It saddens me when I reflect that Hitch is gone. Luckily he is immortalized by the internet and youtube for future generations to appreciate. . Need more people like him.
At this moment his book 'God is not great' is my bible ( so to speak ). I'm planning to make a list of all Hitch has ever written, hang it in my studio and see to it that I will read it ALL ( and reread it to remain sharp and humain ).
Hitchens didn't show up to make people comfortable. He was a powerhouse of learned cognitive reason with more knowledge of high class literature of all ages than all the world leaders combined. I know I'll never be able thank him personally for how he's improved my life now.
I'm pretty sure he has changed his mind now that he has gone to his second death. Right now he's in a place of torment because he chose to die in his sins. In a little over 1007 years from now he will be pushed off the cliff into the lake of fire. We are in the last days before the rapture of those that trusted in Jesus death as payment for their sins. Then God will poor out His wrath on a Christ rejecting world. He will send a strong delusion a society that rejects truth in order that they might be dammed. It's your choice. With God? Or sent to hell? Get a bible you'll need it after the rapture. God is not a liar like us sinful people are. I too was an atheist.
MegaHOCKEY09 I agree Christopher Hitchens mind has changed into worm food like yours will be the moment your brain dies. Your superstition is not impressive to millions of people living in this modern world. The bible adds nothing to this information age but more fools selling the same old outdated stories as truth to be taken seriously. I judge you as a silly person that is easily brain washed to ignore evidence refuting biblical claims.
Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails the heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind. I miss this gorgeous bastard! ~ Hitch’s legacy ensures his immortality.
Will miss Hitch forever. What an orator. What a thinker. Beware anyone who was willing to debate. His knowledge of history was awesome. No more religious comfort blanket!
We lost one of the greatest minds when Mr Hitchens passed. We can be grateful that videos like this have been preserved for us and for those seeking to awaken to the truth. Rest In Peace, wherever you are.
Especially his answers to the Q&A, ramping up to the best at the end. Another of my personal favs is the AAI video, esp his answer to the last question when he talks about Bin Laden.
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, promoting, supporting, participating and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
I'd not wish that on anyone. One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
@@Aethelbeorn proof that you don't even know what it is. You are literally agreeing to not teaching things because they make America look bad. And you've got your way. Text books in florida have stripped all mention of race in relation to rosa parks and MLK, it'll be great to have generations of students that aren't taught about segregation, juneteenth, why rosa parks refused. That's called fascism folks and Hitch is turning in his grave. You can't just stop teaching stuff because it'll change children's opinions on America. All countries have dark times, but no first world country pretends they didn't happen except a few states run by "politicians" interested in culture war and ignoring the actual problems.
Hitchens would be pretty aghast at just how far the termites have spread these days, and just how long and well they've dined. Man I miss this guy. We need him more than ever.
Talking about Russia, and women in Iran taking their headscarfs off... this guy knew what he was talking about years before it happened (2023) RIP Hitch ❤
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, participating, supporting, promoting and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
@@whirledpeas3477 This is demonstrably false. The end of this video was a candid response to a question put to him in the moment. Unless you'd like to argue that he has such 'questioners' planted in the audience so he can deliver verbatim responses. I dare say you've either not seen all the many responses and speeches he'd given over his career, or you're lying.
@@whirledpeas3477 In the spirit of generosity, I'm quite happy to concede that in his many debates, he has given very similar arguments, usually worded slightly differently, against the same tired claims made by his opponents - such as without god there can be no morality, or if religion is so bad how come so much good is done in its name - but I would argue this isn't to his detriment or discredit. If a thousand people ask you what 2+2 is, will your response be anything but '4' to any of them?
We have his books on tape as well as youtube all his debates so there is always something to listen to and learn.we can pick up something new.There will be no one like him again we should be appreciative to have heard him first hand
He said it so very well. They do guard us as we sleep. I have always felt safe in America. I'm not rich but I've never gone hungry and when I was almost paralyzed from the neck down, they , whomever they are, did emergency surgery, just to keep me alive and able to function normally. If you get into a wreck, they are going to keep you alive, no matter who you are. If you call 911, they will respond. Sure, everyplace has bad people but we are much safer than most countries. Not all but most.
When you think on how large we are, and compare us to other nations of our size, I don't think you can honestly say we aren't the best. Make a pro/con about the USA, pro will outstretch cons
@@natemacbane4640 were definitely lagging behind a little. We've allowed corporate money to control our political system. It's become a socialist country but only for the rich. It's a crying shame but there probably aint many good years left.
I love listening to Christopher, but somehow I find this hitchslap unwarranted. The person from the audience was clearly concerned over Christopher's unapologetic invitations to violence. Is it truly the only way that theocracy can be beaten...?
@@maidros85 So what if some people choose to use violence against a theocracy? I am sick of fucking anti-vegans lecturing me about free speech while THEY are needlessly torturing & murdering animals.
Every time I hear Hitch speak about Putin (46:01), it's chillingly prescient and serious, back when very many people were instead hoping Russia were gradually coming around to the rules-based cooperative world order.
We were also hoping that fascism was dead in the West, but it persistently hovers around 20-30% in the political polls. Self-destruction seems cemented into the human mind.
Hes not gone since what he did with the others hasn't even stated screwing all of us over even though iots been destroying the UK / Europe for years : One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et al including Hitchens Dawkins. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
Let''s all study the best comebacks of every brave atheist who stuck their necks out and publicly spoke out. This will honor their memories and possibly spread the idea of and the love of logic. Become more able to speak up like them.
