Challenge the faith of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims in India publicly and call out the contradictions and bullshit i. Their scriptures and their history. Let’s see how long you last!
@@_Hubal acha, jaa ke ved aur puraan parh. Uss main ye kipn likha hai ke adharmi ko maar dena chahye? Tum log apne dogma ko itna serious nahi lete aur society ke saath adapt karte ho kisi kisi cheezon main, lekin ab tumhaare be extremist ban chuke hain bjp ke aur hindutva ke chakkar main. This world has no place for superstitious dogmatic bullshit cooked up by humans of past. Science and reworking our whole ideology towards a utopic world is the only way forward
@@davidbroski1000 Sorry, I don't speak Hindi. I didn't say I am a believer. I am agnostic,not part of any religion,but hate Islam the most. I grew up criticizing Hinduism, atheists are welcomed in my family and society. There was a philosophy called 'charvaka' in ancient Bharatvarsha which means atheism from Hinduism pov.
My old boss use to comment about "the quality of a person's thinking" Christopher Hitchens was a man who was wonderfully articulate and capable of great critical thinking. He invariably helps folks to broaden their understanding and perspective. And he was always civil and respectful, even in the face of hostile and sometimes ignorant people who would not consider a new idea no matter. He was an atheist but not an angry man who mostly enjoyed life. My take from his book was that he was not down on God but on organized religions. If there is a heaven I hope he is there and having coffee with Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawkings...
yes agreed. I too see no shame in someone believing in a God/Intelligent energy but to believe in a single Religion baffles me. If only one Religion existed I still wouldn't believe but would understand how people could follow it BUT to follow a religion and not acknowledge they may be following the wrong one just proves they have no rational thinking behind your decision.
@@mkprocter882 examine them all and ask yourself which one is the most reliable/ best aligns with what a creator would provide us with. If I’m wrong in where I placed my faith then that’s on me. I have had the opportunity to look at and read about Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity. But you say that there are just too many options I can’t believe In just one of these? Anyone of faith has doubts. When you have doubts the best thing you can do for your faith is study what you believe, and what others believe. Now I don’t think that life could have come from nothing. I don’t think that humans could have evolved from apes. To believe in evolution requires faith. Faith that science, even though it can’t explain everything yet, will ultimately prove true and that religions are all stories made up by people to provide meaning to our meaningless lives. So I ask you friend, where do you place your faith? In science? In mankind?
@@lymanivey6275 You're statement is dishonest at best. People don't need "faith" to believe in science. Science is drawing conclusions based on reasoning and logic and observation of evidence. Faith is believing something despite the lack of sufficient evidence to draw a rational conclusion. Big difference!
@@Orisitdonaldreligion. There could be a God but religion is what makes us self destructive, it’s a form of psychosis and that’s why spirituality is more free in a sense.
@@FactStorm "haha lol". They're better off perpetuating their religion for reasons beyond obligation or just losing friends or connections. That a simple minded athiest like you.. just won't be able to contemplate.
paul said to die is gain. to be absent from the body is to be with the lord. they look forward to death. my dad raised us pentecostal. its taken me years to shake off the nonsense and lies
The premise is life after death with an eternal soul. We all have a date with death we cannot escape. That was the point of the cross to overcome death. Have you read anything about the persecution that Paul experienced as a Christian? He was scourged, and tortured, Imprisoned for his faith. He spoke about being close to death many times, and surely there are states of life worse than death. Jesus also said; I have come that you may have life and life more abundantly. While there is a faction of religious condemning doctrines the true doctrine of Christ was not even a religion. It was to free us from the immorality of sin that is prevalent in the world, and to reconcile us to Love with God and others. Now; an atheist cannot believe in moral absolutes...that there is no true right or wrong. So evil does not not exist and neither does good. And if these don’t exist I hardly see a reason for love either, if there is no morality there is no reason not to betray. His segueway into Christianity from Islam is rather quick. Islam has a similar philosophy to atheism.
@@blueorangeblossom the idea of the soul living on separate from the body isn't even from the bible. it's greek. there is so much modern christians (especially evangelicals) believe that are pagan.
