What hogwash - he did not reject anything or anyone. He was just asking for proof. None of the believers ever was able to do so. And even worse. Believers make extraordinary claims that would require extraordinary evidence but that would require real work - much easier to throw in some platitudes like: You must have faith - no, no I don't especially if this faith requires me to let my critical faculties go for a hike, I don't. Or: God works in mysterious ways - so do I if I am drunk enough. To say it with Hagrid: Codswallop

​@@user-rv7se3rn5osounds like you're itching to join him. 😂 😂 😂

​@@user-rv7se3rn5ocontinue thinking. Continue using your ability to think for yourself. You dont have to ditch critical thinking in order to follow Jesus. Continue seeking the Truth of everything with an open mind, and an open heart (i hope you understand what that means) and you will find the answer. Lemme give you the answer you will find right now: Its Jesus Christ. But you dont have to believe me. Reflect on your own life, study the gospels for yourself, and then conclude whether or not you NEED Jesus. Asking for physical proof is unreasonable. As humans, we dont necessarily based our lives on proof. However, we look at the evidence that points to almost every aspect of our lives. Asking for proof for God, but refusing to look at and test the evidence that points towards his existence is dishonest and arrogant.

Small minded person. If the so called god wants human beings to go to heaven (a horrible idea) when we die, why does'nt he reaveal himself to everyone and show us proof of the called paradise.? Why. He sends us liars like youself to speak without proof!

@@savedbylovinggraceto “need” Jesus you have to actually believe in him, something which requires proof, unless you are simply brainwashed and conditioned into being a Christian

Excellent point. Thanks be to God.

Hitchens fully rejected his saving attorney that we Christians have. Very bad for him.

If only it were so simple. Remember that every atheist would never want to be with God anyways. If they were honest, then there should be a sense of relief that the Bible were true, and that they could reject God 1 last time to his face. The good news is that God will put us to the side, and make the non-Christians kneel before him, and declare himself to be our God.

@@eugenetswong Wow. Very well said. I always wonder if some will have the chance to turn around even then. I doubt it but I still have some hope. It’s so reassuring to know He, our Lord, makes no mistakes for He knows the heart of all of us.

@@castelbergtom2252Yes yes yes. I agree! I needed to read your comment; especially the part about no mistakes.

Upsetting a milk jug is resulting in entropy…not exactly the same as the mechanisms for nerve transmission in the mind although some entropy is produced with thought.

@@MultiCII What are you trying to say? Can you explain it more. Your comments are highly confusing.

@MultiCII is not exactly a refutation of Lewis point. Mind you, Lewis was a fervent atheist and scientist before his conversion near the end of his life. He spent an entire lifetime grappling with these questions before coming to a conclusion. You've just perused a few youtube videos. People like Hitchens still to this day have never countered any of his arguments because they themselves believe that, yes, they can trust their brain despite their belief being created by entirely random forces. They implicitly trust the idea that random chemicals and neurons firing is enough justification to trust it or these random events explain something as complicated and immaterial as thought and reason. They've never been able to provide a scientific rationale for why ideas of non material existence like morality exist. They say evolutionary theory gives way to that? But evolutionary theory is a concept where the strong devour weak. There's a reason atheistic 'scientific' facistic regimes developed soon after Darwins ideas.

No, what are you trying to say. You cant equate spilling milk to the complex neurochemical interactions that produce thought. We know from neuroscience that stimulating a particular part of the brain or depressing particular types of neurotransmitters can change a persons thoughts, personality, cause fear, it can even make someone sexually deviant. This shows thought is clearly a product of physical -chemical occurrences that evolved throughout different species to reach the complex level humans have now. Something being difficult to explain doesn't necessitate magic as the answer. @@infinitrixtv5847

I love the writings and sayings of C.S. Lewis

absolutely right.

Never heard of that quote, but thanks for sharing it. It's marvelous.

free will doesnt exist

Nonsense. Did a person commit a murder or not? How do we decide? By examining evidence. Where there is no solid evidence-merely claims and hearsay which do not align with reality-we should disbelieve such claims. The same would be true for belief in any deity if only people weren’t indoctrinated to believe that their religions are correct.

@santanoschsantosch3016 that is absolutely laughable! 🤣

Sure does. Why subject yourself to self-destructional slavery?

HIS SHOCK WHEN HE FINDS OUT THAT HE BLEW IT MIGHT BE WORSE THEN HIS HELL.

🤣@@atallah1989

Dream on, you have all wasted your lives praying to either a non-existent entity, or an "omni-potent", "omni-present" entity that can't be arsed to give us any real proof/information. I am sorry, when I die, and IF I am wrong, I will be asking him more questions than he will ask me! He is not worthy of worship, IF he exists.

​@@glennmcc64Ummm He did. It's called the Bible. If you deny it then that has a consequence. If you choose not to seek that also has a consequence.

Not!

I, like you, do not subscribe to the Wager as the path to salvation (true salvation doesn't work that way), but it is food for thought in that it points out the fact that only the atheist is at risk. IOWs, if I, as a Christian turn out to be wrong, and the atheist is right, I live my life with the comfort, strength, and joy of my false belief until I die in peace, and cease to exist. I lose nothing. If I'm right (which I am) then I get to live this good life, now, PLUS an infinitely better new life of eternal bliss after. I win either way. On the other hand, if I'm right, and the atheist wrong, his loss is horrendous, but if he is right he gets to live in nihilistic misery, now, enduring whatever purposeless suffering comes to him until he goes off into oblivion, after. The atheist has everything to lose, and absolutely NOTHING to gain. I would literally rather be roadkill, than to be an atheist, and even if I were an atheist, I would promote Christianity simply for the benefits and comforts it affords. After all, what's the point of taking away people's hope and comfort if the atheist's meaningless worldview is true, anyway?

