw himself as carrying on their work. That's also why when he came to power ac Chancellor, his first Treaty was with the Vatican, and the Vatican held to that treaty until April 1945, ordering Christians in Nazi Germany to celebrate Hitler from the Pulpit./
Another reply censored. Tsk, tsk. Perhaps you should try keeping a civil tone.
If you love the universe the birds will make you mentally ill so you fight with the environment to make it intelligent. Your supposed to make the environment intelligent so no God needed. God has been liberated and he is fully capable of evolving himself without any help. God don't want your worship he just wants to get married. Royal weddings is most watched thing on television. We fixed the video and audio for best experience possible. Cameras are supernatural and all of them captured 3D. The audio loud don't make violence so has depth. Nobody has to buy anything for it to work.
You have my genuine sympathy, it must be a real struggle for you, living with such a small intellect and for your own sake, get off the drugs, you are so OBVIOUSLY ON.
cameras are supernatural ?
@@ianmarshall9144 the definition of supernatural is wrong. English was corrupted for the benefit of spies. The supernatural isn't magic it's intelligent. Their is nothing supernatural except for movies with the current definition.
@@robertmcclintock8701 what a load of stupid bollocks ,
@@ianmarshall9144 your ability to know reality depends on camera technology. It's a key technology.
Ok, he has a great philosophical way of addressing as to weather God exist or not is wonderfully explained, but it’s still just a philosophical question…there is still no proof that God does not exist
And there never will be just as there will never be any evidence that unicorns or fairies don't exist.
Glad the Brights thing never caught on. It’s peak cringe.
there is no good reason to believe in Moses Jealous God or Allah, High God of the ancient Arabic pagan pantheon.
31:39 The announcer made a *mistaken* claim that his programme is heard *all over the world!* This edition is only heard internationally because someone chose to upload the audio to CZcams several years *AFTER* the programme was originally broadcast. This programme *WOULD NOT* have been broadcast outside the USA, not to Britain, not to Australia or New Zealand, not to Europe or Asia, not even to Canada, Mexico or South America at the time of original broadcast. It is yet another example of America, and Americans making wildly exaggerated claims about themselves without justification. The image we see here of Christopher Hitchens is but a still image, had it been a video image we may well have seen Mr Hitchens grimacing at the arrogance of the presenter in making that claim.
KQED was available for live online consumption at the time of this original broadcast. The host was kept well apprised of where his show was being consumed.
should have never moved into the swamp d c.
I was raised and am still a faithful Catholic. That being out of the way, I still love, respect and follow all of Mr Hitchen's life's works. He is sadly missed and we need him very, very desperately in this PC horseshit time of early 2019. I wonder what his thoughts would be on President Trump and the disaster the left wing party has descended into. Also...#BERNARDSANDERSISAPIECEOFDOGSHIT
YOU HEAR THAT TERRY HESTICLES TESTICLES?
I am interested in how you respect and follow his work when his entire point is to beat down your Catholic belief system? It is OK to admit god isn’t real.... you know
well, you're either a piss poor catholic or you follow hitchens... i don't see how you can be both at all. and thank you for stating your unicorns matter to you even in the face of logic
@@kantraxoikol6914 yes he listens to Hitchens but he can't seem to comprehend him,,,,cathlics are the worst
It is not too late to put your emotion-based faith aside and think with analytical intelligence instead. Please educate yourself on the categorically proven subject of Physiology, which correctly explains why we all think the way we do, it explains why I am not religious and why you are. PEACE.
Hope he had a change of heart before he died or he knows now how wrong he was
Good one. Satire rules.
He now knows he was right all along
A great memory for an alcoholic, tiny hands and feet though.
Old sausage fingers himself 🤪👍👍.
This coming from a man child primate
Krazy is way too lowly for a guest like Hitchens.
There are tons of things wrong with our primitive religions and are deserving of Christopher's criticisms as well as those of others.
The argument over "creation" vs. "evolution" is a prickly one. Young Earth Creationists do themselves and their primary position great harm by clinging to mistakes made by various theologians in the past. Associating how old the Earth is with how life came into existence just makes them look silly. Six thousand years? Ha! What a crock!
But strip that away, and focusing just on how life came into existence, the Darwinian position of it happened by accident is equally absurd! For one thing, life would not be able to evolve, if evolution had not been a part of its design. Admittedly, that happened 550,000,000 years ago. But DNA happening by accident, is statistically impossible. I know, bordering on Watchmaker Fallacy here, except I guarantee you, if you find a watch, it was made by a watchmaker. If you find a computer program, it was written by a programmer (like me). And DNA, was designed by geneticists, by the Life Carrier corps.