@@blueorangeblossom and why should i believe anything paul said? there are no witnesses to his damascus experience. he says that there were, tells the story 3 different ways in the same books , and fails to mention a single one of these people by name.
@@blueorangeblossom your fear of death drives you to believe any lies no matter how transparent in the vein hope of overcoming your own mortality...but don't forget YHWH starts his lies all the way back in Genesis 2:17 "for on that day you shall surely die" - yet it is the serpent that tells the truth about the fruit, that it would open the couple's eyes and it did - if your god is real he is a proven liar and demonstrably psychopathic; if Adam sinned by seeing through YHWH's lies how is that anyone else's fault? We're all guilty because of something someone else did unless you accept the bloody sacrifice of atonement? Blood sacrifice is something required by demonic figures, not loving gods. How many innocents has your false god slain in his l Petty rages? Why did innocent babies have to die in Egypt? What was their crime? What makes you think your maniac god will honour his promise of salvation from his eternal wrath? Jesus said his return was imminent before he even died (Matthew 39:29), he said "not one generation shall pass before all this comes to pass" - yet you wait for him still because you fear death and prefer a happy fantasy to the stark reality - if God is real, he's just toying with you, he's a liar and he hates you. God is hate. God is fear.
yep Always loved this answer to that question. I feel it's a real shame the guy that asked the question couldn't acknowledge how good a response this was. He was visibly angry and obviously didn't spare a moments thought for a single point Hitchens made to the validity of such ideas. I personally feel so grateful to not have a belief system that I'm not willing to reconsider in place of reason, logic and hard evidence
So sincerely clear, concise and concrete. How anyone can't grasp the humanitarian in his character baffles me gravely ! I continue to be thankful for him having existed
Was just thinking about religion's obsession with death - Christopher said it best. Such a devastatingly clear thinker and exposer of the hoax that is religious thinking.
The thing about religions is that for they themselves to stay in power and in control of their institutions and the worlds affairs they much depend on the foe the evil one. Otherwise religions purpose would consist of truly helping mankind to a peaceful prosperous life on earth . religion is complex.
Well, it's not my whole career for one thing. It's become a major preoccupation of my life, though, in the last eight or nine years, especially since 9/11, to try and help generate an opposition to theocracy and its depredations internationally, that is now probably my main political preoccupation. To help people in Afghanistan, in Somalia, in Iraq, in Lebanon in Israel resist those who sincerely want to encompass the destruction of civilization and sincerely believe they have God on their side in wanting to do so. I think maybe I will take a few moments to say something I find repulsive about especially Monotheistic, Messianic religion, with a large part of itself it quite clearly wants us all to die, it wants this world to come to an end you can tell the yearning for things to be over, whenever you read any of its real texts, or listen to any of its real authentic spokesman, not the pathetic apologists who sometimes masquerade for it. Those who talk, there was a famous spokesman for this in Virginia until recently, about the Rapture, saying that those of us who have chosen rightly will be gathered to the arms of Jesus, leaving all of the rest of you behind: if we're in a car it's your lookout, that car won't have a driver anymore; if we're a pilot that's your lookout, that plane will crash; we will be with Jesus and the rest of you can go straight to Hell. The eschatological element that is inseparable from Christianity, if you don't believe that there is going to be an Apocalypse, there is going to be an end, a separation of the sheep and the goats, a condemnation, a final one, then you're not really a Believer and the contempt for the things of this world shows through all of them. It's well put in an old rhyme from an English exclusive Brethren sect: "We are the pure and chosen few, and all the rest are damned. There's room enough in hell for you, we don't want Heaven crammed!" You can tell it when you see the extreme Muslims talk, they cannot wait for death and destruction to overtake and overwhelm the World, they can't wait for what I would call without ambiguity a Final Solution. When you look at the Israeli settlers, paid for often by American tax dollars, deciding if they can steal enough land from other people and get all the Jews into the promised land and all the non-Jews out of it then finally the Jewish people will be worthy of the return of the Messiah, and there are Christians in this country who consider it their job to help this happen so that Armageddon can occur, so that the painful business of living as humans, and studying civilization, and trying to acquire learning, and knowledge, and health, and medicine, and to push back the frontiers can all be scrapped and the cult of death can take over. That to me is a hideous thing in eschatological terms, in End Times terms. On its own a hateful idea, a hateful practice, and a hateful theory but very much to be opposed in our daily lives where there are people who sincerely mean it, who want to ruin the good relations that could exist between different peoples, nations, races, countries, tribes, ethnicities; who openly say they love death more than we love life and who are betting that with God on their side that they're right about that. So when I say as a subtitle of my book that "Religion poisons everything", I'm not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity, it says we can't be moral without Big Brother, without a totalitarian permission, it means we can't be good to one other, it means we can't think without this, we must be afraid, we must also be forced to love someone who we fear - the essence of sadomasochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the master-slave relationship - and that knows that death is coming and can't wait to bring it on. I say that this is evil. And though I do some nights stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and ultimate stupidity. Thankyou.
