Hitchens was a great loss. I really hope hat someone as intellectually able takes his place and champions the cause that will carry us through to what will be seen as a new Age of Enlightenment. Humanity will be far better off when it grows out of supernatural based belief systems.

He wasn't criticizing from ignorance. He knew and understood full well how the Church operates, so his criticism is even more powerful.

my God he can sum them up in a couple of sentences.... Wonderful stuff

The only problem I have with this debate is how unbalanced it was - pitting Hitchens and Fry against those two numbskulls is like pitting Superman against a poodle wearing a Batman costume. To make a debate interesting, they needed to find two Catholics who are actually on the same intellectual level as Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry. Oh, wait a second. Yeah, I'm seeing the problem now.

I can't imagine how anyone can watch this and still actively support the idea that Christianity is a force for good.

Thanks for uploading this :)

It's probably the adrenalin from knowing how awesome he just was.

I have to say that the winner here was undoubtedly Anne Widdicome. She absolutely DESTROYED the Catholic church with her arguments. Well done Anne, awesome work! What? You were trying to defend the church? Oh, right, umm well atleast you didn't belittle child abuse eh. OH, you did.

People should take a look at Fry's contribution as well. Not as eloquent, but very powerful in my opinion.

Thank you for posting this, AtheistPlanet2.

Stephen and Christopher are brilliant as always. Have you got the debate unedited? Peace from Norway

The Hitch is on FIRE in this debate!!

@ElPeejerino Agreed.

I think this combo is known in the Super Nintendo game "Killer Instinct" as: ULTRA ULTRA ULTRA ULTRA ULTRA!!!!!!!

And The Hitch gets Chriatian morality in the corner and unleashes a lavish combo of hits insue to facts. Hits crashed into the Christian body of morality; and again, and again and again; and POW! OH! Christian morality is down! It's down! And it doesn't seem to get up! 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... *Ding ding ding* And it's over! Winning, by means of Knockout Oriation, Christopher "The Hitch" Hitchens! *and the crowd goes wild!*

@Surells Sorry to hear about his condition. My comment was about people in general who use the intellectual power without deep compassion to promote their agendas or political views, the cause does not really matter. I have grown up in totalitarian regime and to me he sounds exactly like them. The "hell" begins with a "staunch" approach and exclusion. History is a proof. I do not judge him as a man, I do not know him, I did not like what I heard. Wish him well.

OMFG - If I was catholic I'd be sick to my stomach listening to this.

@TheZerothDegree LOL!! :D :D

What do you come back from that with? Honestly, destroyed.

Where can we hear the priest's response to this?

@Phoenix1664 At least it's proper literature.

The fact is, as @amd7787 might say, only jesus is without sin and therefore church may be sinful. Yet, you fail to realize that church has an entire platform to discourage sin so that one may be accepted into heaven. It is extremely hypocritical to market sinlessness and in turn commit massive amounts of hate towards gays, muslims, minorities.

Genius. R.I.P.

@ProdigyBigBoss89 Christian*

Unlike Stephen Fry this man is a demagogue or slightly misguided in his believes IMHO. I hear the underlying hatred. He is using the "big" words to prove his point not to embrace the problems. There is not love and forgiveness in in him, just facts and intellectual correctness which leads striat to personal hell and does not offer much but division.

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He didn't think the Church DESERVED any compassion or charity. If you were objective about their very real crimes, you'd see it.