Christopher Hitchens - [2007] - In Seattle discussing 'god is Not Great' 

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​@@daviddeidasad loser

WE are here to learn truthfulness-compassion-tolerance, not to be know-it-alls..............falundafa

I agree he was an amazing breath of fresh air

Christianity stinks

Yes.

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I'm just discovering him he was Great

@BruceStoufflet-yv3od 0 seconds ago Not the way you perceive God nor is it true by what others belief about God. Waiting time on what clearly is poor poor contradictive writing to be true or not is some old 2nd grade school yard BS. Any grown ups want to talk about an existence of togetherness instead of a animal higher arche existence killer! 7 million years folks still peeing on things.

he is a second coming...

Impressive and inimitable Hitchens forever!!!!

His name is Christopher.

I'm very late to Christopher Hitchins. In perspective, I found him through Richard Dawkins. I've never looked back. He has become the standard for me.

So you thank Hitch for being clueless like he was. He couldn't make it past creation, let alone what followed. The 1LofT states that energy can't be created or destroyed, it can't happen naturally. One aspect of the 2LofT shows that the universe is winding down, usable energy is becoming less usable. It is clear creation had to be done supernaturally at some point yet it is still denied because people are just too proud to accept that, among other things.

@@2fast2block Well we dont know what happened prior to the big bang because none of us was around. The 1LoT and the 2LoT dont apply. They cant apply if the universe as we know it didnt exist. The models of the Universe we have are only a way to explain what happened and to predict what might happen. So far the LoT are much better at predicting outcomes than is the bible. The LoT are also better at predicting the past or what we might find in the geological record. Extraordinary in 2023 that you dont seem to get this

You mean the questioner?

Nice of you to let the gentleman on the other side go before you. I think we would have been better off not hearing from him at all but very kind of you sir. Your question also got a passionate response from Hitch as well. I would have to say it would have been a highlight of my life as well.

you lucky sob,,,,,would love to have seen him live!

He supported the illegal Iraq war to find WMD.

Totally - he speed-bagged Turek, which was amusing.

good for you,,,for not taking any effort to hit the caps button when mentioning frank

Hitch was, in many ways, a one man show. I miss him terribly

Turek was in shambles in the debate I saw with Hitchens. He (Turek) was one angry man.

​ If you could make it that God does exist, would you?

ikr? i see comments just like this in every comment section . so many people admired this splendidly roguish brit. R.I.P.. -- ye shall be missed 😢

Ricky Gervais is a good continuation from this great man.

@@borninlismore Gervais is a twat. He is making money off getting offended. He should have stopped with the second series of Extras

I'm 95% with you, except for the Hitch flip to islamophobia and alliance with u$a's militarism, both of which can be traced to u$a's elites' deliberate tactic to connect kkkristianity and kkkapitalism.

WE are here to learn truthfulness-compassion-tolerance, not to be know-it-alls..............falundafa

Totally Agree :-)

Stevie is black on the outside and Hitchens black on the inside, better analogy. WE are here to learn truthfulness-compassion-tolerance, not to be know-it-alls..............falundafa

Please....Christopher, never Chris. Cheers.

Neil O'Matic Or Comrade Hitchens :P

Matthew Austin One of the silliest things that I've ever read. Thanks for the chuckle!

Not in any offense but I was hoping someone would beat me to correcting you on his behalf. If he heard that he would have immediately insisted you call him Christopher. When it came to a nickname or friendly short of his name I only recall him allowing "Hitch" & only from his close friends regardless of age, IIRC. Again, no offense. I actually only replied b/c I have a similar situation. I have a nickname given to me the exact day I came home after being born. My Sisters gave it to me. To this day, well into adulthood, it stuck & ZERO friends/family call me by my birth name but the nickname. Not my siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. Heck, my nieces & nephews never know my birth name until they turn about 10 or so & it blows their minds every time! A few still are too young to know, Ha. None had/has any idea my name was actually "Uncle Daniel" instead of "Uncle --". Anyway, I get why he corrected people so seriously & quickly in his life (those that called him Chris). I also choose who gets to call me by my nickname from infancy to this very day. When new people hear it & try to adopt it without my permission I immediately correct them. Not rudely but immediately & with the same insistence. In school or professional environments, its any form of Daniel (don't care which, kinda prefer Danny). When someone gets close enough I award then the right to call be by my nickname if they'd like, lol. Its odd but I know exactly how he felt when he corrected someone, insisting on Christopher. /end not a cool story, bro (ha)

Christopher Hitchens always said he "promised his mother" he wouldn't allow anyone to shorten his name that way.

Hard to believe he would be gone approx 4 yrs after this presentation

I try not to think about this scenario because it’s so depressing.

WE are here to learn truthfulness-compassion-tolerance, not to be know-it-alls..............falundafa

If you have not already, please see "Christopher Hitchens stand up". Amusing and precious!

@@bethh.9647 Brains, wit and humour indeed, he is/was the best.

If you could make it that God does exist, would you?

Sam and his jewish friend learnt religious meditation (vipassana) & non religious (Samatha) meditation from buddhist society.They didnt convert to buddhism, dude. They just learnt meditation

@@Kamisama77 His recent work is a work of filth, but the joke was made whether it went over your head or not.

To be fair he did say he started the book tour 6 months prior.He'll have fine tuned it by this😃

No, off the label of a bottle.

who was he supposed to be debating?

@@woodytheduke No debate. This was a book tour for promoting “God Is Not Great”. Although there was a Q&A session in the last half hour or so.

​@@deirdre108they said at the beginning it was supposed to be a debate but his opponent backed out "at the last minute". Who backed out? And what was edited out at 13 minutes about Falwell?