@Daniel-b6s That's it? That's your big attack on the Bible? Some scribe got some numbers off? I expected something far bigger than that. I'm the last person to say that the Bible has been perfectly transmitted to us in the 21st century English speaking world. That doesn't invalidate the basic precepts of the scriptures, though. Have you ever even bothered to look into how we got the Bible today? There has been and continues to be much debate on certain MINOR points, but the core principals of Christianity found in scripture are plain and consistent throughout, and are considered orthodox doctrine by all major denominations. Are you that critical with other ancient documents...or modern ones, for that matter? I've found typos and minor errors in MODERN textbooks that used modern equipment and technology to produce, yet the bible authors had to painstakingly copy the scriptures by hand with primative pens and ink by oil lamp light. I think they did a pretty remarkable job, all things considered. You do know, being the eminent Bible scholar that you are, that NO ONE TODAY possesses the original autographs, right? The originals no longer exist, or, if they do, they've been lost. We must make do with very excellent, though slightly flawed, COPIES of those original autographs. Flaws that do not compromise essential basic orthodox Christian doctrine in anyway. As for your gotcha about God tempting people to do evil, that is true, and no Christian I know of is confused by that. He does use Satan to tempt people, though, as is seen in the temptation of Christ by Satan in the Gospels. So if Satan is carrying out something that God wills to happen, like the temptation of His Son, it can be said that it's coming from God, since it is His will. But NO, God doesn't directly tempt anyone. Also, the word TEMPT in old English, like some words even in modern English has more than one sense in the Bible. In one sense it means to entice someone to sin, while in another sense, it means to try or test someone with some sort of adversity. God does do that. What's wrong with David doing a census? The most obvious answer is because Almighty God TOLD HIM NOT TO. If you were a good man, you would stop right there. That should be a good enough reason for you. God said NO, PERIOD. God doesn't have to explain His reasons to us puny sacks of dirt. However, the obvious problem was David getting the big head because of how powerful he was militarily. The US is like that, no? All fighting aged men of Israel were automatically part of the army, back then. David was proud of his army, and God hates human pride. God knew, as David should have, that David's power was in God, not his army. And, your claim that Israel's army couldn't be a certain size, back then, is just an assumption on your part. You weren't there, so you have no way of knowing. You're just exercising FAITH in the written words of man, which is, ironically, what your ilk accuse us Christians of doing. Even if that accusation was true, then it would only mean that it was just our HUMANS' words against your HUMANS' words.

Your answer is in 2Kings 6:17

@Daniel-b6swithout the Holy Spirit you will never understand the Lord. You can’t interpret scripture by your understanding. 1 Corinthians chapter 2 explains this to you. You must have the mind of Christ which is Holy Spirit. Otherwise you wander in the wilderness.

@Daniel-b6sDavid was to rely on the strength of God and not by the might of a census of how many men he had. By the insight of God he won every battle he faced.

Well even during judgement your Guardian Angel will try to defend your good deeds, he will act as your spokesperson.

@@Wilantonjakov Shouldn't be necessary with an omniscient ... no?

@@johnhough7738 it definitely is. God knows, but a verbal account of your good deeds is more for _you_ than for God.

@@Wilantonjakov My memory isn't what it once was, I'm afraid ol' God will have to prompt me a bit. But- -but if He's the grand ultimate know-all (omniscient) then why the accounting? Or does he take a sadistic delight in watching the condemned squirm?

Why do chtistians like boys?

Voltaire.

@GuitarGuy057 well it is attributed to Voltaire but there's some doubt as to whether it was him.

Too bad he didn't realize that (((S)))) was never his friend!

@@GuitarGuy057 Really? I thought it was Bertrand Russell. thank you.

According to one story of his last words, Voltaires response to a priest at his deathbed urging him to renounce Satan was allegedly… "Now is not the time for making new enemies." However, if you fact check this quote it’s fake as it actually originated from a joke first published in a Massachusetts newspaper in 1856, and was only attributed to Voltaire in the 1970s. Moreover, Voltaire actually died in 1778 - yes? But atheists, bless them, get little cheapies out of the thought that Voltaire was one of their own and sold his soul to the Devil - right? That is they get a SUPERIORITY COMPLEX over left wing fairytales that Voltaire sold his soul to the god of automatons and the god of materialism and scientism. He clearly wasn’t an atheist!! No one really knows what he said near his death. Apart from…. On the 28th of March 1778, only a few months before he died he wrote these famous lines to his secretary Wagnière : “I'm dying worshipping God, loving my friends, without hate for my ennemies and with detestation of superstition” [Voltaire]. Near the end he clearly made his peace with God and his enemies whilst suffering with illness. Suffering seems to do that. It gives people a good kick up the backside and rattles them from their teenage sophomoric stupor. That’s the paradoxical nature of reality and redemption.

Exactly!✝️❤️🔥

And he was an arrogant s.o.b

He was very well read and may well have specifically chosen that turn of phrase to make a point.

Lucifer doesn't really appear in the bible, I think.

@@reesedds Hitchens was brave: he told it like it is. A hero of mine.

