Christopher Hitchens on Mother Teresa (2006)

[@darktraquillity2841]

Christopher Hitchnes is a great person with huge sense,i love you from IRAN.

[@bigboypal]

Was

[@user-dk4gm3xm6h]

Hitchens

[@ahnafsaraf5339]

R u an ex muslim

[@prla5400]

Amazing eh. Iranian fan of Hitch. Golly

[@darktraquillity2841]

@@prla5400 HE were a nice man with huge intelligence i love him verymuch,rest in peace.

[@CharleneCash1973]

Oh how I love the genius of this man! I wish he was still alive to share his wisdom regarding the present state of our world.

[@bertroost1675]

Can't you form your own opinion?

[@dommidavros2211]

Yeah I often wonder what he'd make of it!

[@CharleneCash1973]

@@bertroost1675 Thank you for asking... As a matter of fact I can...and quite well I might add. 😁

[@bertroost1675]

@@CharleneCash1973 noice

[@cruithne6021]

Watching him smoking just makes me wish he was still here. We really miss you, Hitch. I'm so sorry you're gone.

[@gilbertodelavega359]

Totally agree. He was a legend. RIP Hitchens.

[@danielromberg685]

Pat Aherne I'm sorry but I got to ask: What about the children?

[@Chris_WG]

Trust me, he's definitely still with us but wish too

[@tonystone3397]

Laugh me bollox off

[@amberlance3221]

@@tonystone3397 that would imply you had bollocks to begin with :)

[@stevenhunter3345]

As Hitchens put it in another context, Mother Teresa and the Catholic Church are not friends of the poor--they're friends of poverty.

[@richardcrouse9074]

They are also friends or immorality and perversion.

[@richardcrowe1429]

@@richardcrouse9074not only that friends of communism. The Catholic Church & the pope are deeply entrenched in it.

[@auturgicflosculator2183]

@@richardcrowe1429 The Catholic Church is great friends with fascist leaders. Not so much with communist ones, particularly since 1948, when the Czech communist government seized church property and funds. In 1949, the Pope started excommunicating any member who supported communism.

[@berean65]

​@@auturgicflosculator2183Did you know that before he became Pope John Paul ll, he was a biochemist and salesman for I.G. Farben Chemical Company? He was responsible for making zyclon-b and malathion and then selling it to Hitler for the extermination of the Jews? Look up the article, A Salesman and a Biochemist.

[@TheHolyOnes33]

@@richardcrouse9074 wheres that teaching?

[@wasianwigger]

a warrior, standing up for what he believes, a true inspiration.

[@bertroost1675]

but his audience is boring

[@atheistleftcomment1807]

I love this guy, respect him and miss so very much my words cannot express it enough.

[@tonyashioti476]

Atheist LeftComment me too.

[@tonystone3397]

Laugh me bollox off, I am glad the shithouse is dead.

[@tonystone3397]

He's dead ya pagan idiot. Loved

[@michaelares4240]

What the fuck do you respect about this nasty surely nasty evil.man

[@bertroost1675]

@@tonyashioti476 Her youtube name tries so hard to be intellectual

[@davidharrison6615]

every word he spoke is true . a great great man . the world weeps for your loss . not far herself.

[@tonystone3397]

You fecking idiot

[@tonystone3397]

LMBO and PML

[@bertroost1675]

I'll bet you miss Carlin and Lennon too

[@davidfinn9828]

The most disturbing thing in this clip is Christopher asking the press "why have ye not exposed her as the fraud she was " and thats why i admire him so much , he has opened my eyes to the Tierney of religions

[@SakuraTempura]

Tierney???

[@sandrasmith2458]

@@SakuraTempura tyrrany

[@berean65]

Man (made religions.) Jesus gave salvation. Jesus turned the tables and trashed their marketplace in the temple of the scribes and pharisees and called them sons of vipers. Jesus is no friend of organized religions. If Jesus saw what terrible Teresa was doing, he would have done the same thing to her, guaranteed.

[@davidhartz8902]

@@berean65 That is, if he had actually existed.

[@berean65]

@@davidhartz8902 He did exist on earth. He still does exist in heaven. It is better to believe and be wrong than to not believe and it be true.

[@NDHFilms]

This was shot at DG Wills in La Jolla, California. It’s one of the best bookstores I’ve ever been to.

