This debate can be divided into two parts - listening to Christopher Hitchens and waiting for Hitch's turn to talk again.

@insight827

Жыл бұрын

walid was pretty good

@suzannebryan1194

Жыл бұрын

True!

@Greg-go8ep

Жыл бұрын

@@insight827 he played the role of apologist and was pandering to Hitchens so he didn't get intellectually destroyed. A middle ground on such topics isn't terribly sophisticated or admirable, in my opinion...

@Habu2

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha

@loveurlife4ever1

Жыл бұрын

“Lex Fridman is dangerous” 18 min inspirational video on KZread ends w the poem “if” by R Kipling Which is best, Law abiding citizen, Forest gump, Green mile 51st dates Hancock Click or stepbrothers

"I'll get to the end of this sentence if it kills YOU" god I miss Christopher Hitchens

@IAmHoTSHoTzz

9 жыл бұрын

Peter Bell Ironically, you said "god". Ha! I don't believe in God, so I tend to say: "Oh my Universe!"

@MrPeteybelljr

9 жыл бұрын

Hi I'm Goku I use the term ironically.

@Spongebob0911

9 жыл бұрын

Peter Bell Just dont use the word God and Christopher Hitchens name in the same sentence to often..... But i understand you and i have the same feeling you are relating too ;-)

@MrPeteybelljr

9 жыл бұрын

Spongebob0911 There's nothing wrong with using the word "god" lol it's just a word after all, Hitchens himself would use "god" terms often and it never bothered him. It's a little too dogmatic for me if someones sooo "atheist" they can't even use certain words.

@drokkerelq

9 жыл бұрын

Peter Bell You are 100% correct. When I stub my toe I will yell god dammit. That is the English language. Am I supposed to remove words from my vocabulary because I don't believe in it? P.S. When I do yell 'god', it always with a lower case 'g'. :]

2023 and watching one of the greatest orators that walked this earth and sorely missed

@peterdanharding6041

9 ай бұрын

Thank God for Hitch! A bit of sarcasm there :-)

@onkelmarvin8360

8 ай бұрын

Yeah.........I really miss him too...........😢

@paulrichards6894

8 ай бұрын

every comment on the video is saying how great he was...and they are not wrong

@Pokjhbvcf

8 ай бұрын

Need him desperately in this day and age

@Countryboy071

8 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more. Nothing like a good "Hitchslap" 😊

The Iranian ladie's comments have definitely not stood the test of time, CH was spot on.

@stefon815

2 ай бұрын

To be fair, she was saying the quoran(not sure how to spell it) does not limit women's right but the politicians in the arab countries do. And Hitchens made a point of saying she couldn't do something in the country, which didn't rebut what she said, it really just agreed but came off as rebuttal.

@FlyingSpaghettiMonster2000

2 ай бұрын

​@@stefon815you're right the quran doesn't. But the hadith do. The afghani taliban and Iranian clerics haven't just made it up.

@andersandersen6295

2 ай бұрын

And thats how you shut up a apologist.@@FlyingSpaghettiMonster2000

@DoctorChained

23 күн бұрын

@@FlyingSpaghettiMonster2000 Afghani is a currency. Afghan are people.

@FlyingSpaghettiMonster2000

23 күн бұрын

@@DoctorChained noted. My point remains true.

i am only here for christopher hitchens...

@englishfury1544

7 жыл бұрын

well no one else was worth watching here, Hitch was a genius

@Nickman5000

7 жыл бұрын

Ðj John I heard he destroys Waleed Aly, that's why I'm here!

@macbrown99

7 жыл бұрын

Waleed actually generally comes off sounding more or less reasonable here. It's that idiotic woman in red sitting beside him that fails to make any reasonable point whatsoever.

@moknightacuratl8013

7 жыл бұрын

I wish everyone had a mindset like him

@descartesdonkey4291

7 жыл бұрын

ain't gonna go ell for poor old Wally

TODAY, 16 sept 2022, a young woman, Mahsa Amini died after being arrested in Iran by the "Morality police" for not complying with law on headscarfs. Over 10 years AFTER this show was aired, a young woman killed in Iran for not wearing a headscarf. RIP Hitch, for calling out barbarity.

@videosofinterest9227

5 ай бұрын

Headscarf today.... drag queen story time to your kids tomorrow.

@bklufc

5 ай бұрын

Scumbags.@@amatyaucran2214

@Endrin911

4 ай бұрын

​@@amatyaucran2214 Funny part is that UN didn't strongly condemn that murder and lets Iran sit in Human right council Something is wrong in UN

@steveath

4 ай бұрын

@@Endrin911the UN is corrupt like all international organisations.

@PhyrstNayme-gm7ej

3 ай бұрын

@Endrin911 Please don't put any confidence in the UN. It is the same as any other governmental body that is riddled like Swiss cheese for corruption. They do Not care about these women. There could be Literally Millions of them dying on television from their religious oppressive leaders in Iran. Still, Nothing will be done by the UN.

Christopher was a national treasure and will be missed his intellectual prowess was second to none.

@zapkvr

5 ай бұрын

Oh ffs.

@breadfan7433

5 ай бұрын

Not national. Christopher's charm and wit transcends national barriers.

@segagenysis6918

4 ай бұрын

He was highly intelligent. But he was also an arrogant buffoon that liked to drink and smoke.

@bencarpenter3785

4 ай бұрын

​@@zapkvrare you ok😆😆

@arthurfleck629

4 ай бұрын

@@zapkvrDid you stub your toe?