But then, they applaud those who practise atheism

They worst human beings. Animals are better than those people

@@jacobalexander4167It’s a perfect mechanism for self destruction so why wouldn’t they applaud? Once you’ve destroyed your belief, then there will surely be some malevolent character offering you an alternate vision that requires your religious unwavering commitment.

Demons(iow fear) are the created vanguards of religion. Thus an "atheist demon" is an impossibility, an oxymoronic term...all demons must believe in god or they wouldn't exist...they play THE essential part in the myth...without the devil, religions are meaningless and unnecessary.

@@stunns2003 In my view, individuals often rely on belief systems to seek security and meaning in their lives. I believe this attachment to beliefs stems from psychological conditioning influenced by society, family, and culture. The notion of a "malevolent character" offering an alternative vision can be seen as an external force attempting to manipulate people through fear or desire. I advocate questioning and resisting such manipulation. I hold a critical stance towards organized religions and ideologies that demand unwavering commitment. I contend that such commitments often lead to conformity, division, and conflict. From my perspective, societies built on rigid belief systems inherently foster division. The concept of an "alternate vision" would be considered another form of conditioning, and I encourage individuals to break free from all forms of conditioning, including the imposition of new belief systems.

Jesus won not a single argument

How do you know? Because your pastor told you so? Your priest? Your bishop? The same guys who have no qualms to abuse children, women, and the "other" alike? And who told them? A little voice in their deluded brains? The ones who claim to worship an omnipotent being that needs their help? Me thinks the people who put on robes and white collars and call themselves reverends and fathers and such and boldy claim to know the unknowable for sure- and make a pretty good living with that - could do with huge shovels of hubris me thinks.

So many bitter people in these comments. 😂 😂 😂

​@@valkyrie3493, So? bitterness is simply a human emotion, nothing more.

@@kenholt8297 yes. It's your only claim to be human, evidently.

Satan fell by pride/then cast out of heaven/ pride in man keeps him from heaven. 🇩🇪 for God's grace

@@philipliebegott1221 You know, if you really think about it, every conscious being that rejects God would have made the same choice if they were in the same shoes as Satan.

Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book says: 'He made us all to be just like Him', So... If we're dumb... Then God is dumb... (And maybe even a little ugly on the side) Frank Zappa

Also fear, ignorance, and fourth- and fifth-hand accounts of supernatural events that allegedly occurred decades before anyone bothered to write them down. If someone told me that someone else had told them about a friend's sister's boyfriend who was executed one day and then reportedly seen walking around three days later ... I'd want a little more objective evidence before allowing this event to control my life.

Everyone takes pride in the intelligence of their worldview.

Hitchens said many dumb things actually.

@@fletcher373 Uh huh

Hey, Very: You did not exist until Jesus Christ created you. If you choose not to accept His offer of eternal life, you will then go to what the Bible calls the "second death" following the resurrection at the End of the Age. Thus, your soul will be destroyed in the second death, and you will no longer exist; just as you did not exist until God created you in the first place. So, in a way, atheists will get what they expect anyway: Nonexistence. Take care.

@@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 That’s fine with me. Eternal life sounds tedious.

@@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 Why is it then Christians tell me that if I don’t accept Jesus then eternal hellfire awaits me? For the crime of being born. God loves you and but if you don’t love him back you burn forever. Why? Because you were born. Disgusting.

@@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 Why is it then I constantly get told I’m going to burn forever unless I love Jesus? I think he’s a cool dude I just don’t believe he’s the son of god is all.

@@Very-old-man Hey, Very: Whomever told you that you're going to "burn forever" is wrong. Those who have rejected God in this mortal life will not suffer forever. The Bible states that they will go to the "second death" and be "destroyed". The Bible states they will "perish." Please watch my fourth brief video in which I explain who will and who won't suffer eternally. Once you've watched that video, let me know if you have any additional questions. Thanks, and take care.

Christopher is dead. Beyond worm food by now. He doesn't know jack shit. How laughingly arrogant to claim to know that there is anything beyond what can be proven after death, which is literally nothingness.

How horrible of you to speak of a deceased man in such a disrespectful manner.

“repent”… you seem to have not understood the flaw in Pascal’s wager. Do you think it’s even an option to repent insincerely? If Christopher is in hell then at least he’s in good company. All the most intelligent & funny people seem to be bound the same way.

@@davadoff it's funny, the Bible actually tells you NOT to think for yourself (because then why would you need the church?) and that Satan became "evil" just because he chose to think for himself... I think there's a message here

@@kolmannen7766 that's literally not why satan is evil, satan is evil because he disobeys God's moral commandments and cause pain and suffering to everyone

Enjoyable satire. Didn't the traffic lights flash a cross at the same time? Some converts miss these obvious signs.

You make no sense!

It's unfortunate that you bought into a manmade construct without demanding th see extraordinary evidence supporting the extraordinary claim.

Too late for that I guess

The Lord Jesus - if he exists - better be able to answer a few tough questions when he meets Hitch. Rephrasing Dawkins: If you are invited to debate Christopher Hitchens, don't.

​@@user-rv7se3rn5oooooooooohh, I'm sure Jesus is shaking in his boots. 😂 😂 😂 If Hitchens is such a tough guy, why didn't he beat death? 😂😂😂

@Daniel-b6s Present your eye witnesses for horus. Do it quickly.