lol at the hubris and ignorance of these fools who think they’re gonna “get” Hitch with their childish little questions. Just a complete lack of self awareness and overestimation of their cleverness. They’re all the same. The dude who asked the question maybe understood 15% of the answer.
I somewhat agree. But....God is a word made up by humans.... there certainly isn't a monotheistic god. If there really was a god like that, that god would be pure evil.
Some say too much drink & tobacco killed Hitch. But, I remember him when he was younger, and popped up on late night shows talking politics and literature long before he was drawn into the God bothering gig. People think all Hitch did was knock religion , but this isn’t true ! He was forced into the debate over 911 and his friend Dawkins was drawn in so as to defend his work on biology. Neither men intended to go down this path. Perhaps the stress of facing off wilful ignorance and stupidity took its toll on Hitch ? Was it worth losing his life over though ?
I see everything. I will use you all. Like chains I attach them to your feet so I can climb. You were sore afraid. And your fear is an anchor to climb the chains out hell. You were sore afraid as I proved this is how one escapes hell. They pinned me to a cross and when I did not die they ran, sore afraid.
All these grand buildings reaching towards the invisible man in the sky , should just open their doors . House the marginalized by design and provide housing . That is the Christian thing to do . Is it not ?
I figured I say that the rapture is described by God, but you shouldn't desire that day, Satan's demonic angels arise from the depths of hell and God is the one who save the believers from the horrific event
@[K.J. Not Found] For someone that tries to discredit and mocks a collection of 66 books that has spanned for more than 2000 years, a group of millions of believers, and a faith that had influenced many civilisations including the USA for hundreds of years proves to me his arrogance and stupidity in matters of the christian faith. Christopher is another false teacher in reality he's a angry little boy that does not want to be told what to do. That is the normal human condition, rebellion. Well he's dead and Jesus lives, I choose life. Jesus is Lord have a good day.
He's already dead, and yet his words are living on past him, like so many other authors before him. Even the Bible is just words written by men who are long since dead.
@Kyanide Jesus didn't pay for anything? Obviously your not theologically versed on to what sin is but I don't expect you to understand, because your rebellious heart does not want to understand. But if you read his word (Bible) you will understand humans are in need of a saviour, hence is why Jesus Christ came to this earth, preached, crucified, died and rose again. The ball is in your court.
Just amazing how Mr Hitchens deliberately misrepresents the doctrines that he claims are poisonous. If what he claims were true, then it would be a poisonous belief but a simple review of history will see that the teachings of Christ and the church have brought freedom and enlightenment to the world. Christian have throughout history been the reformers who have tirelessly expended their lives to promote peace, health, education and liberty. Mr Hitchen, by his own admission has for the past eight years (as of this video) spent the majority of his time promoting these views. Of course this has nothing to do with how he earns a living. Mr Hitchen has discovered a niche for which his formidable intellect may exploit. For whatever reason, there exists a minority of people who vociferously oppose the concept of God and will perform intellectual aerobics to justify their hatred of such ideas. Maranatha >
nah, christians hate women and girls and now we have people in gov saying 'this life is not the important one' so hey if kids get shot they get shot. Xtianity is a pure death cult and evil. we those who follow it to stay out of our gov
How would it be to spend your energy devoted to arrogance and hate yet think you are doing a good thing by encouraging others to do the same? All by simply not understanding every mans right to his own opinions and dismissing different philosophies as stupidity. I suppise you can choose that , if you want to entertsin your own misery.