As a Kurd, I'm sad that I became familiar with Hitchens after he died, He was a great person and a great intellectual, rest assured Christopher, your work is still here to inspire many many people

@JohnM-sw4sc

Ай бұрын

Hope things are better there

@alibarznji2000

Ай бұрын

@@JohnM-sw4sc we're safe from terrorists, but not safe from our government. A bunch of corrupt assholes

@alibarznji2000

Ай бұрын

@@JohnM-sw4sc thank you

@evunsoo

Ай бұрын

He was a great man, especially since he had love for the Kurdish people and his commitment to the cause

@alibarznji2000

Ай бұрын

@@evunsoo indeed

The Hitch was more intelligent than the rest of the panel combined. The world misses him dearly

@ItsameAlex

7 жыл бұрын

Hitchens chastised the priest by saying something like ''look at the priest acting as if the church didn't persecute gays for centuries'', so Hitchens disregarded linear time blurring the past with the present. But if someone said ''look at this white prerson, acting as if whites didn't enslave and persecute blacks for hundreds of years'' - the same crowd that clapped for him would be calling him a regressive. A rare moment of weakness from Christopher Hitchens.

@AlexGordonMusic

6 жыл бұрын

ItsameAlex he didn't say the church "persecuted gays for centuries" He said that frank brennan "spoke about it as if the Catholic Church hadn't taught it to be a mortal sin" The difference between your example and Hitch's..... is that white people dont enslave other human beings anymore. There are still priests appealing to Leviticus on the subject of homosexuality to this day, and reserve the right to do so. No regressivism required.

@PhoenixProdLLC

5 жыл бұрын

@@AlexGordonMusic Not to mention black people are still enslaved in other parts of the world.

@AlexGordonMusic

5 жыл бұрын

Phoenix Chastaine a lot of races are I’m not sure that’s relevant to the point..... however true it is.

@colin-campbell

4 жыл бұрын

I have regularly been referred to as the second coming of Hitch (if you'll pardon the expression) on behalf of my friends, family and colleagues. I'm rather partial to a Johnny Walker black label (breakfast of champions) and engage in public discourse regularly.

How Hitchens flipped that "bagging and smearing" comment from the father is illustrative of how quickly Christopher's mind worked. A combination of thoughtfulness and satire, his is the definition of a scary quick wit. People feared his voice. How cool is that?

@organman52

8 жыл бұрын

+Heath Kitchen VERY cool.

@arjunratnadev

8 жыл бұрын

+Heath Kitchen He is always my One Punch Man!! ;D

@Cttocs1

8 жыл бұрын

+Heath Kitchen proof alcohol doesn't kill brain cells OR he has a few extra

@TheDeven1000

8 жыл бұрын

he was a brilliant man and an inspiration to me. listening to his debates and reading his books helped me shake the guilt I had for asking questions and allowed me to embrace an atheistic lifestyle without a fear of eternal torture in hell.

@Cttocs1

8 жыл бұрын

Just a joke my friend

Hitch - he left us smarter and wiser. I miss him even though I did not know him.

Hitchens is sorely missed, especially in 2023. Rest In Power!

@andrewdavis9096

3 ай бұрын

A voice of reason in a world of madness.

@tonnekevankan7512

Ай бұрын

And absolutely in 2024 .......

@jsmall10671

12 күн бұрын

@@tonnekevankan7512 And 2025 *gasp*

Ive watched this episode countless times.... and im convinced that the lady in red is drunk.

@10babiscar

8 жыл бұрын

+M' Lady i'm 10 minutes in and i think you're right

@mlady5223

8 жыл бұрын

only gets more blatant

@eXcommunicate1979

6 жыл бұрын

Hitch may have tapped that ass later.

@SeanGCorcoran82

5 жыл бұрын

She was dancing with me. Cheek to cheek.

@C4rL72

5 жыл бұрын

This is why people like her should not be allowed to speak , she just chats shit and comes across as a Hitch hater with no back up who maybe loved grandmas cough medicine too much.

Man I miss Christopher.

@ambientaddict7613

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@Duane6084

7 жыл бұрын

me too!

@yvonnemanly5986

7 жыл бұрын

Me too, he was the reason for a great turning point in my life regarding religion.

@chaz9808

7 жыл бұрын

yea i miss him too too bad we are left with his lame brother...

@janwiberg1454

7 жыл бұрын

flick thomas

As I'm writing this, this video has had 2.2M views. If I had to guess, I'd say that more than 2M of the viewers did it only because of Christoper Hitchens.

Christopher Hitchens is as close to a true prophet that we as a human race can ever hope for.

@silverdm123

4 ай бұрын

So true

@DrDoohickey

3 ай бұрын

Yes, together with Carl Sagan, perhaps.

@batteredskullsummit9854

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's called "common sense and reasoning." No need for mystical bullshit

@joshjackson678

2 ай бұрын

Good point

"my question is to Christopher Hitchens............" said EVERYONE :D

@michaelfors9323

8 жыл бұрын

So that is true, is it? It can't be legend? It has to be actual truth? Hardly.

@masterchiefer123

7 жыл бұрын

Leave your folkloric tale of Rasputin out of the discussion.

@timnorman3064

7 жыл бұрын

+Alloces undertaker You keep bringing up Rasputin. Which begs the question, what do you think atheism is? Even if Rasputin was able to heal using magical powers or not. It makes no difference. Your blind defense of historians is misguided at best. There are historians today who deny the Holocaust. I condemn them as much as I condemn Hitler's "final solution". I return back to my question, what do you think atheism means?

