Christopher Hitchens' PREDICTION about the future of FAITH… (I almost agree with him)

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okay so for full disclosure yes I'm a rabbi and this channel is basically all theistic content so why am I sharing with you something that Hitchin said that I really enjoyed um because he got me thinking and no it didn't actually diminish my faith it actually helped me to have more appreciation for my faith I'm not sure if that would perturb him or not that I misappropriated his idea and used it in that way but the fact remains and I I enjoy hit I still to remains and I I enjoy hit I still to this day will uh I don't know if I'll even call it a guilty pleasure I'm not sure I'm even feeling guilty about it but I enjoy watching his eloquence and his wit and he once said something uh about belief that was helpful for me um and I want to share it with you and before I do I just want to make clear that I'm not this is not polemic I'm not trying to make an argument here I'm not arguing against atheism I'm not arguing for theism I'm just sharing an insight helpful to me okay so Hitchens made an argument he said that man uh I suppose meaning primitive or Ancient Man used to believe in many gods then came to believe in one God right monotheism and if we'll just follow that trajectory he'll eventually come to the belief in no Gods so basically he very elegantly paints this picture of human history as a a timeline of polytheism

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1. 0:00okay so for full disclosure yes I'm a rabbi and this channel is basically all theistic…
2. 1:33helpful to me okay so Hitchens made an argument he said that man uh I suppose…
3. 3:05basically starts with one position with polytheism and then evolves into monotheism and then from there…
4. 4:08it so then I realized that and and I do not believe that he did this…
5. 5:42whatever that might be the the Sun the the rain the weather life itself but power…
6. 6:46eventually man came to believe or perhaps maybe more accurately is coming to believe that there…
7. 8:23proving that scientifically but the the hypothesis the prevailing hypothesis is basically everything is Oneness okay…
8. 9:24Oneness so I love the formulation of increasing simplification that Hitchens employs and if I had…
9. 11:00um means that that the mouth of Hashem has spoken which is obviously an anthropomorphous or…
10. 12:01created the world and who is the administrator of the world can sometimes be a stumbling…

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