[@mykidsdad36]

Even though I am a theist, I have always enjoyed Christopher's writings, debates and his love and use of the English language. He brought a much needed skepticism and accountability to politics and organized religion. I was very sorry to see him become so sick and his passing left a tremendous void in our generation. I think it could have been fittingly said of Christopher, as it was only moments after Abraham Lincoln died ... He now he belongs to the ages.

[@جاسممحمد-ه5ر7ط]

u started your appreciation of hitchens by saying "even though i m a atheist" is it a typing mistake or u r realy that stupid?

[@elmoblatch9787]

@@جاسممحمد-ه5ر7ط I think he's really that stupid.

[@monk1808]

@@elmoblatch9787 You guys do know that being a theist or deist doesn’t mean you are religious, right? Hitchens argues mostly against religious gods, not philosophical gods.

[@romandaigle455]

@@جاسممحمد-ه5ر7ط do you not know the difference between a theist and an atheist?

[@LaplacianFourier]

I wouldn’t compare Lincoln too much with Hitchens, for Lincoln was ready to do as god willed and surrender if the Union lost the Battle of Gettysburg. Look it up. If the Union boys didn’t pull it through that battle, there wouldn’t be an America right now, there’d be an Amerika.

[@LikeMike1234100]

but and to quote hitchens "a candle burning at both ends might burn out more quickly, but i find that it gives a very nice light."

[@elmoblatch9787]

We truly love Hitch. He lives on via KZbin and his words still resonate.

[@Tyche121]

I think that’s a sketch of actor Ronald Coleman behind Hitch

[@nessieness5433]

Superior intellect, razor sharp, cutting away stupidity! Mr Hitchens if only you were still with us!

[@fahim113]

Oh how I miss this man. Thanks for KZbin I can get my fix anytime.

[@timothyrand7372]

fahim113 i agree friend

[@yakubmohamoud]

The first time I watched him he changed my way of thinking. Freed me from my mental captivity. Thank Goodness for him 😢

[@tonystone3397]

LMAO

[@tonystone3397]

LMBO

[@ivobranicky6723]

@La Hire he was the most clever man I have ever seen on the internet. His using of logic is brilliant and examples that he is offering in his assertions are really unbreakable. You dont have to agree with him, but dont say that he is garbage, because even you disagree with someone, that person can be valuable oponent.

[@ssesf]

I like the background! Sad not having Christopher Hitchens around any more to say the things that need to be said but few other are willing to say.

[@tonystone3397]

Its fecking great that the cunts dead, happy days.

[@LifeOfRy]

@@tonystone3397 hahaha you stink of troll.

[@jonoessex]

Looking at my favourite hitchens clips tonight. Love this one!

[@371francis]

I miss the man beyond belief. His intelluct, wit, char, grasp of the English language and his ability to destroy his opponets with one sentence (or two for good measure).

[@atheistleftcomment1807]

In Hitch We Trust.

[@aussieatheist960]

F*ckin AMEN to that!

[@davidhartz8902]

He certainly provided more value to the world than any "God" ever did.

[@anaj9346]

This is the reason I'm trying to quit smoking. This genius died because of cigarettes. I wish he was still here. Great man ❤!

[@pauldavies9360]

It was probably just whole lifestyle tbh. Hitch doesn't come across as a health conscious man. He probably ate poor. Did not strength train and certain did drink and smoke. Although he did quit the smoking around this time.

[@anaj9346]

@@pauldavies9360 yea my ex mother in law quit smoking and 6 years later cancer... its almost like the body keeps going when your mind stops. Awful really

[@anaj9346]

@@pauldavies9360 BTW I quit 😊 after 25 years. Lets hope 2020 doesn't have any more nasty surprises

[@thereisnosanctuary6184]

Bad habits killed him. A lack of self control and self respect the original reason. Not that I'm better. Undoubtably, a smarter man than I. But, I'm smart enough to know when someone has a biased agenda, and a personal weakness. I guess Mother Theresa's get rich quick scheme wasn't the best lifestyle improver.

[@Qui_Gon_Jinn_76]

Quit now cause you can or quit later cause you have to.