@@carmenmccauley585 I know in the local Seattle media there was an open invitation for a theist to debate Hitchens, but I don’t know who took the challenge and then backed out at the last moment. At the 13 minute mark, I think Hitchens said “matchbox “ referencing the fact that Jerry Falwell was so full of shit that whatever was left of him after the enema could be buried in a matchbox (or something of that size). Interesting that Hitchens said that in his tour of the south that he spoke in some relatively small venues, bookstores etc. I think the number at Seattle Town Hall was around 850. In essence, he was “preaching to the choir” here.

Converse

Then you watch paint dry?

​@jeffforsythe9514 are you stupid on purpose?

Wow well said, I think he would appreciate that 👍

sweetshaman agreed!

sweetshaman Hitchens was unique. We have his books and the RU-vid videos. We will have new champions of reason against the lunacy of religion. Let's embrace and support their fight against the forces of dorkness.

sweetshaman What did we learn from him, and that is what we must carried on for his remembrance. As I will express his and my opinion and thought about all of the repressing mind less religions controlling entity. The all thing is that we must tell everyone about.... REALITY. To live on the now, with out any after life promises, because that is the big problems of now days

sweetshaman I had hopes for Sam Harris, but he hasn't stepped up much. I really like Aron Ra and Matt Dillahunty, but they have yet to break out of a somewhat limited audience. I don't think people take Bill Nye seriously enough, and that might be Lawrence Krauss' problem as well. Neal DeGrasse Tyson doesn't want the job, and Richard Dawkins doesn't have the "vinegar," as Hitch would say. Sadly, there will simply never be another Christopher Hitchens.

+sweetshaman i look to sam harris now, but the media keeps fucking with him... but in a way, the media fucking with him makes me think he's actually taking care of business

efransophoto i thought the same thing

Yes indeed. I remember him pointing out, in one of his talks or books, how we would never allow the genital mutilation of children and young adults if it wasn't for religion... I can not even understand the mindset of the rabbis he talks to in some debates, when they start defending this disgusting act with the claim that it has no effect on the man's sensitivity and that it poses no threat whatsoever to the individual. This usually comes following the claim that religion gives us morals.

im glad im circumcised - actually its a fact that circumcision reduces std rates and infections etc according to the AMA-- plus every girl ive been with preferred cut guys atleast according to them- however im atheist and feel children should have the choice - otherwise I almost completely agree with hitchens on almost every point

I urge you to look with a more critical eye at whatever you think proves that circumcision reduces std rates. Remember the AMA belongs to a nation of circumcised men. If you compare data of cutting and non-cutting nations, non cutters have better genital health. \ /,, Thanks for the support of rights!

I'm perfectly fine with my wonderful foreskin-less penis.

And that's WONDERFUL for you. Some women are also fine with their labia-less vulvas. The point of course, is not to use who's fine or who's not as a decider of someone else's rights. Everyone has a right to their whole healthy body despite anyone else's opinions.

"If you are invited to debate with Christopher Hitchens, decline." -Richard Dawkins

​@@TheEternalOuroborosyes. Someone informed his opponent "at the last minute".

You'd adore me :)

Another arsehole who suffers an inferiority complex for anything British. Shit, too, stupid?

wow Lloyd, so hostile. Jealous much??! XD

then i must help you improve and tell you the difference between their and they're.

I am happy that this brave. eloquent person appeared in my home town of Seattle!...I have noticed though, that his on tour presentations are quite repetitive in content, right down to the jokes!...at least we get fresh perspective responses when he takes questions.

I agree, sort of. I think civility is overrated face-to-face, and underrated online.

THANK YOU!!!? It's edited out now and I couldn't figure out what he said.

It's actually a match box which is even funnier.

That’s not bad ,I’ve heard some folks he really dislikes could be buried in a match box !

He was the greatest orator of the last 100 years

WE are here to learn truthfulness-compassion-tolerance, not to be know-it-alls..............falundafa

Agreed. It is blasphemy to edit Hitchens.

What is most disconcerting about this fact is how it applies to all the people born well before Abraham or Christ. All of our ancestors are either in purgatory or in hell. Why? They had no access to this "divine revelation". An all powerful, all knowing and loving God sent everyone on Earth who wasn't a Jew to Hell or Purgatory all the way up to Christ's birth and then almost everyone after as well. He did this not because they were ignorant of his commandments, or that they were somehow inferior beings, he just didn't bother to use his unimaginable power to reveal his commandments to them. Instead he decided to talk through a person, who could only spread his word at the speed of a person, to other people who could only do the same. Ask yourself which is more likely, a person made up a story to back his moral philosophy and added in all the facts of the day to give it credit (many of those facts have been proven wrong, i.e. the sun going around the earth) OR the creator of the universe was uncaring or unable to spread his commandments to more than one person at a time.

Hashishin13 exactly But the sheer callousnous of christians & muslims dumping the rest of humanity - we are talking women, children, entire families - into hell! Their crime? Religion! Wow! And when the likes of ISIS or Hitler set apart people by religion, they call it evil But part of the blame lies with us as well - hindus, buddhists, atheists - why do we keep silent? Why dont we speak up?

Christopher said of Jerry Falwell family that they could give JERRY an enema and they would only have enough material to fill a matchbox. That would simply mean the rest is nothing but sh¡r.😂

@@divinewon73 or full of it

So, penis & pussy were censored, but not fuck. BITCHSLAP!

He thought we live on a "cooling planet, Baby" (1:01:10). Such obnoxious ignorance.

Q and A at these events is always torture. People have lost the ability to speak intelligently.

His ability to recall it all at a moments notice is doubly impressive