"If you're a religious apologist invited to debate with Christopher Hitchens, decline." Richard Dawkins. Advice our guest should really have taken on board.
Hitch was as clever a wordsmith as I've ever known. However, while not throwing Sharpton under a bus, his entire opening monologue and declaration regarding anyone using the preface "reverend" dismissed Sharpton from the stage before Al even opened his mouth. Christopher was (and will always be) an intellectual badass. I've been in awe of his intellect, oratory skills, worldly experience, and eidetic memory since the first time I saw him. His books are relatively short but it took me a long time to read all of them - every sentence has a perfect word or reference, which I invariably have to look up. I never met him but miss him like an old friend.
Sharpton has neither class nor intelligence. I felt secondhand embarrassment for Hitchens for even debating this race hustler. I realize Hitch has to pay the bills but he lowered himself by accepting this debate.
Yep, he's got the word salads down! Same with Michael Eric Dyson. That dude is the worst I've ever seen! He'll speak 264 words (90 of which are huge words that I've never even heard in my life) in 30 seconds.. then when u actually break it down word for word, he could've just said "No, I don't agree with your last statement" 🤣🤣 I understand people speak alot differently than one another but sometimes it's clear as day when someone is trying to sound like an intellectual!
I wish he would have survived long enough to speak on what I see today: Freedom of speech is now under threat from the other side of politics. Liberalism is dying because progressivism is forbidding individuals from having views or arguments that are equal to consideration for group identity and intersectionalism. This trend herds us into groups and awards us moral authority according to race, age, sex (gender?), etc. Someone else gets to make your case for you based on your rank in this new political scheme. I wonder what Hitch would say.
Hitchins really frightens people with his intellect and eloquence. They feel disturbed and have to fight back - lapsing into emotional arguments and personal attacks, which is the best they can do in response
I have no idea why Sharpton would even agree to debate with a person with Hitchen's intellect. This is like putting a 5 year old straight into physics class.
They talked past each other a great deal. I wanted Hitch to say something along these lines .... Where are the people who believe in god from a humanistic, pro-earth, anti injustice pov as Christ modeled, where are they uniting to stop those who also claim to believe in god, but from a demoralizing, abusing pov? The justice-seeking believers are shot at and imprisoned. Personal 'belief in god' means nothing compared to how communities and nations interpret the concept of god.
I think he shouldn't have resisted. Of course, pretty soon, no one would be willing to debate him publicly, and I assure you he wasn't doing it for free.
Wow, Christopher Hitchens was truly an exceptional and intelligent individual. His sharp wit, insightful analysis, and eloquent articulation made him a force to be reckoned with in the world of intellectual discourse. Whether he was challenging religious dogma, dissecting political ideologies, or scrutinizing societal norms, Hitchens always brought a refreshing perspective and an unwavering commitment to rationality and critical thinking. His contributions to the field of journalism and his fearless pursuit of truth have left an indelible mark on the world. We need more minds like his, unafraid to question authority and challenge the status quo. Rest in peace, Christopher Hitchens. Your intellectual legacy will continue to inspire and enlighten for generations to come.
Hitchens would have made as much money as a mouthpiece for the mob. His intellect and eloquence were outstanding. However, God's unsearchable wisdom far transcends man's capacity for comprehension. Hitchens died. God lives and all of His creation still fulfill the prophecies that are foretold in His Word the Ho;y Bible. Mysteries eg. eternity, life. aging. death and almost 100% of everything seen and unseen are far beyond and will always remain far beyond man's scientific capacity.
@@margaretlumley1648 Every scrap of evidence everything is seen or known that exists though unseen agrees with what I say. God's unsearchable wisdom far transcends man's capacity for comprehension. Scientific advances with artificial intelligence and all the studies since the dawn of creation have never even begun to understand the mysteries of the existence of any form of life or matter. Man has never created anything, nor can he comprehend eternity, life aging, death, entropy, aging, time, or 99% of anything. We exist on a spinning planet tilting orbiting through space. that provides all essentials for the myriad forms of life that we know and have never been able to comprehend if we did know then we would have no further need of cemeteries. Seek the absolute truth with courage and honesty. Only then will you know real fulfillment and real peace in your heart? Start by reading the New Testament of the Bible. The TRUTH will set you free.
God's unsearchable wisdom is evident in all life and matter and is far beyond man's capacity of comprehension. Man's reason and logic can never explain eternity, life, aging, atrophy aging, death etc. We exist on a spinning, orbiting tilting planet. A tiny speck in the expanse of the cosmos. The myriad forms of life that exist on earth depend on the perfect precision of all the universal energy and perfect conditions we enjoy to sustain our life. There are countless mysteries within our own existence and our wonderful bodies that science nor human logic can understand. If we did we would have no need for cemeteries.
It is how they make their living and what gives them power, they will never stop dishonestly speaking on your behalf, so long as they say the things that event organizers/inviters expect him to. This goes for any identitarian that claims to represent a whole of the people as though the shared perceived identity erases individuality. It was native Americans quite often that spoke on behalf of their tribes to sell their land away, self enriching and the tribes were not happy their land had been sold. Wasn't always the case, but plenty of examples where it was.
Al Sharpton doesn't represent any real "black person". He only represents himself and his complete idiocy. Blacks and everyone else must abandon him for the sake of their collective sanity.
@@nicholaus3248 , yes, although Sharpton is not as smart as he thinks he is, he sold his character, ethics, and morality a long, long time ago to shove himself into the spotlight during the Tawana Brawley hoax, where he publicly defamed two innocent men in order to make himself famous. The left is doing itself no favors by allowing this corrupt grifter and opportunist to attach himself to them. He serves no-one but himself. In other words, he and Trump understand each other....
@@timothyepowell8388Even people who disagree with Hitchens concur that he is exceptionally well-read, engaging, clever, articulate, wise, and knows exactly what he's talking about. To ignore all those qualities simply because you disagree with his overall message does more damage to your credibility than anything.
@@MeganVictoriaKearns First, I don’t believe that my credibility if any was the subject here. Even though you seem to be an atheist like Hitchens is, in no way he had shown himself to be of the caliber you describe him to be. Hitchens maybe well educated, but that doesn’t prove him to be wise or even knows what he’s talking about. What you seem to don’t understand is that Hitchens avoided Sharpton’s main question concerning God himself and rather if he exist or not.
I get your analogy, but Einstein was not a mathematician, even tho his field of study did require a strong understanding of math. There was time that he worked out one of his theories and had a math problem in front of himself to solve. Somebody advised him to let a be done by a math professor and eventually he let it be done. Then he wanted to solve it himself, but while solving it he heard that the mathematician had already solved the problem himself. So he might have more then earned a little respect from people on his math skills, his math is not what Einstein should be remembered for.
Yes, Mr Hitchens didn't really engage with Sharpton once he saw that he was not debating in good faith. Hitchens simply used the opportunity to talk the audience through his favourite themes from his largr repoitoire of ideas.
@@21divel And if you're a Christian then you should probably know that your little black book of talking serpents warns you never to call anyone _"a fool"_ for you will be in danger of hellfire for doing so.
@@fritzdoerring9058 His whole performance equated to, Sharpton: "I believe in God." Christopher: "This God? (Explains Christian God)" Sharpton: "No, my personal God." Everyone "Explain." Sharpton x17: "It's too personal to explain but he's obviously real because reasons that are too personal to explain." My takeaway is that Sharpton may as well be saying his inner voice is God, and basically his God isn't anyone else's, but some how it's the Christian god, just without any of the flaws he thinks are flaws with the biblical version. How can he then recommend Christianity if he's bastardized it so far as to be unrecognizable and unassailable through sheer ambiguity?
@@jamisonw.327 Al Sharpton speaks the trruth ! He senses The Holy Spirit within himself, as we all believers feel imputed to us when we repent and He is in our hearts (Soul?). If you don"t believe, you won't understand, nor ever know how personal that is. We are accepted into Jesus's kingdom individually, as a personal individual; like a child born to Him. (REBORN?)
As a child of God (Jesus) we will always be just whom we are, but cleansed by His Blood Sacrifice; forgiven and granted knowledge and full grace to learn and know all eventually. Wouldn't you like to be able to walk on water, move mountains, and do all your heart desires? likely even fly all over the universe? Isn't that the most Grand and GLORIOUS thought that could someday be your reality?
@TermsofService You are probably right, I was born insignificant to the World, and at 91 will most likely stay so. I' have little to expect here but death and taxes. What are your expecrations?