His book "God is not GREAT" should be made available for all prison inmates for them to understand how religions and superstitions have over time eroded social morals, stifled education and wasted resources while blindly praising suppressive dictators.There will always be people who will try to take advantage of your fear of dying. There will be no emotions felt by a dead body. I don't believe I will wake up surprised that I'm dead. I just hope my eventual death won't be preceded by intense pain and cause unbearable sorrow for my friends and family.
He was an absolute pig stupid man. One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
He never gave into the percentage, never the one to make way to polite and calm discourse, loved that about him! Spoke his mind and blew anybody that wanted to corner him into compliance...
He was an ignorant pig that would lower himself to that whence no other would and his tactics were an embarrassment and are described in every YT narcissism video.. Hitchens was incorrect concerning every world affair he predicted - nothing turned out to be right ZERO ! One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
Just viewed this for the first time & am baffled by the lukewarm audience reception. I've seen Hitch get better reactions from 'apologist' audiences & here he is playing at home!! He anyway delivers one of his better oratories. Perhaps the heat had a soporific effect in this case...
The pacifist thread is strong in this audience, rightly so. Hitchens is annoyed at having to wake them up to the greater threat of messianic faith war upon freedom to think otherwise (which is only available in mature democracies). Hitchens, and everyone else, knows that it would be lovely, and preferable, if the combative faithful could be peacefully persuaded to recognise the advantages of free thought and equality for women. He has studied the issue far deeper & better than the audience, as his lecture shows, and is warning them that it is not going to happen that way. Their freedom to be a pacifist is under threat and he is suggesting they have to decide what the uncomfortable priority is. As you indicate, the discomfit in the audience, of facing this choice between the impossible and the unpalatable, is palpable!
@@philcawser Very good point & one I had overlooked. The truth can be painful. Sadly in the 14 years since he spoke here, the freedom that allows for pacifism & free thinking is under greater threat than ever. Sadder still is the biggest of these threats comes from within the very land that Christopher tied his colours to. We live in strange times.
PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THE FIRST 15 MINUTES. YOU NEED TO GO TO 15:00 IN ORDER TO GET TO THE SUBSTANCE OF THIS VIDEO AND THE REASON YOU CAME HERE DR. HITCH, YOU ARE SURELY MISSED.
No. No one I know who is "like" Hitchens, not even comparable to him. What a shame, I know. But I think Hitchens has and will influence many young thinkers and we will "reap the fruits" in the future. :)
I miss Hitch’s honesty, love for mankind, intellect, integrity, wisdom, unafraid to fight and speak for those that can not, such as children, his kindness, and how he holds his family and friends so dear to him. He is a man I will always remember. I miss you Christopher and wish you were here now in the new year 2025. We need you , your strength , courage and cognitive reasoning. RIP 🥹❤️
Yes - but Hitchens / new atheism et al designed the way christianity could be stopped by thought crime models & that abrahamic religion shipped into replace it or are you blind ? One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et al including Hitchens Dawkins. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
No - you are watching someone not let you see the following was really going on behind everyones backs : One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
Dan Barker máde my day with his two opening songs !! My day started rather gloomy and heavy, but after hearing his songs containing well thought trough lyrics it LIFTED my spirits. I wish I could buy his music > I would listen to it at the start of every of my secular days !! Now I am excited to listen to The Hitch first! 😎
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, supporting, participating, promoting and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
He has a drink named after him. I had a few(or perhaps more than a few) at the American Atheists Convention in Salt Lake City last month. We should all aspire to have a drink named after us :D
What does everyone think today, post Trump presidency, about Hitchens saying (@ 1h 35s time in video) that he’d vote for Rudy Giuliani? What do you think Hitchens would say about Giuliani today?
Not surprised whatsoever given what a fraud Hitchens was & what his evil deeds have done along with the others. One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
He is so prescient about the Invasion of Ukraine and Putin. You can call a spade a shovel but if you walk like a Fascist, talk like one,you probably are one. RIP Christopher
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, promoting, supporting, participating and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, participating, supporting, promoting and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
There must have been a wide array of opinions and points of view in this audience, the sparse and sometimes hesitant applause when he makes some of his more stern and blunt points......Great watch. R.I.P Christopher Hitchens, if there is a god, give both he and the devil an earful and a cheeky Hitch-slap ;) !!
Christopher Hitchens is the best endorsement Rudy Giuliani ever got. Someone should tell Rudy that Christopher Hitchens was a faith healer who had premonitions and get him to talk about it on his podcast, unknowingly haunting his Chritian conservative listeners with the “spirit” of Christopher Hitchens.
Christopher Hitchens always said that Darwin was the greatest emancipator. But he himself has done so much for reason and inquiry I feel like he is at least on the same level as Darwin for human emancipation.
I wish this man had dedicated some of his time to ancient civilisations. The works of Graham Hancock, Randell Carlson, John Anthony West, Robert Schoch ect. I believe this would have added even more bearing to his arguments and maybe answered some of the more difficult questions left open.
@ I think being fringe is a good thing in this day and age. Randle Carlsons theorys and evidence seem more believable than anything else I've heard. I have only read Graham Hancocks "fingerprints of the gods" & " magicians of the gods". This (to me) brings up more relevant q&a's than actual mainstream "dogma". If Schoch has changed his mind about what caused the latest cataclysmic event he has every right if the evidence supports it. I'd like to hear your opinion on this fascinating subject =)
Here’s a thought experiment: Jesus comes back covertly and walks among the suffering once again, does he touch their foreheads damning them all for not having faith in a book? The cognitive dissonance of religion causes real mental illness.