Hitchins was an articulate apologist for the 'new atheism'. However he lost a debate with John Lennox, who is still an equally articulate apologist for authentic Christianity. Lennox does an effective job of demolition of many of his ideas in his penetrating analysis 'Gunning for God, Why the New Atheists are missing the Target'. 'John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College. He lectures on Faith and Science for the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He has lectured in many universities around the world, including Austria and the former Soviet Union'. 'He is particularly interested in the interface of Science, Philosophy and Theology. Lennox has been part of numerous public debates defending the Christian faith. He debated Richard Dawkins on “The God Delusion” in the University of Alabama (2007) and on “Has Science buried God?” in the Oxford Museum of Natural History (2008). He has also debated Christopher Hitchens on the New Atheism (Edinburgh Festival, 2008) and the question of “Is God Great?” (SamfordUniversity, 2010), as well as Peter Singer on the topic of “Is there a God?” (Melbourne, 2011)' .
Actually they are when you really dig into them. Jim Jones was highly influenced by Eastern philosophies of reincarnation. If you believe that yourself and everyone will just reincarnate, that'll lead down a dark road like the Jonestown massacre.
@@dertechl6628 His body was broken for you, His blood was shed for you, and He died and rose again. There is only one person in history that can be said about. ✝️
So npcs in a magical boring afterlife church on how gawds wonderful to ever be enough for him since it's eternal attention starvation to ever satisfy him of praise and attention????
@KingPingviini What Christian nationalists say and what the book says are two very different things. The bible is not against abortion and any kind of sacrifice is very much suicide.
Amazing how he’s becoming more relevant in a dying religious culture
Best part is that no one will kill me for being atheist in India.
Cant say for those 57 islamic countries.
I am also atheist
Challenge the faith of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims in India publicly and call out the contradictions and bullshit i. Their scriptures and their history. Let’s see how long you last!
@@davidbroski1000 There is no rule of Blasphemy in non-abrahamic religions.
@@_Hubal acha, jaa ke ved aur puraan parh. Uss main ye kipn likha hai ke adharmi ko maar dena chahye? Tum log apne dogma ko itna serious nahi lete aur society ke saath adapt karte ho kisi kisi cheezon main, lekin ab tumhaare be extremist ban chuke hain bjp ke aur hindutva ke chakkar main.
This world has no place for superstitious dogmatic bullshit cooked up by humans of past. Science and reworking our whole ideology towards a utopic world is the only way forward
@@davidbroski1000 Sorry, I don't speak Hindi. I didn't say I am a believer. I am agnostic,not part of any religion,but hate Islam the most. I grew up criticizing Hinduism, atheists are welcomed in my family and society. There was a philosophy called 'charvaka' in ancient Bharatvarsha which means atheism from Hinduism pov.
My old boss use to comment about "the quality of a person's thinking" Christopher Hitchens was a man who was wonderfully articulate and capable of great critical thinking. He invariably helps folks to broaden their understanding and perspective. And he was always civil and respectful, even in the face of hostile and sometimes ignorant people who would not consider a new idea no matter. He was an atheist but not an angry man who mostly enjoyed life. My take from his book was that he was not down on God but on organized religions. If there is a heaven I hope he is there and having coffee with Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawkings...
yes agreed. I too see no shame in someone believing in a God/Intelligent energy but to believe in a single Religion baffles me. If only one Religion existed I still wouldn't believe but would understand how people could follow it BUT to follow a religion and not acknowledge they may be following the wrong one just proves they have no rational thinking behind your decision.