@timnorman3064

7 жыл бұрын

The photo does show he had an interesting gaze. However this doesn't prove that his healing powers came from a god, or even that he had healing powers. History is full of tricksters and charlatans. As I recall Rasputin was poisoned, shot multiple times, stabbed, and finally drowned. Wouldn't powers given from an omnipotent god have saved him? Again I don't think you understand what atheism means/is. Atheism is not a philosophy. Atheism is a lack of belief in a god or gods. Your claims about Rasputin are as good as those made in the bible or any other religious texts. That is to say not good at all. You lack evidence of any kind beyond hearsay and conjecture.

@timnorman3064

7 жыл бұрын

***** I'm not sure if you're being willfully difficult or you genuinely don't understand. Since things are getting slippery, let's nail them down. Is it your claim that Rasputin had magic healing powers? Why do you think this has anything to do with atheism? There are many plausible scientific theories as to how Rasputin helped Alexei. Sadly we do not have a time machine so we cannot definitely say what happened. Invoking the names of historians and authors doesn't clarify your assertions about Rasputin. Please enumerate your beliefs/assertions so that I may illuminate them.

Hitchens is barely in second gear here. Its almost like he feels he doesnt have to raise his game for these guys.

@PhiI93

6 жыл бұрын

Bang on. His intellect was just on another level.

@Greg-go8ep

5 жыл бұрын

this panel is somewhat unsophisticated; including Waleed who attempts to come across as intellectual, but fails to make a cogent point on pretty much anything. Lots of words but no real message.

@gamingwithslacker

4 жыл бұрын

No. I don't agree. I think this video is Hitchens at his best. He doesn't focus on immaturely "destroying" the other side -- as entertaining as that might be. He shows the same level of maturity in his debate, near the end of his life, with Mr Larry Taunton. And, I think that the Muslim man -- I'm typing this on my phone and have forgotten his name -- was very very good, though perhaps not as witty or pugnacious as Hitchens. I like Hitchens. He was witty, funny, clever and sincere. But I think he saw things too dogmatically. The woman in the audience asks a fair and relevant question -- which Hitchens awkwardly (and unconvincing) avoids. Take care -V

@MLaak86

4 жыл бұрын

Oh course he didn’t struggle with these feather weights, I’d only be interested in a conversation between Christopher and Waleed.

@m0rtred

4 жыл бұрын

@Rene R. why would he? And why would you suggest such a thing? They are simply debating, talking passing the point one to another, there's nothing malicious in this video, whats wrong with people. You cannot expect every human mind to be a prodigy better than the one before him, no it doesn't work that way, one may be smarter than the other, and if he is thats fine nothing wrong, he should lead and teach the others not attack or obliterate. But that does not mean others have no voice and have no right to speak their mind. Not to say he's a guest too, part of the group in which everyone gets to talk.. Thats a sign of a weak mind guys just to know.. what you did there.

No one ever cut through bullshit as sharply as the great Christopher Hitchens RIP

@user-iv5vx7gw4y

Ай бұрын

AGREED. I'M SURE HITCHEN'S COULD EVEN DEBATE HIS OWN VIEWS WITH CONVINCING LOGIC.

I always watch podcasts or debates at 1.5x or 2x speed, but when Hitchens speaks, i slow down. His words are like a blanket of warmth, Or in other words, there's an aura of divinity about him thats, funnily, incredibly human.

"I will get to the end of this sentence even if it kills YOU." hahahahaha

@georgebarnard7831

8 жыл бұрын

You must be fun at parties

@davidparks9841

8 жыл бұрын

George Barnard I loled when i read your comment

@georgebarnard7831

8 жыл бұрын

+David Parks Touché

@davidparks9841

8 жыл бұрын

:D

@practicalintuition4030

7 жыл бұрын

+George Barnard its always easier to shrug off correction and continue to be illiterate, than it is to acknowledge a mistake has been made and correct it. its nature to people with poor education and an inability to take responsibility.

"India needs the empowerment of women to cure poverty" Cut to two Indian women.

@s.ananthkarthikeyan4560

5 жыл бұрын

Mason Barakat I am two years late, but who :P

@Mark-pv7qn

22 күн бұрын

@@s.ananthkarthikeyan4560 14:27 and 14:37, sorry im 5 years late

@samboss2091

21 күн бұрын

8 years late

On the one hand you have Christopher Hitchens speaking very directly and with complete clarity on every point; on the other hand you have Brennan and Aly speaking almost entirely with slippery weasel words and tactically dodging questions in order to avoid inconvenient positions. Says it all really,

@Dudemon-1

2 ай бұрын

Yes,it would have been to have competent theists on the panel, too.

@peterdanharding6041

2 ай бұрын

That's what religious apologists do best!

@benwu7980

Ай бұрын

Something that had always set Hitch above most in any form of debate or Q&A was that he never needed to equivocate.

The voice of the intellectual genius gone but never forgotten

Christopher Hitchens sitting in the Kindergarten and trying to calm the kids.

@alanroberts3013

5 жыл бұрын

Owners of dogs will notice that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they think you are god.

@andrewwilliams8986

5 жыл бұрын

My children at least recognise when they have an opportunity to better understand. These people and audience lack that.

@colin-campbell

4 жыл бұрын

I have regularly been referred to as the second coming of Hitch (if you'll pardon the expression) on behalf of my friends, family and colleagues. I'm rather partial to a Johnny Walker black label (breakfast of champions) and engage in public discourse regularly.

@anonymouse1289

4 жыл бұрын

They thought he wrote Marx's most famous quote lol.

@colin-campbell

4 жыл бұрын

@@anonymouse1289 That is certainly a contemptible position to take.

