Christopher Hitchens: The Fifth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture 

I remember in one of his latest interviews when his condition started to get worse when asked about cancer he stated " I have no doubt that eventually in the future this disease will be forced to yield to science and reason". A man that understood the notion "it's not about you" and faced his mortality with such logical fortitude and dignity like very few on this planet.

​@@johnioannou7578don't see it happening. Population control.

surely that isn't true, they mentioned that the 2010 election was that week, being in May, and he was diagnosed in June.

That is quite incredible. You would never guess, watching this.

That is not true. This was uploaded in May of 2010, and he found out he had cancer on June 8th.

? “More pertinent?”

Kinda missed the mark on the Christian Right having a “thin time of it” and the Catholic Church refusing the sacraments to politicians, though. But those can be the mistakes of optimism.

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The loser is dead awaiting his unpleasant judgment with God. Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically. --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at: Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us. Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/ www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe. Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it. We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God. Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis. God is the reason for us and all we have. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JiMqzN_YSXU.html The odds are NOT there. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W1_KEVaCyaA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yW9gawzZLsk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ddaqSutt5aw.html

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@@2fast2block you are the ultimate troll Salvation Army shipped you your trophy

@@Herandezbrothers Here's what happens when you give an empty person common science they can't contend with, they will completely ignore it and since they are inept human beings that don't care, they will think they have something clever to say that makes it look like they are not as shallow as they are, so this is what is considered a good scientific come back to all the science they were provided: Drumroll, please.... their science....."you are the ultimate troll Salvation Army shipped you your trophy" Yes, I'm serious. I'm not making this up. They are really that empty. They are really that STOOOO-PID!

@@2fast2block you’ve came to us with bible passages. Get the fuck out of here and GET REAL MAN. You should take yourself to a psych ward man

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Skepticism..... a wonderful thing... why are they wearing those strange white suits...maybe they are not? ..... No matter ...... I miss Hitch so badly.......

If he is to be consistent he should also apply the same skepticism to the Darwinian evolution a dogma so unquestioningly accepted, never held to scrutiny and of which no criticism is allowed in polite pseudo scientific circles. The mantra seems to be , it's a fact, shut up and don't question.

@@grahamrogers3345 why be skeptical about darwinian evolution when there is empirical evidence for it, i assume you are religious, so where is the empirical evidence for your god ? or do you just have faith? which by definition of believing without proof. i personally believe in the flying spaghetti monster who boiled for my sins, can you prove that my god does exist?

@@geofftisuzu4115 You should not assume anything. Evolution in the Darwinian sense is utterly impossible. Tell me what empirical evidence you mistakenly think there is for it. I can make a totally rational argument against Darwinism without at anytime invoking religion. We know for certain that living organisms change over time but there is zero evidence that less complex forms have evolved into more complex forms. It is widely accepted but false and all dissenting views are silenced. A bit like the covid scam. I challenge you to look again at the empirical evidence but actually I look at and am fully aware of the same evidence. It supports variation not Darwinian evolution. I strongly suggest that you actually start reading what some of the opponents of Darwinism write by going direct to the source instead of reading fallacious so called debunkings by ardent evolutionists.

AND HERE WE ARE TODAY. SEVERAL MILLION LOONS BELIEVE TRUMP IS STILL PRESIDENT.

It's been very interesting to see how much Hitchens' views have become closer and closer to Ayn Rand's over the years, thanks to his open-mindedness and commitment to rationality. This itself is a point she raised many times, including in _The Foutainhead_ and her non-fiction. Hitchens himself, like many others, very much misunderstood her views - partly due to her insistence on using words such as "selfishness", in a very different way from how anyone else uses them, and partly due to her cultist followers.

which we all asked 10 years ago...now after TRUMP we really should re-think that !

I think the answer to that is the current state of political commentary, I’m thinking types like Ben Shapiro and Destiny, are replacing the ‘classically well read’ with a more internet based body of knowledge. I like aesthetically (emotionally) the classically wise, with charm and wit like Hitch. But I don’t think that it’s essential for productive and progressive/enlightened discourse.

@@Fuzz_Face fair enough, but those two examples demonstrate the failure of the internet to functionally replace print media. They do not have the same kind of discourse as is on display with Hitchens here, etc. For them, debating is about winning, and putting down one’s “opponent” not about spreading knowledge and benefiting mankind. As much as Hitchens was a brutal debater, he seemed to be seeking truth through his discourse.

