Would theists sit through these videos?

Yes, theists sit through videos like this all the time.

The best answer I can offer is to say, sound logic and rational debate is not possible absent an educated and well informed perspective.

Theists realize that the sharing of knowledge and truth gives birth to wisdom and understanding.

Therefore, expand your consciousness, not your ignorance of others' opinions, ideas and truths.

Just something to think about.

I watched the first five, where he makes his presentation. Hitchens is a gifted speaker, funny and lucid. His critiques of religion are valid, from his perspective. He goes too far in blaming world instability on religion, though. This sort of reductionism smells of a fundamentalism of his own.

What was most telling to me, the point where we see the real problem he has with theism, was his reference to North Korea. The fact is Hitchens does not want there to be a god. He demands absolute autonomy for himself. Well and good. But this is just pandering to emotion. We all want to be the boss of us. The problem is that even if there is no god, life does not work that way. Hitchens himself operates within a framework created as much by others as developed by himself. He is Milton's Satan shaking his fist at God in defiance. All the rest is rationalization for that naked assertion of will. Again, no problem. What is a problem is his failure, dare I say refusal, to admit this is the case. He accuses folks like me of dishonesty while investing a great portion of his life to justifying his idiosyncratic will to power. I don't buy it. Not because I disagree, but because I don't like folks who aren't willing to pay the intellectual price for their choices.

For an atheist to speak of morality as if the term had meaning is pure hypocrisy. From his perspective, the only real morality is that which we create for ourselves. But why should I be afraid to follow his view to its logical conclusion: the morality we create is nothing more than a set of rules made by sheep to protect themselves from the wolves? Here he falls silent because he must do so.

peace

why do you care? according to atheists, God does not exist. so why waste your time on Him?

i'm through with THIS guy.