[@Ben0002z]

Love seeing him do everything he loved

[@torino390]

This one escaped me somehow. So now I have to binge watch Hitch clips all day in case I've missed any more. ;-)

[@1234poppycat]

You have had the hate and the fiction now the TRUTH ... The Missionaries of Charity established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. In 2020 it consisted of 5,167 religious sisters." A member of the congregation must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, and the fourth vow, to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor." Missionaries care for those who include refugees, former prostitutes, the mentally ill, sick children, abandoned children, lepers, people with AIDS, the aged, and convalescent. They have schools that are run by volunteers to teach abandoned street children and run soup kitchens as well as other services according to the community needs. These services are provided, without charge, to people regardless of their religion or social status. Their mission is to care for (in Mother Teresa's words) "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." It began as a small community with 12 members in Calcutta (now Kolkata), and in 2020 had 5,167 members serving in 139 countries in 760 homes, with 244 of these homes in India. The sisters run orphanages, homes for those dying of AIDS, charity centres worldwide, and care for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, Europe and Australia. They have 19 homes in Kolkata (Calcutta) alone which include homes for women, orphaned children and homes for the dying; a school for street children, and a leper colony. Those who are sisters or Priests in the Charity visit their homes every five years but do not take annual holidays The first home of the Missionaries of Charity in the United States was established in the South Bronx New York, ] Their first rural mission in the United States, in 1982, was in one of the poorest, former coal mining areas of Kentucky, where they still serve. The quality of care offered to terminally ill patients in the Home for the Dying in Calcutta was the subject of discussion in the mid-1990s. Some British observers, on the basis of short visits, drew unfavourable comparisons with the standard of care available in hospices in the United Kingdom. Remarks made by Dr. Robin Fox relative to the lack of full-time medically-trained personnel and the absence of strong analgesics were published in a brief memoir in an issue of The Lancet in 1994. These remarks were criticised in a later issue of The Lancet on the ground that they failed to take account of Indian conditions, specifically the fact that government regulations effectively precluded the use of morphine outside large hospitals In Phoenix, Arizona, the sisters' accommodation for 40 homeless men is funded by a clothier, featured in Vogue, who grew up within a few blocks of Mother Teresa's original home for the dying destitute in Kalighat, Calcutta. Princess Diana, who was very close to Mother Teresa, wrote that she found in her "the direction I've been searching for all these years". Mother Teresa's sisters were particularly hard hit by the 2020 outbreak of COVID-19, as in places they continued to distribute food and minister to the poor who had been affected. Violence against missionaries In July 1998 in Al Hudaydah, Yemen, three Missionaries of Charity, two Indians and a Filipina, were shot and killed as they left a hospital. In March 2016 in Aden, Yemen, sixteen people were shot and killed in a home for the elderly operated by the Missionaries of Charity. Among the dead were four missionary sisters: Sisters Marguerite and Reginette from Rwanda, Sister Anselm from India and Sister Judit from Kenya. Bishop Hinder described the attack as "religiously-motivated". A Salesian Syro-Malabar priest who was living at the facility, Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil of Bangalore, India, was taken prisoner by the attackers.

[@HistoricLife]

@@1234poppycat The rest of the truth is she took stolen money. She did not properly medically treat people because she felt suffering brings you closer to god. She violently enforced chastity. Her group reused needles. As pointed out the Church policy on female reproductions spreads human degradation. This is why the best nations to be born into are the least religious ones.

[@1234poppycat]

@@HistoricLife Yes she took stolen money from rich powerful people and gave it to the poor through the Work done for the poor. Saint Teresa did her best for the very sick and terminally ill in a India where only state hospitals were allowed to provide powerful painkilling and an estimated 2% recieved adequate end of life care.

[@HistoricLife]

@@1234poppycat Did she really do her best or was she doing things based on her superstations that happen to be hurtful because she was ignorant and superstitious? Hitchens points are dead on that the church and its followers do harm. As an American so many of our social problems trace back to conservatives Christians of many flavors, they are holding back progress on many levels.

[@1234poppycat]

@@HistoricLife You simply do not understand. From 1949 she was helping the poorest of the poor .. The cameras came in 1969 & she used the money she raised to help the poor .. So many social problems are reduced by Christians Catholic social services and homes for the elderly ....

[@ionebrown481]

I adore Hitchens he speaks truth

[@VerilyTY]

What's with the audience throughout the first half? He's making very serious and important points, and they're giggling like they're at a Jimmy Carr show.

[@TylerMcManus1]

"Religion is the enemy."That's a great truth,Mr. Hitchens.