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a very wise philosopher ‼️
Philospher is not based on reality , It is just a personal opinion , has no peer review process , so is useless in real world applications. I am a common person and i am Anti Theist so the penis jockey Lucius Annaeus Seneca is wrong and not wise at all but just babbling piece of faecal matter. So i am evidence against your lying philosophical quote based on nothing but personal incredulity. Shows how easily people like you are convinced of a statement with out actually investigating the claim first. I am Australian Aboriginal , 65,000 + years of civilisation and culture and no middle eastern genocidal child abusing religion from the middle east until the genocidal white british turned in 1788. Your lies are now laid bare!
He never said that, it’s a simplification of a quote from Edward Gibbon regarding religion in the Roman Empire. “The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." What this is referring to is the way in which religion was used to justify power, such as Gaius declaring himself a god or the emperors being able to deify people, commonly being used to increase the power of a family or whatnot
That's probably why Hitchens is addressing the audience. He's trying to change THEIR minds, not Sharptons. Sharpton's job is on the line after all, he's very unlikely to drop the ball.
He did alright, surprisingly. But obviously he felt threatened by Hitchens, because every chance he could, he had to work in some kind of condescending dig. As if "ha ha, my insult means there is a God." or something. Course, that may just be how Sharpton is all the time.
SpiritMolecule1 Too bad he was (he passed years ago) one of the most insightful, intelligent, funny and overall amazing people of our time. Do some research into him before you make claims about stupidity when he takes a dump on your religion. He was a very successfully published author, speaker and philosopher with several degrees of a higher level than you'll ever attain most likely.
knock knock --"Who is it?" -"It's me, Jesus. Let me in." --"Why do you want in?" -"I want to save you."... --"Save me from what?" -"From what I'll do to you if you don't let me in.
Likewise. From what I’ve seen of him a truly more inhibited human being I am yet to meet. What an amazing mind and what an amazing clarity of mind to be able to articulate his core values
Once again, GOD's divine justice speaks louder than all of Hitchen's nonsense. Throat cancer took him out due to all the poison that came out of his mouth! Microphone drop, walks off stage. Lol.
Very clever line. No doubt gets lots of applause and thumbs up. And like the rest of the points he made in this debate it has ABSOLUTLY NOTHING to do with the debate at hand one way or the other.
@@Dentspeed Sharpton made the point that all the wrongs committed by organized religions are a separate issue from the debate of whether or not God exists. That to me is a very easy concept to understand. Yet each time Hitchens replies to Sharpton all he does is quote scriptures or the Quran. It's as if he's either not listening or just simply doesn't understand the very simple concept that Sharpton is putting forward. I think that Hitchens actually does understand but since he can't counter that argument he continues to drop clever lines about the evils committed by organized religions because it gets applause from the adoring audience. They can applaud all they want but Hitchens points have nothing to do with the existence or non existence of God.
+tom johns I agree Tom. I think Al Sharpton is a con man, pure and simple, however, in this debate he played it just right, which was not to come across as a hot-headed, religious fanatic. To be honest, I think Hitchens is rather disappointed that he didn't face a religious beast that he could slay with long dissertations about evil human behavior in the name of God. Hitchens seems rather flat, and ho-hum, when he isn't able to get his counter part to froth at the mouth.
Transcends hitchens did not attack like he could have because sharlatons views on god are bible based [ the guy was a preacher at 9 yrs old ] if the bible according to sharlaton are not true then how can sharlaton view god based on false information ? hitchens did not press al about that
As a black man, I am disgusted that so many in the black community look to pastors and religious figures for leadership on social issues. It’s ridiculous and it holds back critical thinking and rational solutions
I find it disturbing that this country with its separation of church and state and boasting of freedom and democracy is more religious than many European countries are.
I agree with you, whether black, white, no matter. Agree. I won't expound on the nonsense and illogical ideas , rebuttals put forth, by all I've heard so far, and, that goes for pastors or anyone else. No criticism intended, just factual. I have to add though, that killing a fellow human, and many other evils, are just evil - by our definition and values - so, they will always be evil, God or no God.
Yes, Al Sharpton is completely ignorant. On the contrary, Christopher Hitchens is brilliant and super- Intelligent. It is a pleasure to listen to him. It is a shame that he left us to soon.
Four and 1/2 years after this debate, Christopher Hitchens died of esophageal cancer. He rises from his grave every time we visit and revisit his videos! He is truly, IMMORTAL!
@@robertpoen5383 of course he believed in this one type of immortality, the only kind their is good evidence for, that through writing and videos, his ideas live on.
Hitch has had brilliant debates against religion but this isn’t one of them, He just repeated his points from the Hitchens,Fry/witicomb,bishop debate focusing on religious dogma avoiding the existence of a creator question which Sharpton was prepared to debate, He should have answered the atheist morality question much better he knows the evolution of society’s & how morals are responsible for evolution not evolution responsible for morality, humans can’t congregate peacefully without basic rules/laws and we congregated thousands of years before religion began which proves religion and morality are mutually exclusive, I blame the MC/referee he had no control of context or direction and allowed the audience to make stupid statements instead of just asking a question, What a silly uneducated woman that talked about his penis and laughed like an insane person when she didn’t even hear what Sharpton said that was clever but not funny then eluded to Hitch having a small penis is the perfect example of the stupidity needed to believe the bible !
He was outclassed only if you already had an irrefutable bias against Sharpton to begin with. If u listened, at all, to Sharptons focal point on morality, you'd b able to appreciate his having an armament sufficient to spar with Hitchens, particularly when Hitch was resting much of his argument on th "innate morality" thing....
@@SedentaryArtist When people stop telling me that I am a worthless heathen who will burn in hell, I will stop telling them that their religion is shit.
"Where religion ends, philosophy begins. Where alchemy ends, chemistry begins. Where astrology ends, astronomy begins." What a brilliant speaker and mind. I'm so glad to have discovered Christopher Hitchens a few years ago. It just saddens me that I didn't know about him while he was still alive.
Me too. I'm also bummed that my dear sweet father, who was an atheïst and a socialist pur sang, can't listen to these debates together with me. He would be so thrilled. I do know he bought Dawkins' book "the delision of god" and read it. I don't know if he knew Hitchins or the 4 horsemen.
As a theology school graduate, for the first time in my life I actually felt sorry for Al Sharpton. Hitchens was actually being quite easy on him, because he could have absolutely ripped him to shreds in this so-called "debate". Sharpton doesn't even know the Bible? It was absolutely embarrassing.
Hitchens ripped him to pieces in a very polite way. He did this to all religious people, of course, as they can never have an argument to defend their “lovely old fairytales”. End of debate !
You both sound like athiestic fan boys who cheerlead a fool who thinks he’s articulately intelligent but in actuality, speaks non-sensically jumping and skirting around simple questions asked to him about God existing. 😂 Ya’ll are so fascinated and mesmerized by his ability to orate and articulate that you both fail to comprehend and/or understand that he has not explained where morality comes from. If there is no God, nothing is immoral. Nothing is profane. Nothing is wicked or evil.
Sharpton grasps religious leadership while avoiding any responsibility for it. His finale defence is to claim a direct line to his God the only information for which exists in various Biblical translations and other books that were excluded.
I don't I have ever been more impressed by a human's knowledge and eloquence and use of the English language than I have with Hitch. A great mind. He deserved his celebrity status totally I think. Very few folks like him have ever graced this planet.
@@brianherlihy4159 i agree, atheist love his eloquent english empty drivel. it's an easy argument, looky looky, all the phony/ hippocratic religious caricatures. low hanging fruit, what about the mystic poets, monks, aesthetics, meditators that Hitchy has never delved into, he does the same old drive-by, hits the stops, rinses & repeats 🥱
@@mindsigh4 that is fairly simple to answer, he does not deal with them, because they are not the source of dogma and doctrine, the bible is, both testaments, the quran is, and the hadith are. Everything else is in essence useless add-ons. Many in direct opposition to the "holy" texts themselves.
@@mindsigh4 What about that guy on the opposite side of the table? Sure, that "eloquent english" flew way past above his sorry excuse of a mind. Parroting the same for four times? And you mention rinse-and-repeat in relation to Hitchens.
He reads a lot, but that doesn't mean he grasps all the content involved. I often compare this sort of debate with trying to convince a blue-green colour-blind person that my favourite shade of turquoise even exists. To him, it doesn't. To me, it does. Any fruitful debate has to go beyond that, but it seems to me that this particular debate didn't quite manage it.