"my veil would be little" lol

@Raskolnikovvvvvv

7 жыл бұрын

מה אומר אחי

@yigalgurevitch2936

7 жыл бұрын

מ־52:14 מתחילה לדבר בחורה מלאה מצטדקת למען איסלאם ואיראן. טוענת שהיא קראה את הקוראן ואיסלאם נותן זכויות לנשים וכך גם באיראן היצ'נס בתגובה דחה טענותיה שאכן כך המצב, באומרו שהוא רואה את פניה, את שערותיה יושבת בקהל עם גברים צעירים ושלא תגיד לו שהיא מסוגלת לעשות זאת באיראן היא משיבה שקצוות שערותיה יהיו בחוץ, כי הצעיף יהיה קטן נו הרי כל הנקודה שהיצ'נס הייתה מגבלות החופש צעיף זה לא מספיק אינדיקציה שהוא צדק? אז היא תקפה אותו על עניין טכני פעוט בנוגע שיער שאותו רואים במעט שטופת מח איסלאמית

@papnlilly

7 жыл бұрын

Big fatty thinks she'd be just fine living in an Islamic state. Oh the irony is just sublime.

@Idan-tc5rt

7 жыл бұрын

היצ'נס מדהים

@thedudeabides3294

7 жыл бұрын

I almost missed that. If anybody took her seriously earlier, they must have struggled to after that.

What an educated man Christopher was... he was pure charisma

Hitchens left the world a better place! Thank you, sir!

This Waleed guy is well mannered, and very well spoken, but he speaks like a true politician, as in he evades and deflects questions, and doesn't actually answer anything.

@eventhorizon3158

9 жыл бұрын

This is a classic Muslim deflection tactic in action. Taqqiya (deceit, dissimulation, concealment, lying and diplomacy) is used as a religious/political weapon and a recruitment tool.

@LCPD9111

9 жыл бұрын

Exactly what he said.

@mustafaashar19

9 жыл бұрын

Secular Moral Superiority Except Waleed clearly stated he was Sunni, and taqqiya WAS practiced by Shiites in order to deflect persecution under the rule of Sunni (Muslim) caliphs. However, I doubt you didn't already know this as all this information can be found with a quick google search. Most like you are intentionally spreading false information in order to further your bigoted agenda.

@eventhorizon3158

9 жыл бұрын

Mustafa Ashar Bigoted agenda? Typical theist projection. Explain then, why Waleed couldn't answer the questions...

@mustafaashar19

9 жыл бұрын

Secular Moral Superiority "Typical Theist Project" You pretentious idiot I'm an atheist ex muslim. Waleed did answer the questions but his answers either came from an extremely Liberal perspective or were flat out evasive and frankly that's because he's a typical Muslim apologist. However, explain to me how you are not a bigot when your intentionally spreading false information about a person performing a practice from a sect he's not even part of that died out centuries ago?

I wonder why those Iranian girls in the audience speak English with an Arabic accent and not Persian accent (quite a mystery to me) and wonder if they lived in Iran for more than 45 days and not as tourists. My sister was arrested in Iran when this show was being broadcasted because her Hijab was 2 cm shorter than what is legally permitted. And does my sister have a voice? Even I as a man don't have a voice. I want my sister and my mother and every female relative I have to choose their own attire but can I say that? No because islaM wouldn't permit me to do that, so back to Christopher's comment. You betrayed your sisters (if you are Iranian at all) by just even thinking about the non-sense came out of your mouth

@morningmadera

9 жыл бұрын

This comment should be the first one to appear ... Kudos, sir!

@ghazalemaminia2970

9 жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same thing. She does not have an Iranian accent. She has an Arabic accent. And obviously so unaware of how things are in Iran for women.

@Matthew-ve7uv

9 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right about everything except the capital 'M' at the end of the word 'Islam.'

@beachdancer

9 жыл бұрын

My Iranian female friend would not dare to go out without being completely covered. She also told me that married couples are sometimes arrested on the assumption that they should not be seen in public together.

@NicSoltani

9 жыл бұрын

I hope with the new anti-terror legislation in place these two sisters are put under surveillance. They appear to carry radical Islamic sentiments or maybe they have already joined the dead cult

3:36 and others.. even the panel turn their seats and heads to listen to Hitchens, his answers, always blindingly quick, without hesitation or pause, so fluent, well-informed, and completely wholesome. What a gift this man was to us.

@enterpassword3313

6 ай бұрын

Lol never heard hitchens described as wholesome, not sure that word fits haha

@dennisbecraft1303

4 ай бұрын

Right. I agree strongly with all that except for the admittedly few times I cringed at what was not wholesome at all.

@PhyrstNayme-gm7ej

3 ай бұрын

@enterpassword3313 The Truth, can often be viewed by some, as not wholesome. I completely disagree. Wholesome is conducive to promoting moral and or social well being. By telling others who are steeped in barbaric religious traditions and customs that require things like women being Forced to wear a cloth bag for clothing. The Truth. He Is in fact Exactly wholesome..by definition.

@dennisbecraft1303

3 ай бұрын

@@PhyrstNayme-gm7ej There were times when truth or socially redeeming value were conspicuously absent from a gratuitous remark or two.

Is anyone else fast forwarding until CH speaks again?

@hitman5782

2 ай бұрын

Always. After watching countless debates about the existence of gods i started to skip the theists, they simply never come up with anything at least slightly interesting or new.

52:24 "Islam gives women a lot of rights" I guess she must have thought "Fuck it, I'm just going to lie and hope no one notices"

@calkane8480

8 жыл бұрын

***** That why I miss Hitch so much :)

@clivepattison7447

8 жыл бұрын

+cal kane the world is a poorer place without the hitch r.i.p.

@hawk2390

8 жыл бұрын

+cal kane Man the planet needs Christopher NOW. Ironically his loss proves his point there is no god!

