Delicious.

I like what he has to say, but he never looked directly at the person he was talking to, the Rabbi.

Hitchens' owned him.

Why doesn't the Rabbi respond to the issue of female circumcision?

>> ^laura:
I like what he has to say, but he never looked directly at the person he was talking to, the Rabbi.


It is hard to look at people who disgust you. Or perhaps Hitchens was just a little tired that day.

And how anybody could argue with Hitchens over that point... "Well, it's not so bad, and it's commanded by God, so it's not wicked." What utter bullshit.

*talks

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I've noticed Hitchens usually faces the audience in a debate, occasionally looking towards his opponent(s) when they are speaking and looking at them while he is speaking even less.

Hehe, Hitchens on the moral high ground as usual.

Oh man, it looked like the rabbi was going to have a heart attack. Circumcision also runs the risk of accidentally destroying the baby's penis, but that must be pretty rare.

(from Wikipedia ) "The penis is thought to be lost in 1 in 1,000,000 circumcisions."

That's a risk I cannot take.

i've unwantingly seen female circumcision happen on a BBC documentary, the young girl was awake and felt it all.

i felt like strangling to death the people that were doing it.

... It's a pity the actual question got dodged.

Why do good things happen to bad people, why do bad things happen to good people?

If god doesn't reward the evil and punish the good... then the answer for religious and atheist, and existentialist are all the same.

They just do. It's all chance... and what god you pray to or don't, it doesn't matter. There is no bias in the statistics of the population. Noone is blessed.

Shit happens.

Yes I also wanted to have the reverse answered. I never understand how they can justify all the suffering in Africa where Christianity is one of the largest religions. If god is able to interfere/help with the lives of people then why do these people have it so bad? God is a racist!

"It's all chance... and what god you pray to or don't, it doesn't matter. There is no bias in the statistics of the population."

It's not very good risk management if we let our decisions be influenced by an intuitive claim that a spiritual force will bias results in our favor.

I've seen bad business & life decisions made by my religious friends because of that tendency, and I was vulnerable to that myself when I was religious when I was younger.

"God is a racist!"

Anthropologist Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, & Steel won a Pulitzer prize for its exploration of the geographic determinism of human history.

Critics rightly point out that culture (including religion) and other factors likely played a substantial role in global inequality, but the deck was stacked against most cultural areas of the world from the very beginning.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Guns-Germs-Steel-Why-Eurasia-Has-Dominated-the-Globe