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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

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Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
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TheSpineyOne (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
If this is the way you interpret Hitchens' philosophy you are an ignorant fool. The advocation of moral absolutes is in itself immoral. Every situation must be judged objectively on its own merit. That is why faith (meaning belief without evidence) is a morally bankrupt stance, what is wrong with demanding reasons for someones opinions, rather than accepting them as OK based on faith? This is why Hitchens ALWAYS comes out on top in these discussions - he has thought his position through.
TheSpineyOne (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I have read the bible several times the most notable thing about it is its inconsitency. It contradicts itself, let alone independant observations. If its predictions are literal they fail every time. It is only when interpreted in hindsight ,in an arbitrary, subjective fashion that any sense can be made of it. Contrast this with the way philosophers of science strive for clarity and objectivity when discribing extremely complex phenomena. The bible fails no matter what criteria it is judged on.
Renagade70 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I'm with Hitchens.
Renagade70 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I'm a christian and I didn't like Falwell myself. He was a self serving man. I'll never forget what he said about 9/11. He never showed respeat towards the victims of 9/11.
archelonprime (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
People that call atheism a religion are either ignorant or trying to sell a lie.
Parkerjones1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
That's mere self-righteousness.
thomashughes25 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
If i wasnt an atheist christopher Hitchens would be God :)
leifey (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
atheism isn't a religion. it's merely a rejection of God and religion. fundamental difference. religious people make an affirmative statement like "God exists." in order for that to be taken seriously, religious people have need to produce solid evidence in support of it. until that happens, the logical default position should be disbelief.
CiscoWes (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The religion of atheism has the most religious people that exist. You allowed your faith to become shipwreck, and succumed to "every wind of doctrine" without having a firm foundation. The religion of atheism doesn't have a foundation. It's just plopped down on sand but its believers are not bothered by the lack of a foundation or logic.
CiscoWes (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Nothing backs evolutionism, except people like you who keep regurgitating the same lie that somewhere there's this huge mountain of proof for evolutionism, but that mountain of proof is a mile wide but only a millimeter deep. It just isn't there. All evidence backs atheism? No, nothing backs atheism. It is just a bull headed no-room-for-questions statement that God doesn't exist. Period. THAT is a pack of lies. The Bible isn't a "pack of lies" - that is spoken only in ignorance of scripture.

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