In my opinion, amongst other top atheists, in so interesting. Never tire of listening to his debates on RU-vid. His legacy lingers on, Thankfully, cheers SBM.
@@JoHn-if6wyHe Was Absolutely One Of The Top 3 Sharpest Minds Of His Time. The Fact That Questionable Minds Demean Themselves By Disagreeing Is Meaningless. Attempting To Reduce Christopher Hitchens By Calling Him Angry, Drunken, And Afflicted With Cancer Are Marks Of A Clueless, Arrogant Doofus ... Probably An Albino Dwarf.
The Hitch was masterful at getting his religious opponents to express their childish make-believe with maximum detail, so we get to observe the entire animal.
I would and I wouldn't like to hear both sides. Firstly to observe how ridiculous Religion is in light of its claims of knowing finsl truth and secondly in light of Science never ceasing in its quest of truth.
If I were a _true believer_ in any religious doctrine, why then pray for the better. Praying is the ultimate expression of mistrust and disbelieve into what this so called _magnificent god_ has set up and decided for you.
@@James-ns3ziHe didn’t say Gods or goddesses don’t exist but that there is no evidence for them. His argument is that there is no reason to believe they do exist.
Comrade 🎉 I have many friends across the world;; some I would say are stupid or sllly. This is because I was in the RAF for 28 yrs. We are all suffering from PTSD to one degree or other. I've been Capt Jester Moon of The Wizard of Silly. (Shameless advert coming up...) My new podcast beginning 1st November 2024. Facebook page is funny or not however; we All start and, we All die in The End. Just don't put it about, you will see 😎 Stay Safe Stay Free worldwide x peace and love etc No gods seen in my foxhole for 42 yrs. As a Jewish Atheist I find the hole thing is made up. I think you are right🎉😂
How does anyone manage the psychological process of believing in supernatural phenomena? No one has ever been able to talk me through how to do it. They just expected me to somehow get on and do it. I can swim, ride a bike, do long division, bake a cake, write a poem, and i got guidance on all of these challenges, but how to 'believe' in supernatural religious beings? - no. I'm 71 years old and still in the dark on how its done. Reality is clearly already full to the very brim being itself, how am I supposed to invoke or conjure an angel or a devil and somehow insert it in here. Trying to do so would mean breaking the infinite miniscus of the continuous moment which we all dodge about in. I just cannot see how believers manage to do it. By the way, i was reared in Northern Ireland, where believing in supernatural religious phenomena was freighted with other dangerous layers of meaning.
Yes, Christopher has it right. It is clear, and there are reams of evidence throughout multiple branches of biological science, how ‘Social Behavior’ in wide numbers of higher species is to a greater or lesser extent an evolutionary adaptation that helps the survival of the group, and thus the individuals. Acts of clear altruism, where demonstration of care for others, cooperation, pack behavior, generosity, self-sacrifice, and even forward-thinking, demonstrate values that seem innate to the majority within that species. From this reality it can be determined how our tendency towards moral behavior is an inherited evolutionary adaptation that we’ve discovered improves our chances for survival. On top of this is our rational analysis of how a structured and regulated society allows us to function better than a society built on chaotic anarchy would provide. This doesn’t mean there aren’t many among us who try to push the limits of moral and ethical behavior for their own benefit. Some of this anti-social behavior can be attributed to poor environmental influences, and various degrees of mental illness, such as psychotic behavior. People have free will to choose their behavior. It's clear how so many Christians do what The Church has done for centuries - deny the reality that science is our only method that actually searches for evidence that reveals 'truth'. Faith is by definition - a CHOICE to believe in that which there isn't sufficient evidence to claim is 'fact'. (Otherwise it would not be called 'faith' but instead 'fact', which it clearly cannot do...) I get tired of religious proponents claiming to have 'the truth' because their faith tells them so, and all the evidence from the natural world points to completely different answers...
