Unfortunately Christopher ignored these signs at 27:47 29:20 1:19:35. Would it have been too late if he went to the doctor in February 2007? I don't know.
Hitchens occasionally tells outrageous lies as if they're fact, a common characteristic of Marxists.....even if he's nice to listen to on other matters......his fairytale around 5:05 that liberal journalists in the 1980s didn't make trouble for the Reagan administration on Sunday morning programs is complete nonsense. The Reagan admin would be very interested to learn that they never had an unpleasant interview, whether before 1986 or after.
Oh good lord I’m a good historian and theologian who has degrees I’ve earned and training). I definitely respect Hitchens though. If our faith is worth anything it ought to be able to hold up to solid logic and rigorous opposition (this is different than Dawkins who’s just a jackass). Hitchens was incredible. I’m not sure after a PhD in my field that I would be comfortable representing the faith. But sure let’s let the weird little jailbird D’Souza try *watches with anticipation*
Its always great to listen to Hitch. But, as I listen it reminds me how some people whom he trusted, befriended for their courage to leave religion went around and stabbed in the back b y reverting back to religion. I am speaking of that illiterate broad Ayaan Hirshi Ali who now has converted to Christianity the religion that has been rendered defunct by its own scholars like Bart Ehrman and others. Also Sam Harris has gone to Buddhism which was never meant to be a religion by this fictitious character Buddha who on his death bed said to people who were crying and wailing " go find your own Buddha within yourself" They made a religion out of it and all the successive Dalai Lama;s have been milking it ever since.
Holy shit, this must have been an early one. I hadn't seen it. What I''m sure of is that Dinesh honed his arguments based on responding to Christopher Hitchens over the next year or so, since I've watched the later debates. I imagine the he is embarrassed by this recording. He should be.
An intelligent presentation from such erudite and articulate, and sorely missed intellectuals. The antithesis of today's hideous and ignorant discourse.
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He is remembered with great regard. He wasn't perfect, like with many historical "prophets", but extrapolate the best of the message. There are always people of the time who are vilified by speaking 'sense'. Be good. Try.
“While I might not personally hand the keys of my house to the descendants of a Hitler victim, I expect others to do it based on ethnic background.” “I hope unconscious bias isn’t a harbinger of common later-years racism." "Or fiction falling to locked-out trash, unlocked only in flashes when I, y’know, timidly confront myself.” "Thank you, Martin."
It becomes more and more apparent to me, that ALL religion, with all its claims, are products of human imagination. Should there be some creator of some kind, its literally unbelievable that it's some force with human existence and progress as any priority. Sure, when the Sun went round the Earth along with 5 planets, with a Milky Way up there, whatever that was, it had been easy to get all narcissistic about life and our place in existence.
D'Souza - the religiously minded can "love your enemy", while the evolved being will 'destroy the enemy'. How much conflict in our world is between different religions? Who used to be the evolving human's enemy? Was it wise to 'reduce' headcount of whatever group or indeed species that were impacting our evolution? But, our species Evolution was since life began on earth, while his Christian Morality(?) is but 2000 years old, him falsely(?) implying the morals I have as an atheist have anything to do with that claim - I'd claim not!
This clip has 1987 in the title presumably suggesting this was aired that year however when talking about The Nation magazine Hitch states that it was started by 'a group of abolishionists in 1865' he then follows it up by saying that makes the magazine nearly 121 years old.... I suspect this clip was filmed at some point in 1986
It's funny seeing this because, 35 years on, it's even more a roleplaying exercise by an established repertory company, as he put it, for each network. There's far less mock disagreement. Jon Stewart pretty much put an end to Crossfire and The McLaughlin Group died with Mr. McLaughlin. But cable news remains an oxymoron. It's simply part of the entertainment industry delivering the illusion of informing the non-serious souls who'd prefer not to read.
Talk about "bien pensant"! Such is the rationalization of pushing out Palestinians by citing that Israel is only a tiny fraction of "Arab" lands; bad enough, but borderline racist, as if all Arabs are alike & owe them a welcoming. The continued West Bank settlement incusions isn't even a topic in this love-fest, though elsewhere Hitchens liked to burnish his contrarianism & wore the Kurdish flag lapel-pin, championing their right to a homeland.
Strange that these two were so obsessed with Islam at this time. They truly were waylaid by their support of the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq. Especially Amis. He was a great novelist before he turned his sights on the Middle East.
Generally an excellent discussion but a quite stunning level of ignorance about manic depression, or what we now call bipolar disorder. They are describing paranoia, which could co exist with it but is by no means the same thing.
I don't hate Dinesh because of his religious opinions. Lots of decent people disagree on the topic. The problem is that lying and misrepresentation are like breathing to him, and that I do not forgive. There's a reason most of his movies are under 10% on RottenTomatoes.
I’ve binge-watched Christopher Hitchens in the last 4 months. I was aware of him because of his books. Was fortunate to attend a debate he had with a Christian minister held at a community college in Ellisville, Mississippi. That was several decades ago. Wish he were still with us.
Oh to be able to listen to the thoughts and opinions of such well educated, intellectually advanced and honest people today. TV news and commentary illiterates how we as a civilization go backwards just as fast as we can go forward.
