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Melvin Olontha
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While human kind
Throughout the lands lay miserably crushed
Before all eyes beneath Religion--who
Would show her head along the region skies,
Glowering on mortals with her hideous face--
A Greek (Epicurus) it was who first opposing dared
Raise mortal eyes that terror to withstand,
Whom nor the fame of Gods nor lightning's stroke
Nor threatening thunder of the ominous sky
Abashed; but rather chafed to angry zest
His dauntless heart to be the first to rend
The crossbars at the gates of Nature old.
And thus his will and hardy wisdom won;
And forward thus he fared afar, beyond
The flaming ramparts of the world, until
He wandered the unmeasurable All.
Whence he to us, a conqueror, reports
What things can rise to being, what cannot,
And by what law to each its scope prescribed,
Its boundary stone that clings so deep in Time.
Wherefore Religion now is under foot,
And us his victory now exalts to heaven.
(Titus Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I, 62-79) 44 BC.
Throughout the lands lay miserably crushed
Before all eyes beneath Religion--who
Would show her head along the region skies,
Glowering on mortals with her hideous face--
A Greek (Epicurus) it was who first opposing dared
Raise mortal eyes that terror to withstand,
Whom nor the fame of Gods nor lightning's stroke
Nor threatening thunder of the ominous sky
Abashed; but rather chafed to angry zest
His dauntless heart to be the first to rend
The crossbars at the gates of Nature old.
And thus his will and hardy wisdom won;
And forward thus he fared afar, beyond
The flaming ramparts of the world, until
He wandered the unmeasurable All.
Whence he to us, a conqueror, reports
What things can rise to being, what cannot,
And by what law to each its scope prescribed,
Its boundary stone that clings so deep in Time.
Wherefore Religion now is under foot,
And us his victory now exalts to heaven.
(Titus Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I, 62-79) 44 BC.
Hamed Abdel-Samad on the "Downfall of the Islamic World"
Hamed Abdel-Samad (Arabic: حامد عبد الصمد, IPA: [ˈħæːmed ʕæbdesˈsˤɑmɑd]; born in 1972 in Gizeh, Egypt) is an Egyptian-German political scientist, historian and author.
The son of a Sunni Imam "converted from Islam to knowledge" as he says himself, after studying languages, political science and religious studies in Egypt, Germany and Japan. Abdel-Samad calls for an "Islam light" without shari'a, jihad, gender apartheid, proselytism and "entitlement mentality", aspects of Islam he thinks responsible for the backwardness of the Muslim countries and the Muslim diaspora. He has been accused of heresy in 2010 and condemned to death by various Islamic clerics, notably in June 2013 after a lectu...
The son of a Sunni Imam "converted from Islam to knowledge" as he says himself, after studying languages, political science and religious studies in Egypt, Germany and Japan. Abdel-Samad calls for an "Islam light" without shari'a, jihad, gender apartheid, proselytism and "entitlement mentality", aspects of Islam he thinks responsible for the backwardness of the Muslim countries and the Muslim diaspora. He has been accused of heresy in 2010 and condemned to death by various Islamic clerics, notably in June 2013 after a lectu...
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Christopher Hitchens: The Lessons of 9/11
Просмотров 195 тыс.11 лет назад
Christopher Hitchens speaking at a panel discussion of the Claremont Institute in Washington D.C. 2006. The entire discussion can be watched here: www.c-span.org/video/?194349-2/years-september-11 I fixed the audio a bit.
Christopher Hitchens on Turkish looting in Cyprus
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Why do humanists care about religious historical monuments? They usually view them as heritage of all mankind. We care about the Buddah-statues of Bamian in Afghanistan and we do care about Cypriot Christian and Hellenic artwork. The behaviour of Turkey in Cyprus is indeed appalling and needs more exposure. Short Camrec of a long discussion concerning "Lost and Stolen Art", min 45 to 47: www.c-...
The inauguration of a pragmatic president, Part II
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BBC coverage of the 2009 presidential inauguration, with Christopher Hitchens, Andrew Sullivan, Reihan Salam and Chuck D discussing about the character of the new administration. It's a camrec, therefore the bad audio quality. For the complete and original check: www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=283489-1 I left the news part at the end to show ho...
The inauguration of a pragmatic president, Part I
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BBC coverage of the 2009 presidential inauguration, with Christopher Hitchens, Andrew Sullivan, Reihan Salam and Chuck D discussing about the character of the new administration. It's a camrec, therefore the bad audio quality. For the complete and original check: www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=283489-1
Carolyn Porco speaks about the Cassini-Huygens Mission
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CassiniHuygens is a joint NASA/ESA robotic spacecraft mission currently studying the planet Saturn and its moons. The spacecraft consists of two main elements: the NASA Cassini orbiter, named after the Italian-French astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and the ESA Huygens probe, named after the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens.