@calkane8480

8 жыл бұрын

Ahmad Zaraei I've read the Quran and could give you lots of misogynistic verses but I guess you would just say "Learn Arabic" or "You're reading that out of context" right?

@ahmadzaraei2137

8 жыл бұрын

cal kane No it helps if you can speak Arabic and understand the Qur'an in context but ultimately men and women were clearly not created equal. This does not mean that Islam hates women but clearly Islam recognizes that women are clearly inferior to men and that women need to learn their place in relation to men if they want to earn respect from men, there's nothing wrong with that.

watching this in 2022 as im on a Christopher Hitchens bender,AGAIN, almost a tear in my eye listening to the greatest orator that I had ever heard. There is no one current with his knowledge ,wit or ability. He is sorely missed.

@marciebalme588

Жыл бұрын

yes agree

@BrianLambert

Жыл бұрын

He's great! I do prefer Matt Dillahunty, though

@shazzthedon

Жыл бұрын

What about joe rogan?

@Matthew-mf6xg

Жыл бұрын

​@@shazzthedon i know you're messing around bur Rogan is a joks.

@tristaneast8625

Жыл бұрын

@@shazzthedon you're funny...

Christopher Hitchens is an absolute joy too listen to you are missed so so much

@mikerodgers7620

Ай бұрын

He's a loser. You are too. 😁

Love it when Chris quotes voltairs last words.

"why don't you say what you actually think?" Amazingly beautiful.

@doctornov7

2 жыл бұрын

This is such a fundamental issue I have with debates.

@shazzthedon

Жыл бұрын

Hmm I’d say it was beautifully amazing bro

Whether you agree with Hitchens views or not, he's just a legend! Miss him :[

@alanroberts3013

5 жыл бұрын

Frank Brennan and Waled Ali both dodge key questions in an effort to look reasonable and balanced. Hitchens rightly calls them out for their hypocrisy.

Regardless of how one feels about his politics, beliefs, etc...He was an incredible writer and orator.

You are sorely missed Christopher. The greatest mind of our time.

Chuck Norris does not debate, he Christopher Hitchens

@niviamaeva

9 жыл бұрын

Lol lol

@LCPD9111

9 жыл бұрын

What?

@colinchildress1251

9 жыл бұрын

***** I don't know why that made me laugh so much.

@MrCmon113

9 жыл бұрын

***** That's funny because Chuck Norris is a bigoted, religious right winger. XD

@barristanselmy2758

8 жыл бұрын

***** Norris found Jesus, have you heard?

Mr Hitchens is a fucking BOSS! You're miss by many.

@ZarPof

7 жыл бұрын

He carried that English regalness with him, you could hear it in his speech, his body language, and his well thought out insults and jokes. It is always a pleasure to listen to that man.

@alousch65

7 жыл бұрын

i find him the biggest asshole on the globe

@ZarPof

7 жыл бұрын

rachid How come? From what he says or the way he says it? What he says is confrontational but how he says it is steeped in British high society charm. It allows him to say quips and jabs in a very polite way. I think it sounds rather witty and is pleasant to listen too.

@ZarPof

7 жыл бұрын

nibus9 That sir or madame is a clever insult. It took a second reading for me to pick up on it. Hats off to you.

@DinMorErFedOgKlam

7 жыл бұрын

Gary Milne x

Christopher Hitchens was on an entire next level compared to the rest of the panel. He is not only so articulate and fact based that is just wrecked the panel when they tried to shame or attack his personal character because really they had no real factual and/or objective rebuttal.

I noticed before the host of this programme was in a hurry to let a false comment go. He let that woman say she was free to sit with men & alleged she was free to do more or less do as she wanted as a Muslim. Thankfully Hitch put her right. She has very few rights as a Muslim Woman.

Hitch is that special kind of gentleman who can prove you violently wrong and make you love every minute of it.

@alexisjuillard4816

Жыл бұрын

And joking and flirting with you all along in a passive and very aggressive way. Legend. And man he does it so well, in such a polished subtle way, making it appear as harmless banter (when it is not most of the times, a lot of times he slips in a sexualised thing it's actually a very effective offensive move to embarrass or take you down a notch, also extremely difficult to defend against, you loose face whether you react in anger or let it slip). He's so good in fact i m sure were he still amongst us in this post metoo era, he could still pull things like this off cause he does it in such a casual indirect way, with a weird mix of blunt naivety and underlying cynicism.

‘You name me a Catholic or Muslim charity that goes into the field to secure the empowerment of women and you might have the ghost of a point’ is perhaps the greatest unanswered question I’ve ever heard asked

@PhyrstNayme-gm7ej

3 ай бұрын

@adamgodfrey6591 Excellent point. Do Not think though that Any catholic or muslim charity cares one bit about women. Let alone Anyone that cannot fill their coffers, and stiffen their ranks.

I've mourned three people in my life: my father, Carl Sagan, and Christopher Hitchens

@candyman5912

5 ай бұрын

Sorry about your father. Hitchens died within 2 years of me discovering him. He was gone too soon.

@toAdmiller

5 ай бұрын

@@candyman5912 Yep, he died within a year of me discovering him...and there's been no other intellectual contrarian to step up to take his place...Almost all news shows have become entertainment/echo chambers...Oh, what we have lost...

@candyman5912

5 ай бұрын

@@toAdmiller Yeah, I think it was about 2009/10 his fame was at its height on KZread, alongside the New Atheist movement. It was a great time, when reason challenged dogma in all walks of life. We've gone backwards now though.

@Moluccan56

4 ай бұрын

Carl Sagan was an absolute gem of a human being. I could listen to him for hours.

@toni4729

12 күн бұрын

Well I never met your father but I'll agree with the other two.