@Daniel-b6s Translation: I made an assertion I can't prove, and now, I'm going to try to waffle my way out of it. 😂 😂 😂

God will bring you, me, and everyone else back down to the dirt where he made us from then He will call us out of the grave for judgement to separate the evil from the good for His eternal kingdom. When Mr. Worldy-Wise-Man here stands before His throne to answer for his life, he’ll quickly realize that his reasonings and arguments that he built his life on won’t hold up. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁠@@christian_7500”You’re claiming to know much more than a primate can possibly know and you’re showing you know quite less than a primate probably should.” Christopher Hitchens

@@christian_7500so just and benevolent, what a lovely god

I’m not a Christian but I agree his pride is what made him reject god. It doesn’t matter what the true religion is. He already rejected that there is a god so to him all religion is also false. We will all face god and we will all be judged based on our choices

@@Wise__guy you don't understand atheism, do you? It's not pride that rejects the premise of a god, particularly any sort of theistic one; it is reason and logic that leads to that conclusion.

Gnossienne by Erik Satie.

Your god isn't smart😂

It's more ridiculous to believe in things that have no sufficient evidence.

​@@josephrusso7069your in denial, their is evidence, after evidence, after evidence. I don't even know where to start because there are so many place to start. It could be as simple as looking around you and looking at your own body. You mise well look at a building and deny their was a builder and look at a painting and deny their was a painter.

@@josephrusso7069 The evidence for God is everywhere. You just irrationally label it as non-evidence. You simply "believe" in faith that it is insufficient. In reality the evidence for God all around you everyday makes God plainer than the nose on your face. It takes a certain prideful arrogance to thumb your nose at God, the Master of the Cosmos, and if you remain in that state it will be your eternal undoing. Endless trillions of years weeping with regret in a hell God made it so easy for you to avoid. But that will be on you. Repent my friend, open your eyes to the irrational logically bankrupt lie that atheism is. Hope to see you in heaven one day.

@Pill-Cosby Wonderful. Don't forget to share ALL of your evidence to EVERY atheist podcast on KZfaq. Because you have some souls to save. Put up or shut up!

He didn't want to get it. I get it, but he's supposed to be the genius?

there IS bad theology and praxis out there...

@jossrose5061 How condescending and disingenuous of you. Your totalitarian belief that we are mere puppets and serfs is sinister enough. But to suggest that atheists exist only to challenge the chosen, the believers, shows you have no genuine care for this man at all.

@@DannyBoy777777 reread reread my comments. Did I say we are mere puppets? Many doesn't believe in God because of such character of you. I'm with Hitchens only when through him hypocrites being destroyed as Jesus destroyed many hypocrites. I hope you are not one of them. I hope you understand what hypocrite is..

@@glennlanham6309 that's my point.. tnx

It's not false Christianity, it's just a form of Christianity that doesn't relate to the one you believe in. There is a reason why there are thousands of christian denominations.

true!

i forgot which music i added at the end but it's from storyblocks audio file. God bless you.

What argument would you expect from an atheist? Atheists aren't the ones making extraordinary claims. We say only that, absent evidence, we reject your premise.

You need to be convinced of religion not of atheism

wdym atheists have no arguments? the person making the claim is where the burden of evidence lies. atheists don’t need an argument

Gnossiennes No.1 by Claus Egan

This is spot on. I think Hitchens wanted God to come down with a loud voice or with fire and brimstone in order to believe Him. But have many times did God do that and people still didn't believe? The people of God were looking at the cloud by day and the pillar by night, saw the red sea part in front of them and later saw an entire Egyptian army die in the same sea, and yet the still did not believe God. At the end of the day, belief and acceptance of God is a matter of choice internally, whether you see Him or not.

​@@sarabee7710Exactly 💯. Speaking of God's judgment, Did you see the recent video of the Muslim lawmaker who gave a fiery speech condemning America and other nations for supporting Israel. He says "They will suffer the wrath of Allah" -- and he keels over and dies!!! Reminded me of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5.

​@@Romans-nk4wt I don't claim to be a prophet of God's judgement, but it's too convenient to call that a coincidence. God told Israel: I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you

God gifted him with more intelligence than majority of people and he wasted it poorly. But freely. In the presence of God he has not any excuse (other people could have). He buried his ten talents and encouraged many people to do the same. That's an horrible choice. The cancer was his last chance to think about but his obstinacy and proud against God was stronger. Only a grain of humility is sufficient to get mercy from God. At the end of the life vain knowledge is straw. Conceit drives to perdition. 'Intelligence" accord human eyes is not wisdow but stupidity. (Perhaps God have mercy of him). And of course his final pretext to justify his disbelief before God is childish and ridiculous. Before God, the Creator of the universe and the maker of all the destructive energies and colosal forces, Hitchens like any minuscule creature will be silent and horrified facing the Supreme Majesty of God. The wicked like the just will hear their eternal destiny with horror or relief. No one will dare to discuss with God. Mercy is for all people before death. After death there will be only Justice. The time of discussion with God is over after death

Hitch wuz a man ahead of his time, as the many bronze-age, superstitious replys that have bean left, do attest. Maybe in another century folks might be ready to leave their superstitions at the door before entering into a new era of rational thinking. Heck, itz only bean 6,000 years of superstitious thinking so far. Butt🍑........we're nearly there - give or take a century or two!! 😊

irritating, among other things . . .

Somewhat reductive view of religion don't you think? Hard to have a debate with Christians if you don't really know what religion is. You just come across as a tool, as Hitchen did repeatedly in addition to misquoted the bible almost everytime he was on a stage. The problem with Hitchens is that he never seemed to argue in a way to convince theists, which is the entire point of a debate, instead he just kept playing to his own crowd. Ironically, Hitchens may gave created more Christians in his lifetime. A resurgence in Christianity is happening now.