@@markmacdonald7955 Hi Mark, I would urge you to reconsider, although I consider Hitchens a great intellectual, putting him on a pedestal like that gives me the impression of needless heroism, which he himself (I would argue) probably would be against. You’re implying Hitch wasn’t about winning, the Hitch-slap is a perfect example of him defeating his opponents in a grand way (ie winning). There’s so much material on RU-vid where he’s just ‘destroying his opponents’ that it would be very silly to say that isn’t what he was good at and about. I’m wondering if you could explain why you think the new ‘internet warriors’ types fail, I’m very curious to your opinion.

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Ah, sweet serendipity! I just heard him say that quote at 7:45 as I was replying to your comment. Well then, it seems I have to disagree with someone who I am almost always in at least general agreement. Any time someone feels the need to start proselytizing on subjects of faith uninvitedly is a pretty good occasion to shut-it - but apparently I'm going to Hell, so there's that. Cheers!

@@DennisMoore664 Ha, I hear you. Cheers

Question everything, people without an agenda generally won't mind answering

I’m glad to hear him say that. Many times I thought, “I should have kept my mouth shut” when I took a stand which has cost me dearly. Now I will think, “no, I did the right thing. And I will NOT stop opening my mouth.”

Gotta know the "context" for which that statement is true...your girlfriend just left you, your boss has just fired you, can't make asian friends O_o. Lets face it smart, handsome, and successful people have credibility that us at the bottom don't have unless in certain contexts.

the hitch at his best.. intelligent and provocative with unbelievable depth of conversation. a great orator and thinker.

I’m reading Knife right now. If u like Rushdie I think ud like the book

"Attacking people is bad. Mmmm-kay?"

@@Marcin-pr2sz ok Wordsworth

When It happened before God Is Not Great came about from it. So one can only imagine what kind of force he would've became this time. Since it was agreed upon by his circle that once he set his sights on religion it was as if all his skills were refined.

Horrifying

He would have gone on every news channel and articulated with vengeance that the world needs to stand up for free speech while uniting against those who weaponize their wicked religiosity upon society. He would have called out by name every politician who would have predictably wiggled and squirmed to attach blame to Rushdie himself, as others once did in the past. A force, Hitch would have been. And it’s our collective loss not to hear it.

He was truly a master of the English language

Totally

You should watch an interview with him, I forget the name (it's with the CSpan guy whose show he was always on), but there he says that he found out on this day because he'd woken up feeling very ill in the morning and had to call an ambulance. He then went on to do the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and this event with Rushdie on this very day, knowing all the time what was going on. Now, he may have been diagnosed a month later, but whoever treated him this day told him to see an Oncologist, so this must be the day he found out for himself.

And in those last years he had stopped smoking--at least in public.

Bane www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/09/hitchens-201009/amp His initial hospital visit occurred in June, and it was a different appearance with Salman to promote his memoir than the one shown in this video.

What a loss to us all...what are we left with now, Peterson, Shapiro and Rogan? They're nowhere near this guy.

@@robertdore9592 Dawkins is still here, Harris is an outstanding thinker, Maher is good, Gervais maybe. But Hitch is still my favorite.

Exactly what I was thinking, in late 2023.

It isn’t back; it never went away. And it never went away because (most) people are stupid.

What a loser he was. Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically. --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at: Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us. Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/ www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe. Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it. We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God. Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis. God is the reason for us and all we have. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JiMqzN_YSXU.html The odds are NOT there. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W1_KEVaCyaA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yW9gawzZLsk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ddaqSutt5aw.html

htchen is amazing

@@2fast2block You show your ignorance of science with your every utterance about science.

@@karagi101 and this was your proof of that... (blank) Wow, so you give blank and I give science.

@@2fast2block “Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis”? There is no Law of biogenesis. The “law of biogenesis” is not science. It is attributed to Pasteur, from the 1850s, and it was his attempt to counter evolution and support creationism. It is religious propaganda, and it persists to this day only because creationists continue to parade it in public as part of their defense. There is absolutely no research or science to support it. Furthermore, research and experiments into deriving organic life from chemicals has been ongoing for many decades, and progress has been made. Scientists have created amino acids, the building blocks of protein which are in turn the building blocks of life, from controlled chemical reactions. Creationism is ancient Hebrew mythology that originated in the Stone Age. The “law of biogenesis” is truly nothing but a feeble attempt to update it for what was at the time the 19th century. Lipstick on a pig. Even if there was a god that created life it would mean that it was created from non-life, therefore breaking your so-called “law of biogenis”. LOL

Fuck man!!!

And censorship, and cancel culture, and "book" burning. ....and.....

Fake news has always been

@@Filioque_ Fascism and Corporatism absolutely depend on information control. Just like the Mafia

And would have despised Trump, if he had even thought about him. I think he did insult Trump once or twice. But who cares about a casino and boxing promoter?