@@mikebrogna3250 no such thing as believe in evolution. Evolution is 100% conclusive that it did occur. "How" it occurred we are NOT 100% sure. Also we have a common ancestor with the apes. There is also no natural law that states if one organism evolves that the original organism must die off. Even though this typically is the case due to environmental impacts.
No need, if one uses critical thinking, just hearing what he says destroys his own arguments. Like when he tried to seperate the existence of god from religion and it's texts, anyone with a brain can immidiatly think something along the lines of: "Then what are you here for? Aren't you a representative of the christian faith?" So on and so forth, yeah, I'm a christian but everything in the bible is bs, wait what? How does that make any logical sense?
It cuts even deeper than I anticipated every time I come across Hitchens' videos. Nature's betrayal lies in its impatience, not granting a few more years before imposing a death sentence on this courageous man. In terms of reason and intellectual fortitude, Hitchens was unparalleled. His absence leaves a void that will never ever be filled.
@@michaelturner2523 No... The headline in The Onion would be "Christopher Hitchens Debates Al Sharpton". Sheesh. You really though you improved on Greg's pithy observation? How very Al Sharpton retorty of you...
@@oliverteekahrealestatebrok6300 Sharpton had street smarts and Hitchens had book smarts. Sharpton took Hitchens book and beat him up side the head with it.
That final lady with her question was what the debate seriously needed to be about! Brilliant on her! And I wish the final words to Al Sharpton could have been, "how convenient for you".
@@gregoryjarman4333 nope not even a little bit. I was hoping to hear a Black Christian debate the issue but Sharpton brought absolutely nothing to the conversation
I struggle to follow along with Hitch at times but nonetheless am drawn to everything he says, and how he says it. Astonishing mind and intellect. I too only became aware of him relatively recently and after his death but now find myself searching for anything I can on him.
Hell, me putting the same track on replay has more content that him. "If there is no god, who gets to decide what's moral?" "Humans do, it's in our interest." "But if there is no god, do we just get to decide what's moral?" 😒
Jesse Kahler it’s how Sharpton has managed to stay out of prison for so many years. Lol. The mental gymnastics you have to leap to, get so tiresome....even the police and state prosecutions, have given up. 😂
Hitchens was a good orator which allowed him to circumvent the actual discussion. For an atheist to prescribe to religious doctrines in the first place and then use that in his argument is a misrepresentation of his belief. He uses 2nd order deduction of religious institutions to support his first order claim that God doesnt exist. this is fallacy. the atheist should have no problem excluding religion from his format of debate and his reasoning, yet it is exactly all he has as fuel. most atheists dont have a problem addressing moral judgments and practical applications of these within government institutions, but he avoids the overarching question of why is there this moral framework to begin with i really wonder what hitchens would have to say now about his assumptions
@@philosophicalneo "For an atheist to prescribe to religious doctrines" the word you are reaching for is, "subscribe" genius. Don't you have any witches to hunt down today?
I love how Sharpton keeps shrugging off every argument relating to scripture, as if that's not the bedrock of his beliefs, and tries to turn it into a debate if the voices (god) in his head are real. It shows such arrogant pomposity.
I like Al Sharpton's assertion that, if God didn't exist, those in power would decide the fate of mankind regardless of wickedness or goodness... That's *EXACTLY* how it is, currently, and how it always has been. Those in power do control the fate of the rest of us. Has he been living under a rock?
***** Consent? I was born into this, I haven't signed any waiver and I certainly never agreed to be "governed". And that was not my point at all. If you think that politicians are the ones deciding your fate, you are sadly misinformed. Money calls the shots.
Mathew Morash Whoa whoa. Hold your horses. I wrote essentially one sentence which was that the idea of consent of the governed was to mitigate out fates being controlled. Being born into this? Boo Hoo
As an American, it is very embarrassing to hear Sharpton’s comments. He needs to educate himself on evolution, natural human selection, cosmology, etc. Science has already proven how we evolved. It is an accepted universal fact. Yet, he says he has no idea so it must be a supernatural wizard in the sky who did it. 🤦♀️ Irrationality at its worst.
@@edmund184Like what? He avoids the entire debate by trying to completely divorce god from all scriptures (the only thing we can judge it by, as scriptures are usually considered "his word"). His "rebuttal" is "You can't say the nebulous creator thing that may exist is a bad guy." He defended no part of who his god is or endorses. Just "my version of my imaginary friend does nice things for me". He's not even coming across as a Christian here. If this debate reflects Sharpton's true views, he's a deist if anything.
I have listend to Hitches for years. In this debate I caught another gem I had not gotten from him before. We've all heard the "religious people can't prove god exists AND athiests can't prove he doesn't exist" line of thought. But at 22:30 Hitchens makes a massive point, in that if religious people can't prove god exists (by showing evidence), how can they claim to know what god wants?
Of course atheist can't proof god doesn't exist. But it aren't the atheists who claim that there is a hypothetical supernatural being. Theists have been trying to proof it's existance for millenia, and have failed for millenia.
I agree, a simple enough comment which destroys everything the Vatican deems correct or otherwise, example: 'condom's are wrong', has any religious servant of God professed to have been told that personally from the ultimate deity? It's obviously not in the bible so it can only come from a receiver of devine instruction, otherwise it's yet another man made dogma attributed to a supernatural, invisible, unprovable 'creator'.
Actually Christians often claim that “God moves in mysterious ways” in order to explain disasters and massacres that God should not allow to happen if God is benevolent as Christians claim. This is a way of deflecting the reasonable objection that if a loving God existed he would not allow suffering to exist.
Sharpton didn't even show up for this. It was not a debate. He had no intelligible replies and despite Hitchens clarifying his points over and over again, Sharpton still didn't get it. He had no defense for anything.
EXACTLY!!!! Very well put. And Christopher also went easy on that moron Sharpton, who resorted to personal attacks and insults because he knew he was out of his league. I don't think the idiot even understood half of what Christopher was saying. Besides, Sharpton was so PATHETIC that he to the end tried to convince intelligent people that the reason he couldn't keep up was because Christopher didn't answer his question. SMH.
@@kennym3492 and he actually took it easy on that moron Sharpton. It's always a shame to see a senior citizen making such an ass out of himself like that fool Sharpton.
Rev Al made a powerful point. He makes a distinction between religion, human institutions and therefore flawed, and the experience of a divinity which is an intensely personal, experiential and numinous state of realization.
Sharpton refuses to engage with the debate. He just keeps saying that Hitchens isn't debating where Sharpton wants to debate, but, then, Sharpton doesn't debate where he wants to, either.
I can safely say that I miss very very few public figures or celebrities. Hitchens is one whom I genuinely do miss however. I would be fascinated to hear his take on today’s cultural and political landscape were he still living.
His fans call that a "Hitchslap", he was really good at it. You don't get it right away you have to let the comment process then you think "oh... shit".
"Poorly misunderstood" is a double negative implying "well understood." Sounds more like George W. Bush ("misunderestimate") Hitchens, correctly, said, "Poorly understood."
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Hitchens: And Science agrees with logic on all of these points. Sharpton: Blue crayons taste like green.
"If you're a religious apologist invited to debate with Christopher Hitchens, decline." Richard Dawkins. Advice our guest should really have taken on board.
It should be a sacred text, one could say.
Have you taken the time to watch his debate with the mathematician/theologian John Lennox? You may change your tune, darlin.
@@sallyhart3044 keep coping
Hitchens is a master debater while never throwing his opponent under the bus. A World-class human.
A cunning linguist as well.
@@AmericusMaximuslike military like a Conrnal Angus ( lol only funny joke from SNL in last 26 yrs
@fallrivaPDnMagovRincompetent LMAO!!! I get the reference... great SNL skit! ❤😂
Well educated too.
Hitch was as clever a wordsmith as I've ever known. However, while not throwing Sharpton under a bus, his entire opening monologue and declaration regarding anyone using the preface "reverend" dismissed Sharpton from the stage before Al even opened his mouth.
Christopher was (and will always be) an intellectual badass. I've been in awe of his intellect, oratory skills, worldly experience, and eidetic memory since the first time I saw him. His books are relatively short but it took me a long time to read all of them - every sentence has a perfect word or reference, which I invariably have to look up. I never met him but miss him like an old friend.
Sharpton is so outclassed. Hitchins is a joy to listen to.
What debate did you watch? Hitchen's stu,,stu,stuttering responses couldn't compare to Sharpton's logical arguments.
@@stephanieconger4368 Sharpton's a jerk.
@@stephanieconger4368I like Sharpton, but yeah, Hitchens is not going to be outclassed in a debate over religion.