@@crashtestdummy2337 😀 😀Sure, kid, good luck with that. 😀 😀

@@crashtestdummy2337 there is no resurgence of christianity; the opposite is occurring. Many have testified that the writings and words of Hitch caused them to walk away from religion so it's complete bullshit to even suggest he created more christians, and as an ex-christian myself, I can confirm that Hitch did not in fact misquote the bible. You want a reductive view of religion? Initially designed to explain natural phenomena and create subservience in the masses, it maintains somewhat popular following today because people are afraid of the totality of death. That's it. That's religion - ALL religion - in a nutshell.

@crashtestdummy2337 cant reason people out of what they weren’t reasoned into. If they didn’t join the religion they are in due to evidence, their is no evidence that can be given to change their mind. If you need faith to believe in something, you dont have enough evidence.

Atheists have indeed taken notice that Christians often give themselves license to lie to non-believers about these kinds of "miracle" healings. We take notice that your god somehow feels he needs to perform a cheap conjuring trick in order to win your faith. Meanwhile, the Atheist is also aware that your friend chose to believe in god because he had nothing to lose. Pascal's wager? He did not do so because IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO (according to your own religion) but rather, you did so out of a wish to gain god's favor...or to avoid divine punishment. Hardly any morality on display here...by either god or your dying friend. And yes, the Atheists always take note that your god didn't bother to save your friend from his affliction in the first place, saying much more about your pretend friend in heaven than your pretend friend here on earth.

Bull. SHIT.

Beautiful to hear yours and your friend testimony ❤Blessings

@@hopeh6176 - You believed him?

@@christopherp.hitchens3902 🤡

shocking statement, yes.

@@nagaseminarian Only for an atheist

Oh well, at least he's a good sport, because John Lennox debated him twice and was much more convincing than Hitch.

@@mis-tur-tay-bur to you maybe, but not to anyone with an open mind

@@NashvilleTuneStream Please describe your open mind....You are in an impossible position if you have closed off God in your supposedly open mind.

We can prove your Honda was designed, unlike the universe.

Some design.... A super wasteful and capricious (at best), incompetent designer would have necessarily been involved.

I heard he hada bad relationship with his father.

Christopher has mentioned in an article that he had a normal relationship with his father, only that his father was a man of few words, had a good alcohol tolerance and was very old fashioned. Having a bad father figure very rarely leads to atheism. Atheism means not trusting ludicrous claims because "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". It's often true (but not always) that GOOD parental relationships lead to atheism, because if you have good parents, they won't try to religiously condition you because no good person does that to their own vulnerable child. Bad parenting doesn't lead to atheism, good parenting does.

Christopher went to boarding school from a very young age

@@kolmannen7766 We should hate good parents?

@@junacebedo888 No. I was talking about the definition of good parenting, and claimed that good parents are the ones who don't indoctrinate their children with their own opinions and dogmas (specifically religious dogmas). Perhaps I was not clear enough

No it doesn't make you bad to have doubts. You have a free choice to believe what you want. Personally I believe and have experienced His goodness, have seen people prayed for get healed and see His hand in every living thing.

He had more than enough time to accept Jesus

​@@WarriorforChrist8601Time is irrelevant. Through his search, he never found the evidence needed to convert him. I'm in the same boat. You can't choose what you believe.

Hell is a man made construct. It's not a Bible teaching.

@@reluctantdecontructionist You can't choose what you believe? What on earth does that mean?

@@chrisbarlow2131 I mean it’s pretty self explanatory….? Can you force yourself to believe something you otherwise wouldn’t? That’d be a pretty amazing trick!

A theist is someone who can’t bare the reality that they a basically worthless in the end

​​@@mrsentencename7334i'm a theist and a Christian so thank you 😉👍🏻

@@Infinty_in_Christ your not worthless right now though, and hopefully not for a while as your memory travels generations

@@mrsentencename7334 well i hear lot of skeptic's saying Really dumb things about why God doesn't exist without looking in to the evidence for it first, dumb Quotes of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens and yes there are Christian making bad Arguments for there believe but atheist are not speciale either you can be a idiot and still be an atheist it's just a lack of evidence according to atheist they don't seem to believe anything you tell them even if it's proven they just chose not to believe my father is a atheist and so is most of my family or agnostic I'm a theist after a long investagtion not to find out if there is life after death i have no problem with it at all i became a christian because i studied the life and resurrection for Christ and i didn't became a christian over night nor did i became a christian by believing the Bible yes the Bible might than not be 100% accurate but that doesn't change the fact that there is literal historical evidence in it like scriptures and archology even after studying christian i took 1 year off when i was 16 i was seriously emptying my mind to find every puzzel piece and to put it toghter and at a young age of 17 or maybe 18 years old after months maybe a few years of Arguments skeptical Question disscussing religion historical evidence like scriptures and archology and even trying to disproof Near death experiences i became a christian and bought a Bible, Yes the Bible is true only read it in Context and it's written in poems, metaphores and History, so I was a Agnostic, then i became a Gnostic Theist and i did start to study christianity about a year or so later maybe 2 even tough I'm very interested in Jesus and the Bible and his authencit of it's history, the story of how became a christian is way longer and more complex but i don't want to wast your time i respect other poeple their time 🙏🏻❤️✝️

@@Infinty_in_Christ so you do know that beyond your actions, you are worthless?

Jam Master Jay ?

