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On the Passing of Christopher Hitchens

He was an ardent opponent of Christianity, but I will miss him. I sat in the front row for his debate with Dinesh D’Souza in Charlotte, NC last year (or was it in 2009?). Hitchens spoke first. It may have been the only time he had D’Souza completely flat-footed and unable to disagree with him. …

December 16, 2011 – 9:36 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , , | Comments (15)

Christopher Hitchens: Oblivious Self-Rebuttal

Christopher Hitchens, near the close of his debate with Frank Turek, offered this brief, masterful moment of apparently oblivious self-rebuttal: Religion works for most people because people in a sense horribly do want it to be true, that they are supervised, that God looks out for them, that they might be rewarded, or they might …

October 13, 2008 – 10:04 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged | Comments (13)

Hitchens’s Second Question

(Note added 9/3/08: Comments are closed here, but the discussion remains open. See the final comment on this thread for explanation.) The real question Christopher Hitchens was trying to get readers focused on here (as opposed to the one he said he was answering), was something like this: “Why should we think people who believe in …

July 28, 2008 – 10:27 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism | Tagged , | Comments (100)