My goodness! This man is missed and his voice is needed, especially now with the bullshit that is occurring all over the goddam world.

13:15 and how qualified immunity was born! And why the justice system is republican! Every special prosecutor since nixon, has been republican! Garland and wray are republicans! As EVERY failed economy, left behind BY...! Artificial inflation helped by the fed chair, powell, yea!

12:47 it's gods will, The master plan!? The same religious logic when a cop say, "It's divine intervention". FOR The DNA that caught the murder? Same logic as,.. before incubators god didn't give a F? Yet, gave us breathing without HAVING TO READ about it!?

Steven fry is a fraud! He goes to the kings incarnation or whatever F its called!? Going to a party for the people who hate you? And demonize people like you? kings in the 21st century? spectacle celebrity BS, it's all about that!?

Excellently expressed!!! Smart, decent people: 1 - ignorant idiotic scumbags: 0. It’s just so sad and infuriating that in 2025 in the US we will have the worst of human kind in government pushing Christianity in our schools, brainwashing new generations of morons.

He is a truthful hero

I think k people get used to not hearing the truth, so when people finally do hear the truth it comes as a shock, compounded by hearing nothing about things that have been hidden

"During this trial, you will see a man brutally and horrifically terrorized and ignored by local, state, and federal law enforcement -- not only that, but you will see the disabled and elderly parent he cares for threatened and harassed -- again, while law enforcement DID NOTHING."

Hitch doesn't pull his punches!

I wish he wouldn’t call the bastard “his grace.” You should call him his disgrace . Disgusting!!

Given these verified facts, why would any person be a Catholic? Cultism is what comes to mind.

Telling truth to power, publically. Never done better.

So much truth and I’ve met god.

Christopher Hitchens was a very wise man. He is missed.

" Where there is greatness; great government or power, error is also great,"

Standing ovation, Mr. Hitchens. Truth to power. RIP.

"in order for the human race to survive.... we must outgrow organized faith" Carl Sagan

I wish I could speak with such intelligence, knowledge, eloquence, passion, love for humanity, and bravery against evil.

Who spoke after him? Was there a response?

Wow! Just Wow! How I love this gentleman Christopher, he even ruffles the black priest that much to the effect of him not even understanding Christopher's intelligent facts because he himself doesn't know hardly a bean of information about all the abuse the church has done and is still doing to this day in 2024!! He's completely ignorant and so are the black priest's in the audience, with head bowed down and trying not to look at him in full flow of the truth! Love the way Stephen Fry looks at him in awe as he discharges his venom on the church.

Nobody rips people a new azz whole like Hitchens.

Amen!

Hey Stephen Fry is there too!

That preast must be sweating

His book on Mother Theresa is a must read

It’s hard to survive as a brilliant person in western society, as seen by other early deaths like Robin Williams and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The real world is more and more depressing.

Overweight smoker preaches on the use of intellect.

In the finest Christopher Hitchens spirit, I hereby propose his sainthood.

Imagine being an Englishman whose legacy has subjugated millions to starve, death, robbery and slavery and think you have the moral right to lecture anyone on human rights

New drinking game: when Hitchens puts his glasses on, take a drink, when he takes glasses off take a drink

Basically in a simple sentence - Paterson is insane.

Totally agree... Apart from the crusades. They were in direct response to Islamic jihad and invasion of Jerusalem. Without the jihad, wouldn't have needed what followed.

Hitchens was a drunk and a very damaged man. Some of his early work was excellent (The Trial of Henry Kissinger is an example), but his support for the illegal invasion of Iraq completely undermined the rest of his life's work and his atheism rises to the sophistication of an angry sixth-former (much like Richard Dawkins). His work has to be treated carefully, and certainly doesn't deserve the ecstatic praise it often receives.

Catholics constitute a majority in the SCOTUS

Hutchinson

What a loade self rightist bolax

This man could move mountains ⛰️ with his words Wow

This is music <3 at its best

Christopher forever stained himself, when he stood with American Republicans when ho stood for the war crimes against Iraq and the Republican crimes of America! Hitches disgraced himself!

I don't think that fact that misbehavior happens among the clergy is the thing that makes it appropriate to condemn the entire institution. What brings that condemnation on, in my eyes, is the practically inevitable attempts to cover up the acts and protect those that perpetrated them. It's exactly the same as police brutality - I do not blame law enforcement in general for these incidents. But I do blame them when they circle the wagons and try to insulate the perpetrators from rightful justice. In all of these cases the institution needs to wholeheartedly throw their bad actors to the wolves. Only when I see them doing that without exception will I stand back and withdraw blame from the institution. A corollary to this is that most of the time it should be the institution itself that exposes these incidents and brings the perpetrators forward to suffer secular civil justice. Every large institution is going to have bad players - it's unavoidable. You can try in your selection processes to shift your bell curve to the right, but you can never get it wholly perfect. So every large institution needs an internal investigatory branch, and that agency should uncover most of these situation. Then these matters should not be handled internally. The bad actors should be brought forth to our government authorities to face standard justice. These are the things I call for. I call for them from the Church, from law enforcement, and from every single large and powerful institution on the planet.

The late Christopher Hitchens on the crimes of the Catholic Church. I doubt if anyone has ever stated the case better.

The Catholic church is the anti thesis of christ teachings

2 people that spoke sense, gone before their time. RIP Christopher Hitchens and Alan Watts.

Love Hitchens! This is the ULTIMATE B!$%#! Slap to the Catholic Church.

Rest in power Hitch

I love seeing the clergy sitting there seething yet they haven't an argument against a single thing Hitchen's said.

I've seen this whole debate and let me tell you, all of the participants were at the top of their game and both of the atheists were represented flawlessly. The lady of the group on the theistic side was crafty with her words and the African gentleman was not prepared. Game, Set, and Match... Atheists.

Pretty sure I commented on this years ago, but it still hits the same way. Greed and Religion are almost solely responsible for mans worst atrocities against his fellow man. Greed may be impossible to kill, as it's a natural tendency, but religion? That can be deleted from any enlightened civilization and the sooner it is, the better. Just look at Israel today, greed for land and hatred of the competing religion. Both are disgusting.

I miss great oratory. I don't need to agree with someone to be impressed with their ability to speak well. I find we have so few persons anymore who are in fact great oratory. Perhaps Douglas Murry Perhaps. Any other nominees?

Can see a number of people not clapping to what hitch is saying. Why is that? The truth is suppost to set you free. The are so many stupid people in this world!!!!