He was a loser. Get over it. Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically. --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at: Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us. Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/ www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe. Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it. We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God. Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis. God is the reason for us and all we have. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JiMqzN_YSXU.html The odds are NOT there. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W1_KEVaCyaA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yW9gawzZLsk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ddaqSutt5aw.html

Yes most definitely And Alan Watts I believe

@Winston Smith How so ?

I'd say hes 3rd most intelligent only above Ringo...however far and away first in social activism

I wish they were both alive to describe the current events.

Hitchens was terrified of Scousers.

@Jazzkeyboardist1 apparently it escaped you that he was mocking the hypocrisy of the "moral majority" types...not the sexual aspect specifically. He was never an angel and didn't claim it. An acerbic critic more than anything else. Strange that you gravitated here to bash a dead man.

this relevant one year later

... How 'bout "so relevant" now... Such a pity!

Europe is starting to wake up..

Well said Andrea. I like your style 😀

Use mine. The past is a figment of imagination for neither does the past or the future exist. That is why there is no life before or after death, there is only an eternal life. - The Messiah.

So relevant. Who would you say has filled his position?

@@mikewilliams4947 Jimmy Dore

@@1pedalsteel374 ummmm. I listen to Jimmy but he ain’t no Christopher Hitchens :)

I live in Paris, I lost a friend at Bataclan, and I loved your comment. Thank you.

@Alice Eliot Sad, but you're absolutely right.

Salman was betrayed by the literary community when the Fatwa was on his head.

bla blabla....focus on the imortant issues Peter and you'll achive a lot

now cnn is lying and biden.

He’s quoting George Orwell. We collectively loved 1984 so much we decided to give it a go.

All you can do is read every book he refers to and never stand injustice

good idea! I am reading his Orwell book now. Will check outthe ones he mentions next

He was just a loser. Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically. --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at: Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us. Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/ www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe. Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it. We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God. Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis. God is the reason for us and all we have. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JiMqzN_YSXU.html The odds are NOT there. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W1_KEVaCyaA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yW9gawzZLsk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ddaqSutt5aw.html

BRILLIANT innovation thinking from hich an Salman before our time! unforgettable....

Covid jabs. Blackmail. Jabs for freedoms. GET IT?.

@@thegroove2000 Every freedom comes at a cost. Those freest are willing to pay those costs. Those unwilling to pay them often push the cost onto others. I would caution you to look into what happens to the overflow patients in states that did a poor job at encouraging their citizens to take precautions and, if they are willing, get vaccinated. It's exactly what one would think. Those patients are transferred to hospitals in neighboring states where the COVID surge is not as great. Also, because ERs are so packed during surges, the overflows from ERs in affected states also bleed over to their neighbors. So here we have a question. If those patients cannot or will not pay their bill, who foots that cost? The EMTALA of 1986 means that a lot of the initial cost is paid for by the hospitals and the ER docs since EMTALA has no funding component. Platitudes and saying have their place. They can be used to generalize otherwise complex issues, but you can only take it so far before you need to re-assess.

@@SandyRiverBlue You asserted I "would caution you to look into what happens to the overflow patients in states that did a poor job at encouraging their citizens to take precautions and, if they are willing, get vaccinated". According to who and what evidence?.

@@thegroove2000 You are aware that morbidity and mortality statistics are a thing, right? You know what? Forget it. I'll leave it at this. You can continue to vomit nonsense into the void, I'm not biting.

@@SandyRiverBlue Have you not examined the statistics to see if they are based on actual facts not assumptions? Do you accept anything that you are told on the TV without thinking?.

shut up you idiot

You left out the part where Pres. Bush promised to help them and then abandoned over 5000 to a torturous death via "Chemical Ali"

I'm proud of anyone supports the Kurd's.

@@bokononbokomaru8156 and where Trump Abandoned the Kurd's just last year - this being Oct 11, damn near to the day! Happy anniversary!

Those who hate wit, intelligence, reason, humanism or those who are simply jealous of the great man himself. But don't worry - history is on our side.

@@douglasmilton2805 Oh, yuck.

@@bobobandy9382 There’s an intelligent,right-minded rebuttal… 🙄

I thought about the Raif Badawi campaign

Not true. He learned he had cancer one month later but went on to appear with Rushdie at a 92nd St. Y event that night. Courage.

Yes and religious belief has no genetic trait so rubbishing religion is not racist , its just another lie from religion because it has no defence against the truth.

@uncletigger I will bet with tag like that your catholic priest bye the name of cardinal pell.

This was about ISLAM not the other 2, so why bring it up?

@@bryanbradley6871it wasn’t just about Islam. They both made hits ( deserved) on christianity.

Fatwa!

Not to mention they would capture and kill all perceived opponents to their desired dictator.

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