The existence of life does not prove the existence of God, but it does point to the existence of beings vastly more advanced than ourselves.
WhatTF "Darwinian position" is that? If you refer to Charles of that name, please cite where he addresses the origin of life. I thought his magnus opus was entitled "On the Origin of Species", and not "on the Origin of Life". Species is a term applied to organisms that are already alive. Natural selection also requires the existence of populations of already living organisms. It is nothing to do with abiogenesis or any other kind of genesis. What a schoolboy
blunder!
Here's another. If I read you correctly, you claim "life came into existence" 550 million years ago. Again, citation needed. You seem to think the so-called Cambrian Explosion of around that time (between 541 million and approximately 530 million years ago to be a little more precise) was the start of life.
Although some folk call it the "biological Big Bang" it was no more than a diversification when practically all major animal phyla started appearing in the fossil record. Pre-Cambrian fossils exist worldwide (Google: Ediacaran biota) but are rarely fossilised since they are soft bodied and lack the newly evolved hard body parts of the Cambrian biota.
Your comment includes several PRATTs like these which are typically churned out by proponents of so-called ID. If that's your position, please accept my commiserations.
Satans son
A god so weak he can't get rid of satan
The northern Irish caller is so right and polite. I expect he knew Hitchens was a missionary for Trotsky and mass death and destruction. He totally conned the poor yanks.
Expand please?
Are you really this biased that you cannot even hear truth …the only thing wanting our destruction is your fake god …
Real gods wouldn’t need to threaten their creatures…
Real gods could end all other gods and as jealous as yours is would if he could ,but is fake and continues to prove it with every lie you tell !
He was a soldier against authoritarianism in all its forms - political and relgious.
In reality, "The Virgin Birth" is a Hebrew metaphor for marrying a woman who's not a slut. This is plainly comprehensive to a poet but not to a hard-headed natural, naive scientist whohad no poetical bones 🩻!
Who's the scientist?
"God is not great" according to one who has no idea what God actually is. He bases his opinions on the immature religions extant in today's world. They hardly paint a viable picture of God, replete with inconsistencies. And to assume that we puny humans understand God is actually pretty funny.
This is a bit like Nietzsche's "God is dead." Quickly followed by the joke where God says: "Nietzsche is dead."
Wrong Eric. Nietzsche said it more like this : "beware of what humans will do when god is finally dead." Please look up the original wording ! Thats the first point important. Secondly ... there is no god. Religion is a man made story. A good story that worked well for thousands of years, fooled many people and all religions kept war coming and bloodshed was always welcome.
So world religions have invented their gods and those are the ones we can talk about. And Hitch talks about those. And they are all from holy books and all them books are structured like kids fairy tales. These holy books were written for people of the iron age. Back then fine. Today useless.
If you have a new definition if god then lets hear it. Please start the church of faith of eric. I am very much eager to hear about a new god concept that hasnt been discussed to death yet. Smiles.
Please gimme the good news.
Cheers, Chris, from Rosenheim Bavaria.
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"God is dead." (Nietzsche)
"Nietzsche is dead." (God)
"Nietzsche and God are both dead." (History)
I gather that CH at least here was critical of the church and the rot he saw and in historians like Gibbon. I think he also objected to the apparent irrationalism of belief systems generally, but I dont do so, and I do not equate God with human junk like churches and religions. I think CH confuses that junk with God. CH is strangely hostile to God. Katherine Kayhoe, a famous climate scientist, is more thoghtful than CH on this key question: she said she was also a believer. I realized she was right, that one can embrace science and be rationalist and believe in God. These do not conflict contrary to the pure rationalist view as in CH. They complement each other. They serve different goals and aims and ask different questions.
His fingers were really dumpy and short, unlike his intellect and charisma.
Tá sí go hálainn. I am sorry CH felt the way he did about God. He felt harassed by religions, so he says here, which I do not think is the issue. God is not the church or a religion although God can be found anywhere, i do not think any church has rights or significance its just a human operation. CH and myself for years didnt realize that God and rationalism are complementary, not mutually exclusive. Likewise, I'm also sorry for the unrepentant and aetheists and agnostics who struggle with this -- I hope some realize God in their life before they pass on.because its a great feeling of love and peace and and it leads to insights that cannot be found by rationalism. There is so much more to Life than science and rationalism. A simple example is aestehtics. Science cannot touch beauty. it cannot explain it nor would it try to do so. Art is not approachable by rationalism and attempts to do so are manifest failures as many modern artists exploring this discover. Some propound God eg Barnett Newman. Jackson Pollack and Wilhelm De Kooning do not explore this. My parents wanted me to be moral i suppose in any case they forced me to go to church on sundays, yet they didnt force my 3 brothers and sister to go, or they refused to go, and I went as i didnt mind it too much. I liked the music. and singing. But only rationalism seemed correct, but Katherine Kayhoe, a famous climate scientist, said she was also a believer which struck me hard, I didnt think that was possible but eventually I realized she was right, that neither take alone suffices to account for my experience. It was a great moment of intellectual discovery or realization for me. I had always heard and read that it was either or- a choice, but its not! I am a rationalist and appreciae what science is doing, and am also a believer in God. These do not conflict. They complement each other. They serve different goals and aims and ask different questions.