@@mkprocter882 examine them all and ask yourself which one is the most reliable/ best aligns with what a creator would provide us with. If I’m wrong in where I placed my faith then that’s on me. I have had the opportunity to look at and read about Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity. But you say that there are just too many options I can’t believe In just one of these? Anyone of faith has doubts. When you have doubts the best thing you can do for your faith is study what you believe, and what others believe. Now I don’t think that life could have come from nothing. I don’t think that humans could have evolved from apes. To believe in evolution requires faith. Faith that science, even though it can’t explain everything yet, will ultimately prove true and that religions are all stories made up by people to provide meaning to our meaningless lives. So I ask you friend, where do you place your faith? In science? In mankind?
@@lymanivey6275 You're statement is dishonest at best. People don't need "faith" to believe in science. Science is drawing conclusions based on reasoning and logic and observation of evidence. Faith is believing something despite the lack of sufficient evidence to draw a rational conclusion. Big difference!
@@lymanivey6275 Plenty of people believe in the divine but not organized religion.
The difference between faith and science is kind of crucial isn't it?
Simply Believing in God isn't the problem. Its the religion and its followers that is.
Yep.
I do think religion is corrext in that we are inherently self-destructive to a sense. God is probably just our most ironic tool in doing so
@@Orisitdonaldreligion. There could be a God but religion is what makes us self destructive, it’s a form of psychosis and that’s why spirituality is more free in a sense.
@@alexyoung7170 amen! Religion is probably the most evil human construct that exists
It’s still gods plan. Destruction is what it advocates
Literally sent this to several ministers in my immediate family.
Haha and I bet to no avail, as they have dedicated their lives to delusion and will lose friendships and connections if they suddenly leave the cult
@@FactStorm "haha lol".
They're better off perpetuating their religion for reasons beyond obligation or just losing friends or connections.
That a simple minded athiest like you.. just won't be able to contemplate.
Sadly, he's not comparable to Jesus, a man who would rather be crucified than tell a lie....
@@yasirrakhurrafat1142 Keep worshipping your fake god, he did so much for the Jews during the Holocaust didn't he...............LOL
Wonderful video, we still miss The Hitch!
I've never heard of Christopher Hitchens until only a few years ago.
paul said to die is gain. to be absent from the body is to be with the lord. they look forward to death. my dad raised us pentecostal. its taken me years to shake off the nonsense and lies
I don't want to die but I agree
The premise is life after death with an eternal soul. We all have a date with death we cannot escape. That was the point of the cross to overcome death.
Have you read anything about the persecution that Paul experienced as a Christian? He was scourged, and tortured, Imprisoned for his faith. He spoke about being close to death many times, and surely there are states of life worse than death.
Jesus also said; I have come that you may have life and life more abundantly. While there is a faction of religious condemning doctrines the true doctrine of Christ was not even a religion. It was to free us from the immorality of sin that is prevalent in the world, and to reconcile us to Love with God and others. Now; an atheist cannot believe in moral absolutes...that there is no true right or wrong. So evil does not not exist and neither does good. And if these don’t exist I hardly see a reason for love either, if there is no morality there is no reason not to betray. His segueway into Christianity from Islam is rather quick. Islam has a similar philosophy to atheism.
@@blueorangeblossom the idea of the soul living on separate from the body isn't even from the bible. it's greek. there is so much modern christians (especially evangelicals) believe that are pagan.
@@blueorangeblossom and why should i believe anything paul said? there are no witnesses to his damascus experience. he says that there were, tells the story 3 different ways in the same books , and fails to mention a single one of these people by name.