Sharpton has neither class nor intelligence. I felt secondhand embarrassment for Hitchens for even debating this race hustler. I realize Hitch has to pay the bills but he lowered himself by accepting this debate.
@@stephanieconger4368 Sharpton is a con-artist.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
I agree. This assertion is demonstrated and emphasised repeatedly in every denomination , in every church in America and the globe.
Great quote
Nice
if a fool could perceive that he is a fool, he would not be a fool
@@daleglenny1133 I wonder about a religion that does not have a paid ministry, the Mormons for example.
Sharpton has an incredible way of speaking for a long time, without really saying anything.
A true politician
Yes ,a need to say something rather than something to say.
@@metalmicky Pretty common with cocaine (this is a joke youtube)
Yep, he's got the word salads down! Same with Michael Eric Dyson. That dude is the worst I've ever seen! He'll speak 264 words (90 of which are huge words that I've never even heard in my life) in 30 seconds.. then when u actually break it down word for word, he could've just said "No, I don't agree with your last statement" 🤣🤣
I understand people speak alot differently than one another but sometimes it's clear as day when someone is trying to sound like an intellectual!
@@aprizk Pretty common with cocaine. This is not a joke, youtube.
The world misses Christopher Hitchens so much.
So true.
Yup the dumb world
I wish he would have survived long enough to speak on what I see today: Freedom of speech is now under threat from the other side of politics. Liberalism is dying because progressivism is forbidding individuals from having views or arguments that are equal to consideration for group identity and intersectionalism. This trend herds us into groups and awards us moral authority according to race, age, sex (gender?), etc. Someone else gets to make your case for you based on your rank in this new political scheme.
I wonder what Hitch would say.
Hitchins really frightens people with his intellect and eloquence. They feel disturbed and have to fight back - lapsing into emotional arguments and personal attacks, which is the best they can do in response
A work placement
*Hitchens
You have a beautiful name!
@@1984isnotamanual as do you!
@@margaretlumley1648 thanks for recognizing that! My name name is Joel Garcia 😋
THIS IS AS CLOSE AS SHARPTON WILL GET TO A SUPREME BEING.
Damn, you're such a kiss ass. Admiration is one thing but damn....
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Sarcasm is not for everybody - good one J Rod.
@@docskate4312 😏 No, it is not..... You'll get that later...
WHAAAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!! Nice dude.
Yes a supreme being. Just like Satan
I have no idea why Sharpton would even agree to debate with a person with Hitchen's intellect. This is like putting a 5 year old straight into physics class.
Simply because his ego has always been as big as his head😂
Sharpton unwittingly helped Hitch sell more copies of his book.
They talked past each other a great deal. I wanted Hitch to say something along these lines .... Where are the people who believe in god from a humanistic, pro-earth, anti injustice pov as Christ modeled, where are they uniting to stop those who also claim to believe in god, but from a demoralizing, abusing pov? The justice-seeking believers are shot at and imprisoned. Personal 'belief in god' means nothing compared to how communities and nations interpret the concept of god.
@@itsnotthatserious9871Y calling ego to being way more accurate than your opponent
If you had put a house plant in Sharpton’s chair it would have done better in this debate.
Sharpton was totally outclassed. Hitchens is so eloquent and widely read , he could wipe the floor w/ Sharpton but resists that temptation.
I think he shouldn't have resisted. Of course, pretty soon, no one would be willing to debate him publicly, and I assure you he wasn't doing it for free.
Anyone could wipe the floor with Sharpton.
sharpton eats hitchens for breakfast. also hitchens is in hell riding the hard meat of the devil himself. sharpton is laughing.
It was free, it's the start of his book tour as they said at the outset.@@brentmichael2249
@@ronartest7748so...Sharpton is in hell too?
Wow, Christopher Hitchens was truly an exceptional and intelligent individual. His sharp wit, insightful analysis, and eloquent articulation made him a force to be reckoned with in the world of intellectual discourse. Whether he was challenging religious dogma, dissecting political ideologies, or scrutinizing societal norms, Hitchens always brought a refreshing perspective and an unwavering commitment to rationality and critical thinking. His contributions to the field of journalism and his fearless pursuit of truth have left an indelible mark on the world. We need more minds like his, unafraid to question authority and challenge the status quo. Rest in peace, Christopher Hitchens. Your intellectual legacy will continue to inspire and enlighten for generations to come.
Hitchens would have made as much money as a mouthpiece for the mob. His intellect and eloquence were outstanding. However, God's unsearchable wisdom far transcends man's capacity for comprehension. Hitchens died. God lives and all of His creation still fulfill the prophecies that are foretold in His Word the Ho;y Bible. Mysteries eg. eternity, life. aging. death and almost 100% of everything seen and unseen are far beyond and will always remain far beyond man's scientific capacity.
@@terryrenehan7606LOL.
@@terryrenehan7606 so say you
@@margaretlumley1648 Every scrap of evidence everything is seen or known that exists though unseen agrees with what I say. God's unsearchable wisdom far transcends man's capacity for comprehension. Scientific advances with artificial intelligence and all the studies since the dawn of creation have never even begun to understand the mysteries of the existence of any form of life or matter. Man has never created anything, nor can he comprehend eternity, life aging, death, entropy, aging, time, or 99% of anything. We exist on a spinning planet tilting orbiting through space. that provides all essentials for the myriad forms of life that we know and have never been able to comprehend if we did know then we would have no further need of cemeteries. Seek the absolute truth with courage and honesty. Only then will you know real fulfillment and real peace in your heart? Start by reading the New Testament of the Bible. The TRUTH will set you free.
God's unsearchable wisdom is evident in all life and matter and is far beyond man's capacity of comprehension. Man's reason and logic can never explain eternity, life, aging, atrophy aging, death etc. We exist on a spinning, orbiting tilting planet. A tiny speck in the expanse of the cosmos. The myriad forms of life that exist on earth depend on the perfect precision of all the universal energy and perfect conditions we enjoy to sustain our life. There are countless mysteries within our own existence and our wonderful bodies that science nor human logic can understand. If we did we would have no need for cemeteries.
JUST A RANDOM BLACK GUY HERE STATING THAT AL SHARPTON DOESN'T REPRESENT ME OR THE WHOLE RACE EVEN THOUGH HE AND OTHERS WOULD LIKE TO.
It is how they make their living and what gives them power, they will never stop dishonestly speaking on your behalf, so long as they say the things that event organizers/inviters expect him to. This goes for any identitarian that claims to represent a whole of the people as though the shared perceived identity erases individuality. It was native Americans quite often that spoke on behalf of their tribes to sell their land away, self enriching and the tribes were not happy their land had been sold. Wasn't always the case, but plenty of examples where it was.
I can Think For Myself apart from my race.
Al Sharpton doesn't represent any real "black person". He only represents himself and his complete idiocy. Blacks and everyone else must abandon him for the sake of their collective sanity.
Same here! It's the media and the media only that makes this claim. The guy chases racism in the same manner that some lawyers chase ambulances.
Glad to hear!
This is just an hour and a half of Al Sharpton missing every point Christopher Hitchens made.
Missing the point or consciously evading the point? You are being far too kind to Sharpton by saying he was simply "missing" the point....
@@maskedmarvyl4774 Fair point. There was probably some of both going on.😅
MaskedMarvyl think you have that backwards
@@rwood1995 I think he was referring to Sharpton's *character* rather than his intellect.
@@nicholaus3248 , yes, although Sharpton is not as smart as he thinks he is, he sold his character, ethics, and morality a long, long time ago to shove himself into the spotlight during the Tawana Brawley hoax, where he publicly defamed two innocent men in order to make himself famous. The left is doing itself no favors by allowing this corrupt grifter and opportunist to attach himself to them. He serves no-one but himself. In other words, he and Trump understand each other....
Love it…” I could have been pushing at a more well defended door”. Such a beautifully articulated insult.
Bless his heart, the reverend has never argued with anyone more prepared than a questioning 13 year old…😊
“You give me the awful impression of someone who has never read any argument against your position ever” - Christopher Hitchens
The sad thing is, most of those 13 year olds beat his ass.
I agree that Al Sharpton was debating a 13 year old mind like that of Christopher Hitchens.
@@timothyepowell8388Even people who disagree with Hitchens concur that he is exceptionally well-read, engaging, clever, articulate, wise, and knows exactly what he's talking about. To ignore all those qualities simply because you disagree with his overall message does more damage to your credibility than anything.