As an ex Christian, I’m so glad to have escaped that cult. Christopher Hitchens was right. 💯

Just started watching Hitchens videos today. This man is a legend. Tolerates zero bullshit, and does it in style.

@lieslceleste3395

8 ай бұрын

I would have loved to drink with him.

@MrMancreatedgod

5 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard brother.

Whenever I have the blues, I search for Christopher Hitchens videos and am immediately uplifted….the man had a rapier for a tongue that could cut any opponent down to size without being nasty or disrespectful…and making his own argument funny and so logically thought out, and delivered with such clarity in words, that most have found it almost impossible to refute! What a legend he was….the world sorely misses this man’s intellect.

@enterpassword3313

6 ай бұрын

Even when hes wrong it sounds kinda convincing lol

@AmericusMaximus

5 ай бұрын

To presume that it is possible to have a “rapier of a tongue that could cut any opponent down to size” and that doing so can be done “without being nasty or disrespectful” is incongruous, absurd.

@WrestleGermainia

5 ай бұрын

@@AmericusMaximus It isn't a literal description so not really. Being humbled by sharp logic doesn't have to be nasty or disrespectful, yet it can be compared to the finesse of a rapier, not its violence, and to be humbled by it is to be cut down to size. That's the beauty of it. I can see how you would think it's absurd, but it really isn't in context.

@AmericusMaximus

5 ай бұрын

@@WrestleGermainia Whether there is an actual rapier is neither in play nor relevant here. And while true that a clash between superior and inferior logic need not be nasty or disrespectful, it certainly can be and on KZread often is-KZread banks on it. The original commenter finds Hitchens’ schtick uplifting and therapeutic, an antidote for the blues. I contend that however satisfying, watching Hitchens perform is less akin to admiring beautiful art on the walls of a museum than sitting ringside at a UFC match, metaphorically of course.

@WrestleGermainia

5 ай бұрын

@@AmericusMaximus that’s fair enough, it’s just a case of personal sentiment then I guess. I still wouldn’t describe the original comment as absurd, but maybe I’m just being pedantic.

How dearly we miss this warrior! One of Hitchen's brilliant quotes is that we, human species, are half a chromosome away from being chimps. However, he himself was far more than just half a chromosome away from the rest of humanity! We need him now more than ever before.

The way Hitchens gazed back at the Kurdish man who asked the first question was so adorable. The way they both vibed after acknowledging the Kurdistan region’s flag just flittered my heart.

@russe19642

4 ай бұрын

Can you give me a time stamp on that, must have missed it

@chelsiewei1232

4 ай бұрын

@@russe19642it’s probably just the first few minutes

@russe19642

4 ай бұрын

@@chelsiewei1232 thanks,yeh I went back and looked for it

Christopher Hitchens just walked around with this beautiful claymore of verbiage and wisdom, and cut the intellectual heads off people. I’m always in awe of him.

Hitchens is truly a master, nobody on the panel even stands close to his brilliance.

@WPTHFC

5 жыл бұрын

Will you marry me?

I'm going nuts for Christopher Hitchens. he's awesome!

I can't help but watch the look on the woman sat beside Hitchens, and it's a kind of adoring awe. She's whispering "I hope I can go home with this man"

You can't "convert to atheism" It's not a dogma or religion. It's the normal resting state of humanity.

@ade8890

8 жыл бұрын

I disagree. This is just a game of semantics. Convert, to go from one state to another. Convert apple to shit, just eat it and wait. Convert to atheism implies you previously held the belief there was a God. It doesn't make an underlying assertion that atheism is a religion.

@jeschinstad

8 жыл бұрын

No, dropping out of a religion is called deconversion. Converting from a religion means you're switching to a different religion. It's not the same.

@ade8890

8 жыл бұрын

***** Not quite. Converting means to go from one state to another.

@jeschinstad

8 жыл бұрын

Adam G: Yes, but we're speaking specifically about religion. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deconversion

@ade8890

8 жыл бұрын

***** Converting isn't a strictly religious term. If somebody said they converted to Atheism, that does not imply Atheism is a religion. No more than saying I converted to the text to Arial implies Arial is a religion. It's a pathetic attempt at an argument. Very superficial and lacking in substance to what is usually the bigger picture.

4 panelists and a whole audience vs. Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens prevails entirely, and effortlessly.

All these years later. And I, too, as we all are missing Christopher.

Outstanding orator, lucid, succinct and brutal. I would have loved to meet Hitch.

"My hair would be out because MY VEIL WOULD BE LITTLE" oh dear this woman....

@ML-uv4gg

4 жыл бұрын

Even Waleed knew that she was wrong

@jamesfrench7299

3 ай бұрын

Knew she couldn't deny that so turned to minimising that.

"You name me one Catholic or Muslim charity that goes into the field determined to secure the empowerment of women, and you'll have the ghost of a point, up 'til now you don't." Absolutely savage. This video should be renamed, *"Christopher Hitchens - Thug life for 1 hour straight"*.

how great was Christopher Hitchens? The world needs him now

Living and revising Hitchens in 2023 , his views are more relevant , true and prophetic today than ever before . Miss his talks .

"There's not a book that says 'The Islamic Law' or something" Bro, like Quoran?!

@parnianx

7 жыл бұрын

J.M i know right?!!! Who is he fooling!

@dawnrazornephilim

7 жыл бұрын

The hadiths are religious laws, the most severe being apostasy, where you only need to be born in aa muslim nation to be tried for.

