Hitchens and Fry vs Ann Widdecombe on the Ten Commandments

Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry talks with the horrible Catholic Ann Widdecombe

February 7, 2010 on Channel 4 from the documentary series "The Bible: A History"

Hardball: Christopher Hitchens vs Ken Blackwell on the US Being a Christian Nation

From Hardball April 8, 2009.

Hitchens: Properly Going Off Script

Hitchens doing what he does best.

Hitchens vs. Hitchens on religion debate

Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens debate the Iraq War and religion at an event organized by the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies with the support of the Center for Inquiry and the Interfaith Dialogue Association.

Go to their official page for the full debate.

Why Does God Matter?

Why does god matter? Christopher Hitchens explains why the concept of gods is important.

Christopher Hitchens (The Amazing Meeting 3)

Great speech by Christopher Hitchens from The Amazing Meeting 3 in Las Vegas

Christopher Hitchens talks Jesus, the bible, religions, etc.

Intelligence Squared - We would be better off without religion

The panel discuss the pros and cons of religion, and pose the question: would the world be better off without it?

Proposing the motion are Christopher Hitchens, Professor Richard Dawkins, and Anthony Grayling. Christopher Hitchens begins by making the case for religion being at the root of many conflicts that have shaped the 20th-21st century world, citing the current situations in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland. Here, it has been intra-faith disputes that have caused or aggravated the conflicts and slowed political and social progress. Professor Richard Dawkins focuses his support for the motion on the blind faith that leads even intelligent people to deny key scientific principles, citing many American students' opposition to the theory of evolution as an example. Anthony Grayling illustrates how the Bible's view of what constitutes a good person is at odds with the modern Western view of what constitutes a good person, arguing that it is possible to appreciate the natural world and feel such emotions as empathy, sympathy, and love without holding religious views.

Opposing the motion are Dr Nigel Spivey, Roger Scruton, and Rabbi Julia Neuberger. The case against the motion is mainly focussed on religion being a force for good in the world - a force that empowers people spiritually and seeks to provide answers to humankind's purpose and position on earth. Dr Nigel Spivey opens the opposition by offering an archaeological and anthropological perspective. Pointing to the "Creative Explosion" of 40,000 years ago, he suggests that religion is a concept that is part of the human nature, and that a world without religion would be one without such fruits of human creativity as Venice, the Taj Mahal and King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. Rabbi Julia Neuberger argues that whilst atheism preaches certainty and disrespect of other religions, religion preaches uncertainty and tolerance. She suggests that it is certainty and conviction – not religion – that produced the Crusades, fascism, and Jewish, Christian, and Islamic fundamentalism. Roger Scruton argues that rejecting religion on some of its irrational principles does not make sense, and that science is just as capable of producing disasters as religion is. Religion, he says, offers help to people who are affected by man-made or natural disasters, and provides "why" answers – the reason why things happen and what life is for –whilst science can only provides causal explanations.

First Vote: 826 For, 681 Against, 364 Don’t Know

Final Vote: 1205 For, 778 Against, 103 Don’t Know

Atheists vs The Catholics - Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world?

The Intelligence Squared Debate - Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry
Aired 11-7-09 on BBC World

Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world? "It stands up for the oppressed and offers spiritual succour to billions say the Church's supporters. But what about the Church's teachings on condoms, gays and women priests, ask the detractors." Speaking for the motion, Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Ann Widdecombe MP. Speaking against the motion, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry.

Frank Turek vs. Christopher Hitchens: What Best Explains Reality: Theism or Atheism?

Filmed at The College of New Jersey, Frank Turek and Christopher Hitchens meet again in their second debate to give their arguments for what best explains reality.

Frank Turek vs. Christopher Hitchens: What Best Explains Reality: Theism or Atheism? from Andrew Ketchum on Vimeo.

Hitchens, Dawkins and A.C. Grayling vs. 3 Religious Authorities

Hitchens, Dawkins and philosopher A.C. Grayling debate a trio of religious authorities.

