Today we feature: Christopher's 20 minute opening remarks in a debate with Shmuley Boteach, recorded in the year 2004 at The Makor Center for Spiritual Judaism in New York City.
Hitchens argues against the ontological religious argument from design, and points out the differences between those of us who think they know, to those of us who admit they don't know.
He makes compelling points about the unwanted aspects, of the masochistic Abrahamic religions and, why Pascal's wager argument is actually an appeal to immorality. Further begging the question: if the heavenly existence described by the religious really were true - would we actually want it to be true?
He also poses the question of whether religion makes people more ethical, using the still relevant example of the immensely difficult progress, barely trying to be made, toward peace in the so-called holy land, seemingly forever torn apart by 3 different religious ideologies and claims.
