Christopher Hitchens -- Religion

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Christopher Hitchens gives a talk in Canada on Free Speech in November 2006. This is the end of the twenty minute speech originally from One Good Move:



Hitchens is right that religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

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Uploaded: March 15, 2007 at 8:29 am
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gamesbok (September 7, 2008 at 5:53 pm)
But it's all in the Bible, and the Bible is God's word. The Bible is a wonderful book.

Most talking snake books are pretty good.
mdelcamp1 (September 7, 2008 at 2:06 am)
Oh, I would have to disagree with Christopher Hitchens. Reading a book, even a religious book, is generally speaking, to be encouraged as a form of human cultural continuity and enlightenment, not a deplorable activity. Citing passages? Okay by me. The anti-homosexual construals are usually misconstrued. The Bible was condemning INHOSPITALITY - which is THE ANCIENT VIRTUE before New Testament Love and Compassion became the cultural standard. Monotheism: Same God in Three Contemporary Religions.
illiad22 (September 4, 2008 at 6:26 am)
religion is holy business as a matter of fact they dont paid taxes. yawweh is for those who are only israelites. why dont we make our own god, our own religion.
SilverRedIndigo (September 4, 2008 at 3:51 am)
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Re: Large Hadron Collider - The Search For The Higgs

The building and testing of the Hadron Collider is the madness that science comes to without reverent awe for life and existence.

Peter Kropotkin was not a religious man by any means. But he loved Humanity and reverenced life. So, his approach to science as described in FIELDS, FACTORIES & WORKSHOPS was spot on.

I am not a Luddist or a Primitivist. But without wisdom science comes to delerium.

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hiwattman (September 4, 2008 at 12:58 am)
I am god. kneel before me. BTW I need money (dont ask), I'm passing the collection plate around now. Remember, I am god.

There's zero point in argueing with the faithful as they are blinded by dogma, it's like talking an addict out of his/her situation, pointless. Just concentrate in keeping them out of politics and out of schools and away from the young. That's where they become dangerous.
bonangusacdc (September 4, 2008 at 12:32 am)
I can't fathom whether some of the posts below are meant in jest or serious.

If people believe the Bible is the word of God they should seek help. The tenth commandment is the best. As if a perfect all knowing being would be interest in your neighbour's ass/donkey! It's such a joke.

The Bible was written by men to further a particular political, social and economic agenda. If you believe otherwise you are wasting a great deal of your life and the church is laughing at you.
dojohansen123 (September 4, 2008 at 12:39 am)
I think that is a big part of it, but so is people's propensity for wishful thinking. Many believers are honest and genuine as far as their *intentions* are concerned. Even those who don't know what the doctrine they proclaim to believe in actually says still *think* they believe in it! In some ways the "social glue" religion has provided may even have been a good thing, at some times, in some places. But in the modern globalizing world, we're clearly better off without absolute beliefs.
jspeaker1 (September 4, 2008 at 12:16 am)
The Bible is God's science to contradict men.
dojohansen123 (September 4, 2008 at 12:19 am)
You just lack faith.
jspeaker1 (September 4, 2008 at 12:21 am)
God was being nice by letting us know that Jesus Christ is the only way to dodge the pits;)