@@MeganVictoriaKearns First, I don’t believe that my credibility if any was the subject here.
Even though you seem to be an atheist like Hitchens is, in no way he had shown himself to be of the caliber you describe him to be. Hitchens maybe well educated, but that doesn’t prove him to be wise or even knows what he’s talking about. What you seem to don’t understand is that Hitchens avoided Sharpton’s main question concerning God himself and rather if he exist or not.
Al Sharpton is the best question dodger I've ever seen!
You have not heard Craig or Turek debate then
davelanger Or Sye Ten or Comfort or Cameron, both Hovinds, Ham....
Is anybody noticing the pattern a professional apologists?
Apoligists appeal to emotion.
because their arguments are vapid.
Al Charlatan is a huckster of the first order. Hitchens knows more about Al's bible than Al 'the reverend' ever cared or will.
***** Did you catch his debate with Matt Dillahunty?
Al sharpton debating Christopher Hitchens is like having Justin Bieber debating Einstein on mathematics.
I get your analogy, but Einstein was not a mathematician, even tho his field of study did require a strong understanding of math. There was time that he worked out one of his theories and had a math problem in front of himself to solve. Somebody advised him to let a be done by a math professor and eventually he let it be done. Then he wanted to solve it himself, but while solving it he heard that the mathematician had already solved the problem himself. So he might have more then earned a little respect from people on his math skills, his math is not what Einstein should be remembered for.
Well said, Pat. I was preparing my own comment to post about this video but your comment says it all. ;)
Well said, Chris. I am 19:00 in and I was scrolling down to also post a similar sentiment.
The problem nowdays is that this mathematical debate will be judged by the public and Bieber will win 🙈
Pat Gallagher , yes!!!😂😂😂👍
We really need a public persona of his caliber right now
Yes
I suggest checking out Douglas Murray. You will not be disappointed.
@@sarumandalilol literally thinking the same person.
Would have loved to hear his thoughts on the war in Israel, the war in Ukraine and all sorts of social issues
@@sarumandaliApeasing a right wing nutjob like netanyahu and his disgusting government? dont think so.
I've never seen Hitchens so bored but being a gentleman he sat through it and really would have prefer to not have had his time so senselessly wasted.
great observation. I was feeling that for sure.
Yes, Mr Hitchens didn't really engage with Sharpton once he saw that he was not debating in good faith. Hitchens simply used the opportunity to talk the audience through his favourite themes from his largr repoitoire of ideas.
Very British way to put it. :) 🧐
If I was God watching this interview, I would be on the side of Hitch, and NOT Sharpton. 😊
@@ChristineTwumasiour country would be better without Sharpton in it to poison our society
“What an INCREDIBLY stupid question.” - Christopher Hitchens
...and it was.
For those who missed it, or want to hear it again, it's at 1:15:19
not the only one. check out the first from that dumb lady about Israel..
The definition of stupidity is killing yourself with alcohol and smoke. So much for Hitchens being a moral atheist advocate. What a fool he was
@@21divel And if you're a Christian then you should probably know that your little black book of talking serpents warns you never to call anyone _"a fool"_ for you will be in danger of hellfire for doing so.
@@TonyEnglandUK Everyone is in danger of death. Calling someone a fool or an idiot is ok if they are a fool or an idiot lol.
At minute 53, Sharpton says: "I'm in the wrong debate". No truer words have ever been spoken
Sharpton is a Christian whom realizes who he is, and how limited in knowledge
as a human. not displaying over-proud ego, e,g, C. Hitchens.
@@fritzdoerring9058 His whole performance equated to, Sharpton: "I believe in God." Christopher: "This God? (Explains Christian God)" Sharpton: "No, my personal God." Everyone "Explain." Sharpton x17: "It's too personal to explain but he's obviously real because reasons that are too personal to explain."
My takeaway is that Sharpton may as well be saying his inner voice is God, and basically his God isn't anyone else's, but some how it's the Christian god, just without any of the flaws he thinks are flaws with the biblical version. How can he then recommend Christianity if he's bastardized it so far as to be unrecognizable and unassailable through sheer ambiguity?
@@jamisonw.327 Al Sharpton speaks the trruth ! He senses The Holy Spirit
within himself, as we all believers feel imputed to us when we repent
and He is in our hearts (Soul?). If you don"t believe, you won't understand,
nor ever know how personal that is. We are accepted into Jesus's kingdom
individually, as a personal individual; like a child born to Him. (REBORN?)
As a child of God (Jesus) we will always be just whom we are, but
cleansed by His Blood Sacrifice; forgiven and granted knowledge
and full grace to learn and know all eventually. Wouldn't you like to
be able to walk on water, move mountains, and do all your heart
desires? likely even fly all over the universe? Isn't that the most
Grand and GLORIOUS thought that could someday be your reality?
@TermsofService You are probably right, I was born insignificant to the
World, and at 91 will most likely stay so. I' have little to expect here but
death and taxes. What are your expecrations?
Al is in way over his head here. Doesn’t help he’s starting with a losing argument. We love you hitch!
The best way to remember HItch, is to continue his Work at every opportunity...
Hitchens went easy on him and still demolished him. I can tell Hitch dumbed himself down alittle in this debate.
Clinton Morgan ...I noticed that too! He really didn’t pull out the guns because he knew who he was dealing with or who he wasn’t...rather.🤣
He brought himself too that level so too not embarrass al. Great man really. Hitchens that is.
@@yama5182 Yeah, Sharpton had prior knowledge of Hitchens destination with hell.
Yeah...that "I'm disappointed in you" was sincere...I cringed a little
I got that exact same feeling
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a very wise philosopher ‼️
Philospher is not based on reality , It is just a personal opinion , has no peer review process , so is useless in real world applications.
I am a common person and i am Anti Theist so the penis jockey Lucius Annaeus Seneca is wrong and not wise at all but just babbling piece of faecal matter. So i am evidence against your lying philosophical quote based on nothing but personal incredulity.
Shows how easily people like you are convinced of a statement with out actually investigating the claim first.
I am Australian Aboriginal , 65,000 + years of civilisation and culture and no middle eastern genocidal child abusing religion from the middle east until the genocidal white british turned in 1788.
Your lies are now laid bare!
@@ossiedunstan4419 ❓️❓️🤯🤯❓️❓️
Read Seneca "On Old Age" in high school. Eloquent, great mind. Thanks for posting this debate, we need these. 😊
misquote
He never said that, it’s a simplification of a quote from Edward Gibbon regarding religion in the Roman Empire.
“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord."
What this is referring to is the way in which religion was used to justify power, such as Gaius declaring himself a god or the emperors being able to deify people, commonly being used to increase the power of a family or whatnot
This was light work for Hitchens, it really was.
Sharpton’s mind cannot be changed. He is victim of sunken cost- having spent his life and having his livelihood dependent on pedaling his mythology.
That's probably why Hitchens is addressing the audience. He's trying to change THEIR minds, not Sharptons. Sharpton's job is on the line after all, he's very unlikely to drop the ball.
Al Sharpton.......of all the people qualified to debate Hitchens, Al Sharpton is about 2,000,000 places down the list.
I could get past what he was saying if he just said it quicker. His voice... cleaveland brown
He did alright, surprisingly. But obviously he felt threatened by Hitchens, because every chance he could, he had to work in some kind of condescending dig. As if "ha ha, my insult means there is a God." or something. Course, that may just be how Sharpton is all the time.
I have yet to see anyone who is fit to debate him when it comes to the other side of the religious debate
SpiritMolecule1 Obvious Troll is obvious
SpiritMolecule1 Too bad he was (he passed years ago) one of the most insightful, intelligent, funny and overall amazing people of our time. Do some research into him before you make claims about stupidity when he takes a dump on your religion. He was a very successfully published author, speaker and philosopher with several degrees of a higher level than you'll ever attain most likely.
knock knock
--"Who is it?"
-"It's me, Jesus. Let me in."
--"Why do you want in?"
-"I want to save you."...
--"Save me from what?"
-"From what I'll do to you if you don't let me in.
+Barry Foster I like that, very much, is it your own, where did you get it from?
+The Anti-Theist it runs in the comments of youtubes. at least that's where i found it
+The Anti-Theist I think it's from Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian
+Barry Foster lol. well said man.
+Barry Foster Classic "protection".
Hitchens: Well thought-out, logical, reasonable argument
Sharpton: personal incredulity
😂😂😂
To be fair Al, as a race baitor and tax cheat- not much upstairs...
I absolutely love Christopher Hitchens and only wish I would've found him sooner. He is sorely missed.