"one's soul"...assuming much? "Intellectual pride" is an oxymoronic phrase we narcissistic humans tend to use when we claim that we are made in the image and likeness of the supreme creator of this universe. The truth is that we are primates that have a slightly bigger brain and share 99% of our genome with apes. Can't believe that 95% of the worlds population still worship some form of a god...humans are truly moronic ape-like dipshits, IQs are irrelevant...a human/ape is still just a stupid human/ape no matter what his IQ.

It's not individual pride...it's called common sense and rationality...nothing prideful about it... it's a prideful god who demands that we bow to our knees in worship of him or be tortured forever. Come-on! There's got to be others that can see this! The irony is as thick as molasses.

@@edwardconroy9248 true. Why did he write JMJ after his comment?

@@edwardconroy9248 oh it's Jesus Mary Joseph. 🤦pious piffle

You can't force yourself to be convinced about something. Either you are or you are not.

@@HelloSmith-cn7tj Even in the face of evidence?

@gozz7733 But I don't think there is any, in fact, several historians have examined historical records and concluded that Jesus never even existed!

@@HelloSmith-cn7tj Are you certain about that? Richard Dawkins has admitted Jesus did exist based on evidence that was presented to him.

@@HelloSmith-cn7tj Richard Dawkins has admitted that Christ lived.

Look up the fine-tuning of the universe. The atheist’s only response to it is to invoke the multiverse, which is believed in completely on blind faith.

Smile more bro, ☺️ we love you regardless

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Typical christian, so vindictive and spiteful:)

How about what a Chinese or Indonesian or Vietnamese person would say to God because of Japanese barbarism during WWII or Chinese persecuted by other Chinese during the Cultural Revolution or Gazans at the moment (6-16-2024) or Christian Nigerians being killed by Muslim Nigerians or Shia/Sunni Muslims being killed by Sunni/Shia Muslims or black Americans being lynched by white Americans or Croats being killed by Serbs (and vice-versa) or Samaritans being killed by Jews when the latter destroyed the Samaritan temple or Anatolian Greeks, Armenians and Christian Assyrians being killed by Ottoman Turks or Palestinians being killed by Israeli Settlers or Russian Orthodox clergy and monastics being slaughtered by Bolsheviks? There are many examples of human cruelty, not just what the Nazis inflicted on others. We hear about Americans killing other Americans each day. Are they less or more reflective before God than victims of Nazism? What would these various kinds of deceased people I've mentioned have to say to God, do you think? Do you think an Orthodox nun or monk will insist that God must ask their forgiveness?

Foolish person. God doesn't need your forgiveness, you need His.

So creepy... "DIRECT revelation"...there are several people on TV every morning at about 5am that relay directly from god how much money "HE" wants you to donate. Apparently we still live in the dark ages.

You don't know how creepy you sound.

People like you scare the ever living sh*t out of me. I feel safer around atheists, they are almost always more kind, rational, intelligent, and empathetic. But most importantly, they aren't prone to incomprehensible, irrational violence because they interpret a sign from an imaginary being that they must simultaneously profess to love, appease, worship, and fear. I don't blame you for believing as you do, not really, it's not your fault. It's your parents, and their parents before them. But mainly it's the religious charlatans, and hucksters calling themselves priest, reverend, rabbi, and imam that are to blame for creating credulous humans that will believe almost anything at all, without any evidence whatsoever. These subhumans even mock their victims openly by calling themselves shepherds, and their prey, sheep; as they fleece them of their money, sanity, and go on to sexual abuse their children. All this done, while being tax free, and insulated from blame by their religious institutional infrastructures that are embedded like Lyme disease ridden ticks in modern society. Yes, I think the world could do without engineered lunatics who think like you, created by these monsters, and that that state of the world cannot get here soon enough.

There are a couple of issues with pascals wager. How do you know you have belief in the right religion? After all if you choose the wrong one you may be in trouble. Religion is usually based on culture and geography. Surely it is unfair for a god to punish individuals because they have been born and brought up as highly influenced children in a region where another religion is the norm. If God is all knowing, surely he would see through an individual who is only believing in him because it is better than an alternative as opposed to true faith. Pascals wager is a very weak arguement for belief in religion. The whole arguement is based on the premise that believing in God is surely better than hell if you are wrong. The definition of a cult is "an organised group whose purpose is to dominate cult members through psychological manipulation and pressure strategies". This sounds like pascals wager to me.

@@aaronfunnell5220 It's not that some believers are simply trying to consciously cover their butts or trick god. It's that religious societies impose conscious fear of everlasting torture (read all the comments) to create and maintain the belief...either way, in both instances, the belief is based purely on self interest. Since religion is fear based belief of a god without evidence (again, read all the comments), you would think that an all knowing god would appreciate one of his flock had intelligence and a spine. It takes a lot of guts to live among and refute billions and billions of scared sheep. Luckily atheists are no longer burnt at the stakes, at least in democratic societies.

@Daniel-b6s ok and? You don’t need a holy book - simple logic and reason can lead one to conclude that, due to its attributes this universe is a product of intelligence and that’s what they call God. Don’t confuse God with religion. Since you have read the holy books and have found sooo many contradictions, can you tell me which ones are in the Quran?