Christopher Hitchens on misconceptions about Islamic terrorism
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I uploaded the complete video with fixed audio here: ruclips.net/video/go5AGck6e-w/видео.html
Christopher Hitchens on the September 11 attacks
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Part I of a speech given in a panel at the Claremont Institute in Washington, D.C. on Sep. 18th, 2006 Christopher Hitchens speaks about the threat posed to modern civilisation by Islamic extremists and the failure of the USA government and civil society to react adequately to it. You can read about his arguments in the part "War" of his book "Love, Poverty and War" in essays he wrote for "The N...
Christopher Hitchens on the Rushdie affair and Iraq
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This is part of an interview by Evan Smith at Texas Monthly Talks while CH was on his book tour for "god is not great" May 2007. Watch the whole thing (including wise words on religion) on www.vimeo.com/1868492 or ruclips.net/video/t3Sq2qxS7Zw/видео.html
Christopher Hitchens on debating religion and the elections
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The editor of "Patrol" speaks with Christopher Hitchens after the debate with theologian Douglas Wilson at The King's College in New York City. The complete thing: www.vimeo.com/2111182 I asked: "Can somebody tell me what the 'red flower' means on CH's lapel?" The answer came quickly, user calcecini said: "In answer to your question about CH's lapel,it's actually a poppy (made of plastic) worn ...
Hitchens: religion degrades humanity.
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Q&A part VII of the Hitchens vs. Turek debate at VCU, VA. Full debate: www.vimeo.com/1904911 Hitchens repeats a strong anti-theist point: if you do a moral deed "for god" it is done for a reward or out of fear but not out of empathy or solidarity -it thus abolishes morality, individual choice etc. Tureks stupidity (or the credulity of his followers) forces this repetition upon us, his point abo...
Hitchens: IC is an infinitely expanding tautology
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Q&A part VI of the Hitchens vs. Turek debate at VCU, VA. Full debate: www.vimeo.com/1904911 and (annotated) ruclips.net/video/o-3fgjX2mU4/видео.html Turek continues his self-ridiculing (singularity=miracle wtf?), Hitchens argues that the argument from irreducible complexity (IC) -stating that because DNA is so complex or beautiful it must be created- is an "infinitely expanding tautology". Rele...
Hitchens: the purpose of life (!)
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Q&A part V of the Hitchens vs. Turek debate at VCU, VA. Full debate: www.vimeo.com/1904911 and (annotated) ruclips.net/video/o-3fgjX2mU4/видео.html Again ethics, Hitchens reference about Sokrates who would feel shame when making a dishonest or shady argument clearly points at Tureks demagoguery (Hitler=Humanist) from before. At 3:03 Hitchens is asked about the purpose of life though, enjoy the ...
Hitchens: ethics vs. religion.
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Q&A part IV of the Hitchens vs. Turek debate at VCU, VA. Full debate: www.vimeo.com/1904911 and (commented) ruclips.net/video/o-3fgjX2mU4/видео.html At 4:45 Turek calls Hitler a humanist (!) what a shallow demagogue as well as a very pathetic apologist... even Hitchens (although just for a sec.) is speechless upon so much presumptuousness, but fortunately does not let Turek get away with it. Th...
Hitchens: Humanism and abortion.
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Q&A part III of the Hitchens vs. Turek debate at VCU, VA. Full debate: www.vimeo.com/1904911 Hitchens says here that religion only poisons the debate about abortion and that Humanist values help to decide difficult moral issues concerning the life of the unborn child.
Hitchens: the universe doesn't need a designer.
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Hitchens: the universe doesn't need a designer.
Hitchens: religious vs. empirical knowledge.
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Hitchens: religious vs. empirical knowledge.
Hitchens: religion as the source of immorality.
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Hitchens: religion as the source of immorality.
Hitchens: deism, theism, wishful thinking.
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Hitchens: deism, theism, wishful thinking.
me tooo
*blowhard* (noun): a person who blusters and boasts in an unpleasant way.
Religion builds hospitals, homeless shelters, food banks, schools, colleges, universities, daycare centers, emergency charities and many other beneficial institutions What does atheism do for anyone other than themselves? NUTHIN. atheists are the most selfish, self-centered aholes on the planet Name an atheist charity lol
The atheist view - Billions of years ago a magical explosion happened and monkeys come out and slowly turned into people...
The atheist view - Billions of years ago a magical explosion happened and monkeys come out and slowly turned into people...
The atheist view - Billions of years ago a magical explosion happened and monkeys come out and slowly turned into people...
I'm against abortion, but it is killing a child. I just disagree with people saying it's a parasite
Christopher is derived from the Greek name Christóforos, meaning “bearer of Christ.” This name is composed of two ideas: Christós ("Christ") and phero ("to bear, carry").
At the end when the guy said “God gives you what you desire”. I think a more accurate sentence would read “God gives you your desires”.
'Why don't you just stay at home?' I do...then you knock at my door and try and force your bronze age superstition upon me.