He didn't "feel" harassed by the belief in God. It is objectively verifiable that the belief in God has a detrimental effect on the humanist values that Hitch so cherished.
If no one speaks for what God is, then it minds as well not exist. If God is the God of the Christians or the Muslims, then we're in deep trouble.
The scientific method has no bearing on what God may be or not be. It's impossible to test for. It doesn't make it past the hypothesis phase.
Thus, science and God are antithetical.
God made the grass green and all things bright and beautiful. Mrs Watt sounds like a nice teacher. She would not have realized who the mean spirited though bright little boy would turn out to become. Listen as he anticipates the effect of his words toying with the listener as if he’s hewing wood. He’s a lonely little boy clearly lacking love as he kicks a rusty green can down a depressing city street. Snotty little trot!
Im sure his wife , children and friends loved him and he they in return , Mrs Watt was obviously stupid if she thought some made up middle eastern god created this planet and all that dwell on it .
Mean spirited only to you sensitive theists who fear simple truth and a logical reality, the bad man explains your delusions and you should really thank him for spending his time attempting to free you from barbaric middle-eastern, Iron Age thought. Grow up Paul, your delusions are only fit to fool children. Imagine believing in talking donkeys and all the genocide and dumb magic of the bible, it’s amazing you can even string a sentence together!
O do you mean like a preacher ?
You don’t have a clue about religion…
Or Truths ..
Or Hitch ..
Or reality ..
Why haven’t you actually studied your religion if it means enough to you to forgo it and slander the dead ?
Why don’t you actually follow your own religious belief then ?
Only religitards do these type of things ….
Fine to tell other people they aren’t following gods laws as you break them ,so bias you can’t even tell when your doing immoral things in his name !
Why aren’t you Jewish???
You do know your entire religion was created from it …why not just view the source material?
God created child cancer too
Why I am not an Atheist. So many of you say you dont need your Creator, but cant get through a single day without that most useless and pathetic of drugs: tobacco. Or rely on too much alcohol or prescription drugs. So much for your "freedom".
Tobacco is a vegetable, dipshit!😂
@@locovel10 And one of the most boring drugs ever utiluzed. If you must smoke, there are far more interesting and healthy herbs to put in your pipe. But by your anger, i surmise youre a nicotine addict. Pray to your Maker for delivery.
@@robertfranklin8704 word, Robert.... WORD!👊..... silly angry person😅
Someone says, "I don't believe in gods," and your response is, "Yeah, well at least I'm not an addict." What? What does substance addiction have to do with anything? Do you think all atheists are addicts? Are all addicts atheists? And why would a tobacco smoker be inherently less credible than a non-smoker, and what would make a non-smoker inherently more credible than a smoker? Makes no logical sense.
@@woodygilson3465 The point is this: people boast they can do without their Maker, but prove their insecurity by substance dependency, In short, we are all needy creatures, but I prefer to need the Creator of the universe to stinky pathetic tobacco. From another angle, Nietzsche ranted that he needed no gods, and would make himself a Superman, but that arrogant prick ended up in a lunatic asylum? Where will you end up?
Sadly Hitch was a deceiver. Lied about the beliefs of others. But now his lies will catch up to him.
Yeah, now he's been dead for ten years "his lies will catch up to him" (!?).
@@donthesitatebegin9283 Hitch was a liar. He made stuff up .He made a living as a snake oil salesman Only the ignorant did not know this.
Your reply didn't make it past the censorship algorithm. Tut, tut tut.
He's rotting
ya so is jesus,,,,LOL
But his voice is here. Yours isn't, thankfully.
Yes he is Tony....however so are you, yet you are the one breathing, though may not actually be living. Hitch is still alive in our memories, you will go mainly unnoticed.
His legacy lives on though. In essays, books, talks and debates. And obviously the Hitch brand still sells: witness the best-selling book Inside Story his best friend Martin Amis recently wrote about him.
He donated his body to medical science, so I doubt it Tony.
If you mean rotting in Hell, then to quote him “if that’s the case, see you there”….