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Title: Christopher Hitchens: How Religion Is Like North Korea

Added: Aug 26, 2011

Author: ForaTv

Duration: 3:54

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/05/10/Christopher_Hitchens_at_Politics_and_ProseIn this highlight from May 2007, noted atheist Christopher Hitchens compares monotheistic belief to a despotic dictatorship -- similar to his observations of North Korea under Kim Jong Il. The key difference, he argues? "You can get out of North Korea - you can die, and it's over. You can't do that with monotheism."-----Christopher Hitchens speaks about his new book God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.Hitchens, an always colorful and sometimes outrageous commentator, now takes aim at God. Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins have tried, but that hard-to-hit Fellow keeps popping back up. Worse still are the violent ways of his flock: waging religious warfare, keeping women enslaved, fomenting universal hatreds. Hitchens makes a powerful case for atheism - Politics and ProseChristopher Hitchens is an author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2008.

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Youtube Comments: 356

morgywops Says:

Mar 30, 2012 - It would be nice to believe it. ''No it wouldn't''!

cr4yv3n Says:

Apr 2, 2012 - Kim rules from the grave , motherfuckers !!! "necrocracy" lol :D

JuliusIsMe Says:

Apr 6, 2012 - Communism never worked and never will.

alexandrepato123 Says:

Apr 11, 2012 - How can you say it will never work, If True Communism has never been attempted.. Russia was not communism, It was Stalinism. Communism has not worked because Humans are selfish,lazy,greedy pigs by nature.. Pure Communism has never been attempted by any nation throughout human history.

Megabob10 Says:

Apr 11, 2012 - Whoa, I used this analogy a lot when debating and didn't know about this video. Hitch always speaks so eloquently.

TheMistAnchorite Says:

Apr 17, 2012 - this man is a liar, heaven is not eternal praise. like what religion is he describing, because thats not my orthodox christian belief. Eternal life for those in my religion is to become gods. not in esencce, but in participation with the uncreated energies of God. At least this is why we need God

TheMistAnchorite Says:

Apr 18, 2012 - sorry but orthodox christianity is not a religion that can be compared with this ! The most obvious proof of this is the fact that God the Word has become Incarnate, has become man (St. John 1:14). By His Incarnation, matter has been magnified with Divine glory. This is our conception even about after life, you become God by participation, by transfiguration Psalm 82,6 I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.'

Capitanu Burcea Says:

Apr 19, 2012 - Chiar crezi porсăriile pe care le debitezi?

TheMistAnchorite Says:

Apr 19, 2012 - scuze, dar sunt multe pe care nu le stii, mai ales legat de ce conceptii sunt in ortodoxie, este gnoza mai presus de gnoza ! pura filozifie, careia multi i-au dat cu piciorul !

TheMistAnchorite Says:

Apr 19, 2012 - dar Cauta si vei afla, bate si ti se va deschide tie !

Capitanu Burcea Says:

Apr 19, 2012 - Poți să le spui asta ălora care vînd loz în plic. Vorba biblică: „fericiți cei săraci cu duhul".

Capitanu Burcea Says:

Apr 19, 2012 - This is so common sense that there's no need to. Religious morons will pointlessly babble about the "neophyte" and "ignorant" ways of the atheists, not understanding with the "heart".

TheMistAnchorite Says:

Apr 19, 2012 - lucrurile nu stau chiar asa, eu nu vand nimanui nimic, decat daca vrei, de asta se pare ca nu se vb in acest video ! ca nu fortam pe nimeni nimic, decat in masura in care el vrea sa afle ceva

Capitanu Burcea Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - Bineînțeles că vinzi, ai băgat o dejecție neargumentată într-un clip în argumentat impecabil, și spui că „nu e adevărat".

Capitanu Burcea Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - Spune-le celor care vînd legume în piață sau șoferilor de microbuz de la Vama Veche. Doar ăia pot fi îndeajuns de imbecili să creadă ce mai spui, după ce repeți același clișeu de N+1 ori, după ce a fost repetat de catralioane de ori de-a lungul timpului

Capitanu Burcea Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - The fact that it was never achieved, depsite its popularity, it simply reinforces the fact that communism is impossible to achieve, and all states which "build socialism" fail miserably. Only a western naive hipster could think otherwise. Oh, wait, you are one yourself.

Capitanu Burcea Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - That's why your nickname is KGBsoviet pride. Why not change it to: STALINBERIAGULAG? Gosh, I'd really enjoy putting your kind into former eastern europe into the times these enslaved places were forced into building socialism.

Capitanu Burcea Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - To get more on the point of the vid: I enjoy Hitchens in his antireligious rants, which are great, but he has several flaws which are specific to liberal middle-class english people: he dislikes everything non-western and thinks the whole world should be guided by western/anglo-saxon principles, and he supported the pointless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And he also thinks that people are all the same in teh world, which is false. Different ethnic groups have differnt charachteristics.

alexandrepato123 Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - What's the unemployment rate in the USA as of now? May I ask you that?

alexandrepato123 Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - Only AI could have a communist system. And they will.

Capitanu Burcea Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - I'm not american, but then again, I suppose it's something like 15%. Of course, if this supposedly is a drawback, you are greatly mistaken. As I said, you have no relation to a former country which was socialist, so you are not particularily aware of its horrors. Bah, western middle-class looking towards communism. You couldn't fit the stereotype any better!

alexandrepato123 Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - Now go look up what the unemployment rate of Cuba is.

Capitanu Burcea Says:

Apr 22, 2012 - I just said: this is your argument?! Is it more constructive to have a job for the sake of it? Being employed in something completely useless like guarding elevators?!

Caldari1 Says:

May 4, 2012 - Religion is not like North Korea in the sense that with religion, at least with Christianity, you have the choice to believe or not without being forced. In North Korea, you are forced to act like you believe in The Leader.

DannyForest07 Says:

May 10, 2012 - Indeed, but if you actually make the "choice" of being non-religious, you'll be tortured for eternity. With North Korea, all that will happen is you'll be killed.

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