Christopher Hitchens interview on "God is Not Great" (2007) 

Yeah this guy can’t shut up.

I just said that very thing to myself out loud. Fucking irritating.

Guests, no problem. The great Christopher Hitchens? It was very frustrating, even though these two had a long relationship.

It’s unreal… It’s like he’s got some kind of compulsion

It seems pointless to have a guest if one won't let him/her speak.

Even with the interruptions its still worth the watch.

Charlie Rose as an interviewer has done more significant work in his career than Christopher Hitchens wouldve done in multiple lifetimes

@@adamwallace7638how is that relevant to his conduct in this interview, which is the premise of the comment you’ve replied to?

If Hitchens could talk from Hell he'd probably say he was sorry for influencing you.

@@johnbrowne3950 He influenced millions and will continue to do so for many years to come. At least until your superstition is finally relegated to the fringes of society. It has already begun its slow but irreversible death march. Can you feel it? I kick it in the ass every chance I get.

@@johnbrowne3950 yeah right lol

Agreed, he taught me a lot about thinking as opposed to what to think. It's a shame the vacuum he left behind in his death has never been filled.

@@johnbrowne3950 I don't believe there is such a place as hell, how and why do you believe that there is ? Tell me what I don't know.

USA has lost all the wars since WWII

How stoner and unprophetic and mediocre are his words... He is not God. Social Media is a cult not sacred at all

As much as I dislike Charlie Rose for a variety of reasons, one of which was he way he always interrupted and talked over people, he did at least ask good questions most of the time that required some substantive answers.

Destroyed by his own sexual deviance. Hooray

Thank you! Exactly, talking over Christopher Hitchens even just to end his sentences seemingly to show he knows something. I wanted the "interviewer" to just shut the hell up so badly that I couldn't finish this crap interview.

@@philipkilmer790 Rose talked over Hitchens because as smart as he was he still needed to be fact checked.

I never liked charlie rose, he likes to dominate and I have the distinct feeling he's exactly the same in his private life.

Yes there would be so much material for him to discuss now in 2022.

Why is a guy who died ( like us all ) a great loss - ? - did YOU think he was going to live forever ?

@@liamkilkenny8454 Where in my comment did I state that I thought he was going to live forever?

@@patcomerford5596 you said he was a great loss - to who??? What are you going to do now - after your huge personal loss ? - are you going to change your mind - or are you going to be a huge loss to someone else ? - and all here losses are going to mount up ! - and all is left is a mountain of losses !!

@@liamkilkenny8454 Read again and your first question will be answered. All living naturally involves loss and depending on our personal values and beliefs some are insignificant and others are 'great'. I also experience the great joys of life. But I keep going engaging in living until I die. I do not have a mountain of losses, you are being presumptuous.

If you are limiting your understanding to that of Mr Hitchens, then maybe it's time to look deeper into the miracle of life. NDE experiences (You Tube) might be a good starting point.

Christopher was wrong

Nice word, apoleptic

He would have detested biden for abandoning afghanistan to the taliban and our kurdish allies in syria. Which will come back to make us in ass. Let there be no doubt about it.

What was great about him ? What’s his legacy - except nothingness- nothing left only a recording of his hopeless future for mankind ? ! - go for it - he’s a first invitee for every party 🎉 of human expression and enjoyment - a must person to lift up the human spirit of a future beyond our mere earthly experience ! What a depressing mixture of a human chemical being !

Hitchens argument that all religions are man made is compelling. He shows that the idea of a personal God who watches over everything is ridiculous. The idea of a personal God may be comforting but it is not real.

Yeah! The whole time, I was thinking that this interviewer is terrible! Stop talking so much!

Absolutely right. Preempts, steps on and/or interrupts Christopher so often, cutting off Christopher's sentences and answers before he can finish a thought.

Rose always thought that he was himself so brilliant that viewers wanted to hear him.

Charlie Rose did that to almost everyone. Not just Hitchens.

He knows Hitchens and is questioning to get more information not interrupting!

I guarantee that he would not like trump

@@woodytheduke compared to who? Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden? Usually politics is a choice between the bad guy, and the REALLY bad guy. Do you think he would of picked one of them instead?

@@jimmyaguilar4103 probably not Hillary,,,did not like the Clintons at all,,,,but at the very least they had some experience and they could hold a conversation. Hitchens does not care for idiots either though

hitchens would be a trans woke crt in favor of censorship and pro abortion although he was pro life but more so he would cater to the left grifting for fame

Me too

What is secular Buddhism????? 😮😮😮😮

Maybe you can buy a small statue from your local market, as a substitute ? Probably just as effective !

@@electricmanist I'll have yours instead. Send it to me care of Jesus. How's that?

