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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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 Posted - 02/02/2008 : 08:00:31
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From Mediabistro:
No YouTube yet on this, I'm looking for a video.....
Thursday Jan 31, 2008
Great Moments In Egomania: Christopher Hitchens Debates Shmuley Boteach
Last night, we journeyed up to the 92nd Street Y to see Christopher Hitchens debate Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on the existence of God.
It was the most cringe-inducing thing we've seen in a long time. Hell, it was something straight out of Curb Your Enthusiasm. We watched a clergyman, publicity hound that he may be, get verbally disembowelled by The Hitch.
Thoughts, notes and highlights after the jump.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 02/02/2008 : 08:50:08 [Permalink]
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Here is a short clip which is all that is up so far.
Video: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Christopher Hitchens Debate God
Boteach seems so outgunned that even this short clip is hard to watch. Looks like a massacre to me. Still, being a fan of massacres I would like to see the whole debate.
My initial comment is Yikes!!!
Reminds me of another debate that Hitchens had with Al Sharpton.
Christopher Hitchens vs Al Sharpton
It would be nice, I guess, to see Hitchens debate some more worthy opponents, even though I would probably still mostly agree with Hitchens on this subject. But oh well...
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/02/2008 : 10:15:48 [Permalink]
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The Hitch is great.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 02/02/2008 : 13:48:46 [Permalink]
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach sounded quite poetic, but used no logic at all. The louder, the more poetic, and/or nastier the opposition, the more Hitchens rises to the challenge. He's the intellectual soccer hooligan of the New Atheists. Hitchens kicks ass like the latest double-action, four-cycle, cybernetic ass-kicking machine. He has a vivid clarity of expression. He takes no prisoners.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/02/2008 14:03:42 |
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Hitchens debates the "rabid Rabbi"
