Time for a...a...a Hitchslap!

Things seem a bit slow over here, and I needed a bit of a kick in the pants.

Here's a sometimes disturbing, always articulate, little summary from ol' Hitch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQorzOS-F6w

Excellent.

Thank you for the link.
My son and I were just saying how much we enjoy intelligence and humor.

oh that was fun! I miss him.

Religion is in likeness a leprosy of the mind!
The pope has got it in his silly little head!

Lewis Black, who, last I checked is Jewish, came to the same conclusion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_LA47fuWc8

Ok, enough of the Jewy, Jewy, Jewy Jew; now it's time (once again - I know, it's been posted ad nauseum), my favorite Catholic theologian:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjVLJKR6g7U

...God bless Joe Pecshe...

Thanks 'Sandydog1' for #1, or rather a link I got from your link (I really must learn your real name one day)

6000 year old earth

I couldn't believe how 'tolerant' those 2 interviewers were. OK some of their arguements were a bit weak,
but how do you argue against a 'creationist' with science?

If I wasn't crying. I'd be laughing :-(

ETA. Hi Steve.

“Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon; it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.”

― Scott D. Weitzenhoffer

I discover the three aspects of social science are
science(positivism), humanitarianism, evolution.

Social religion, I suppose has a kind of humanitarianism piggybacked on divinity on a good hair day, costume play, halos, signs, symbols for initiated; I see why minions of religion chip away at science and evolution.

>9 jbbarret:: ha ha, that's great.

I too love #9!

But it needs some more vitriole.

My suggestions only have a pH. (pH? is that right? my chemistry is ancient) of about 6.8:

"...and the flock rejects him as 'contaminated'..."

Yeah, yeah weak.

I want a pH. of 4-

Guido.

"The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee."

I miss the Hitch, not only for his skills in dismantling the theistic-superstitious-set but for other reasons as well.

His analysis of books/authors/literature genres was fantastic. Everyone from P G Wodehouse to George Orwell.
A read of his book, "Arguably" is a great example of the unbelievable range of his skillsets in critical analysis.

Even his thoughts on the Elgin Marbles, in a Youtube video were very impressive. His sense of humour was
excellent.Not given enough credit by many for his wonderful sense of understated irony. He didn't need to be
slapstick funny. A pithy word or phrase here or there, a raised eyebrow and a hint of a mischievous grin were all
that was needed. His timing was impeccable.

Hitch's humor was amazing, as opposed to this slapstick.

I just revisited this old Ricky act about an Act of God:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJW4rnN6q84

Speaking or Ricky Gervais ... love this:

love that man Ricky! Thanks for the laughs.

Here's part II; perhaps a bit longer, not as succinct, but still some excellent, logical argument:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR1uorQWNDg

9 Of course...it's like spotting a kernel of undigested corn in the toilet after a particularly nasty bowel movement.

This is an oldie but a good one, and I just had to chunk it somewhere:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion

What would you say to God:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo

>21 Sandydog1:

I don't know what that interviewer thought Stephen Fry was going to say -- "Oops, I guess I was wrong"? That's a man who did not do his research before sitting down with his subject.

Say, for example, he could have watched Hitch and Fry at the Intelligence Squared debate, that would have shown him what he was in for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrIHw0fZNOA (for those who want a Hitchslap *and* a Fryslap) :)