Why was that little sh*t Turek ever on the same stage as Hitchens?
He’s not arguing that abortion is a punishment like god destroying cities Abortion is to spare it the suffering usually of being deformed or having no quality of life..arguably, life be the punishment.
stalling, stalling, avoiding, avoiding etc etc
We’re still having this talk 2024 15 years and it’s got worse hitch was right
Ridiculous. Just pure baffle.
read science speaks by peter stoner and discover how wrong are atheists or perhaps read the bible
Hitchens is saying Islam plagiarises Christianity and Christianity plagiarises Judaism and he might possibly say that Judaism plagiarises an even earlier previous religion, what i dont understand is how far back can you keep saying that and what exactly lies at the beginning of that process..??? Serious question please answer..???
So what is his answer?
I never knew that nimrod debated Hitchens.
Missing you Hitch.
Photons have no Mass,Frank...so don't measure time or space..they are essentially infinite..
To say the Universe needs a Cause is a Fallacy of Composition..the Universe didn't come from Absolute Nothing..Frank and Craig are wrong
The Universe needs no Cause...The idiot Frank The Crank is a Liar ruclips.net/video/gAD7H_dzOUM/видео.htmlsi=pHL2eBchJo_giLLV
A hero of multiculturalism and freedom! What we did to our allies the Kurds was appalling and there should have been consequences and tribunals.
Christopher Hitchens could fart more compelling arguments than Frank Turek could ever think of.
Weakness of human are desire and fear, knowing this an organisation called religion was created to exploit these gullible people, once money and authority was established the religion survive so long, it is Deep conditioning right from child birth and constant difficulty in living pushes individuals to these cults.
Frank Turek got destroyed in this debate. Absolutely destroyed.
This is the sacage takedown of religion I've ever seen.
Why did Christoper Hitchens bother debating with fools..
With lies Islam dies, with machetes and knives Islam thrives
Interesting...as always from Hitchens. Talking to yourself as greater sanity, that is, as opposed to being hyper-linear when Freud's superego is that which is imposed and imposing? So, if the ID is primal and base, does not then his ego as balancer serve as our Damon? How so? How not so?
I wish he was here today. He made sense out of the senseless. He knew everything and all of it. The man was a wonder and I hope that is of comfort to his wife and daughter.
“Dr Turek”?! Dr??? Are we in the twilight zone or something, or he a “Dr” in the same sense Kent Hovind is a “Dr” 😂
How sure can we be that here he wasn't only defending property rights?
I would have asked Turek "if there was no god, would you rape? Yes or no."
"Why do people behave well when nobody's looking". Because they'll feel bad. That's all. We evolved that way because if we hadn't, we wouldn't have survived.
His answer yo purpose is to bring it down to a human level of experience. Clear example of an animalistic dominated intellectual individual with no wisdom of the spiritual realm.
Benzin is not a molecule, it is a mix. Putting two people with such unequal IQs is unfair...
"If Christianity is true, why isn't the weight of that truth self-evident?" "It is because Christians build hospitals." Cringe.
Is religious indoctrination moral harassment ?
Hitchens was unsurpassed in his ability to expose stupid malignant religiosity and authority. His eloquence, brilliance, wit and humor were unsurpassed. As was his proclivity in picking only the very worst aspects of the things he hated, and to consistently and to very deliberately misinterpret everything that could be construed as positive. And he was amusing - to a point. You can endure only so much negativism - warranted or not. Where is the positive alternative? He had vaguely mentioned leftist views and Marxism - he was not nearly as erudite on those topics. And then science, which he claimed to embrace wholeheartedly, without having a clue what it is about. He had no training in science. He just trusted Dawkins. That is by definition - faith. Faith in its pure form. What we do know - even from Hitchens himself, although of course not as eloquently as you might wish, is that he found his real comfort in two things - cigarettes and whiskey. He dismissed his abuse of substances with his usual arrogant flippancy. Those two substances killed him - by his own choice.
Humanity if that were actually a thing owes great de t of gratitude to mr christopher. He was a gift.
Congratulations to the blalock brothers for fathering a child together. Sucks they had to leave the announcaz desk so soon after the show.
Here is a truue story. Sometimes around September 2023, My brand new mobile phone got pickpocketed in a bus terminal in the city where I live and it was gone. A couple of weeks later I was in a bus seating next to two drunks and one of them fell asleep right next to me and his mobile phone fell to the floor. I contemplated for a long time whether I should grab it and quickly get off the bus. Since i was robbed of my phone as well But I did not take the phone and jump off the bus - I picked up the phone and woke up the drunk man and gave it to him. He could not people what happened and wante to pay me money for doing this but I refused his money.
The moderator is eloquent and well spoken
Christianity is the worst😅
After Islam yes
funny how you don't dare to say that about the other 2 Abrahamic religions.
Religion is poison sewage and sick
Religion is a disease
Religion is poison sewage and false
Christianity is sick