Christopher Hitchens - [2007] - 30th Annual Freedom From Religion Foundation Conference 

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.

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.

Critical thinking and scientific method should be mandatory in all high schools.

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.

Hitchens was truly one of our great minds and speakers. It's a shame cancer took him so soon.

This could well be the best speech I've ever heard. Hitch at full pitch.

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.

This is indeed one of his finest speeches. Another would be the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

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.

The last person to ask questions just got schooled.

The world and mankind is at a loss with the passing of mr.hitchens!!!youll be missed by all!!we lost a great man!!!

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!

Hitch. Even amongst atheists he confronts. He is great

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.

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

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 ❤

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.

So sad that this great man was taken from us at such a early age

I love his unapologetic nature. We need more and more like him.

1:11:50 begins the greatest Hitchslap ever.

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...

The end gave me chills! Wow! Love it!

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. :)

His last comments about islam really hits home in the current era.

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.

Miss you Christopher.

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.

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...

hitch accepted the challenge and defeated it with an appealing quality, that is what we are all watching in his videos

So relevant today. Faulty thinking got us in the state we're in now.

My favorite appearance of him.

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

The Rudy Ghouliani quote has aged like fine milk.

I wonder what Hitchens would say about Rusy Guilani now?

thank god for the song that starts the whole affair - "Nothing Fails Like Prayer"

Great musical intro by Dan Barker!

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

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! 😎

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.

I sure wish we had Hitch now, in the time of The Moron.

Legend.

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 ;) !!

Preaching to the converted, and on top form. This should be part of any curriculum of secondary education.

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.

1:05:33 - these are the moments I get the most power from this powerhouse, this man, this amazing man.

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.

Hitchens in the beginning asking if he already told the enema joke 😭. 23:44 56:50 1:04:55 1:07:52

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?

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 kind of like when he's just crude and direct. It's not that he ever conceals anything but he might put it more mildly. The fact that people, including myself, might be made slightly, or in some cases, extremely uncomfortable doesn't matter. The whole point is that you should be exposed to the reality of things and if not in person, then at least verbally. "This is what's going on" and the solution is unfortunately plain. There's a war going on between Jihad fundamentalism and Western society and they've chosen the conflict with us. The danger that underlies all of this is truly the end of liberated societies, nevermind the further progress that we're seeking, and it very much shows signs of this in our daily lives. Of course the situation can be handled/approached better or worse, but if there end up being poor decisions of this sort (which honestly knowing who's leading would've been inevitable), it isn't the concept that's to blame; that should be clear. Like with anything else we can observe domestically, the INCOMPETENCE of our representatives and officials are who are to blame. If our intelligence is in fact now ironically named that, the purpose/intent of intervention is misunderstood by them, and the targets are wrongly chosen, how is it that we don't call out the people behind the decisions and simply assert that they are the problem? The inverse is true of many domestic problems actually; we blame the people part of the bureaucracy instead of the decrepit systems themselves in which we partake. I'm a bit puzzled what goes behind this psychologically, because it's almost too perfectly backwards. Back on topic however, the point is, the problem isn't caused by us, but it can be made worse in some ways because of things being handled poorly. Saying otherwise, I would have to back everything Hitchens said on that point just as he said it. To put it my own way, this kind of naive moderation should be seen for the honestly wicked and suicidal mentality that it really is.

*Hitch is awesome*

I left the FFR after they gave that award to Cenk Uygur.

What happens at 1:03:00?

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?

Who was last speaker who seriously "Hitch Slapped?"

That one empty seat was actually reserved for God, but once again, God never showed up.

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.

14:50 Hitch comes on!

Why would an ex-Christian atheist ever want to re-convert to Christianity again???

I wonder how Hitch would feel about 2017-2020 Rudy Guilliani?

Wow, that voting for Rudy Giuliani comment did not age well.

I LIKE

Hitch starts 14:50

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"?

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.

What exactly did he mean by the reply at 56:20 - that during the Iraq invasion soldiers should've killed the clergy...? 🤔

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.

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????

I love free thinkers

it is interesting his comment about Giuliani and abandoning the kurds …. I wonder what he would say today if he were here.

lets welcome the old bag !!! hahaha classic hitchens

54:10 good lord man, take a deep breath

Horrible to hear him coughing through this. I wonder if he already knew he had cancer at this time?

Hitch starts speaking at 15:00 your welcome

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.

1:11:15 He looked like he was debating just walking off the fucking stage lmao

wish Hitchens was still alive!

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"?

ted haggard, jim baker, the fahwell family, how many can the believers tolerate

the last 2 questions and answers were the best Hitchslap I have ever heard

Talk about preaching to the choir! Wish I was in the front row! I mean front pew!

I've found out what dogma means. It means make up your own mind about things, don't listen to anyone else's thinking.

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.

Wow what a dude

Calendars become dated! Priceless! Annie Laurie Gaylor is natural comedian!

This is the greatest song ever!!! I think it was written by god, what a funny bastard. Gotta love.

He must have felt weird preaching to the choir in this particular instance.

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.

"did you tell the enema joke?" - Hitch lmfaooo

no more messiahs, liars, kingdom s and no more sires - tombstone da Deadman.

test on u-tube

Religion is different than the belief in god or gods.

1:00:35 Well,that has not aged well....

I love Christopher Hitchens but his endorsement of Rudy Giuliani for president has not aged well LMAO

1:00:13 “unreadable novels of Ayn Rand”…. I wonder what Hitchens had against her characters.

Hitch didnt want anyone to walk away from the Kurds... well sorry to say Mr Trump's cabinet has and Rudy Giuliani is a part (although unofficially) of that. Hitch would have been very disappointed with Mr Giuliani's conduct in the last years

imagine if he was around for the Charlottesville killing ...

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...

I felt like that about heaven as a kid I just thought it sounded absolutely shite...