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Find out what's been happening as we review the last two weeks worth of news regarding atheism and religion. Gen Z has surprising statistic on the nonreligious, a pastor is arrested after being found in a golf cart with a 15 year old, the Church of Scientology appeals to the Supreme Court, and more happening in the news! Subscribe to Atheist News on Youtube! www.youtube.com/c/atheistnews

Season finale! Today we feature: Christopher Hitchens’ opening remarks in a debate versus Dr. Barry Brummett, recorded June 4th, 2011, to address whether religion has been a positive force in  culture. Hitch, still debating in his final year with us. Plus Steve from Atheist News 8 May 2021. Donate to Steve’s Patreon at patreon.com/atheistnews

Today we feature: Christopher Hitchens' opening remarks in a debate versus Tony Blair, recorded November 26th, 2010, to address the question: is religion a force for good in the world? Plus Steve from Atheist News 24 April 2021. Donate to Steve's Patreon at patreon.com/atheistnews

Today we feature: Christopher Hitchens’ opening remarks in a debate versus Tariq Ramadan, recorded October 5th, 2010 at the 92nd Street Y in New York, to address the question: is Islam a religion of peace? Plus Steve from Atheist News 10 April 2021. Donate to Steve’s Patreon at patreon.com/atheistnews

Today we feature: Christopher Hitchens’ opening remarks in a debate versus Shmuley Boteach - over whether there is an afterlife, recorded September 16th, 2010. Plus Steve from Atheist News 27 March 2021. Donate to Steve’s Patreon at patreon.com/atheistnews

Today we feature: Christopher Hitchens’ opening remarks in a debate versus John Haldane - Scottish philosopher, and broadcaster, in a discussion on rights, dignity, faith and public life for The Veritas Forum, recorded at Oxford May 12th, 2010. Plus Steve from Atheist News 28 Feb 2021. Donate to Steve’s Patreon at patreon.com/atheistnews

Today we feature: Christopher Hitchens’ opening remarks in the god debate versus Dinesh D’Souza, recorded April 7th, 2010. Plus Steve from Atheist News 13 Feb 2021. Donate to Steve’s Patreon at patreon.com/atheistnews

Today we feature: Christopher Hitchens’ opening remarks in the Re-Evolution debate alongside fellow advocates of Science and Reason: Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett, recorded November 8th, 2009. Plus Steve from Atheist News 30 Jan 2021. Donate to Steve’s Patreon at patreon.com/atheistnews

Today we feature: Christopher Hitchens’ opening remarks in an intelligence squared debate with teammate Stephen Fry, recorded November 7th, 2009. Plus Steve from Atheist News 16 Jan 2021. Donate to Steve’s Patreon at patreon.com/atheistnews

Today we feature: Christopher's opening remarks in a debate questioning the very existence of god versus Dinesh D’Sousa, recorded September 17th, 2009.  Plus Steve from Atheist News 03 Jan 2021. Please consider donating to Steve’s Patreon at patreon.com/atheistnews 

Today we feature: Christopher's opening remarks in a debate versus Frank Turek on what best explains reality theism or atheism, recorded August 21st, 2009.  Plus Steve from Atheist News 19/12/2020. Please consider donating to Steve’s Patreon at patreon.com/atheistnews

Hitchens describes how religion denies us our moral autonomy. How holy books, written by man, not only leave out major moral societal teachings, but also recommend them. How insulting it is for a believer to claim a moral edge on nonbelievers when so much violence comes to us via religious culture. He continues explaining, how unfalsifiable theories are weak theories. How religious claims in the face of increasingly overwhelming scientific evidence can only present themselves as infantile dismissable assertions. How absolving ourselves of responsibility, like the religious do, is intellectually futile and potentially sinister and that we should emancipate ourselves from such immoral behaviour.

Today we feature: Christopher's opening remarks in a debate versus Dinesh D’Sousa, recorded January 26th, 2009. Plus Steve from Atheist News 06/12/2020. Please consider donating to Steve’s Patreon at patreon.com/atheistnews

Today we feature: Christopher's opening remarks in a debate, recorded October 30th, 2008 at the Westminster Theological Seminary. Also, Atheist News: Please consider donating to Steve’s Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Atheistnews

Hitch explains how religion is a deterministic universal toxin from which nothing is exempt and that we have no need for divine permission. How each religion denies each other and ignorantly excludes thoughts and principles from anywhere else. How the wish to refer our responsibilities upward is a wish for a totalitarian solution to our problems, and this is how we end up with the divine right of kings political doctrine resulting in dictatorship with humans claiming they have divine authority. Christopher ends on the moral point of how those who take solace in their belief that a holy book coerces good morals in people are insulting themselves, because we don’t need permission to act morally. This theocratic death wish is the greatest insult and has been and still is the greatest threat to us and all the gains of civilisation.

Christopher responds to the question of why christianity is bad for the world, beginning with  the illusory nonsense you’d have to believe to be a christian and follows up with the immoral and totalitarian nature of christian ethics.

Christopher discusses recent examples of ontological arguments backpedalled by both the catholic and protestant churches, revealing how man made the ideas of, for example, limbo and hellfire are. He then calls out the catholic church’s cyclic behaviour to apologise to the world and then reclaim infallibility all over again. He explains and defines widely, what an atheist is, and that we make no knowledge claim at all, we simply refute the theist claim. Hitchens then clarifies the difference between deists explaining the world via a designer and theists explaining the world with a designer that answers prayers and more. Hitchens then claims that we  don’t need a supervisor to be moral beings and that we find too many vicious immoral acts from humanity that are performed by those who believe they have divine permission. Finishes with the Hitchens challenge on morality against the religious and addresses the argument for fine tuning and the wanton craving for a totalitarian situation of the human condition.

Christopher's opening remarks debating Dinesh D'Souza, recorded July 11th, 2008 at freedom fest. Hitch speaks with some regret, about the catholic Robert Mugabe and the levels of evils one can inflict on others, yet still be considered part of the church. We then hear him warn of the inevitability of weaponised messianic cultures. And finally he discusses christian mythology and squaring the circle of fabricated stories.

Hitch explains how, in a sense, religion poisons everything. He then goes into what might now be known as “Christopher’s Challenge”: propose a right action or statement made by a believer that could not have been made by a non-believer. Christopher finishes highlighting the indifference shown to man with the gullible belief that divine intervention in human history only occurred so recently.