[@Zerg121]

Great point about fairness and objectivity. This came up quite often during his appearances on C-SPAN.

[@sandygorail4207]

i get sad to see him smoke :(

[@DieFlabbergast]

Life is a gamble: no-one ever claimed it was "fair." Millions of people (including myself) smoked like a chimney for many years and yet still lived to a reasonably old age. It was Russian roulette, and Hitchens was one of those who got the loaded chamber. A pity, but that's life.

[@hammerain93]

Love his view on mothers/women

[@crazyr605]

what a boss

[@hotaslava69er]

What a toss!

[@yvonne4933]

I totally agree with Hitchens about the Albanian dwarf "Mother Theresa"!

[@antoniov64]

People lie you are immoral filth that are polluting the world

[@excelcsllc]

Antonio Brahms I couldn’t agree more my dear friend!!! There is a special place for people like Yvonne and it’s called hell!!!!!!!

[@excelcsllc]

Yvonne You need to get laid more often!!!!

[@tonystone3397]

The shithouse Hitchens is dead, cant stop laughing.

[@tonystone3397]

So what

[@chris-solmon4017]

I mentioned to my father about religious leaders and media whores asking for donations. And he said "Yeah, they shouldn't do that. Mother Theresa didn't ask for donations. She depended on God". I wanted to slap him. Totally clueless about reality.

[@Ericwvb2]

"He loves you and He NEEDS MONEY! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!" - George Carlin

[@Prof_Tickles92]

Einstein had a famous quote "I believe in Spinoza's God who manifests itself through the natural harmony of the universe". Spinoza's god is essentially pantheism. Look it up

[@eric669]

a very much missed man.

[@ianschulze1461]

If the world had more people like him and fewer "religious" types, the world would be a better place.

[@Mcbignuts]

Yes, invade a few more middleastern countries, ol hitch had a taste for that

[@Qui_Gon_Jinn_76]

This world needs Jesus Christ 🙏

[@ForMindlessConsumption]

"Mother Teresa spent her entire life saying that solution is impermissible... So I wish there was a hell to which she could go" Good god, Christopher! -- * perhaps I should phrase that differently... * Jesus Christ, Christopher! -- * hmmmm, no... * Dang, Christopher! -- * there we go *

[@meagain8061]

You can't hate a man for doing what he did to be just himself. He knew it was killing him, but he knew he enjoyed it. Isn't that life? To be an example of someone that lives in accordance to how they would enjoy it? Why live in a dull existence, to what you would perceive as a dull existence, just to live longer to appease others?

[@lonestarcafe]

Haha!! I am loving all these contrarian comments about substance abuse

[@AdventKnyght]

Hopefully he will inspire a new person(s) in the future to be just as good if not better

[@stechriswillgil3686]

You can almost hear the cancer cells dividing with each drag on that cigarette. He’s obviously on a three day whisky bender too. He starts to look unwell around 2002. He’s not quite his usual self from thereon. His chastened look when he’s on chemo later on is more to do with enforced sobriety imho.

[@johnd7435]

A life spent opposing birth control !

[@tinguzz]

this guy has the guts to tell hard truths (harder even to listen). He is 100% true, what he didn't mention was her conversion mafia (Well missionaries need poverty stricken people to convert, ask them to go to Japan and convert, probably you won't get an answer). Conversion mafia has very less area left, India is the only place left.

[@WindTurbineSyndrome]

Well Calcutta is Bangladesh which is mostly muslim

[@jean-baptiste6479]

The pope arrives in the space after death. "God God, are you there". Christopher : "cigarette?"

[@hemenkadir387]

😢😢😢 never missed anybody as much

[@AshManJoshi]

Mother teresa converted people to Christianity before helping them, which per me was complete insult of the social work she did. Was she trying to say that only Christians should be helped and have a right to life??

[@JustinLHopkins]

Precisely.

[@mememan2344]

That is essentially a filtering process. Those who need help, but have a thinking brain get told go to hell. And if you accept help and think you're being lied to, get out, go to hell, God hates you as well unless you repent and come back to the b.s. 😂 it's so sickening 😅 but...you can always lie, and THAT'S what religion really teaches. That's why liars do so well in it.

[@colvinator1611]

She didn't convert people to Christianity , she converted them to catholicism. There's a huge difference.

[@GodGivenFT]

Well he was articulate and did have a great accent I'll give him that much.

