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SecretMethod70 04-11-2009 12:30 PM
A game of "What If..." with Christopher Hitchens
 
I generally prefer the more modest intellectualism of people like Neil Degrasse Tyson, but this is pretty awesome...

Found: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2...evangelica.php

Quote:
I have encountered this pathetic rhetorical game so often…it's one of Ray Comfort's favorite tools. Christian goes up to a stranger, and says he'd like to play a "what if" game with you. What if there was a god, and the ten commandments were his rules? Do you agree that if they're real, you'd deserve to go to hell? But look, Jesus says you don't have to, if you believe in him! Isn't that nice of him? It's all a stupid con — they ask you to hypothetically accept their premises, then lead you through a script which they demand that you answer in agreement at every step, and then at the end of their absurd, comical series of weird demands, they tell you that you've agreed that Jesus is your savior. Every year at our county fair they have their "Are you going to heaven or hell" booth that tries to bamboozle kids with this spiel, and I thoroughly detest and despise them.

Todd Friel, one of those glassy-eyed glad-handing used-car-salesmen of the soul types, tried to pull this same routine on his radio show…on Christopher Hitchens. Listen as Hitchens simply refuses to follow the script, and keeps on bringing up objections to the sloppy logic of the radio show host. Friel can't cope; he's like a dumb robot who can't comprehend anything outside the narrow scope of its programming, and keeps trying to shoo the Hitch back onto his preplanned track. Friel sounds like a fool, which is great, since he is one.

Reese 04-12-2009 02:49 AM
I don't get it. Where was Friel even going with that what if game?

SecretMethod70 04-12-2009 04:34 AM
There, I added some extra context from the blog I found this on. Basically, he was trying to get Hitchens to accept Jesus in their little "game," and then he'd go "well guess what? It's all true!" As if it would suddenly make Hitchens believe it. It's pretty ridiculous.

Herbert West 04-17-2009 06:40 PM
Christopher Hitches is marvelous in a debate; he never hesitates to go for the jugular and is great with quick comebacks. This video did not disappoint. Thanks for the post.

fresnelly 04-19-2009 12:12 PM
"I'm glad you think it's a game. I agree with you."

Burn!

Cervantes 04-22-2009 05:05 AM
I love listening to Hitchens he's always direct and completely unafraid to confront any argument thrown at him. Tearing through them with brutal efficiency.

biznatch 04-24-2009 06:38 PM
Jesus Christ, I love these fanatic preachers getting ripped apart publicly, just wish I could do the same everytime some dude walks up to me and starts spewing some god this god that bs.


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