| 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."
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| 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.
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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.
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Christopher Hitchens videos. Thanks!
- BerkeleyGuy
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| 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/2
008/08/hitchens200808
Interview conducted by David Rose and filmed
by Arya Surowidjojo.
Tags : Christopher Hitchens Waterboarding Vanity Fair Guantanamo |
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| Citizentube Interview: Christopher Hitchens of Vanity Fair |
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Google and the National Journal sponsored an
event on 6/11/2008 called, "The 21st Century
Campaign". Experts gathered to discuss the
innovative ways that campaigns, citizens, and
the media are using the web in the 2008
election.
One of those experts was Christopher Hitchens
who writes regularly for Vanity Fair and
numerous other publications. Citizentube's
Olivia Ma caught up with him for this short
interview.
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