I agree. 'Champaign socialists' have done hard to a noble and great cause in regard to Fabien Socialism. In his aforementioned Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, Hitchens quite rightly and accurately labelled these champaign socialists as a 'status-quo' force, that wished this whole fight against theocratic fascism had never come up. Let's not go too far the other way though; the historical crimes of the CIA and the US state were/are very real, particularly in Latin America.
yes, secular crime IS out there. we aren't ignorant of that. what is so much more scary is religion MIXED into the crazy batter. we're so frightened of another 9/11 we tiptoe around trying not to offend any muslim, i'm sort of sick of that. if you preach a cult of death, you should get death in return. there's really no other answer to it. calling up secular crimes we may have done doesn't change this...religion is dangerous when you mix secular eggs into it
Hitchens might have to hide altogether. The founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et al including Hitchens Dawkins. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
It wasn't her characters but the type of ultra liberal cabalists her post structural ideas are favoured by. The founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et al including Hitchens Dawkins - possibly via that other tribe of misanthropists. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
At 33 minutes in, Hitch could've been talking about Trump when he was actually talking about Georg W. Bush. If he'd lived, what would Hitch make of the "Toddler-In-Chief"?
@@charlesdeyo6154 ....and you'd be right! Trump reared his stupid head almost a decade after Hitchens' passing, but if Hitch had survived to see Trump ascend to the presidency, then Hitch himself would've coined the phrase "Toddler-In-Chief" ahead of the person who actually did coin that phrase.
One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et al including Hitchens Dawkins. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, learning, teaching, promoting, participating, supporting and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
Everyone got the biggest 'Hitchslap' because he like the others was actually a social engineer shafting everyone up and creating the was one major region was OUT ( yes .. becaise its astronomical wealth & real estate was going to be looted by european aristocrats ) ) - But they';d just ship in another abrahamic religion to take over. Hows it going with that one? One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
Yeah my cousin was born a Christian.. It sucks feeling like he’s wasting his potential Mentally, because he is bright but as Christopher says here it’s kind of a depravity.. 27:23 Because he was born to Christian parents and taught it at a young age. Hasn’t been able to snap out of it. He’s a good person but I look at him as the one that is stuck in a cult and trapped.
A Christian is not a good person. Somebody who wishes you to burn in hell for eternity for not believing exactly as he does is, by definition, not "good".
@@joshuatejiri2353 Just like every living things? Religious people die of cancer all the time and the number of religious people dying of cancer is higher than Atheists ;) That doesn't prove anything.
@ Your statement is self-defeating. If there are things and events outside your knowledge and control. It gives the impression that there is a higher being with knowledge and control. That would be God.
Religion is without question the greatest evil perpetrated by humans against other humans solely for power. That it maintains such a stranglehold on so may people still and is given so much honor is impossible to fathom. To be a person of faith should be such a badge of shame and dishonor and disgrace as to be impossible to bear yet the opposite remains which is truly sad.
Sorry Mr Hitch, but Rudy? I only wish you could see Rudy 😔 today. And, I know you would take take vote Seriously Back. Makes me miss you so much more, rayray.
His poltergeist is - and what he did behind everyones back with new atheism et al is killing all of us. One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins. Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE. All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
Religious freedom was about encouraging the worship of the one and only GOD by not favoring one religion over another, it was not about encouraging the worship of any idol 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@MrDorbel No, that would be the McNeil Lehrer News Hour on PBS----that was when they still reported the news. He was so witty.....and would sing and play a piano at the same time and poked fun at the political issues of the day....thanks for replying though.
@@trankt54155 Tom Lehrer is the piano playing satirist, the late Jim Lehrer (of the McNeill Lehrer News Hour) was a journalist. Tom was also a mathematician and did not perform in public after about 1972. They are not related.
@@dianahill7239 People are predominantly weak....and even the strong ones are also weak and empty spiritually and so they would have to cling onto something that is beyond convention and fantastical. Even Roman generals and rulers of millennia ago were also very superstitious before battles and also in the conduct of their lives and thus worshipped a number of Gods. That said, every civilization had and has its own Gods/Goddesses. Religion/faith is a personal issue and should not be organized and controlled like we see many today....
His professed support for Rudy Giuliani (1:00:35) and disdain for Obama (1:00:17) haven't aged well! I won't say he was wrong about Hillary Clinton, he knew far more about her than I will ever care to. But I'm going to look into what issues he had with Barack Obama, he usually turns out to be right. Apart from the charisma and intelligence one might find in any halfway-decent politician, Obama did turn out to be a good, capable president - not the fighting champion of unions, minorities, the poor and middle-class that we truly needed, but on the whole he did more good than harm. I wonder how Hitch would assess him now.
@@johnsanders561 In 2021? He hasn't been president since 2016. But if you mean 2011, it's easy to look back now and say he should have done more, but that wasn't immediately obvious to our leaders or to our allies. Look at the reaction from Americans over the last few days when Biden bombed a few specific, retaliatory targets - it's being seen as a betrayal by a huge number of Democrats and as not aggressive enough by Republicans. Here's what WAS done during Obama's years, according to Wikipedia: "Shortly after the civil war broke out in 2011, the U.S. initially supplied the rebels of the Free Syrian Army with non-lethal aid (e.g. food rations and pickup trucks), but quickly began providing training, money, and intelligence to selected Syrian rebel commanders. At least two U.S. programs attempted to assist the Syrian rebels, including a 2014 Pentagon program that planned to train and equip 15,000 rebels to fight ISIL, which was canceled in 2015 after spending $500 million and producing only a few dozen fighters.[142] A simultaneous $1 billion covert program called Timber Sycamore ran by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was more successful, but was decimated by Russian bombing, AND CANCELED IN MID-2017 BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.[142] The Obama administration began surveillance missions on Islamic State positions in Syria in September 2014.[143] On 22 September 2014, the U.S., Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began to attack ISIL forces inside Syria,[18][144] as well as the Khorasan group in the Idlib Governorate west of Aleppo, and the al-Nusra Front around Raqqa,[24][145] as part of the international military intervention against ISIL. By late 2015, coalition planes were dropping or launching an average of 67 bombs or missiles a day.[146]" (capitals are mine) Does this answer your question? While I agree that abandoning the Kurds was shameful, what more do you think should have been done, or was politically possible at the time? Certainly Obama's record on the Kurds is better than Trump's - in 2019, he completely abandoned them and it appears he didn't even understand who they were!