[@brianmannion7097]

Touching on the fraudulence, she also went to get ace western healthcare treatment once or twice which is hypocritical when looking at her own views on dying. When she said that suffering brings you closer to God, the action she took in dealing with her own health, doesn't really reflect her framework influenced by her religious precepts that dictated the operations of her own missionaries and well-being of the children she 'looked after'. If that's what she truly believed then she was a hyprocrite and dangerous. If not then, well, she was obviously intentionally evil and still hyprocritical and dangerous.

[@tonystone3397]

Blessed women, ya fecking idiot.

[@thomasowens5824]

Hitch is so missed.

[@sonuEEE]

I really wish I was enrolled in his class..

[@mykidsdad36]

Plus, while he fast became the poster child for Atheism, his writings and essays, dealt with a vast amount of topics, more than just religion, such as his books on Jefferson, Orwell, Kissinger, Clinton, and architecture, among the many others. I simply love his style. Also being actively a part of religious beliefs and activity for over 22 years, there are many things that I see as detestable and corrupt, which can also be found in all of life and practice, where people are present.

[@Toryboy1807]

What were people laughing at? Very little he said was funny, whether you agreed with it or not.

[@steve9542000]

Relief? Something being said that no one wanted to say? Or could not at least articulate like Hitchens. I live in the most cowardly nation in Europe, the UK, and this sort of speech could now possibly land you in court and, at the very least, see you 'cancelled'.

[@lettersquash]

I like the principle of objectivity. It's a great aspiration. I like the denouncing of harmful actions, whoever perpetrated them, and especially when they are irrationally excused due to some perceived saintliness. What we must be cautious of, however, is thinking that embracing "objectivity" is like innoculation, over in a shot, thereafter protecting us from all rational error. Through his subjective, fallible lens, Hitchens cites wickedness of a religious person to condemn religion.

[@johnybrokeit]

It brings me immense joy and pleasure to see a man among us who stood up and spoke and has shown ME the truth. I am not ashamed that I have left the Christian faith. It is appalling to me now. It has raised me well with absolutely beautiful hard working and extremely loving and doting parents and Christian friends. But I’m afraid that it still cannot keep me from wanting to shout out to the whole world to seeeee the lie it is and has been covering up for 100s of years. Sorry to ramble. Thank you Mr. Hitchens. I am sincerely grateful for your effort toward letting the world see the truth in religion.

[@gabac3067]

I have experienced the presence 0f Jesus Christ. There is evil in this world that disguises itself as the angel of light. In due time the evil will be snuffed out. I left the Catholic church decades ago. I continue to sift through the Chaffee within the wheat. God will eventually burn the chaffe.

[@elizabethmcloughlin1984]

Hitch - my hero. He was the only one to expose Mother Theresa as a liar, charlatan & thief.

[@berean65]

​@@gabac3067Catholicism is the problem. Catholics are not Christian by any means. Catholicism is nothing more than pagan Babylonian sun god worship of Tammuz under the disguise of christianity. True Christianity has nothing to do with Catholicism. Catholicism is an evil man made organization of corruption from the time it started with the pagan emperor, Constantine. Jesus did not start any organized religions. I fact, he vehemently was against them. Because he called out the Scribes and Pharisees, he was crucified for it.

[@Moomitrolly]

Fearlessly honest, something of a hero....we must stop the modern idolatory....Elvis, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela.....we need to be one thing...............honest. Sentimentality warps the age.

[@eveningtsar]

Interesting how the defenders of Mother Teresa never try to and refute HItchens' evidence; they just attack his character and repeat the same thing. "How you attack Mother Teresa! Look at all she's done for the poor!" " She actually hasn't done anything for the poor." "How dare you attack Mother Teresa! Look at all she's done. . ."

[@jameshogan6142]

Good idea. I will never again try to refute those who attack Hitchens.

[@literallyallthingsonice]

Yes, he was always drunk BUT HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT THIS FUCKING MONSTER

[@gazatkinson5288]

I would sacrifice a million a poisoned dwarfs like her to have hitch back with. Id love to hear his thoughts on the religious and political world as we know it now it would be very interesting R.I.P hitch love you man

[@drewdrewski6278]

Here Here !!

