Free Inquiry, Feb/March 2011
By Christopher Hitchens
"One of the pleasures of trying to keep up with the twists and turns of the religious worldview is noticing the convolutions that this view keeps inflicting upon itself. Last November brought news of two small but significant developments of this kind, both tending to vindicate the essential atheist or materialist contention that religion is man-made."
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Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.
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Lost in Translation
February 5, 2011Posted by Tom at 05:51 16 comments
Labels: 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Free Inquiry, Lost in Translation, religion, The Pope
Hitchens on Louis Farrakhan & The Pope
November 5, 2010Clip from the Afterlife Debate with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, September 16, 2010, New York.
Posted by Tom at 13:45 8 comments
Labels: 2010, afterlife, Christopher Hitchens, debate, Louis Farrakhan, Shmuley Boteach, The Pope
A Call for Earthly Justice
September 13, 2010
Holding the Catholic Church accountable for its crimes.
By Christopher Hitchens
"Reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's extraordinary and limpid new work Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (a history informed by a general, if Anglican, sympathy for its subject), I came across the following passage from Cardinal John Henry Newman's classic statement of belief, his Apologia Pro Vita Sua:"
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By Christopher Hitchens
"Reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's extraordinary and limpid new work Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (a history informed by a general, if Anglican, sympathy for its subject), I came across the following passage from Cardinal John Henry Newman's classic statement of belief, his Apologia Pro Vita Sua:"
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