Hitchens vs. Hitchens: Press Conference (5 of 5)

Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens debate the Iraq War and religion at an event organized by the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies with the support of the Center for Inquiry and the Interfaith Dialogue Association.

[@papavb]

Wonderful and motley discussion, thanks for putting the debate on and for posting the press conference.

[@sun2515]

Thanks for posting!

[@PPartisan]

Nothing quite like listening to two intelligent people talk.

[@writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, HauensteinCenter.

[@baranpourtahmaseb-sasi1421]

"No, they won't..." *looks off contemptuously* "...they won't."

[@Converge88]

If you still haven't seen it, it's on the Huffington Post and Richard Dawkins' site. It's called "Losing our spines to save our necks." It's well written too. Enjoy.

[@Swedetres]

Nevertheless, as brothers they love one another deeply.

[@truestefku]

Thanks! A very good article indeed. The WP and the media in general behaves in a scandalous way by sucking up to the mullahs they expose the few people that are courageous enough to criticise this religion.

[@JCMac777]

Before they talked about those three I thought they were talking about Thatcher, but after I thought he were talking about Hillary Clinton

[@coronaphone710]

The world is run by religion, you seem to not get away with it. They must've known... Very important stuff if you want to progress in politics, because there is the money and powah. I got somewhat persecuted by religion but never bowed down.

[@spaceboy1250]

At around 7:50, Peter states that in 1776 Britian agreed to stay out of American problems. This got a few laughs and is a funny statement. But I would like to add that they did not agree initially, we had to influence them with muzzle loaders and French assistance.

[@truestefku]

I think he refers to the book of Fawn McKay Brodie "No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith" - 'the first important non-hagiographic biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of Latter Day Saint movement' (wiki) its not out of print so you can get it everywhere.

[@smoocher6]

...I just wish Christopher would stop playing with his bloody glasses

[@Moionfire]

Man, Christopher hitchens is hilarious here!! LOL !!

[@AFMMarcelD]

He always was, his Britt humor was unsurpassed and at times over people’s heads.

[@juikm]

@uncreativejackass W.B. Yeats once said; "Out of arguments with others we make rhetoric. Out of arguments with ourselves we make poetry." Slogan for the Hitchens brothers?

[@garywantsmore]

He says Bandaranaike. He could be referring to Chandrika Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka's second woman prime minister or her mother - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who was that country's and also the worlds first woman Prime Minister in 1961.

[@writersblock26]

@guidedbyalan Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the former PM of Ceylon and Sri Lanka and the "world's first female head of [state]."

[@ACMCUK]

thatcher cried when they kicked her out in the car

[@Rootle2]

Peter is very quiet

[@taz0k2]

"There are bellow average representatives that one can pick out from any philosophy. Big deal." It isn't just below average, it is far below mental sanity. It is a big deal. You say that I had the right to criticize it, but then you say that it was juvenile and that I am a bigot. That's inconsistent and makes no sense. "I have the right to criticize your pathetic attempt to feel better than other people." If you think you know my motives, you trick yourself. You don't.

[@truestefku]

Does anybody know where I can find the article by Sam Harris they speak about from 7:47 on, if he published it somewhere? This pathetic behaviour (unjournalistic) by the Washington Post should be made public everywhere, especially towards its readers.

[@Aught3]

Indira Gandhi, former prime-minister of India.

[@magicpony9]

Jeez, the Hitch is totally riding his hobbyhorses in this last clip. Anyone know what's the "extremely conservative religious group" Hilary Clinton joined to "validate her faith claims"?...Thanks for putting this up...I had to look this expression up: ""Changing ships on a falling tide" means to change from one's favored candidate or platform to one less popular." Maybe this is an old naval expression of his dad's, because I've never heard anyone but CH use it...

[@taz0k2]

"please tell me what makes you think you can criticize, but I may not criticize you" It's not about that at all. After my initial civil response to you (I still do not see why it did offend you, though it might have offended Christians). Then you hurl 2 gravely offensive responses at me, calling me juvenile, bigot, saying that I'm stupid. And you insult ME for offensive and snotty =P Who is the most snotty, and offensive of all both? You can't say that I am

[@rouzbehazshab]

it is very true that "religion poisons everything"and also it is true to say that we as humans have proved that we can not do without it.so it is here to stay.what people of no faith say is believe what you must but why must it step on my rights as a human being?like it does in so many places in the world.do some research first before going off.

[@sozialprodukt]

lol - groovy!!

[@taz0k2]

Saying that critique of a religious group is the same as racism, was crossing the line. With that, you lost the debate. Christians share values and beliefs. Blacks only share skin color, nothing else. Further, my critique of Christians have nothing to do with stereotypes (they really DO believe in Jesus and other crazy things), whereas critique of blacks are ALWAYS using constructed stereotypes. The End

[@sozialprodukt]

peter is not saying a lot - actually you could replace him by a staffed cat

[@AFMMarcelD]

Poor Peter patter, always under his brother’s shadow.

[@taz0k2]

Have you ever heard that "the world is perfect, because the perfect god created it" ? I get to see that one ALL the time from Christians. There are a lot of people actually believing such nonsense. After that I state that that also means that they think all diseases are part of that perfect creation, and that makes them start arguing about why diseases are good. I'm not kidding! I have all the right to criticize such beliefs. I have no idea why you got so angry.

[@moonshineinsummer1]

Christopher dominates the converstion......let the stupid be silent.

[@AFMMarcelD]

Indeed, it must to have piss Peter off to always have to lived under the intellect of that gorgeous bastard Christopher, and believe me, I say that in a good way, love and sorely miss Christopher.