@@blueorangeblossom your fear of death drives you to believe any lies no matter how transparent in the vein hope of overcoming your own mortality...but don't forget YHWH starts his lies all the way back in Genesis 2:17 "for on that day you shall surely die" - yet it is the serpent that tells the truth about the fruit, that it would open the couple's eyes and it did - if your god is real he is a proven liar and demonstrably psychopathic; if Adam sinned by seeing through YHWH's lies how is that anyone else's fault? We're all guilty because of something someone else did unless you accept the bloody sacrifice of atonement? Blood sacrifice is something required by demonic figures, not loving gods. How many innocents has your false god slain in his l
Petty rages? Why did innocent babies have to die in Egypt? What was their crime? What makes you think your maniac god will honour his promise of salvation from his eternal wrath? Jesus said his return was imminent before he even died (Matthew 39:29), he said "not one generation shall pass before all this comes to pass" - yet you wait for him still because you fear death and prefer a happy fantasy to the stark reality - if God is real, he's just toying with you, he's a liar and he hates you. God is hate. God is fear.
yep Always loved this answer to that question. I feel it's a real shame the guy that asked the question couldn't acknowledge how good a response this was. He was visibly angry and obviously didn't spare a moments thought for a single point Hitchens made to the validity of such ideas.
I personally feel so grateful to not have a belief system that I'm not willing to reconsider in place of reason, logic and hard evidence
The man who asked the question isn't intelligent enough to know he was being insulted for 5 minutes😅
The man who asked the question is a cult victim. A fundamentalist whose only defence is aggression and then violence. He knows no difference.
@@MCGguitar698 Mondays
So sincerely clear, concise and concrete. How anyone can't grasp the humanitarian in his character baffles me gravely ! I continue to be thankful for him having existed
Good mesaage
That was brilliant
That guy who challenged Hitch got obliterated, was too embarrassed and arrogant to clap!
Hitch has been living a lie his entire life, what's there to clap about?
@@danhtran6401 Yawns, spotted the apologist.
@@FactStorm you've been living a lie your entire life too. Tell me, honestly, do you want to be immortal?
Was just thinking about religion's obsession with death - Christopher said it best. Such a devastatingly clear thinker and exposer of the hoax that is religious thinking.
Yup. Gawd seems evil
You are so God damned right about everything you said!
Sumbitch was profoundly intelligent, well-spoken, and humane.
Literally couldn't agree more!
Still awe inspiring
GOD. DAMN.! talk about smacking down some ignorant people in the most respectful rebuttal I’ve ever seen 😂
Laugh now, scream later....
Brilliant!!
Couldn’t agree more
Love it
Happy Pride everyone! 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
Love Hitch!
I bet that guy wishes he would have kept his mouth shut.
The thing about religions is that for they themselves to stay in power and in control of their institutions and the worlds affairs they much depend on the foe the evil one. Otherwise religions purpose would consist of truly helping mankind to a peaceful prosperous life on earth . religion is complex.
Religious decepticons
Well, it's not my whole career for one thing. It's become a major preoccupation of my life, though, in the last eight or nine years, especially since 9/11, to try and help generate an opposition to theocracy and its depredations internationally, that is now probably my main political preoccupation. To help people in Afghanistan, in Somalia, in Iraq, in Lebanon in Israel resist those who sincerely want to encompass the destruction of civilization and sincerely believe they have God on their side in wanting to do so. I think maybe I will take a few moments to say something I find repulsive about especially Monotheistic, Messianic religion, with a large part of itself it quite clearly wants us all to die, it wants this world to come to an end you can tell the yearning for things to be over, whenever you read any of its real texts, or listen to any of its real authentic spokesman, not the pathetic apologists who sometimes masquerade for it. Those who talk, there was a famous spokesman for this in Virginia until recently, about the Rapture, saying that those of us who have chosen rightly will be gathered to the arms of Jesus, leaving all of the rest of you behind: if we're in a car it's your lookout, that car won't have a driver anymore; if we're a pilot that's your lookout, that plane will crash; we will be with Jesus and the rest of you can go straight to Hell. The eschatological element that is inseparable from Christianity, if you don't believe that there is going to be an Apocalypse, there is going to be an end, a separation of the sheep and the goats, a condemnation, a final one, then you're not really a Believer and the contempt for the things of this world shows through all of them. It's well put in an old rhyme from an English exclusive Brethren sect: "We are the pure and chosen