@parnianx

7 жыл бұрын

Sea BelowMe I've seen it all. Trust me, it can all be pretty ugly when a religion rules over a nation

@PRISM-Media

4 жыл бұрын

LOL right

@sirriffsalot4158

4 жыл бұрын

It's perfectly ridiculous... Why the fuck doesn't anyone, especially The Hitch, maim him on that point. Making such claims is just inexcusable, and quite disingenuous at that. I'm so fed up with hearing people constantly torturing the language so they may say the opposite of the truth, and still seem credible.

"As long as we have a civil conversation we don't have to keep on saying that that's what we're doing" - Christopher Hitchens

When there’s so many dumb things being said at once that there isn’t the time to pause and refute them, Hitch’s true talent was cutting to the centre of the most important points and utterly refuting them. Not just logically but in the most important, meaningful and impactful ways.

Christopher was one of the greatest

"Why won't you say what you actually think?" - Hitch slapped!!!

Hitchens NAILED IT at the end. I'm so proud to have someone like him represent people of reason and logic.

@Bobaganush26

6 жыл бұрын

Who said you were right? You? LOL. No one know. Please STFU

@veganath

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bobaganush26 best to ascribe your degree of belief to the evidence presented, it doesn't need to get personal

@marcelodasilva942

2 жыл бұрын

@@veganath Was reason and logic that Hitchens used when making the case for the Iraq war?

@veganath

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcelodasilva942 *_"Was reason and logic that Hitchens used when making the case for the Iraq war?"_* I would hope so, but it would be better if he/we used logic & reason to come up with solutions to ameliorate man's greatest admission to failure *_WAR!!_* I hope you agree?

@marcelodasilva942

2 жыл бұрын

@@veganath Yes, i do. I just still don't understand the logical argument behind Hitchen's position throughout the years.

Christopher Hitchens was such a voice of reason in a world where reason is not favored by many. The world lost a great mouth piece for atheism when he passed.😢

Waleed Aly and the Catholic father are unbelievably sly when it comes to dodging the homosexuality question. You simply can't defend it from an Islam or Christian perspective.

@thedeplorables1854

4 жыл бұрын

Aly, the lawyer, manages to say nothing while sounding erudite, it is a skill that should be acknowledged.

@daraa151

2 жыл бұрын

They are cowards next to Hitchens

@BlahBlah-cn5qe

2 жыл бұрын

@@daraa151 I would disagree. I feel Waleed was the next more rational person, aside from side stepping the issue. He acknowledged the chauvinistic ideals of many people in Islam and slipped in his own convictions on the matter as well.

@Romans8-9

2 жыл бұрын

@H. Tillotski He has to. He can't publicly comment about his own religious doctrine because doing so would mean he would lose the support of all the lefties his garbage tv show appeals to.

@marcelodasilva942

2 жыл бұрын

@H. Tillotski maybe because like he explained, Islam doesn't have a centralised authority like the Catholic Church, therefore it seems a bit pointless to say what Islam teaches or not. It's a poor argument, and I'm not even religious whatsoever. But I feel a certain lack of nuance in what Hitchens said, as if what was written 1400 years ago still is what represents what people think, and hasn't evolved in any way.

I feel like everyone's just waiting for Christopher to speak next

It's 2024, Christopher, and your absence is so profound that I feel a sense of shame for never having had the opportunity to meet you. Your legacy will endure for centuries

To justify religion is bonkers. At least we have this material to show our kids. My 17 year old son is watching all these videos so the Hitchslaps live on & are enlightening new generations ❤

@Baratheon.

5 ай бұрын

A kid/teenager would learn more from an hour of Hitchens, than in a week of school. The man instills high-culture wherever he goes.

For once Waleed looks totally aware that his transparency is on display.

@sdogg

7 жыл бұрын

NOTABOOS no one could escape from Hitchens' mind

"I'll get to the end of my sentence if it kills _you_" Gotta _love_ Christopher Hitchens!!

R.I.P. Christopher Hitchin. Missed but never forgotten.

I miss Christopher so much! 😢 I could listen to him for hours! Love and miss you Christopher! ❤

I like how Hitchens looks directly at the person who asked the question while answering, makes it more personal

Hitchens destroyed this Panel while still in Neutral

@RobinLaverick

2 жыл бұрын

“I’d barely had chance to get my trousers off...” he would often comment 😀

Hitch is just unbelievable. Miss him so much

There's a whole lot of people dodging questions, as per usual, and then there's Christopher

Hitch literally slept through this debate and still managed to win every single point raised.

@thedoctor.a.s1401

2 жыл бұрын

well he is on the winning side of the argument 😅

@anonymousman4419

Жыл бұрын

He's a proficient wordsmith.

@paulrichards6894

9 ай бұрын

give that old bint at the end a bashing

@peterdanharding6041

9 ай бұрын

Is this the best debaters Australia can come up with? What we had were 2 women, a drunk and a confused ones and two religious apologists with such a BS spin!!

@paulrichards6894

9 ай бұрын

@@peterdanharding6041 you thought hitch was drunk.....then i would love to see him sober

I love Hitch smirking at how ridiculous Waleed's long winded rants are and how easily he will pick it apart

We need him now more than ever. We watch his past presentations and try to piece together what he would think and say now - about current world events.

@luisconde2723

4 ай бұрын

The actual events confirms what he said in his last decades about Islam and Gaza... He would be the man to go to have a complete full picture of the problem, that we already know is religious extremists...

"He won, but it wasn't fair, because he was BETTER than us!"

You know, the opening response that Hitch gave to the first question was just so elegant. How he responded to the chap verbally, through eye contact, intellectual approval and gratitude… Now that’s charisma…

I must say I'm impressed by that guy all the way on the left. He words his sentences so carefully that you don't notice that he never actually answers a question with a straight answer! All without delay. Very impressive!