@@SNORKYMEDIA yeah, and the Republican congress wouldn't let him, though he at least got the number of inmates down from 245 to 41... so what's your point?
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, promoting, supporting, participating and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
Can’t help but wish they’d hit up Randy Newman and have him play his song Gods Song (That Why I Love Mankind) those songs at the beginning sounded like they were forced to write those songs.
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, participating, promoting, supporting and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
Sometimes the "rude" option is the correct one. It was hitches that saved me from a lifetime of self induced slavery. Say what you want about him, but at least criticize the real points. The iraq war and women's rights would actually be valid things to call him on, but not that he's "rude." The man was eloquent as fuck, and I could listen to him describe corn for half an hour.
A similar crowd to the 2002 Mario Savio Memorial Lecture audience, and a fine example of the how many within the far left/anti-war movement are holding open the gates for the barbarians to take the city...
![Christopher Hitchens - [2007] - In Seattle discussing 'god is Not Great'](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hqrs-Ycf74w/mqdefault.jpg)
It saddens me when I reflect that Hitch is gone. Luckily he is immortalized by the internet and youtube for future generations to appreciate. . Need more people like him.
AtheistLobster amen 😉
He wrote some stuff too.
There is, thus far, no one like him. 😉
At this moment his book 'God is not great' is my bible ( so to speak ).
I'm planning to make a list of all Hitch has ever written, hang it in my studio and see to it that I will read it ALL ( and reread it to remain sharp and humain ).
Yes and his many writings.
Hitchens didn't show up to make people comfortable. He was a powerhouse of learned cognitive reason with more knowledge of high class literature of all ages than all the world leaders combined. I know I'll never be able thank him personally for how he's improved my life now.
I'm pretty sure he has changed his mind now that he has gone to his second death. Right now he's in a place of torment because he chose to die in his sins. In a little over 1007 years from now he will be pushed off the cliff into the lake of fire. We are in the last days before the rapture of those that trusted in Jesus death as payment for their sins. Then God will poor out His wrath on a Christ rejecting world. He will send a strong delusion a society that rejects truth in order that they might be dammed. It's your choice. With God? Or sent to hell? Get a bible you'll need it after the rapture. God is not a liar like us sinful people are. I too was an atheist.
MegaHOCKEY09 I agree Christopher Hitchens mind has changed into worm food like yours will be the moment your brain dies. Your superstition is not impressive to millions of people living in this modern world. The bible adds nothing to this information age but more fools selling the same old outdated stories as truth to be taken seriously. I judge you as a silly person that is easily brain washed to ignore evidence refuting biblical claims.
Agreed, well said
@@MegaHOCKEY09 fuck off
@@MegaHOCKEY09 You believe your religion is right. So do all the adherents of other religions. Sorry, but they cannot all be right. End of story.
Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails the heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
I miss this gorgeous bastard! ~ Hitch’s legacy ensures his immortality.
Will miss Hitch forever. What an orator. What a thinker. Beware anyone who was willing to debate. His knowledge of history was awesome. No more religious comfort blanket!
We lost one of the greatest minds when Mr Hitchens passed. We can be grateful that videos like this have been preserved for us and for those seeking to awaken to the truth. Rest In Peace, wherever you are.
This could well be the best speech I've ever heard. Hitch at full pitch.
Especially his answers to the Q&A, ramping up to the best at the end.
Another of my personal favs is the AAI video, esp his answer to the last question when he talks about Bin Laden.
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, promoting, supporting, participating and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
Hitchens was truly one of our great minds and speakers. It's a shame cancer took him so soon.
I'd not wish that on anyone.
One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
Critical thinking and scientific method should be mandatory in all high schools.
But equal tone given to watch craft and wishful thinking practice :)
More critical thinking less critical theory
@@jimmy2k4o HA! nice 👍
@@Aethelbeorn proof that you don't even know what it is. You are literally agreeing to not teaching things because they make America look bad. And you've got your way. Text books in florida have stripped all mention of race in relation to rosa parks and MLK, it'll be great to have generations of students that aren't taught about segregation, juneteenth, why rosa parks refused.
That's called fascism folks and Hitch is turning in his grave. You can't just stop teaching stuff because it'll change children's opinions on America. All countries have dark times, but no first world country pretends they didn't happen except a few states run by "politicians" interested in culture war and ignoring the actual problems.
@@jimmy2k4o❤
The world and mankind is at a loss with the passing of mr.hitchens!!!youll be missed by all!!we lost a great man!!!
Hitchens would be pretty aghast at just how far the termites have spread these days, and just how long and well they've dined. Man I miss this guy. We need him more than ever.
I couldn’t agree more
Talking about Russia, and women in Iran taking their headscarfs off... this guy knew what he was talking about years before it happened (2023) RIP Hitch ❤
This is indeed one of his finest speeches. Another would be the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, participating, supporting, promoting and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
He says the same lecture word for word for 15 years. Incase you haven't noticed.
@@whirledpeas3477 Word for word? 15 years? Got any proof?
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This is demonstrably false.
The end of this video was a candid response to a question put to him in the moment. Unless you'd like to argue that he has such 'questioners' planted in the audience so he can deliver verbatim responses.
I dare say you've either not seen all the many responses and speeches he'd given over his career, or you're lying.