[@beckjessica99]

Geez, you can tell by the comments how heated people get over religion. I am a Christian, but I apsolutely agree that mother Theresa was a fraud and the people who run the Catholic Church (as well as any church that profits off of their congregation). For any catholic person, don't jump down my throat- you were probably born catholic so it's tradition and family time, I don't blame you. Jesus wanted to help the poor and lived a humble poor life hisself. I don't believe he would approve of the Catholic Church one bit- they have enough money to probably feed and cloth the world yet they do nothing. Mother Theresa gave her time to the poor but collected millions in their name while watching them suffer, that doesn't make her an honest Christian in my eyes. Not judging her-just making an observation. And don't attack me if you are atheist- my beliefs are mine and yours are yours

[@riccardoorlando2262]

Jessica Ann Well, I was born in Italy, and guess where Vatican State is... That's right, in the middle of our capital city. I was born Christian, and baptized, and forced to attend extra schools on Saturdays up until the age of 9, when I realied the old woman who "taught" there had no answers for my questions. (Poor lady... I actually liked her). Then I simply refused and I don't have any other sacraments. So yeah, it's not impossible to grow out of religions, or at least Catholicism.

[@jamesb7651]

+Jessica Ann What are you saying? that the Roman Catholic Church "does nothing" with the money it raises? You only need to use your smart phone Google function to prove you are very, very ignorant on charity giving in this world.

[@riccardoorlando2262]

James B Also very, very ignorant on power struggles in the world.

[@jamesb7651]

Jessica: Please do some research. The Roman Catholic Church is the largest benefactor of the poor on the planet, spending the most money and time globally. Somewhere, you missed that one. God Bless.

[@sherifor3220]

Jessica Ann Learn church history Jesus started the catholic church, hate the catholic church and your certainly decieved by satan.Did younot know St. Peter was the first pope.

[@martinlee1744]

Hitchens french inhaling his cigarette makes my manhood tingle

[@fezzik7619]

It was a shame that Hitch held back so much 😂

[@milesdust3465]

Stupidity will kill us all at the end. Tragic but true.

[@JustAnotherGamertag]

Does anyone mind explaining to me how giving women control over their bodies more than likely kills poverty? I'm quite sure it is probably true, but I'd love to be able to explain how it works.

[@Crainiuss]

Women will have fewer children if they choose. Religion gives men the power to have many kids with their wife and the wife has no say. Less mouths to feed, less poverty. Simple. There's many other reasons but that to me is the main one.

[@JustAnotherGamertag]

Craig D Thanks for replying, and thanks for information!

[@Crainiuss]

no problem :)

[@MrBandholm]

As said, fewer children, also very often, that means that the women starts getting jobs, small business/shops, thuse meaning that they get an extra income. In pure poverty studies, it is remarkable that so far, the education of women, and womens control over their own bodies, has been shown that it is the only reliable way for defeating poverty

[@TurdFurgeson571]

You'd be surprised to see what happens when the other 50% of the population is allowed to contribute in a society that treats them fairly.

[@Listermintsluesh]

Never would of addressed mother Teresa as so, but then again we were all led to believe she was a wonderful person. An interesting view. I guess most of us are detached from reality and truth, or rather, are too preoccupied with our own daily struggles and journeys..

[@ssesf]

"...morally inconsistent..." Please elaborate. (I'm a non-smoker and teetotaler.)

[@PapaWilk]

Look at that grin at 1:24. I've seen the cheeky smirks before but this may be the only time I've seen a hearty grin!

[@fullthrottlemaxrpm]

I hate when people laugh at something that’s not funny just because it comes from someone they like

[@yermais66]

You can clearly hear the dull sycophant on here.

[@Christheatheist1]

You've gotta love the Hitch!

[@NeilCrouse99]

God I love this dishevelled alcoholic :)

[@LikeMike1234100]

my your memory insight generations to bring up revolutionary ideas, Christopher Hitchens.

[@HealthySkepticism1775]

Nobody makes smoking a cigarette look more cool than James Dean, James Bond and Christopher Hitchens. Damn I need a smoke. and I don't even smoke.

[@martinshannon7632]

R. I. P. Hitch

[@Enigmatik691]

She never lost her faith, she doubted, and this is a sincere human experience That many great lives experienced. But of course I do not expect a superficial neo-atheist to grasp that. Yes there was a time when atheism was represented by sincere and respected intellectuals. That is not the case today.