few, and all the rest are damned. There's room enough in hell for you, we don't want Heaven crammed!" You can tell it when you see the extreme Muslims talk, they cannot wait for death and destruction to overtake and overwhelm the World, they can't wait for what I would call without ambiguity a Final Solution. When you look at the Israeli settlers, paid for often by American tax dollars, deciding if they can steal enough land from other people and get all the Jews into the promised land and all the non-Jews out of it then finally the Jewish people will be worthy of the return of the Messiah, and there are Christians in this country who consider it their job to help this happen so that Armageddon can occur, so that the painful business of living as humans, and studying civilization, and trying to acquire learning, and knowledge, and health, and medicine, and to push back the frontiers can all be scrapped and the cult of death can take over. That to me is a hideous thing in eschatological terms, in End Times terms. On its own a hateful idea, a hateful practice, and a hateful theory but very much to be opposed in our daily lives where there are people who sincerely mean it, who want to ruin the good relations that could exist between different peoples, nations, races, countries, tribes, ethnicities; who openly say they love death more than we love life and who are betting that with God on their side that they're right about that. So when I say as a subtitle of my book that "Religion poisons everything", I'm not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity, it says we can't be moral without Big Brother, without a totalitarian permission, it means we can't be good to one other, it means we can't think without this, we must be afraid, we must also be forced to love someone who we fear - the essence of sadomasochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the master-slave relationship - and that knows that death is coming and can't wait to bring it on. I say that this is evil. And though I do some nights stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and ultimate stupidity. Thankyou.
Clearly everyone is entitled to their opinion..
Doesn't mean it's right though.
Please tell me how not to die.
Breathe?
Upload your consciousness into the grid
Just don't exist.
Living means dying.
What ever the truth is at least Mr Hitchens was himself.. I judge people by their ATTITUDE.
lol at the hubris and ignorance of these fools who think they’re gonna “get” Hitch with their childish little questions. Just a complete lack of self awareness and overestimation of their cleverness. They’re all the same. The dude who asked the question maybe understood 15% of the answer.
None of those people are splitting the atom anytime soon.
I wouldn't go so far as to say *definitively* that there's no God. It's just that I don't *believe in* God.
I somewhat agree. But....God is a word made up by humans.... there certainly isn't a monotheistic god. If there really was a god like that, that god would be pure evil.
@@MCGguitar698 I agree.
He is pure evil.
Look around.
@@laisf.fernandes9890 How can you be so sure? What makes him "evil"?
Look around.
But the guy who asked the question is still brainwashed.
Some say too much drink & tobacco killed Hitch. But, I remember him when he was younger, and popped up on late night shows talking politics and literature long before he was drawn into the God bothering gig. People think all Hitch did was knock religion , but this isn’t true ! He was forced into the debate over 911 and his friend Dawkins was drawn in so as to defend his work on biology. Neither men intended to go down this path. Perhaps the stress of facing off wilful ignorance and stupidity took its toll on Hitch ? Was it worth losing his life over though ?
I see everything. I will use you all. Like chains I attach them to your feet so I can climb. You were sore afraid. And your fear is an anchor to climb the chains out hell. You were sore afraid as I proved this is how one escapes hell. They pinned me to a cross and when I did not die they ran, sore afraid.
All these grand buildings reaching towards the invisible man in the sky , should just open their doors . House the marginalized by design and provide housing . That is the Christian thing to do . Is it not ?
Wha??
Is he dead in 2015
So
I figured I say that the rapture is described by God, but you shouldn't desire that day, Satan's demonic angels arise from the depths of hell and God is the one who save the believers from the horrific event
No evidence besides gamble
His words will die with him, Gods word lives on
At what cost?
@[K.J. Not Found] For someone that tries to discredit and mocks a collection of 66 books that has spanned for more than 2000 years, a group of millions of believers, and a faith that had influenced many civilisations including the USA for hundreds of years proves to me his arrogance and stupidity in matters of the christian faith. Christopher is another false teacher in reality he's a angry little boy that does not want to be told what to do. That is the normal human condition, rebellion. Well he's dead and Jesus lives, I choose life. Jesus is Lord have a good day.
@@Moszan Cost? Jesus already paid the price, what exactly are you asking?
