3 Christopher Hitchens Seattle

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Description: Christopher Hitchens gives a great lecture about his book to a Seattle town hall style meeting. A great thanks to The Seattle Channel for making this available for viewing by those who are so inclined. http://www.seattlechannel.org/
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Ranikar ::: Favorites I think that is the point, that one cannot lump blame on everyting on religious people. Take away religion, like in China, and in USSR, and you have just plain atheists doing the same darn thing.Man has a violent nature, and just needs an excuse to march into war.Religion or no religion its a fact. 07-09-08 17:55:57 __________________________________________________
Canaximander ::: Favorites Pogroms was the wrong word. I should have said, The Final Solution was almost exclusively Christian. There, now I've said it. I feel better now. Jews have been persecuted all over the globe by a plethora of different groups, but there is overwhelming historical evidence that it was religious zeal (or evil men using religion for evil means if you faith-based prefer) that allowed them be able to get people to back the worst crime to date in human history. 07-09-06 19:02:55 __________________________________________________
Canaximander ::: Favorites True. I would be remiss to not point out that Islam has also performed pogroms and that several ethical Muslims chose to defy the mob and protect Jews. As always, it comes down holy wars, and both sides always think they're the holy ones. Further, some individuals chose to use their influence and means to defy the edicts of the general faith and do the right thing, as is always the case with the ethically religious. 07-09-06 18:48:46 __________________________________________________
Canaximander ::: Favorites I agree. I have film of a pope in 1936 giving the Hitler salute standing beside Hitler. However this is not taught in school and unless you look for yourself or you're a secular historian you'd not be aware. Pogroms are almost exclusively Christian. 07-09-05 22:39:33 __________________________________________________
giansideros ::: Favorites COUGH**ISLAM**COUGH! 07-09-05 23:16:02 __________________________________________________
jemakinc ::: Favorites Hitchens states that Catholic Church were in league with Hitler, then why were Catholic nuns and priests who were hiding Jews thrown in concentration camps in Poland? Hilter was as Christian as Hitchens is. 07-09-04 19:56:45 __________________________________________________
putittogether ::: Favorites jemakinc- While it is true that a few Jew's were spared by some rouge priest and nuns. IT WAS NOT THE POLICY OF THE CHURCH. The church was Allied with Hitler. This is a fact of history. 07-09-05 10:53:20 __________________________________________________
comp7878 ::: Favorites jermakinc, I think that the first part of your comment reflects the misunderstanding shown here: "The catholic church is involved in action A implies that ALL CATHOLICS are involved in action A." 07-09-08 17:36:03 __________________________________________________