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| Sharpton / Hitchens Debate - Can Morality Exist Without God? |
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Complete video at:
http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1007
Author Christopher Hitchens debates the Reverend
Al Sharpton on the question of whether morality
can exist in the absence of God.
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A Debate: God Is Not Great with Al Sharpton and
Christopher Hitchens.
Taking on possibly the greatest issue of our time
- the malignant force of religion in the world -
Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case
against religion through a close and learned
reading of the major religious texts, citing
numerous historical instances in which sexual
repression and outrageous acts of violence have
been committed in the name of God. He argues for a
more secular life based on science and reason, in
which hell is replaced by the Hubble telescope's
awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the
burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry
of the double helix. -- NYPL
Christopher Hitchens is an author, journalist and
literary critic. Now living in Washington, D.C.,
he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Nation
and Slate; additionally, he is an occasional
contributor to many other publications.
Al Sharpton Jr. is a Pentecostal minister, a
political activist, civil rights activist and film
actor. In recent years, Sharpton has also become a
perennial candidate in his quest for the
Democratic Party's nomination for President of the
United States. Author of "Go and Tell Pharaoh: The
Autobiography of the Reverend Al Sharpton."
Tags : al sharpton chris hitchens religion faith atheists agnostics atheism immoral ethics right wrong romney fora tv fora.tv |
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Durée : 580 s |
| Authors@Google: Christopher Hitchens |
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Author Christopher Hitchens discusses his book
"God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons
Everything" as a part of the Authors@Google
series. The author of Why Orwell Matters and
Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher
Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor, a
Slate columnist, and a regular contributor to The
Atlantic Monthly. He has also written for The
Nation, Granta, Harper's, The Washington Post, and
is a frequent television and radio guest. Born in
England, Hitchens was educated at Balliol College,
Oxford, where he received a degree in philosophy,
politics, and economics. He now lives in
Washington, D.C., and he became a U.S. citizen in
2007. This event took place on August 16, 2007 at
Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
Tags : Authors@Google Christopher Hitchens |
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Affichage : 199820
Durée : 4061 s |
| Christopher Hitchens on Hannity & Colmes about Rev. Falwell's Death |
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Christopher Hitchens along with Ralph Reed
participate in a debate on the legacy of the
Reverend Jerry Falwell. This was recorded from
the Hannity and Colmes show of 16-May-2007.
More information about Christopher Hitchens (from
Wikipedia):
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.
Please let me know if you like the Christopher
Hitchens videos. Thanks!
- BerkeleyGuy
Tags : Christopher Hitchens CNN Fox MSNBC Jerry Falwell Atheism Religion God Ralph Reed Sean Hannity Alan Colmes |
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Affichage : 357309
Durée : 585 s |
| Watch Christopher Hitchens Get Waterboarded (VANITY FAIR) |
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From http://www.vf.com. How does it feel to be
"aggressively interrogated"? Christopher Hitchens
found out for himself, submitting to a brutal
waterboarding session in an effort to understand
the human cost of America's use of harsh tactics
at Guantánamo and elsewhere. VF.com has the
footage. Related: "Believe Me, It's Torture," from
the August 2008 issue,
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/0
8/hitchens200808
Interview conducted by David Rose and filmed by
Arya Surowidjojo.
Tags : Christopher Hitchens Waterboarding Vanity Fair Guantanamo |
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Durée : 349 s |
| 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:
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2007/03/free
_speech_6.html
Hitchens is right that religion should be treated
with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.
Tags : Christopher Hitchens Religion Atheism Free Speech Islam |
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