Hitchens—The Morals of an Atheist
Filmed on August 23, 2007

Christopher Hitchens

If there is no God—no ground of being—if human beings represent nothing more than temporary swarms of atoms, then what sense does it make even to speak of “right” and “wrong”? Where does morality come from? Reflecting on what he calls “the appalling insinuation that I would not know right from wrong if I was not supernaturally guided,….” Christopher Hitchens takes on the likes of Jonathan Swift, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Darwin in making his case for atheism. (20:53) Video transcript

Chapters

00:00 Where does morality come from?
06:44 Where does reason come from?
12:13 Religion works, doesn't it?
17:32 A sense of the devine

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