@@whirledpeas3477
In the spirit of generosity, I'm quite happy to concede that in his many debates, he has given very similar arguments, usually worded slightly differently, against the same tired claims made by his opponents - such as without god there can be no morality, or if religion is so bad how come so much good is done in its name - but I would argue this isn't to his detriment or discredit.
If a thousand people ask you what 2+2 is, will your response be anything but '4' to any of them?
I love his unapologetic nature. We need more and more like him.
We have his books on tape as well as youtube all his debates so there is always something to listen to and learn.we can pick up something new.There will be no one like him again we should be appreciative to have heard him first hand
He said it so very well. They do guard us as we sleep. I have always felt safe in America. I'm not rich but I've never gone hungry and when I was almost paralyzed from the neck down, they , whomever they are, did emergency surgery, just to keep me alive and able to function normally. If you get into a wreck, they are going to keep you alive, no matter who you are. If you call 911, they will respond. Sure, everyplace has bad people but we are much safer than most countries. Not all but most.
When you think on how large we are, and compare us to other nations of our size, I don't think you can honestly say we aren't the best. Make a pro/con about the USA, pro will outstretch cons
@@natemacbane4640 were definitely lagging behind a little. We've allowed corporate money to control our political system. It's become a socialist country but only for the rich. It's a crying shame but there probably aint many good years left.
The last person to ask questions just got schooled.
Moeller Mike
He sure did!!! It is a thing to behold.
I love listening to Christopher, but somehow I find this hitchslap unwarranted. The person from the audience was clearly concerned over Christopher's unapologetic invitations to violence. Is it truly the only way that theocracy can be beaten...?
@@maidros85 So what if some people choose to use violence against a theocracy?
I am sick of fucking anti-vegans lecturing me about free speech while THEY are needlessly torturing & murdering animals.
Anthony Natali Thank you, sir 👏
@@maidros85 If you knew your history, you'd know that religion only knows violence as a form of control.
The end gave me chills! Wow! Love it!
Every time I hear Hitch speak about Putin (46:01), it's chillingly prescient and serious, back when very many people were instead hoping Russia were gradually coming around to the rules-based cooperative world order.
We were also hoping that fascism was dead in the West, but it persistently hovers around 20-30% in the political polls. Self-destruction seems cemented into the human mind.
You ain't kidding
Hitch. Even amongst atheists he confronts. He is great
Miss you Christopher.
Hes not gone since what he did with the others hasn't even stated screwing all of us over even though iots been destroying the UK / Europe for years :
One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et al including Hitchens Dawkins.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
Let''s all study the best comebacks of every brave atheist who stuck their necks out and publicly spoke out. This will honor their memories and possibly spread the idea of and the love of logic. Become more able to speak up like them.
His book "God is not GREAT" should be made available for all prison inmates for them to understand how religions and superstitions have over time eroded social morals, stifled education and wasted resources while blindly praising suppressive dictators.There will always be people who will try to take advantage of your fear of dying. There will be no emotions felt by a dead body. I don't believe I will wake up surprised that I'm dead. I just hope my eventual death won't be preceded by intense pain and cause unbearable sorrow for my friends and family.
Jazzkeyboardist1 the hate runs deep; pity the facts dont
@Jazzkeyboardist1 You’re great at writing vapid piffle about Christopher. Have fun being a serf.
So sad that this great man was taken from us at such a early age
1:11:50 begins the greatest Hitchslap ever.
1:11:50
He was an absolute pig stupid man.
One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
He never gave into the percentage, never the one to make way to polite and calm discourse, loved that about him!
Spoke his mind and blew anybody that wanted to corner him into compliance...
He was an ignorant pig that would lower himself to that whence no other would and his tactics were an embarrassment and are described in every YT narcissism video.. Hitchens was incorrect concerning every world affair he predicted - nothing turned out to be right ZERO !
One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
Just viewed this for the first time & am baffled by the lukewarm audience reception. I've seen Hitch get better reactions from 'apologist' audiences & here he is playing at home!! He anyway delivers one of his better oratories. Perhaps the heat had a soporific effect in this case...
Seems he was speaking at an event of proto-wokism
The pacifist thread is strong in this audience, rightly so. Hitchens is annoyed at having to wake them up to the greater threat of messianic faith war upon freedom to think otherwise (which is only available in mature democracies). Hitchens, and everyone else, knows that it would be lovely, and preferable, if the combative faithful could be peacefully persuaded to recognise the advantages of free thought and equality for women. He has studied the issue far deeper & better than the audience, as his lecture shows, and is warning them that it is not going to happen that way. Their freedom to be a pacifist is under threat and he is suggesting they have to decide what the uncomfortable priority is.
As you indicate, the discomfit in the audience, of facing this choice between the impossible and the unpalatable, is palpable!
@@philcawser Very good point & one I had overlooked. The truth can be painful. Sadly in the 14 years since he spoke here, the freedom that allows for pacifism & free thinking is under greater threat than ever. Sadder still is the biggest of these threats comes from within the very land that Christopher tied his colours to. We live in strange times.
PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THE FIRST 15 MINUTES.
YOU NEED TO GO TO 15:00 IN ORDER TO GET TO THE SUBSTANCE OF THIS VIDEO AND THE REASON YOU CAME HERE
DR. HITCH, YOU ARE SURELY MISSED.
Thank you - saved me some pain
How do you know I didn't come here to listen to corny atheist piano jingles? Ya never know...
Thank you that intro song seemed beyond awkward
I already had skipped a few times up to 12 mins, before suspecting someone in the comments would have a start time.
MakisPyrgiotis This needs to be the first comment to save the rest us from Dan singing. Pun intended.