@Daniel-b6s Or the Quran speaks about the creation of the first man, creation of the soul of the man, and the stages in the creation of mankind.Lazy? you have no idea who your talking to. Be humble, and go read. You clearly did not read or study the Quran, and if you did then your comprehension capacity is clearly lacking. Google is not research

At least he wasn't a delusional religious moron

Comedy act

I'm an atheist. I want you to know I have a lot of respect for you as a person and your opinion. You've shown a lot of respect for someone, Christopher Hitchens, who holds a different opinion from yours.Unfortunately, the rest of the so called Christians in this comment section show nothing but contempt, and have forgotten Jesus' messages of "Love thy neighbor" and "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Cheers! 🙂

@@lhart99 Thank you for your kindly comments. Some of my best friends are atheists . Ah ...who said that they did not mind Christianity , but the Christians were the problem! Christians seem to forget that we can only speak of God by analogy and in an incomplete way.. St Paul and Aquinas knew this ...many of their followers seem to have forgotten. A man who was not a believer once said to me that when he met me he felt there might be something in my belief. At 77 I still take consolation in his remark ! Enjoy the w/end with your favourite tipple and/or company!

He is not resting in peace.

Exactly, Thanks for that , I also pointed It out, such ignorance when one IS supposedly guiding people to the light of the world...

@@emiliozampieri6642 where does that attitude get one, having pride like that? Can I ask

He refused to listen to rumours?

@@glennmcc64My friend Jesus is real! There’s mountains of evidence of him! More than any man! Creation is real! Look around you! Creation comes from a Creator!

@@alexcajiao7489 that you are able to jump from 'jesus was real' to 'jesus was the divine son of god, who died and was ressurected from the dead' is where your fault lies.

@@alexcajiao7489then why is it called faith?

@@alexcajiao7489Loco.

There is only one God. All the rest are demons. To paraphrase Psalm 95.5 DRA Council of Trent.

On question 2... Let your yes be yes and you no be no. That bible, btw

​@@Kitiwakehe means the vast amount of religions that exist in the world. Pascal's wager means you should accept the Christian god because you have nothing to lose, but in that sense you're losing the possibility of being accepted by another possible god. If any religion were to be true, there is nothing that makes one more probable than another. You think Thor, Zeus and the flying spaghetti monster are demons?

You could simply just be mistaken in believing there are many gods and not one God because there are many different religions, which confuses you. But any unbiased examination of religion by analysing comparative features of all of them to discover which one is true (because if God does exist there must be only one religion) is the only scientific approach to truth existing in any of them. It is blatantly obvious that there is only one God and only one true religion - and it is the one you hate the most, which is also scientific proof or evidence that shows it is true. You know which one it is. If you don't, I highly doubt you are capable of a reasonable discussion henceforward.

You forgot the ultimate one: "The fool says in his heart "There is no God" Psalm 14:1

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How come Proverbs scores so much more than the other team? Or are you only mentioning the games they win?

Solomon was such a horn dog the so-called wisest man who ever lived kept 300 wives and 700 concubines. He's also known as Mr STD. Real wise fella, huh?

Sounds like religious people…

That's how every intelligent human should respond to such a question. But there's absolutely no evidence to suggest he's wrong, and the universe works perfectly well without the need to invent a god that you should give money and power. But wait you can't give your money to the imaginary god directly, you must go through his intermediary here on earth, the priests, who are themselves nothing more than charlatans, frauds, and hucksters making their living off the stupidity of the credulous who believe such nonsense. I can understand believing this stuff as a child, when your head was all soft and you still believed in Santa, unicorns, and dragons, but shouldn't you people have outgrown this fantasy stuff before you became adults?

The reason he claims that he isn't sure is because he can not 100% disprove that any religious diety doesn't exist but based on the historical, scientific and archaeological evidence it is extremely unlikely. He is therefore making his claims based on probability and evidence as opposed to blind faith.

Its the same with religion.. and more so actually...just that aethists openly agree that they cant be 100% sure.

@@forestshade9451 LOL. Atheism is a religion! By the way, no religion is making a claim that they're 100% sure. We look at the evidences and trusts it because it's reliable! Atheists on the other hand are making a claim that it can't be a god, but they don't have evidences for any of that. Atheism is an irrational belief!

​@@aaronfunnell5220True faith isn't blind. Its based on evidence. Bible prophecy is enerringly accurate for instance.

The great flaw of all atheists

You were fed bullshi* all your life,and you didn't even had the brain cells to form qns.😂

Naga is one of the tribes in North eastern part of India, from which the owner of the channel comes from.

@@charlesspurgeonpaul6652 thanks for clarifying.

Thank you.

Matthew 10:32 and 10:33 🙏

since becoming an atheist, my heart is more open than ever. I can see people for who they are clearly; i don't have to think that if I do something wrong, it's okay because god allows unlimited do-overs. I do good things because that's better for society. Organized religion has ruined much of humanity's potential. History tells us this again and again.

He refused to be gullible.

@@robhaskins 🤡

🟩 Mr. Hitchens' heart was / is beyond your jurisdiction. Thus, your claim about him is intrinsically a bearing of false witness, and a rather presumptuous one at that.

Read the description, he died in 2011 😢

Your God is weak. Your God is cruel. Your God is Narcissistic. Your God can't stop women and children from being raped. Your God can't stop wars in his name. Your God admits there are other Gods in his 1st Commandment. Your God can't stop hunger. Your God cant stop cancer. Your God can't stop murder. Your God can't stop aborting thousands of babies every day. Your God can't show his face. Your God can't. Or maybe he won't. Or maybe he doesn't know. Regardless of why your God can't, won't or doesn't know, he has done nothing about these things. And since he is so weak, why do you worship him as a God? Your God is not real, and you are weak for believing in a Middle Eastern Myth.

sophiamarquis - Hello Sophia. His name was Saul, a seemingly angry wretched man, that did persecute Christians (murdered) and did get away with it. Paul was the new man as the old man died when He turned his life over to Jesus Christ. A rebirth if you will. Peace to you and yours!