He's already dead, and yet his words are living on past him, like so many other authors before him. Even the Bible is just words written by men who are long since dead.
@Kyanide Jesus didn't pay for anything? Obviously your not theologically versed on to what sin is but I don't expect you to understand, because your rebellious heart does not want to understand. But if you read his word (Bible) you will understand humans are in need of a saviour, hence is why Jesus Christ came to this earth, preached, crucified, died and rose again. The ball is in your court.
Just amazing how Mr Hitchens deliberately misrepresents the doctrines that he claims are poisonous. If what he claims were true, then it would be a poisonous belief but a simple review of history will see that the teachings of Christ and the church have brought freedom and enlightenment to the world. Christian have throughout history been the reformers who have tirelessly expended their lives to promote peace, health, education and liberty. Mr Hitchen, by his own admission has for the past eight years (as of this video) spent the majority of his time promoting these views. Of course this has nothing to do with how he earns a living. Mr Hitchen has discovered a niche for which his formidable intellect may exploit. For whatever reason, there exists a minority of people who vociferously oppose the concept of God and will perform intellectual aerobics to justify their hatred of such ideas.
Maranatha >
nah, christians hate women and girls and now we have people in gov saying 'this life is not the important one' so hey if kids get shot they get shot. Xtianity is a pure death cult and evil. we those who follow it to stay out of our gov
Roman catholic church :
How would it be to spend your energy devoted to arrogance and hate yet think you are doing a good thing by encouraging others to do the same? All by simply not understanding every mans right to his own opinions and dismissing different philosophies as stupidity. I suppise you can choose that , if you want to entertsin your own misery.
Hitchins was an articulate apologist for the 'new atheism'. However he lost a debate with John Lennox, who is still an equally articulate apologist for authentic Christianity. Lennox does an effective job of demolition of many of his ideas in his penetrating analysis 'Gunning for God, Why the New Atheists are missing the Target'. 'John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College. He lectures on Faith and Science for the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He has lectured in many universities around the world, including Austria and the former Soviet Union'.
'He is particularly interested in the interface of Science, Philosophy and Theology. Lennox has been part of numerous public debates defending the Christian faith. He debated Richard Dawkins on “The God Delusion” in the University of Alabama (2007) and on “Has Science buried God?” in the Oxford Museum of Natural History (2008). He has also debated Christopher Hitchens on the New Atheism (Edinburgh Festival, 2008) and the question of “Is God Great?” (SamfordUniversity, 2010), as well as Peter Singer on the topic of “Is there a God?” (Melbourne, 2011)'
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Yes but atheism has a higher kill rate.
What?
Lies
No one is killing I the name of a missing god.
You're conflating it with evil dictators.
Eastern philosophies are not death cults.
Monotheistic mesiaanic religions are death Cults.
Actually they are when you really dig into them. Jim Jones was highly influenced by Eastern philosophies of reincarnation. If you believe that yourself and everyone will just reincarnate, that'll lead down a dark road like the Jonestown massacre.
@@c.g.h.4751 Cope.
Christianity is an eternal Life cult, not a death cult. ✝️
Also people symbolically eat someone's flesh, drink his blood and pray to his corpse on an instrument of cruel torture.
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His body was broken for you, His blood was shed for you, and He died and rose again. There is only one person in history that can be said about. ✝️
@@st.christopher1155 What do I get?
@@st.christopher1155 prove it!!
So npcs in a magical boring afterlife church on how gawds wonderful to ever be enough for him since it's eternal attention starvation to ever satisfy him of praise and attention????
Follow Hitches ideology to the morgue too - no illumination with him either.
Pointless comment.
Christianity….true Christianity is not a religion
It's a death cult.😊
And a blood cult
True Christianity IS a cult like all other religions!
@@mexdrago3009If it's death cult, why it is against things that cause death, such as abortion and euthanasia? Food for thought.
@KingPingviini What Christian nationalists say and what the book says are two very different things. The bible is not against abortion and any kind of sacrifice is very much suicide.
Brilliant!