[@sexyserbomuffin]

Well you just answered your own question. He MADE is money, earned it. He didnt accept millions of dollars that was stolen from the poor. Pretty obvious distinction, i would hope. BTW Hitchens has a hate for religion and what it does to people, its not a vandetta against Catholics

[@Lavabug]

Bam! Hitchslapped.

[@guts7179]

YEAH WHAT A SLAP, THAT DEAD OLD LADY CERTAINLY FELT IT! Boy she won't come back from that one, she'll have enough time to think of a comeback, since she's dead you know. Wait, Hitchslap is dead too? Nice I'll better slander him now, so he'll have something to think about YEEEAH

[@wasianwigger]

a warrior for liberation and free speech

[@daborshy4089]

"Mother Teresa is responsible for innumerable deaths and untold suffering." "HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

[@bl-ade]

Yea it was embarrassing honestly

[@DiannaRose66]

So true

[@marie-evemign3571]

Caught my attention too...he visibly wasn't joking but if seems like the people attending the talk were acting more like fans than free thinkers.

[@srrlIdl]

@aegisgfx reading your comment, i'm guessing you wanted to send this to 'BestMusic2012' instead of me?

[@ushasingh3088]

Is he really this sexy or is it just me??!!!

[@suresh66996]

Lol I'm sure many ladies find him the same way as you do

[@sa-iw4dr]

Brains and compassion are sexy!

[@elainejohnson6955]

His blue eyes are mesmerizing and his smirk is unbeatable!!! Along with his quick witt, Intelligence and moral convictions!!!

[@elainejohnson6955]

@Slippery Storm get a life!

[@BikiniDeathSquad]

Notice that man in a baseball cap reading a book in the back. Look how still he is being!

[@h.j.w2783]

it's a hat rack u dumbass haha, man that made me chuckle

[@LetsTake-a-Look...]

Really? The amount of keyboard warrior-ism here is disgraceful. Even if all the bad things she did here are true and they may well be,she still helped a hell of lot of more people in the worst parts of the world than anybody here or any one you know ever will. There are two sides to everything and the fact you are all gathered here focusing on the negative and ignoring all the positive indicates something else. Just look at the insults supposedly grown adults are throwing out. I'm a fan of Hitchens but the lack of respect here for an iconic figure that no one here personally knew is disappointing. Anyone with a varying opinion please post away but just keep the conversation respectful. Thanks!

[@dreadsupreme]

The fact that's you're trying to excuse bad behavior by some type of justices good is fucked. Their are two sides to every story, didn't realize one was worth over looking more than the other.

[@LetsTake-a-Look...]

Dread Supreme Thanks for your comment, I understand what your pointing out but I must ask where in my comment I dismissed Mother Theresa' s wrong doing? No one in this world is perfect and as you correctly stated there are two sides to every story it's just some people are more influential than others I felt I had to point that out because every one here is just bashing her. Have a good day :)

[@reddot6369]

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

[@paisleyatlarge]

Now is a good time for everyone to start smoking tobacco. It has recently been proven that 96 per cent of people who don't smoke die anyway. Unless you live to be 100. We know that hardly anyone dies after 100. Thank you Chrisopher for you message, and your bravery for saying publicly what many are afraid to.

[@Rome372]

very cheap, know first yourself.... then you will be bewildered en you wouldn't speak such crap anymore

[@alienkishorekumar]

+renardo mooij Learn English first.

[@Rome372]

+alienkishorekumar maybe you try it in dutch. Greetings from Holland

[@alienkishorekumar]

renardo mooij Are you Dutch Christian who is helping Muslim immigrants? Well, you know what? Geert Wilders is right and you are fucked. Good bye! I guess that was enough Dutchy for today.

[@Rome372]

alienkishorekumar He friend. nice to hear from you. No, I am not a christian or moslim. And I can speak for myself. I am sorry to hear who you struggled with your self and the world. Know that all what comes from you your own projection is!

[@alienkishorekumar]

renardo mooij aHH..what a load of bullshit!! Did some "philosophical guru" teach you this? You are obviously brain washed western idiot, too good to believe shit like this. Live in poverty and you will forget all this kind of bullshit. You are beinoor g delusional by thinking world in an idealistic way which it will never be and when shit hits the fan you are the first one to be mentally traumatized. I can't imagine the kind of idiots the westerners are that they some "guru" to learn shit about the world. You have money? Spend it and travel around the world. Give to the deserving people who sell you stuff, not to the undeserving who act poor aka professional beggars. Give money to children for education and food in poor nations. Don't call on other's attempts to make the world a better place cheap. It's just shameful for humanity to do that.