@@user-zx4cp6kz4b I'm afraid your EMail makes little sense in its present form. Perhaps if you re-word your Email. I will be able to send an appropriate reply.

There are more speculative fools with university degrees than you have fingers and toes!

I'm extremely happy he saw the destructive nature of religion, especially Catholicism. Imagine how insufferable he would have been, if he were more like his brother. At least you got 1 Hitchens on your side. The far weaker one, but it's something I guess

what do you mean by bitter irish catholic? do you mean ex catholic?

Sir, I share your sentiment about his early passing. I think you should be informed though that he detested being called "Chris". His name is Christopher.

To be fair he smoked himself to death so call it suicide

What Catholic is not bitter ,or thinks he is Irish. Peace is always, just out of reach , because of someone else.

Yes totally Unbelievable!!!👹

@Generic Name Oh what a spurious statement. Those who understand the spiritual nature of all being, appreciate and acknowledge the true nature of all which exists. Certainly (some) religions have used misused spiritual guidance by replacing it with political control of one sort or another. But don't be beguiled, because the true spiritual nature of all that is , is far beyond political one upman-ship or games. True spiritual awareness (not necessarily religions) enable one to see (be aware of) the true purpose of human existence, Facile comments relating to brains and religions indicate a complete lack of understanding of the purpose of life.--- including your own.

@Generic Name Well you do appear to have rambled on a bit - ranging from a defense of Mr C Hitchins, then to all points downward, ranging from Darwinian theories to Spiritualism. So maybe you can appreciate that it's difficult for me to follow through any cogent points you wish to make regarding any purpose to life. However, in your sweeping (one size fits all it seems) condemnation of NDE (Near Death Experiences), nowhere can I find any personal experience(s) of this phenomena. So on the face of it, you are way above your head by trying to minimize the reality of these experiences-- not to mention the truths/understandings contained within them. It is one thing to disagree with the validity of the NDE experiences, but unless you can offer any other explanation for these events, then your objections (such as they are) are no more than opinions-- which seem to be based upon lack of knowledge and personal experience. The use of "famous names" to support your point of view, doesn't really amount to very much.

@Generic Name Forgive me if I have mis-interpreted your EMail, but it appears that you reject any recollections of NDE's (Near Death Experiences). One would normally expect that any valid/ worthwhile comments on this matter, would come from those (people) who have personally experienced a NDE.rather than any theorist. Great thinkers or philosophers etc might well have commented on matters pertaining to life and death, but often that amounts to little more than say (for example) a garbage collector commenting upon the principles of astro-physics; --in other words it is vital that personal experience/understanding rather than 'off the shelf' intellectual theories, are really what matters. Unfortunately we live in a society in which the name or social standing of a personage is accepted rather than any personal experience (or spiritual understanding) they might have had. Yes, the world has its quota of charlatans, not to mention drug takers and others of the "listen to me I know everything " ilk. They are 'two a penny' as you well know. Those who are unable to accept that consciousness exists on many levels (say life and after life existence) , usually do so either by reason of a lack of understanding, intellectual prejudice or by reason of not personally having experienced A NDE. It might be preferably to heed the actual accounts of those who have experienced a NDE, rather than all the renown theorists who can do little more than that they are known for;-- theorize. You Tube has many personal accounts of people who have personally (and actually) experienced a NDE.

I'm so sick of the comments: "Oh the host won't let him talk blah blah blah". It's a damn conversation you sycophants.

@@JMT1985MO that’s what you would think if that’s the way you thought.

@@JMT1985MO The funny part is that its not like there's a shortage of interviews. If I want to let someone speak endlessly, I'll watch random interviews with whoever, good interviewers create great conversations.

wow you fucked that one up

@@chrispywilliams1992 Crispin Hutchinson will never be forgotten.

@@jameshogan6142 that's better.

Colin hughes was amazing

@@markcreitzman8728 too far. You ruined it

Me too, bud.

Hicthens is a leftist who's critical of the democratic party, no bigger threat to a hollywood liberal.

Charlie asked because Iraq was in the news then and Hitchens had been doing reportage there.

Religion survives because man cannot accept death is final.

Or you know we're factually a product of a supernatural event/aka creation of the universe as we know it. We have a supernatural creator, you can't really debate that. Simple concept causation, everything had to come from something, we're a product of a super natural creator. An entity that literally created everything from nothing. I'm not saying whatever that was is a christian god, but it is well beyond your frame of reference. To pretend religion is based on irrational fear alone is absurd. You're simply scared of the idea that something you can't explain has a certain kind of power over you, even if it is simply a clockmaker god.

@@randyr1952 Clearly you have little understanding of the purpose of life. Life is a physical experience via which the individual spirit learns the essence of the creative force, which is Love.

Conventional religions might well embody some forms of (humanistic) control within their ethos, but that is not a sufficient reason to dismiss the wonder/creation of all that is, as nothing more than some secular 'game'.