@influenzaz1012

5 жыл бұрын

Christopher called him out on it lol but yea everyone who watched this caught on his first answer the gymnastic he performed is Olympian tier

@scientificatheist9381

5 жыл бұрын

Just Dangerous

@AppleSauceGamingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Except when he states that homosexuals would need to have a discussion with their pastor to know whether they were immoral or not... True colours are difficult to hide.

@MovieMakingMan

6 ай бұрын

Listening to him is grating. He says absolutely nothing. It’s word salad without any dressing.

I'll pray for you Thank you I'll think for you Hitchslap!!!

Poor Christopher. He is so undermatched and unchallenged in these debates. I am curious to know if he has been challenged elsewhere

Agree with him or not....Hitchins owned this show!

"You're disrespecting your sisters in Tehran." As an individual who lives in Tehran I applauded that while I was standing! "به عنوان کسی که در تهران زندگی میکند ایستاده برای این جمله دست زدم!" Hitchens is still missed after 10 years of his passing...

@evaburnz

6 ай бұрын

"applauded" I don't normally like to correct grammar, but there's a critical dichotomy between the definition of the word you mistakenly provided, and the definition of the intended word. As for the sorely misguided woman who claimed that she would have the same rights when in Iran as when in Australia, well, she certainly couldn't be further from the truth, and she must be feeling rather humiliated if she has a shred of humility considering the Iranian uprisings that emerged following the tragic death of Masha Amini at the hands of the deplorable morality police. Indeed, Hitchens is sorely missed.

@strangemolars

4 ай бұрын

@@evaburnz ZzzZzzzz

Such a shame that Hitch isn't around to give us the benefit of his wisdom and to show us that its not about taking one side or the other - its about principles.

a pleasant reminder that there once was a time when Q&A was worth listening to, even if most of the contributors were abysmally uninformed. Amusing to see the real life model for Dame Edna on the panel.

A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Baptist preacher walks into a bar --- The bartender says, what is this a fucking joke...

@Jake007123

8 жыл бұрын

+Tarpikus Didn't heard that oen before! good one!

@dquillen1

8 жыл бұрын

Honey Ryder --- I'm a man dipshit...

@northseabrent

8 жыл бұрын

Biker Tramp Caitlin Jenner started out as Bruce Jenner, don't fight your transformation, DIPSHIT.

@dquillen1

8 жыл бұрын

Honey Ryder --- Sounds like Bruce is your dream boy --- Fuck Off Punk!

@northseabrent

8 жыл бұрын

Biker Tramp Don't fight your new body, embrace your new identity go forth and explore. Deal with your anger issues as well, OK?

I think Christopher Hitchens was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. He had a vision unmatched by many of the world's leading scholars and experts. He had an exceptional vocabulary which he used both like a whip and a poet. No one wrote like him, no one spoke like him, no one thought like him - and no one ever will. I never knew this man but his death affected me greatly. The world is lesser for his passing. He should be awarded a posthumous knighthood or Nobel prize.

@coventryboy68

10 жыл бұрын

he would have refused a knighthood…. he was a life-long republican and detested the idea of hereditary rule.

@Thenumber12pwns

10 жыл бұрын

coventryboy68 Life-long republican? He was a socialist in his younger years.

@coventryboy68

10 жыл бұрын

Adam s do you know what 'republican' means? do you? really? wikipedia is your friend

@jebediahkrimsoncraftleding3012

10 жыл бұрын

coventryboy68 It holds different connotations in different countries. It could be confusing to Adam s since Hitchens became a U.S. citizen, and lived in D.C. most of his adult life.

@sheikhyaboooty

10 жыл бұрын

A Nobel peace Prize maybe, but I very much doubt that The Hitch would be impressed with a bauble from the house of Saxe-Coburg Gotha.

Waleed Aly talks non-stop but actually says very little!

So, a ghost raped a palestinian women so he could impregnate her with himself so he could be born and then be sacrificed to himself because a snake talked a woman into eating a magic apple he created. So now he lives in an invisible heaven where he judges invisible souls and sends non believers to an invisible demon in an invisible hell. I know, it sounded so plausible when mom told the story!

@Thestorbob

10 жыл бұрын

Taking religious texts literally is quite a modern phenomenon. I am not religious myself, but take quantum mechanics for instance (sorry for my provoking grammar, tired). An electron which is technically invisible, we can prove that it is there and its properties, but really what we are doing is establishing properties to seemingly invisible units. In quantum mechanics an electron can theoretically be in one place, and a moment later be in a completely different part of the universe. This doesn't necessarily seem rational, in fact it seems quite anti-intuitive, but we have scientists developing this field of physics which are to us invisible. To make my point, firstly religious texts aren't to be taken as an essay or a manual, secondly a part of being human is figuring out how you want to percieve the world, because that is all life is, experience and perception. I apologize for rambling, I hope this was somewhat coherent.

@AcadFreedom

10 жыл бұрын

Ther Storbob Quantum mechanics teaches us particles are everywhere at the same time (so to say). However, if you observe an electron at one point of space, it becomes located there. From then on it can spread again, but it can't do so at speeds faster than that of light (that's special relativity. I would say your sentence about quantum mechanics is misleading at best.

@Beer_Dad1975

10 жыл бұрын

Ther Storbob Actually, you have that back to front, St Augustine of Hippo was the first theologian to recognise that biblical texts cannot be reconciled with reality and therefore must be taken as allegory - this was in the 5th century - prior to that the official line in both Jewish and Christian philosophy was that the Bible was the inerrant word of God and must be taken literally, except where it is indicated the passage is a parable or revelation.

"Thanking god for sparing you in a natural disaster is a bit like sending a thank you note to a serial killer for stabbing the family next door." ~Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian