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The Fabrication of Jesus Christ by Christopher Hitchens

The True Core Of The Jesus Myth – Christopher Hitchens @ FreedomFest (Part 1). Mirror of youtu.be — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Dinesh D’Souza and Christopher Hitchens go at it again at the 2008 Freedom Fest as the “Main Event”. FreedomFest is an annual festival where “free minds meet” to celebrate “great books, great ideas, and great thinkers” in an open-minded society. It is independent, non-partisan, and not affiliated with any organization or think tank. Founded and produced by Mark Skousen, since 2002, FreedomFest invites the “best and the brightest” from around the world to talk, strategize, socialize, and celebrate liberty. FreedomFest is open to all and is purely egalitarian, where speakers, attendees, and exhibitors are treated as equals. www.freedomfest.com Christopher Hitchens (born 1949) is an author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, DC, he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens is also a political observer, whose books — the latest being “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” — have made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. In 2009 Hitchens was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the “25 most influential liberals in US media.” The same article noted, though, that he would “likely be aghast to find himself on this

Geert Wilders shares his unconventional view of Islam at the May 8 2011 International Free Press Society Signature Series event in London Ontario. www.ifpscanada.com Presented in 720p HD courtesy of Jeff Parkinson – http
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Christopher Hitchens: The Fifth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

Christopher Hitchens speaks on Crucibles: Past and Present followed by a conversation with PEN World Voices Festival Chair, Salman Rushdie. Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School. He is the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Orwell, Mother Teresa, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, and his No. 1 New York Times and National Book Award nominee , God Is Not Great. His next book,Hitch-22: A Memoir, will be released this June.
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Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. In his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands—he later switched to electric guitar. He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. He wrote the lyrics to all his songs, which—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for

Christopher Hitchens answers islamic apologist’s misinformed question

On the 13th of October 2007, at the Freedom From Religion Foundation Christopher Hitchens responds to an audience members question on supposed “crimes” commited by the American Government in Iraq and Afghanistan. The individual who asked the question obviously did not do any research before asking the question, or decided to ignore the facts.

iConcerts – Rock – REM & Co – Celebrate South Africa www.i-concerts.com South Africa Freedom Day Concert On The Square took place on Sunday 29th April to mark the seventh anniversary of South Africa’s first free elections and to recognize the achievements of the past seven years. Dr Nelson Mandela joined Tony Blair and over 20000 people in central London to enjoy this incredible day. The concert features a cast of international and South African musical stars including but not limited to REM, Dave Stewart, Atomic Kitten or Billy Ocean.
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Christopher Hitchens on Freethought Radio – Part 1

Christopher Hitchens on Freethought Radio, February 13, 2010 Hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation ffrf.org Part 2 www.youtube.com Freethought Radio streams at “The Mic 92.1”, Madison, Wis., every Saturday from 11 am – Noon Central. themic921.com Browse the “Freethought Radio” Podcast Archives (for audio download) ffrf.org christopher hitchens religion god bible jesus christianity christian religion atheist atheism secularism haiti earthquake ten commandments vanity fair mother teresa usps us post office stamp pat robertson devil slaves catholicism voodoo dan barker annie laurie gaylor freedom from religion foundation freethought radio
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Part I. Panelists: Angela Wu, Becket Fund, Floyed Abrams, lawyer for First Amendment freedoms of speech and press, Caroline Fourest, French journalist, Patrick Gaubert, President of LICRA, Brett Schaeffer, Heritage Foundation, Mohamed Sifaoui, Anti-racism activist. Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy, organized by UN Watch and 30 other human rights NGOs, Geneva, 19 April 2009, eve of Durban II conference. See www.genevasummit.org. For more on UN Watch, www.unwatch.org

Christopher Hitchens at Freedom From Religion Foundation 6/7

Christopher Hitchens gives a speech at the Freedom From Religion Foundation after receiving an award. This is from October 12, 2007.

Christopher Hitchens at Freedom From Religion Foundation 5/7

Christopher Hitchens gives a speech at the Freedom From Religion Foundation after receiving an award. This is from October 12, 2007.
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Christopher Hitchens at Freedom From Religion Foundation 2/7

Christopher Hitchens gives a speech at the Freedom From Religion Foundation after receiving an award. This is from October 12, 2007.
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Hitchens on Church and State


A clip from Christopher Hitchens appearance on C-SPAN In Depth this segment on church and state separation.