In this full session from our archive, Christopher Hitchens and professor Richard Dawkins came to Intelligence Squared in 2007 alongside a panel of other guests to debate if we would be better off without religion.
For the motion sits Christopher Hitchens, professor Richard Dawkins and A. C. Grayling. Whilst opposing the motion sits Nigel Spivey, rabbi Julie Neuberger and Roger Scruton.
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3:10 - Christopher Hitchens
16:51 - Nigel Spivey
26:46 - Richard Dawkins
One of the comments:
If it weren't religion, humans would find other reasons to control and punish others. It is convenient for us to blame the wishes of deity when we treat others badly.
[Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIR7_X-ahy4)
There was No HIV Pandemic, it was AZT poisoning by FAUCI.
This Freak of a weazle is a murdering psychopath who needs the Death sentence himself. A slow and painful one! for these crimes of medical tyranny and murder spanning decades
A German-Jewish teen hides with her family and others in the attic of an Amsterdam office building during the Holocaust.
"Dead people receives more flowers than the living ones, because regret is stronger than gratitude"
- Anne Frank