No. No one I know who is "like" Hitchens, not even comparable to him. What a shame, I know. But I think Hitchens has and will influence many young thinkers and we will "reap the fruits" in the future. :)
I miss Hitch’s honesty, love for mankind, intellect, integrity, wisdom, unafraid to fight and speak for those that can not, such as children, his kindness, and how he holds his family and friends so dear to him. He is a man I will always remember. I miss you Christopher and wish you were here now in the new year 2025. We need you , your strength , courage and cognitive reasoning. RIP 🥹❤️
My favorite appearance of him.
His last comments about islam really hits home in the current era.
Yes - but Hitchens / new atheism et al designed the way christianity could be stopped by thought crime models & that abrahamic religion shipped into replace it or are you blind ?
One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et al including Hitchens Dawkins.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
14:58 - Hitch
54:00 - Question #1
57:35 - Question #2
1:00:48 - Question #3
1:01:38 - Question #4
1:04:31 - Question #5
1:06:32 - Question #6
1:10:24 - Question #7
RIP amicus meus
Real MVP
thank god for the song that starts the whole affair - "Nothing Fails Like Prayer"
I wonder what Hitchens would say about Rusy Guilani now?
Was just thinking that. Curious to know, why he picked him in the first place. Any ideas?
Great musical intro by Dan Barker!
Dude, it’s awful
@@shawndimery 😄
I thought it was cute :)
hitch accepted the challenge and defeated it with an appealing quality, that is what we are all watching in his videos
No - you are watching someone not let you see the following was really going on behind everyones backs :
One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
Dan Barker máde my day with his two opening songs !!
My day started rather gloomy and heavy, but after hearing his songs containing well thought trough lyrics it LIFTED my spirits.
I wish I could buy his music > I would listen to it at the start of every of my secular days !!
Now I am excited to listen to The Hitch first! 😎
So relevant today. Faulty thinking got us in the state we're in now.
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, supporting, participating, promoting and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
He has a drink named after him. I had a few(or perhaps more than a few) at the American Atheists Convention in Salt Lake City last month. We should all aspire to have a drink named after us :D
What does everyone think today, post Trump presidency, about Hitchens saying (@ 1h 35s time in video) that he’d vote for Rudy Giuliani?
What do you think Hitchens would say about Giuliani today?
That an old man has lost his mind. It wasn't the first and won't be the last time that it happens.
Not surprised whatsoever given what a fraud Hitchens was & what his evil deeds have done along with the others.
One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
He would change his mind about Rudy. In his later years, Hitch didn't even vote, I think.
The Rudy Ghouliani quote has aged like fine milk.
Yea.
Rudy was still considered a decent fella when this was made,,,at least Hitchens knew trump was fool!
@@woodytheduke on the surface perhaps, he was known for cleaning up New York. But he’s always had a bit of a rebellious reputation.
Ghouliani - lol 😂😂😂
Agreed. I cringed at that comment 😢
He is so prescient about the Invasion of Ukraine and Putin.
You can call a spade a shovel but if you walk like a Fascist, talk like one,you probably are one.
RIP Christopher
I sure wish we had Hitch now, in the time of The Moron.
Legend.
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, promoting, supporting, participating and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
1:05:33 - these are the moments I get the most power from this powerhouse, this man, this amazing man.
Same here !!
From day one I got to know him he is delivering the much needed boost and gets me out of my tunnel vision.
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, participating, supporting, promoting and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
*Hitch is awesome*
Epic how he turned it around on them at the end. He didnt even want allies on his own side of the debate. He lived for debate.
Wow, that voting for Rudy Giuliani comment did not age well.
Hitch starts 14:50
Dan the man for opening, nice, thank you Hitch.
Preaching to the converted, and on top form. This should be part of any curriculum of secondary education.
There must have been a wide array of opinions and points of view in this audience, the sparse and sometimes hesitant applause when he makes some of his more stern and blunt points......Great watch. R.I.P Christopher Hitchens, if there is a god, give both he and the devil an earful and a cheeky Hitch-slap ;) !!
Christopher Hitchens is the best endorsement Rudy Giuliani ever got. Someone should tell Rudy that Christopher Hitchens was a faith healer who had premonitions and get him to talk about it on his podcast, unknowingly haunting his Chritian conservative listeners with the “spirit” of Christopher Hitchens.
Why would an ex-Christian atheist ever want to re-convert to Christianity again???
What exactly did he mean by the reply at 56:20 - that during the Iraq invasion soldiers should've killed the clergy...? 🤔
The clergy basically decide all the laws & who gets which rights.
Christopher Hitchens always said that Darwin was the greatest emancipator. But he himself has done so much for reason and inquiry I feel like he is at least on the same level as Darwin for human emancipation.
14:50 Hitch comes on!
It’s interesting to see his seemingly unwavering support of Giuliani. I can’t help but wonder what he’d think of him if he were alive today?
haha right? the giuliani comment aged horribly
I left the FFR after they gave that award to Cenk Uygur.
I wonder how Hitch would feel about 2017-2020 Rudy Guilliani?
Amazing he thought Gulliani would be.a good leader :{ If only he could see what has happened since!!!
Seems to be one of the few things I disagree with him on.. Giuliani really shed his skin after Hitch passed though, so I'll let it slide. Heh
I wish this man had dedicated some of his time to ancient civilisations. The works of Graham Hancock, Randell Carlson, John Anthony West, Robert Schoch ect. I believe this would have added even more bearing to his arguments and maybe answered some of the more difficult questions left open.
@ I think being fringe is a good thing in this day and age. Randle Carlsons theorys and evidence seem more believable than anything else I've heard. I have only read Graham Hancocks "fingerprints of the gods" & " magicians of the gods". This (to me) brings up more relevant q&a's than actual mainstream "dogma".