Christopher Hitchens on Rev. Jerry Falwell's death

Christopher Hitchens on the Anderson Cooper 360 show talking about Reverend Jerry Falwell and his death of the previous day. Recorded on 15-May-2007.



Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth, England) is an Anglo-American author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Nation, Slate and Free Inquiry; additionally, he is an occasional contributor to other publications and has appeared regularly in the Wall Street Journal. His brother is British journalist Peter Hitchens.

Hitchens is known for his iconoclasm, anti-clericalism, atheism, antitheism, anti-fascism and anti-monarchism. He is also noted for his acerbic wit and his noisy departure from the Anglo-American political left. He was formerly a Trotskyist and a fixture in the left wing publications of Britain and America. But a series of disagreements beginning in the early 1990s led to his resignation from The Nation shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks. He is also known for his ardent admiration of George Orwell and Thomas Jefferson, and his iconoclastic criticism of Mother Teresa.

While Hitchens' idiosyncratic ideas and positions preclude easy classification, he is a vociferous critic of what he describes as "fascism with an Islamic face," and his critics have been known to describe him as a "neoconservative". Hitchens, however, refuses to embrace this designation. In 2004, Hitchens stated that neoconservative support for US intervention in Bosnia and Iraq convinced him that he was "on the same side as the neo-conservatives" when it came to contemporary foreign policy issues. He has also been known to refer to his association with "temporary neocon allies".

Hitchens no longer considers himself a Trotskyist or a socialist; yet he maintains that his political views have not changed significantly. He points out that, throughout his career, he has been both an atheist and an antitheist, and that he has always remained a believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism, humanism and reason. Hitchens has launched a detailed attack on Religion in his book god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. He has also stated that, while he "was very much in rebellion against the state" during his youth, he is now "much more inclined to stress... issues of individual liberty."

Hitchens became a United States citizen on his fifty-eighth birthday, April 13, 2007.

Hitchens: Religion is infantile (pray to a wall via proxy from $2/day)

Hitchens absolutely mopped the floor with rabbi Wolpe. Hitchens was landing haymaker after haymaker, while Wolpe retreated to many tired old atheism myths and claims about the origin of morality. Wolpe didnt put up much of a fight. In fact, he nearly conceded that God and religion are man-made SEVERAL times, and Hitchens had to encourage him to take back his words on more than one occasion.



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Israel Post delivers `letters to God` to Jerusalem's Western Wall
"Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitz said prayers of people all over the world ascend through this holy place. He added that he hopes God grants all of the requests.

Christopher Hitchens: No reason to think there is a god

Christopher Hitchens No reason to think there is a god and why were lucky none of the mythology is true.

Christopher Hitchens Rules!

A compilation of Hitchens being Hitchens. Brutally honest, ballsy, abrasive, eloquent, and shnookered up!

Hitchens vs Tharoor - Freedoms of Speech -

Christopher Hitchens and Shashi Tharoor, chaired by Joan Bakewell Vigorous late-night debate around the Danish cartoons, David Irving, and contrarian culture. Tharoor is Under-Secretary General for Communications at the UN and a novelist.

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Hitchens Demolishes Sharpton in Debate on Morality

Hitchens completely destroys Sharpton in a debate.

Christopher Hitchens vs Frank Turek - VCU -

One of the many problems with the religious, and indeed of the religious, has been its image and self-image as something rather solemn, manly, polychrome, and righteous. How many times have we heard the descriptions of our current situation wrought with end of days language as though the dominant deserve salvation and the weak things of the earth deserve the least of these?

Hitchens: Why fight religion?

Christopher Hitchens last words in the debate with Turek, answering a question from the audience.

Moral Superiority Of Atheism - Christopher Hitchens' Ethics Challenge

Moral Superiority Of Atheism - Christopher Hitchens' Ethics Challenge.

Why does god matter? Christopher Hitchens explains why atheists are more moral than religious fundamentalists.

Many Christians will maintain they have a superior foundation for knowing and for choosing to do what is good. They claim to have objective ethical standards for being good, based in a morally good creator god, and that the atheist has no ultimate justification for being moral.