Christopher Hitchens wields the hammer of reason on the glass house of religion. One of Hitchens most basic yet devastating critiques of religion.
“…the final insult that relgion does to our system:
It appeals both to our meanness, our self-centeredness, our solipsism, and to our masochism. In other words, its sadomasochistic. Put it like this, your a clot of blood, your a piece of mud, your lucky to be alive, God fashioned you for his convenience and then your born in filth and sin. And even though every religion thats principially ever been, says we should be disgusted by our own sexuality (name me a religion that does not play on that fact). So your lucky to be here, originally sinful, covered in shame and filth as you are, your a wretched creature, BUT, take heart, the universe is designed with you in mind. And heaven has a plan for you.
Ladies and gentleman, I close by saying, I can’t believe there is a thinking person here, who does not realize, that our species would begin to grow to something like its full height if it left it’s childishness behind. If it emancipated itself from this sinister, childish nonsense. ”
“Of the other bodies in our solar in our own solar system alone, the rest are all either far too cold to support anything recognizable as life, or far too hot. The same, as it happens, is true of own blue and rounded planetary home, where heat contends with cold to make large tracts of it into useless wasteland, and where we have come to learn that we live, and have always lived, on a climatic knife edge. Meanwhile, the sun is getting ready to explode and devour its dependent planets like some jealous chief or tribal deity. Some design!”
Christopher Hitchens
Duration : 0:10:21
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
fantastic video!
fantastic video!
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
fL = sqrt [(c - v)/ ...
fL = sqrt [(c - v)/(c + v)] * fS
Relativistic Doppler Effect for Light.
Science asks questions, religion says, “god did it.” take your pick…
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
A predictable …
A predictable rebuttal to simplistic and literalist theology. Anyone that still sees cosmos as a stage for the human drama loses the debate immediately. It’s not about humanity. It never was. Can we not let religious niavete go finally? This discussion is so much bigger and more challenging than hackneyed counterarguments allow for. Many of the wisest religious scholars to ever live knew this a long time ago. Hitchens critiques are not new. Ontological thought evolves. It’s not static.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Your quite right …
Your quite right thePissedOffAtheist.
It’s one of the few things I’ve heard Hitchens regularly get wrong.
It is more correctly known as “red shift”.
It really doesn’t have to be light at all, it’s electromagnetic radiation, that has been stretched out as it travels through interviening space. Due to the galaxies moving away from each other, as the universe expands. This lowers the frequency of the EMR. ( stretching it towards the red, low freq, from the blue, high freq).
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
“No serious person …
“No serious person can believe it”
Oh how i love the Hitch.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Before baryons,or …
Before baryons,or Higg’s bosons,quarks or anti-quarks,or any subjunctive vibrating filaments,possibly,….the basic massless ingredients were always in flux,and chaos.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Taking into account …
Taking into account extrapolations of pre-matter as investigated in particle physics research,there’s nothing that suggests de facto “nothingness” DID or ever WILL exist as an event horizon.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
The light appears …
The light appears red, hence the red light problem. But you are essentially right - the mechanism by which the light from distant stars comes to appear red is called the red shift.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
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July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Why have I got 7 …
Why have I got 7 thumbs down for this? Look up “redshift” before giving me thumbs down please.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Sadly the plague of …
Sadly the plague of theology and the cognitive illness of belief goes on.
Vested interest groups, if they didn’t exist you’d have to invent them.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Great work as …
Great work as always!
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Let’s use the word …
Let’s use the word credulity instead, and sound a little less spiteful and a little more pretentious.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
I don’t remember …
I don’t remember him mentioning directed panspermia at all. Try Reagan for that.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Did he say “red …
Did he say “red light”? ARGHH! It’s red shift, dummy!
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
i never knew he …
i never knew he could be so insightful on things like this too.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Very good video. It …
Very good video. It is unfortunate he hasn’t talked much of our extraterrestrial origins however.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
great video… …
great video… great speach…..
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Brilliant speech, …
Brilliant speech, wonderful video. 5/5 and favourited.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
LOL I think the …
LOL I think the introduction was so good that he said “Please continue”
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
How did it go? Did …
How did it go? Did he start off by saying “…thank you for that…suspiciously terse introduction”?
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
It truly is amazing …
It truly is amazing, I agree.
If religion is amazing in any way it is in that way.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Nice collection.
I …
Nice collection.
I got to see him live a few weeks ago
July 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
great video
the …
great video
the stupidity of theists is amazing to me, everyday