And Paul continued to be a misogynistic twat.

Everybody? Do you run your mouth against Christ too? These comments and common sense suggest otherwise.

Good luck with that.

What about all the african tribes, hindus, uncontacted tribes, buddhists, shintos, greeks etc who never heard of Christ before, even before BC 😂 what are you gonna tell them? That their beliefs were from fallen angels and that the jews received only this information? Cmon now 😂

So so sad, yet so so true. In Jesus Name Amen 🙏🏾

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The moment his spirit entered eternity he is no longer an atheist.

The whole of creation is evidence. There's tons of evidence. Also, eyewitness evidence of Jesus also corroborated by external sources.

Claim . Pity you provide no proof

@@SNORKYMEDIA can you provide any proof about what you said in your video that we can save ourselves by shedding our light?

You people can't be this damaged (mainly because you have proven you can write.) You can't see that being created in the image and likeness of God defines human narcissism at it's highest possible extreme? It also simultaneously identifies THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE as having chosen to materialize as an earthbound primate with a genome almost identical to an ape ... it's gibberish... completely bonkers, my friend.

Without god? Why don’t you just say it? He will spend his eternity in Hell

@@Wise__guy" he will spend his eternity in hell." It also means that everything that is good; family, rest, peace, love and all the comforts of life will be taken away from him because everything that is Good comes from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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His view/belief was as ignorant and erroneous as any person that entertains religion as reality....!!

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you have no way of knowing that, no one does

@ghabrielmelooliveira1426 I agree that Hitchens was brilliant. What evidence can you provide that he "made a big difference in many people's lives and the world for sure" -- especially the latter?

@@mkq77 I'd say that, by (him)providing different points of view on the world, regarding religious doctrines and faith, it enables people to open up to new, more elucidating and reasonable interpretations of historical, cultural and religous beliefs, interpretations based on scientific evidence, unvailing outdated dogmas and predujicial misunderstandings by the light of reason, that us, human beings have developed through the ages. That is, what I am trying to imply, is that his criticism of religious fundamentalism, or religions in general is an effective objection to dangerous faith based arguments, that, in of course, my opinion, leads in most cases to fear and hating state of mind in society. So, I assassume and thoroughly would point out that, his work has been of great admiratiom and respect, since it unwraps our ignorance and defies arrogant presumptions. But again, I can't speak for everyone, but as for myself, I am more enlightened in way and better educate now.

It’s sad that whenever I think of atheist I think of Lenin Stalin and Mao the most influential atheist of the last century Atheist in Russia and china killed more of their own citizens then ww1 and ww2 combined, unfortunate is saying it lightly

He was not brilliant just because he was popular. I've never heard one brilliant insight come out of his mouth. He did make a difference in people's lives. Many were led to their doom by him, while others were strengthened in their faith by the display of his profound foolishness.

true.

Only in the minds of sheep !

@@tasspafitis848 Atoms contain enough power to destroy a major city and contain at least 17 subatomic particles that are exquisitely organized, durable, and functional to their element. The sun heats, lights, fuels and nourishes Earth with photosynthesis essential for plants, using safe nuclear fusion human scientists can't duplicate. It also supplies Earth with perfect stability in space .... There are 100 trillion cells in a human body and more than that number of bacterial animals living in and on us than we have cells. These animals are essential for us to stay alive. Each human cell contains billions of base pairs of DNA, billions of finely organized phospholipids for each of our cell walls, and thousands of machines that maintain and repair our DNA and other cell structures... Earth's atmosphere, electromagnetic field, geothermal energy output, ecosystems, weather patterns and seasons are intricately designed and functional .... But some believe primordial ooze sloshed about and produced life -- and everything we see is the product of chance and not design. Good luck with that.

@@tasspafitis848 But not the goats.

You say God is definitely real, what is your evidence to say something so definitive? Where is your proof?

that is a very empty question you likely heard so many times you just repeat it no offense , people act like a youtube comment is likely to bring them to truth , or a conversation in passing , or a simple sign they will probably write off as coincidence or something else , stop relying on others , test the claims , study the religions , see what one would make sense if it were to be the truth , and then test the claims with faith and obedience like you currently are science and your entire existence . I know it to be Jesus , but , you start wherever you want , and test the claim , otherwise , you never wanted the truth to begin with , you wanted someone to tell you what truth is and be convincing , God will , as he did for me and many , give undeniable experiences , AFTER you seek him as he asked , diligently , with humility , in obedience , otherwise , if you can not put in the effort , why would you ever be in the position to appropriately deal with and act upon the truth? in this case , it is better God leaves you be until you are in a better state to receive him . this intellectual game of debates and you tube comment wars , conversation over beers and so on is so phony , if someone is serious ...start seeking sincerely...

Whats your proof to leave your christianity just a Question 🤔

Sadly what you have done is damned yourself. Truth is found in God and his word. I hope that the holy spirited touches your heart and you know the true meaning of loving God. The truth is far more bitter to swallow than the lie of this world. People don’t want to meet the God the Bible….because then that means you’ll need to confront all those sins and account for them. Sin is not dealt with anywhere else but with Jesus. We are all sinful and fall short.

@@maxitampaxi all the other religions will say it's down to another deity. Speak to a Muslim or other faith. They will also think they are right. I call it brainwashing.

Once an atheist you never go back.

@@fionagregory9147 you sure about that you know that my father is an atheist and what about all those atheist that became religious