C. Hitchens got out of control

why do good things happen to bad people I have lost track of how many people have urged me to write a book by that title and my response is who would buy it who would you give it as a present to [Laughter] with you later mr. Madoff now he would have liked it a year ago I would say bottom line is yeah it's a very disturbing phenomenon much most of the time I think you don't really get away with anything in this world you pay for everything you've taken this world in one currency or another but I would write a slightly different book my book would be why do good people do wicked things things that are a normal morally normal even if a morally average or mediocre person would not unprompted do for example hold down their daughter at the age of six terror for underwear and cut her genitalia with a sharp stone they wouldn't do that they didn't think God was saying to do it Christopher I've got to call you down on referee referring to circumcision as genital mutilation my son cried more at his first haircut than he did at his wrists and to take one doing it right then statistically the the only long-term effect that it seems to have on people is it increases their chances winning a Nobel Prize I can't term I can't find that the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children is subject for humor in that way or flippancy in that way Maimonides says very plainly that is designed to repress sexual pleasure to deprive us a male child as far as possible of the opportunity is that the full excision not just the snip or the default mandate a mandatory covenant is fantastically painful leads to trauma leads to the dulling of the sexual relationship and can be in itself life-threatening at that moment we have the records I can show them to you of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds in the United States boy babies who've died all or had life-threatening infections as a result of this disgusting practice than you a person as humane as yourself can sit here and be at think of that as a fit subject for humor shows what I mean religion makes morally normal people saying you disgusting and wicked things and you've just proved my point shame on you for saying what you just said shame on you for saying it about your own son my god what's the move on yes let's what next cutting the labia of little girls at least Judaism doesn't do that what if what if a Muslim was to say to you just now my little girl cried war as her first haircut that when I cut off her clitoris what would you think of me if I was to say such a disgusting thing well remember we are not talking about detail here we're talking about whether religion makes feel the health better or not I want to go over but let's give the rabbi a chance to respond to question because it got pretty personal here so again my experience in my own son my own grandson hundreds of congregants has been that it's not nothing like what you're talking about and that for whatever reason that this has become an issue for you I just think is is excessive what do you mean by that what do you mean by that that I'm more personally non-assertive innuendo to this let's bring it up no there's no innuendo there what I'm saying is sure you know I've lived through this personally and you've benefited it is what you're saying I've been what you've inflicted it or officiated at it is what you're saying isn't it well officiated yes inflicted no I forget my mother's my mother's has a signed up so bad forget minority since when do you say that because on issues of sexuality Maimonides has some very medieval ideas I ran across the line in your book that Orthodox Jews have sex through a hole in a bedsheet do you know Orthodox Jews who told you they have significant onew I say it is said of Orthodox Jews that they may do that in regard to breakfast that's a that's a reformed Jewish rumor about all we have a lot of questions from the audience but I want to give others a chance John the genital mutilation is no joke

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Keywords: Christopher Hitchens, richard dawkins, evolution, religion, god, sam harris, trump, atheism

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Length: 4min 52sec (292 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 02 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

I think respect to Hitch, for not letting the Rabbi get out of a very serious subject, by making some glib/arrogant joke

[u/marquisofmilwaukie]

99% of men have no problem with? are you serious? I’d be willing to bet there are far more of us out there that do care about our sons basic human rights.