@@randyr1952 Since (presumably) you have not yet died, you do not realize that death is not final.

Specifically his pro-life arguments

So if this man has 'gone', gone where ? Into meaningless or emptiness,, without any purpose ? If one follows Hitchen's arguments, then one has to accept/believe the meaningless not only of his existence, but ipso facto, all that he thought, said, or believed. In essence his very existence and the universe itself.. A bit of a waste of time if you think that way, about it. Alternatively, life itself has creative meaning, as does all matter, from an atom, to the amazing universe. You choose.-- meaningless accident or purposeful (spiritual) design/intent.

@@electricmanist The universe doesn't care if you live or die our sun will roast our descendants fully. Just because it makes you sad people can't exist in an imaginary virgin lala land doesn't mean anyone should waste time thinking its real.

@@captainzappbrannagan It would appear that you don't realize that the same force (energy) which created the universe, also created you-- not to mention all that is, such as other celestial planets/universes. Now if you think that all the energy demonstrated/manifest throughout the entire universe, originated, and maintained, from moment to moment originated from nowhere, you have a strange concept of physics. Remember--Nothing means nothing--not even space. let alone any form of matter--- yet every atom of matter, (even that which we call space) at its heart, is maintained/created and perpetuated by energy. Energy remains a constant, no matter what form it takes. (manifests). Yet it would appear that you think all this energy came,---comes--- and will continue to exist, from nowhere, all by itself. Well well !! You need to wake up and consider that energy is the essential factor inherent and maintaining, all that exists. For want of a greater awareness/understanding, many choose to describe this (creative !) constant intelligent energy, as God.

@@electricmanist lady you just pulled a creator out of your but. the universe's energy is eternal. No gods needed. end of story.

@@captainzappbrannagan It seems that you are another of the 'everything came from nothing' brigade. All by itself ! No creative mind (God), and all the power and laws (yes LAWS remember) which continually govern all matter, from atomic particles to galaxies etc, came from nothing too ! Well well. Amazing ! It seems all you need is a magician's top hat and black cape, and voila ! bacteria, viruses, and all forms of life on earth (not to mention the wider universe), pop out seemingly from nowhere too. By the way, what is the source of your 'universal eternal energy' ? Is that in the magician's hat also ?? Even a brief study of atomic physics would reveal to you, that all that is , (everything) is ENERGY !!! Intelligent creative energy !

And what a grating voice!!

A great insight! Thanks for highlighting this. The funny thing, though, is that Hitchens had a most musical prose style. One of the things that set him apart from the rest was that his prose sang. In fact, he himself narrated the audio version of "God Is Not Great", and I can tell you that it was the thing that sold me on his writing. Beautiful.

Sunni, genius

Democrats wouldn’t be spared either.

@@e.g.7612 oh 100%. But if yr a chris fan & being honest with yourself, it’s the Republican Party he’d have more issue with. Republicans aren’t even republicans atm.

@@mopnem well, he also was hesitant to answer questions about “what would X think if he were alive today?”. In countless interviews and lectures he demurred on such questions (whether about Orwell or TJ). In that vain, I will not venture to say against which party he would be more polemic. I’ll only say that he would have plenty to choose from against both

@@e.g.7612 yeah, def was thinking about the Orwellian nature of the left, he def would have something to say about that, good point.

not a bad idea Mr.Hussein😎

Why do you think that is?

It *seems* obvious doesn’t it. Yet the idea that there should be any society that is built not around the ideas of the enlightenment that all people are equal and deserve the dignity of a societal structure that reenforces that, but rather the authoritarian control of religious zealots is simply bigotry with the facade of understanding. If you truly believe in individual liberty how can you possibly believe in leaving totalitarian regimes in power? Unless, of course, you are at heart authoritarian and subscribe to the belief that the people of the region deserve to live in the conditions they do because they’re crazed religious based society is somehow equal to the society changed by the enlightenment when the only education in some of these areas is their book of nonsense about an illiterate merchant that spoke to god. Also, if I were you I would look into the history of Democratic movements in the Middle East. It’s not my job to educate you but I think you would be surprised.

@@seth210 the problem with your argument is that you will be policing the world and will be constantly in war. There is no end to it.

@@chokin78 how pessimistic we get when a few wars go sour.

Do you just want to let China or Russia bulldoze their way into that region? Authoritarian States are better huh? Theocratic States are better huh?

Another supporter of Kurdish genocide. Only our biggest ally in the middle east besides Israel. Cheney's sins do not forgive Saddam's.

Only to those that choose to ignore the obvious.

Or maybe he's done his research.

He died wealthy, and made exceptionally good points. What is your point?

Maybe he got lost in the realms of speculative supposition.