If Schoch has changed his mind about what caused the latest cataclysmic event he has every right if the evidence supports it.
I'd like to hear your opinion on this fascinating subject =)
MFG that was just great,last 15 min is the best Hitchslap ever recorded
Why do I want to hear Tom Waits sing "Beware Of Dogma"?
Here’s a thought experiment: Jesus comes back covertly and walks among the suffering once again, does he touch their foreheads damning them all for not having faith in a book? The cognitive dissonance of religion causes real mental illness.
Hitchens in the beginning asking if he already told the enema joke 😭. 23:44 56:50 1:04:55 1:07:52
I agree. 'Champaign socialists' have done hard to a noble and great cause in regard to Fabien Socialism. In his aforementioned Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, Hitchens quite rightly and accurately labelled these champaign socialists as a 'status-quo' force, that wished this whole fight against theocratic fascism had never come up.
Let's not go too far the other way though; the historical crimes of the CIA and the US state were/are very real, particularly in Latin America.
yes, secular crime IS out there. we aren't ignorant of that. what is so much more scary is religion MIXED into the crazy batter. we're so frightened of another 9/11 we tiptoe around trying not to offend any muslim, i'm sort of sick of that. if you preach a cult of death, you should get death in return. there's really no other answer to it. calling up secular crimes we may have done doesn't change this...religion is dangerous when you mix secular eggs into it
it is interesting his comment about Giuliani and abandoning the kurds …. I wonder what he would say today if he were here.
Hitchens might have to hide altogether.
The founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et al including Hitchens Dawkins.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
1:00:13 “unreadable novels of Ayn Rand”…. I wonder what Hitchens had against her characters.
It wasn't her characters but the type of ultra liberal cabalists her post structural ideas are favoured by.
The founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et al including Hitchens Dawkins - possibly via that other tribe of misanthropists.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
ted haggard, jim baker, the fahwell family, how many can the believers tolerate
At 33 minutes in, Hitch could've been talking about Trump when he was actually talking about Georg W. Bush. If he'd lived, what would Hitch make of the "Toddler-In-Chief"?
Considering Hitchens was about obvious truths, i believe he'd be anti trump.
@@charlesdeyo6154 ....and you'd be right! Trump reared his stupid head almost a decade after Hitchens' passing, but if Hitch had survived to see Trump ascend to the presidency, then Hitch himself would've coined the phrase "Toddler-In-Chief" ahead of the person who actually did coin that phrase.
One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et al including Hitchens Dawkins.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
That one empty seat was actually reserved for God, but once again, God never showed up.
@Jazzkeyboardist1 you sir are a knob
@Jazzkeyboardist1 can anybody tell me what this idiots point is?
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, learning, teaching, promoting, participating, supporting and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
the last 2 questions and answers were the best Hitchslap I have ever heard
Everyone got the biggest 'Hitchslap' because he like the others was actually a social engineer shafting everyone up and creating the was one major region was OUT ( yes .. becaise its astronomical wealth & real estate was going to be looted by european aristocrats ) ) - But they';d just ship in another abrahamic religion to take over.
Hows it going with that one?
One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
I love free thinkers
Yeah my cousin was born a Christian.. It sucks feeling like he’s wasting his potential Mentally, because he is bright but as Christopher says here it’s kind of a depravity.. 27:23 Because he was born to Christian parents and taught it at a young age. Hasn’t been able to snap out of it. He’s a good person but I look at him as the one that is stuck in a cult and trapped.
A Christian is not a good person. Somebody who wishes you to burn in hell for eternity for not believing exactly as he does is, by definition, not "good".
LOL, Hitchens waged war on god, god lost.
haha God lost? HItchens is DEAD!!
@@joshuatejiri2353 Just like every living things? Religious people die of cancer all the time and the number of religious people dying of cancer is higher than Atheists ;) That doesn't prove anything.
i think partly because god can't fight back.
He waged war on Madison, WI academia. Madison lost.
@ Your statement is self-defeating. If there are things and events outside your knowledge and control. It gives the impression that there is a higher being with knowledge and control. That would be God.
Religion is without question the greatest evil perpetrated by humans against other humans solely for power. That it maintains such a stranglehold on so may people still and is given so much honor is impossible to fathom. To be a person of faith should be such a badge of shame and dishonor and disgrace as to be impossible to bear yet the opposite remains which is truly sad.
What happens at 1:03:00?
Horrible to hear him coughing through this. I wonder if he already knew he had cancer at this time?
I've thought that watching some of his videos - or it could just be because the man was a prolific speaker, which takes its toll.
He didn't know until June 2010.
Sorry Mr Hitch, but Rudy? I only wish you could see Rudy 😔 today. And, I know you would take take vote Seriously Back. Makes me miss you so much more, rayray.
wish Hitchens was still alive!
His poltergeist is - and what he did behind everyones back with new atheism et al is killing all of us.
One day you'll see that the founders of modern thought crime are the new atheists et all including Hitchens Dawkins.
Did you really think that a model designed to shut down religious free speech would stay in its cage ? Where else did you think the post truth that now powers thought crime came from ? Didn't you think it was odd once the christian churches were looted by the european aristocracy ? Are you not alarmed that once they tasted that blood they decided to help themselves to the national parks of europe after abolishing the concept of the peoples wealth ? Not concerned that after getting away with taking church real estate , high security fences are going up in Dartmoor - The Lake District - Derbyshire Peaks et all & all over europe. That oligarchs are this lands new owners ( bought for a song ) And we are already hearing how they want TOLL to go ? EVERYWHERE.
All new atheism did was model THOUGHT CRIME.
Religious freedom was about encouraging the worship of the one and only GOD by not favoring one religion over another, it was not about encouraging the worship of any idol 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
There used to be a political pianist like that fella satired about the political issues and etc. back in the 1980s...What's his name????