I got to see him in debate, about 15 years ago. Stunning.
Likewise. From what I’ve seen of him a truly more inhibited human being I am yet to meet. What an amazing mind and what an amazing clarity of mind to be able to articulate his core values
Once again, GOD's divine justice speaks louder than all of Hitchen's nonsense. Throat cancer took him out due to all the poison that came out of his mouth! Microphone drop, walks off stage. Lol.
Don’t worry you’ll meet him in hell
😅😅😅😅😅
“There’s no fraudulence you can’t get away with in this country if you can get the word ‘reverend’ put in front of your name.” Christopher Hitchens
Very clever line. No doubt gets lots of applause and thumbs up. And like the rest of the points he made in this debate it has ABSOLUTLY NOTHING to do with the debate at hand one way or the other.
That Rev. Smollett lives, while Hitch is no longer with us, is proof positive that there is no god.
@@TheDatabaseDude I don’t see how you can say that.
@@Dentspeed Sharpton made the point that all the wrongs committed by organized religions are a separate issue from the debate of whether or not God exists. That to me is a very easy concept to understand. Yet each time Hitchens replies to Sharpton all he does is quote scriptures or the Quran. It's as if he's either not listening or just simply doesn't understand the very simple concept that Sharpton is putting forward.
I think that Hitchens actually does understand but since he can't counter that argument he continues to drop clever lines about the evils committed by organized religions because it gets applause from the adoring audience. They can applaud all they want but Hitchens points have nothing to do with the existence or non existence of God.
@@TheDatabaseDude I understand what you’re saying, but first we need to go back to basics. What is god to you?
Sharpton is brave indeed for agreeing to this debate. It must have been the fee, He was so outclassed as to be an embarrassment.
+PC160 actualy AL SHARLATON who i like to call did a very good job even though i can not stand him
+tom johns I agree Tom. I think Al Sharpton is a con man, pure and simple, however, in this debate he played it just right, which was not to come across as a hot-headed, religious fanatic. To be honest, I think Hitchens is rather disappointed that he didn't face a religious beast that he could slay with long dissertations about evil human behavior in the name of God. Hitchens seems rather flat, and ho-hum, when he isn't able to get his counter part to froth at the mouth.
Transcends hitchens did not attack like he could have because sharlatons views on god are bible based [ the guy was a preacher at 9 yrs old ] if the bible according to sharlaton are not true then how can sharlaton view god based on false information ? hitchens did not press al about that
+PC160 Sharpton could have done worse, like those guys that defend the existence of talking snakes and such.
A family bucket of KFC and a bottle of malt liquor.
As a black man, I am disgusted that so many in the black community look to pastors and religious figures for leadership on social issues. It’s ridiculous and it holds back critical thinking and rational solutions
I find it disturbing that this country with its separation of church and state and boasting of freedom and democracy is more religious than many European countries are.
@@virtualbeing5195 religion is destroying America. It’s the most stupid construct in this age of science.
I'm discusted they look to democrats over and over and over and over
I agree with you, whether black, white, no matter. Agree. I won't expound on the nonsense and illogical ideas , rebuttals put forth, by all I've heard so far, and, that goes for pastors or anyone else. No criticism intended, just factual. I have to add though, that killing a fellow human, and many other evils, are just evil - by our definition and values - so, they will always be evil, God or no God.
Isnt our morality based on religious beliefs/values?
Yes, Al Sharpton is completely ignorant. On the contrary, Christopher Hitchens is brilliant and super- Intelligent. It is a pleasure to listen to him. It is a shame that he left us to soon.
Four and 1/2 years after this debate, Christopher Hitchens died of esophageal cancer. He rises from his grave every time we visit and revisit his videos! He is truly, IMMORTAL!
He didn't believe in immortality.
@@robertpoen5383 huh
@@robertpoen5383 of course he believed in this one type of immortality, the only kind their is good evidence for, that through writing and videos, his ideas live on.
He is in Hell, screaming and burning forever. Beautiful screams.
@@somexp12 wow
Al's outclassed by a mile. Hitchens was a genius.
I don’t see no genius in Hitchens speak
What debate did you listen too. They both were good
At least Al doesn't deny science.
Hitch has had brilliant debates against religion but this isn’t one of them, He just repeated his points from the Hitchens,Fry/witicomb,bishop debate focusing on religious dogma avoiding the existence of a creator question which Sharpton was prepared to debate, He should have answered the atheist morality question much better he knows the evolution of society’s & how morals are responsible for evolution not evolution responsible for morality, humans can’t congregate peacefully without basic rules/laws and we congregated thousands of years before religion began which proves religion and morality are mutually exclusive, I blame the MC/referee he had no control of context or direction and allowed the audience to make stupid statements instead of just asking a question, What a silly uneducated woman that talked about his penis and laughed like an insane person when she didn’t even hear what Sharpton said that was clever but not funny then eluded to Hitch having a small penis is the perfect example of the stupidity needed to believe the bible !
He was outclassed only if you already had an irrefutable bias against Sharpton to begin with.
If u listened, at all, to Sharptons focal point on morality, you'd b able to appreciate his having an armament sufficient to spar with Hitchens, particularly when Hitch was resting much of his argument on th "innate morality" thing....
Like a Monty Python skit. Man debating a piece of tile.
But Sharpton succeeded in "hypnotizing a brick to sleep". All hail Monty Python!
As a black man, Thank you brother Chris. You are missed.
Hitchens looked at religion for what it is, Sharpton looked at it for what it’s worth.
Spot on.
As he was till wrong, cos religion is shit.
steven shikaan I may agree but dude, come on. Not sure you’ll do any good by saying it that way.
@@SedentaryArtist When people stop telling me that I am a worthless heathen who will burn in hell, I will stop telling them that their religion is shit.
Jeff Freeman is that a phrase you hear often?
"Where religion ends, philosophy begins. Where alchemy ends, chemistry begins. Where astrology ends, astronomy begins." What a brilliant speaker and mind. I'm so glad to have discovered Christopher Hitchens a few years ago. It just saddens me that I didn't know about him while he was still alive.
Where Bull ends Bullshit begins
Me too. I'm also bummed that my dear sweet father, who was an atheïst and a socialist pur sang, can't listen to these debates together with me. He would be so thrilled. I do know he bought Dawkins' book "the delision of god" and read it. I don't know if he knew Hitchins or the 4 horsemen.
The Rev. needs proof in which none exists. Where Christopher needed no proof in which not existed.
*Delusion
Reposting this whole comment on my ig story ❤
As a theology school graduate, for the first time in my life I actually felt sorry for Al Sharpton. Hitchens was actually being quite easy on him, because he could have absolutely ripped him to shreds in this so-called
"debate". Sharpton doesn't even know the Bible? It was absolutely embarrassing.
Sorry you wasted your time on this .....as far Sharpton he held his own
@@arlen1630like he said,only because Hitchens allowed him to.
Hitchens ripped him to pieces in a very polite way. He did this to all religious people, of course, as they can never have an argument to defend their “lovely old fairytales”. End of debate !
You both sound like athiestic fan boys who cheerlead a fool who thinks he’s articulately intelligent but in actuality, speaks non-sensically jumping and skirting around simple questions asked to him about God existing. 😂 Ya’ll are so fascinated and mesmerized by his ability to orate and articulate that you both fail to comprehend and/or understand that he has not explained where morality comes from. If there is no God, nothing is immoral. Nothing is profane. Nothing is wicked or evil.
Sharpton grasps religious leadership while avoiding any responsibility for it. His finale defence is to claim a direct line to his God the only information for which exists in various Biblical translations and other books that were excluded.
2023 and the American left still treat Al Sharpton like hes an intellectual powerhouse and civil rights icon 😂😂😂
IKR?
I don't I have ever been more impressed by a human's knowledge and eloquence and use of the English language than I have with Hitch. A great mind. He deserved his celebrity status totally I think. Very few folks like him have ever graced this planet.
I was disappointed in him. Poorly argued. More of his silly dont force it on me crap
Read his brother's book "The Rage against God" (Peter Hitchens)
@@brianherlihy4159
i agree, atheist love his eloquent english empty drivel.
it's an easy argument,
looky looky, all the phony/ hippocratic religious caricatures.
low hanging fruit,
what about the mystic poets, monks, aesthetics, meditators that
Hitchy has never delved into, he does the same old drive-by, hits the stops, rinses & repeats 🥱
@@mindsigh4 that is fairly simple to answer, he does not deal with them, because they are not the source of dogma and doctrine, the bible is, both testaments, the quran is, and the hadith are. Everything else is in essence useless add-ons. Many in direct opposition to the "holy" texts themselves.