[@beeDUB75]

right on Christopher

[@nielspemberton59]

YES ! YES !! YES !!!

[@williamkinch3182]

Jonathan Edwards (the distinguished former Olympic athlete, who broke the World Record for the Triple Jump back in August 1995) was DEFINITELY a deeply religious, God-fearing Christian believer as a young man. However, he is no longer a believer.

[@johnybrokeit]

Can someone please discuss what he said about the only solution to getting rid of poverty? To let the women take control of the birth rate and give them seeds and credit.. I really want to know what everyone thinks about this. Seems like something I must think about. Please discuss, thank you.

[@RobinMcBeth]

ah, every time i see it :) i sure miss him.

[@MarquisFacade88]

The cackling glee of the self righteous audience is undiluted hubris. They’re one step away from “yaaaass, queen!”

[@allan2098]

No, it's not so complicated. Just a group of intelligent people having a laugh.

[@MarquisFacade88]

@@allan2098 more hubris

[@allan2098]

@@MarquisFacade88 If it makes you feel better Marquis de Sade..

[@Mcbignuts]

@@allan2098 what have those who criticise mother Teresa done for the poor? Pigshit that's what Buncha self righteous pricks who like making fun of a dead woman who lived a virtous life, cuz she didn't share their shit beliefs, yes atheism is a belief, yall are not the unique snowflakes u think u are

[@allan2098]

@@Mcbignuts Sounds like you're the snowflake getting upset about this. Everything in your comment if false rhetoric. They say ignorance is bliss,, but it appears to be the source of your frustration, Mac.

[@IamKlaus007]

For anyone, not just Christopher Hitchens, to make these kind of statements about an individual who has presented themselves in the way that this subject has, need to make absolutely certain that what they are saying is based on fact. If it were not, then a defamation case could certainly be actioned against the person who has said these things. Of all the arguements Hitch has offered to anyone that is willing to take him on in an adverse position, he has responded with a depth of knowledge and understanding on any subject he has been challenged on. This happens because he is willing to research his subjects in great depth. If only many people were willing to do this, then maybe, just maybe, human beings would spend less time fighting about who's right and who's wrong and spend more time living harmoniously.

[@michaelbrennan6811]

Beautiful

[@HallyHarrer]

In the end she wrote that she realised that there was nothing there to pray to...just silence. 🤔

[@gordonwroe3739]

So true...

[@talkinboutthebigtime]

@Timintown because like any great rhetorician, he knows how to treat serious matters with a little humour!

[@TletlQuetzal]

i can understand why he did it, it was his choice, and at the end he acknowledged his choice was wrong.

[@joelruiz3025]

For real though seeing him smoke just makes me wish he quit earlier and avoided that situation to have that knowledge/opinions especially now

[@lumpheadthump]

Hitch is greatly missed

[@bjnboy]

@PTSD101 I should also mention that Mother Teresa saw it as as her God given right never to have to pay anyone for anything. Once she bought food for her nuns in London for GB£500. When she was told she'd have to pay at the till, the diminutive seemingly harmless nun showed her Balkan temper and shouted, "This is for the work of God!" She raged so loud and so long that eventually a businessman waiting in the queue paid up on her behalf.

[@Lewa500]

Sometimes the truth is so ironic, it's literally funny.

[@johnking5174]

Angus Deayton on Have I Got News For You (BBC) got into trouble with the joke that Mother Teresa won the "All Calcutta shrivelled walnut lookalike competition"

[@trixwiz7]

@Murdulo Well reasoned argument. I suppose if one wishes to be critical of Hitler or Stalin or whoever, then (with sufficient evidence) one may be critical of Mother Teresa as well. Having listened to what he has said I think one can feasibly argue Mother Teresa deserves some criticism, although one can also defend that point as well. But on the whole I think she was a good person

[@urMamaMuthaSukka]

That story was never in the original text btw, it was later added by scribes.

[@rpcarnell]

@CondorDM Not really. God has a problem unicorns do not have: it is based on a logical contradiction, as it is: (1) Everything needs a creator, a designer (2) God is the creator, the designer (3) Oh wait, we must exclude God from #1 Unicorns aren't based on a logical fallacy of this sort.