You are probably thinking of Tom Lehrer.
@@MrDorbel No, that would be the McNeil Lehrer News Hour on PBS----that was when they still reported the news.
He was so witty.....and would sing and play a piano at the same time and poked fun at the political issues of the day....thanks for replying though.
@@trankt54155 Tom Lehrer is the piano playing satirist, the late Jim Lehrer (of the McNeill Lehrer News Hour) was a journalist.
Tom was also a mathematician and did not perform in public after about 1972. They are not related.
@@MrDorbel Thanks but now I remember. I was thinking of Mark Russell. Do you know him? He must be dead by now, or very old...
@@dianahill7239 People are predominantly weak....and even the strong ones are also weak and empty spiritually and so they would have to cling onto something that is beyond convention and fantastical. Even Roman generals and rulers of millennia ago were also very superstitious before battles and also in the conduct of their lives and thus worshipped a number of Gods. That said, every civilization had and has its own Gods/Goddesses. Religion/faith is a personal issue and should not be organized and controlled like we see many today....
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His professed support for Rudy Giuliani (1:00:35) and disdain for Obama (1:00:17) haven't aged well! I won't say he was wrong about Hillary Clinton, he knew far more about her than I will ever care to. But I'm going to look into what issues he had with Barack Obama, he usually turns out to be right. Apart from the charisma and intelligence one might find in any halfway-decent politician, Obama did turn out to be a good, capable president - not the fighting champion of unions, minorities, the poor and middle-class that we truly needed, but on the whole he did more good than harm. I wonder how Hitch would assess him now.
Not supporting the Kurdish people, allowing them to be persecuted by Turkey and Syria in 2021 is shameful.
Where was Obama?
@@johnsanders561 In 2021? He hasn't been president since 2016.
But if you mean 2011, it's easy to look back now and say he should have done more, but that wasn't immediately obvious to our leaders or to our allies.
Look at the reaction from Americans over the last few days when Biden bombed a few specific, retaliatory targets - it's being seen as a betrayal by a huge number of Democrats and as not aggressive enough by Republicans.
Here's what WAS done during Obama's years, according to Wikipedia:
"Shortly after the civil war broke out in 2011, the U.S. initially supplied the rebels of the Free Syrian Army with non-lethal aid (e.g. food rations and pickup trucks), but quickly began providing training, money, and intelligence to selected Syrian rebel commanders. At least two U.S. programs attempted to assist the Syrian rebels, including a 2014 Pentagon program that planned to train and equip 15,000 rebels to fight ISIL, which was canceled in 2015 after spending $500 million and producing only a few dozen fighters.[142] A simultaneous $1 billion covert program called Timber Sycamore ran by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was more successful, but was decimated by Russian bombing, AND CANCELED IN MID-2017 BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.[142] The Obama administration began surveillance missions on Islamic State positions in Syria in September 2014.[143] On 22 September 2014, the U.S., Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began to attack ISIL forces inside Syria,[18][144] as well as the Khorasan group in the Idlib Governorate west of Aleppo, and the al-Nusra Front around Raqqa,[24][145] as part of the international military intervention against ISIL. By late 2015, coalition planes were dropping or launching an average of 67 bombs or missiles a day.[146]"
(capitals are mine)
Does this answer your question? While I agree that abandoning the Kurds was shameful, what more do you think should have been done, or was politically possible at the time? Certainly Obama's record on the Kurds is better than Trump's - in 2019, he completely abandoned them and it appears he didn't even understand who they were!
@@matthewscott7198 Obama said he would shut Guantanamo.............
@@SNORKYMEDIA yeah, and the Republican congress wouldn't let him, though he at least got the number of inmates down from 245 to 41... so what's your point?
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, promoting, supporting, participating and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
1:11:15 He looked like he was debating just walking off the fucking stage lmao
Can’t help but wish they’d hit up Randy Newman and have him play his song Gods Song (That Why I Love Mankind) those songs at the beginning sounded like they were forced to write those songs.
Religion is a derivative of narcissism. Religion is manmade, fiction and a Ponzi scheme. When people stop: obeying, enrolling, teaching, learning, participating, promoting, supporting and funding religion; religion will cease to exist.
I love Christopher Hitchens but his endorsement of Rudy Giuliani for president has not aged well LMAO
54:10 good lord man, take a deep breath
1:00:35 Well,that has not aged well....
Hitch starts speaking at 15:00 your welcome
It took you 13 years to figure that out,dude.
Pretty sure no thanks are coming your way
@@donjonsen5295 like me there are still new viewers, obviously.
@@donjonsen5295 You're wrong. It's nice that Alex provided a timestamp. Thanks, Alex.
Many atheists (me included) are on the defensive because we grew up in Christianity. I do envy those who were born into non-believing families.
Who was last speaker who seriously "Hitch Slapped?"
Sometimes the "rude" option is the correct one. It was hitches that saved me from a lifetime of self induced slavery. Say what you want about him, but at least criticize the real points. The iraq war and women's rights would actually be valid things to call him on, but not that he's "rude." The man was eloquent as fuck, and I could listen to him describe corn for half an hour.
Rudy Guilliani you say.
He must have felt weird preaching to the choir in this particular instance.
I take that back. He's given an award then assailed for his stance on the war.
Talk about preaching to the choir! Wish I was in the front row! I mean front pew!
test on u-tube
A similar crowd to the 2002 Mario Savio Memorial Lecture audience, and a fine example of the how many within the far left/anti-war movement are holding open the gates for the barbarians to take the city...
1:05:50 - we dare not abandon the secular kurds.
Well Hitch, Trump and Giulianni just did that two weeks ago...
Exactly
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