@@mindsigh4 What about that guy on the opposite side of the table? Sure, that "eloquent english" flew way past above his sorry excuse of a mind. Parroting the same for four times? And you mention rinse-and-repeat in relation to Hitchens.
Hitchens actually studies these religions inside and out. I wish his opponents would at least attempt this same attribute
He reads a lot, but that doesn't mean he grasps all the content involved. I often compare this sort of debate with trying to convince a blue-green colour-blind person that my favourite shade of turquoise even exists. To him, it doesn't. To me, it does. Any fruitful debate has to go beyond that, but it seems to me that this particular debate didn't quite manage it.
The sole question was whether gawx exists or not, which has ZERO to do with religion, and Hitchens tiny mouse brain couldn't grasp the concept
@@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt people R gonna believe what they believe Personally I think We made God not that he made People case closed
But on the other hand if u believe in Evolution. And We came from Apes why is their still Apes why haven't they all turned Into humans
@@mikebrogna3250 no such thing as believe in evolution. Evolution is 100% conclusive that it did occur. "How" it occurred we are NOT 100% sure. Also we have a common ancestor with the apes. There is also no natural law that states if one organism evolves that the original organism must die off. Even though this typically is the case due to environmental impacts.
Rest In Peace Christopher Hitchens, regardless if they agreed or disagreed with you, you taught them all something and made them laugh at themselves
@brendanrogers8195 - Are you serious? The non existent can't experience rest or peace.
I miss him a lot.
What a titan of intellect Hitchens was. Whether you agree with him or not, he is a true pleasure to watch as an orator.
I eagerly anticipate his every next word
Oh, Hitch. The only celebrity I will mourn.
Kat Rose very true my friend. The world is a much poorer place without him. ☺️
hipster
I feel the very same way. I return time and time again to hear his debates, lectures, etc. He's simply brilliant and a talented orator. He is missed.
You can join him in Hell.
@@garystevenson5560 What an awesome destination, hope they have open bar😉
As Sharpton speaks, I can just hear Hitchens thinking, OMG (ironically), I can sleep through this one and still demolish this fellow.
No need, if one uses critical thinking, just hearing what he says destroys his own arguments. Like when he tried to seperate the existence of god from religion and it's texts, anyone with a brain can immidiatly think something along the lines of: "Then what are you here for? Aren't you a representative of the christian faith?" So on and so forth, yeah, I'm a christian but everything in the bible is bs, wait what? How does that make any logical sense?
It cuts even deeper than I anticipated every time I come across Hitchens' videos. Nature's betrayal lies in its impatience, not granting a few more years before imposing a death sentence on this courageous man. In terms of reason and intellectual fortitude, Hitchens was unparalleled. His absence leaves a void that will never ever be filled.
"The, uhh-malcomites" 😂🤣
"Christopher Hitchens Debates Al Sharpton"
Sounds like a headline you'd see in The Onion.
The Onion would be "Hitchens debates Al Roker"
@@michaelturner2523 No... The headline in The Onion would be "Christopher Hitchens Debates Al Sharpton". Sheesh. You really though you improved on Greg's pithy observation? How very Al Sharpton retorty of you...
@@lothianmcadam1 I'm glad you got that out. It must have been bugging you to death, huh?
Truly miss him, can't believe how quick the years pass.
Christina Davidis me too
Quite possibly one of the greatest minds of our time. We all lost something when we lost Hitchens.
The older you get, the faster the years pass.
@@banishedfromthedwarfplanet530 so true.
Beautiful 😍
Hitchens wipes the floor with the good reverend's jacket, folds it neatly, and returns it with a handshake.
Ordained as a reverend in the age of nine. Reason never had a chance to reach him.
Sharpton is the rhetorical embodiment of 'playing chess with a pidgeon' - he knocks over the pieces, poops on the board and struts around like he won.
Scott! You made my day with your comment! Thanks!
Sharpton has done his best work .but in the past! Go home Al. It's time!
@@oliverteekahrealestatebrok6300 Sharpton had street smarts and Hitchens had book smarts. Sharpton took Hitchens book and beat him up side the head with it.
Patrick Fealy - What an incredibly stupid comment,lol.
@@retroray58warby98 you saying Hitchens didn't have book smarts?
That final lady with her question was what the debate seriously needed to be about! Brilliant on her! And I wish the final words to Al Sharpton could have been, "how convenient for you".
That lady is Ayam Hersi ali. A good writer...
Sharptons entire argument: "god is real because i believe god is real. God is good because i believe god is good. " Fast forward to Hitchens
are u kidding?
@@gregoryjarman4333 nope not even a little bit. I was hoping to hear a Black Christian debate the issue but Sharpton brought absolutely nothing to the conversation
Man Sharpton is slow and no match whatsoever to Christopher at all.......
But...but...but HE'S BLACK YOU RACIST! Oh wait, this isn't a college campus.
Your fantasy has nothing to do with the video, where Hitchens got waterboarded by a very simple concept he was entirely unprepared to argue.
@@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt you are a brainwashed idiot.
Sharpton was outclassed, outsmarted and out to lunch. This was like shooting fish in a barrel.
You cannot pit an intellectual against a moron. This could only be entertainment and not a serious debate
+Melissa Denbo Entertainment is precisely why many of us watch good ol' Hitch.
That is what I was thinking the whole time I watched.
I struggle to follow along with Hitch at times but nonetheless am drawn to everything he says, and how he says it. Astonishing mind and intellect. I too only became aware of him relatively recently and after his death but now find myself searching for anything I can on him.
Buy his books
It's a great journey to go on - a Hitchens CZcams deep dive is very much recommended!
Could listen to him discussing everything ! wish I had met him sooner!!
Sharpton sure talks a lot without saying a whole lot.
Seems to be the nature of religion.
Hell, me putting the same track on replay has more content that him.
"If there is no god, who gets to decide what's moral?"
"Humans do, it's in our interest."
"But if there is no god, do we just get to decide what's moral?"
😒
His bloviating bullsh*t absolutely kills this debate.
That`s his job lol........Imagine selling a product you cant deliver :/ .....Magician is the closest comparison
Jesse Kahler it’s how Sharpton has managed to stay out of prison for so many years. Lol. The mental gymnastics you have to leap to, get so tiresome....even the police and state prosecutions, have given up. 😂
The best thing of listening to Hitchens try to explain the same point four times over to an imbecile is you get to hear Hitchens four times.
For which I’m grateful 😇!!!
ha ! very good. I must remember that when I'm yelling at my phone
Calling someone an imbecile whom one has never met makes one of those for sure.
@@ericscaillet2232and what r u? A rear turd?
Religion Is For People Who Believe In Hell, Spirituality Is For People Who Have Already Been There 💞
I didn't realize that Christopher Hitchens would lower himself to battle an unarmed man.
😂
This was a walk in the park for hitch. One of his funniest debates, loved his sense of humor.
Like shooting fish in a barrel.
It was not even fair. I am sure he laughed and laughed when he got the call, "Al Sharpton" wants to 'debate' you."
Hitchens was a good orator which allowed him to circumvent the actual discussion.
For an atheist to prescribe to religious doctrines in the first place and then use that in his argument is a misrepresentation of his belief. He uses 2nd order deduction of religious institutions to support his first order claim that God doesnt exist. this is fallacy.
the atheist should have no problem excluding religion from his format of debate and his reasoning, yet it is exactly all he has as fuel.
most atheists dont have a problem addressing moral judgments and practical applications of these within government institutions, but he avoids the overarching question of why is there this moral framework to begin with
i really wonder what hitchens would have to say now about his assumptions
@@philosophicalneo Your attempt to impress has failed. You believe in utter fucking nonsense.
@@philosophicalneo "For an atheist to prescribe to religious doctrines" the word you are reaching for is, "subscribe" genius. Don't you have any witches to hunt down today?
Sharpton debating Hitchens is like “grade school t-ball vs the New York Yankees” as Walter White would say.
Al Sharpton to his agents, “Let’s not do that again, ok?”
Really did not appreciate the moderator’s clear bias toward Rev. Sharpton. His job was to sit there and not but in (which he clearly failed to do).
I love how Sharpton keeps shrugging off every argument relating to scripture, as if that's not the bedrock of his beliefs, and tries to turn it into a debate if the voices (god) in his head are real. It shows such arrogant pomposity.
@lary Snw HE DID IT FOR THE MONAAAYA!!!! JUST LIKE WE ALL DO.
It’s hilarious how little al says. He was well aware hitch could destroy him
Could??? LOL Try 'would'...
I noticed that Hitch got a lot more applause than Sharpton when he made a point.
@@windsorSJ sharpton is a spotlight hungry race baiting charlatan
@ Stephen Windsor Because most people know that Al is a grifter and a hypocrite
Christopher Hitchens tells it how it is! An awesome intellect.
It's hard to have a debate when 1-side refuses to actually debate.
Christopher is so eloquent, we miss you.
+Poseidon63 And also so elegant in the way he speaks and relates his ideas to others ... a really gifted man and a great orator!
+Poseidon63 How did he die?
+mlw1968 Cancer. He drank and smoke chronically.
+bcsngan I guess he know the truth now, but now it's to late. RIP ooops I mean RIH.
mlw1968
He's dead, what do mean he's knows the truth now, he doesn't exist anywhere.
I like Al Sharpton's assertion that, if God didn't exist, those in power would decide the fate of mankind regardless of wickedness or goodness...
That's *EXACTLY* how it is, currently, and how it always has been. Those in power do control the fate of the rest of us. Has he been living under a rock?
Non sequitur?
Mathew Morash I couldn't agree more, I almost fell off my chair when he made that statement.
Mathew Morash Holy crap! That's the whole idea of the consent of the governed to try and mitigate that.
***** Consent? I was born into this, I haven't signed any waiver and I certainly never agreed to be "governed".
And that was not my point at all. If you think that politicians are the ones deciding your fate, you are sadly misinformed. Money calls the shots.
Mathew Morash Whoa whoa. Hold your horses. I wrote essentially one sentence which was that the idea of consent of the governed was to mitigate out fates being controlled.
Being born into this? Boo Hoo
As an American, it is very embarrassing to hear Sharpton’s comments. He needs to educate himself on evolution, natural human selection, cosmology, etc. Science has already proven how we evolved. It is an accepted universal fact. Yet, he says he has no idea so it must be a supernatural wizard in the sky who did it. 🤦♀️ Irrationality at its worst.
44:22 Hitchens already answered this... There are good people and there are bad people, but for good people to do bad things requires religion.
I have never met Christopher Hitchens but I do really miss him. I wish he was still here giving us his wisdom.
I hope he is in hell. Now he knows hell exists but it is late.
So does he.
Perhaps and hopefully he is in purgatory, therefore we can work on praying him into heaven.
@@Kipper388 Well he's definitely not there because that doesn't exist. He's just gone forever.
Listening to Al Sharpton makes me realise that I may be intelligent! Thank to Legend Hichens
Should be Al "Dullton"
Sharpton makes some important points. You are being unfair.
Sharpton makes some easy money... being unfair.
@@grahamnichols1416: Pretty much the same thing.
@@edmund184Like what? He avoids the entire debate by trying to completely divorce god from all scriptures (the only thing we can judge it by, as scriptures are usually considered "his word"). His "rebuttal" is "You can't say the nebulous creator thing that may exist is a bad guy." He defended no part of who his god is or endorses. Just "my version of my imaginary friend does nice things for me". He's not even coming across as a Christian here. If this debate reflects Sharpton's true views, he's a deist if anything.
Hitchens is wonderful . What an intellect.
I have listend to Hitches for years. In this debate I caught another gem I had not gotten from him before. We've all heard the "religious people can't prove god exists AND athiests can't prove he doesn't exist" line of thought. But at 22:30 Hitchens makes a massive point, in that if religious people can't prove god exists (by showing evidence), how can they claim to know what god wants?
Of course atheist can't proof god doesn't exist. But it aren't the atheists who claim that there is a hypothetical supernatural being. Theists have been trying to proof it's existance for millenia, and have failed for millenia.
@@NielsWullems exactly....
I agree, a simple enough comment which destroys everything the Vatican deems correct or otherwise, example: 'condom's are wrong', has any religious servant of God professed to have been told that personally from the ultimate deity? It's obviously not in the bible so it can only come from a receiver of devine instruction, otherwise it's yet another man made dogma attributed to a supernatural, invisible, unprovable 'creator'.
Actually Christians often claim that “God moves in mysterious ways” in order to explain disasters and massacres that God should not allow to happen if God is benevolent as Christians claim. This is a way of deflecting the reasonable objection that if a loving God existed he would not allow suffering to exist.
The world lost someone great with Christopher Hitchens.
But Al lives on
@@michaelpohlod9131 what a moronic comment 🙄
X- Hitchens got what he deserved. Pompous piece of excrement.
Sharpton didn't even show up for this. It was not a debate. He had no intelligible replies and despite Hitchens clarifying his points over and over again, Sharpton still didn't get it. He had no defense for anything.
That’s sharptons entire career. He’s looking for a paycheck.
When razor sharp intellect meets glorified ignorance
quite the oxymoron for 'sharpton'
Hitch is an an intelligent,logical man..
Al Sharpton trying to be smart and failing miserably
Bella Bijou 😂😂😂😂 leave my boy alone. 😂😂😂 so fucking true though. This was child abuse.
The closest thing to sharp Al Sharpton will ever get is the first half of his last name.
Like when he tried to buy kilos from federal agents...
shame on black america with this yoyo as a spokesman. they can do much better, my grand daughter for 1
and she is 14
@@nkel6111 Black people can speak for themselves. I could just as easily call David Duke the spokesman for white America
You could sense Hitchens really settle in early on after the first rebuttal because he knew this one was going to be real easy.
I bet Al Sharpton fired his agent after this
Yep , got very comfy in his chair and let the bitches have it 😂🤣
EXACTLY!!!! Very well put. And Christopher also went easy on that moron Sharpton, who resorted to personal attacks and insults because he knew he was out of his league. I don't think the idiot even understood half of what Christopher was saying. Besides, Sharpton was so PATHETIC that he to the end tried to convince intelligent people that the reason he couldn't keep up was because Christopher didn't answer his question. SMH.
ktrigg2 I love how he’s so calm
Just because he knows he’s not mistakin lol
@@kennym3492 and he actually took it easy on that moron Sharpton. It's always a shame to see a senior citizen making such an ass out of himself like that fool Sharpton.
Rev Al made a powerful point. He makes a distinction between religion, human institutions and therefore flawed, and the experience of a divinity which is an intensely personal, experiential and numinous state of realization.
I have read God is not Great twice. It is one of the best books I have ever read, and is absolutely so, so true.
54:31 before even the question was asked I know she was religious from that crazy laughter 😂😂
100% lol
She was so bitter....it's beautiful 😂😂
lol yeah that was really disturbing. you can tell she doesn't get out much.
That laugh was so cringey. I would’ve told her to stfu.
She was an embarrassment 😅
“I spend a lot of time with my BABLE!” 🤣🤣🤣 Hitch is hilarious with that southern accent.
Sharpton refuses to engage with the debate. He just keeps saying that Hitchens isn't debating where Sharpton wants to debate, but, then, Sharpton doesn't debate where he wants to, either.
I can safely say that I miss very very few public figures or celebrities. Hitchens is one whom I genuinely do miss however. I would be fascinated to hear his take on today’s cultural and political landscape were he still living.
As a vet, Christopher's answer about why the nicest guy in my unit took a round is so good, and just perfect.
“I hope I wasn’t so poorly misunderstood by everybody” damn subtle but brutal
His fans call that a "Hitchslap", he was really good at it. You don't get it right away you have to let the comment process then you think "oh... shit".
@@anthonyelledge7475 It was directed at Sharpton, but all the Rev heard was "Whoosh"!
"Poorly misunderstood" is a double negative implying "well understood." Sounds more like George W. Bush ("misunderestimate") Hitchens, correctly, said, "Poorly understood."
The Reverend didn't even understand that this was a dig at him. Went right over his head.
@@Dartmouth1962 lol
Don't quit your day job to stake it all on a career in language, bud. 🤦♂
Al can’t do big words. There’s a god because im al Sharpton dammit😂😂
Sharpton is the perfect example of what you get from the side of the religious: white noise.
I want my hour and a half back. Sharpton is a waste of time.
Thomas haha I read this first but decided I was Going to watch it anyways
@@AlxhaGadol me, everytime.
never a waste to hear hitch, he could have debated a toddler or a fence post. its still worth it to hear him
Sharpton is an idiot and he doesn't know it.
@@ShoeBooty860 Sharpton is too ignorant to realize how deep his ignorance is.