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Christopher eric hitchens april, 1949 december 15, 2011 was an englishborn american author, journalist and literary critic. Hitchens was the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of over 30 books, including five collections of essays on culture, politics, and literature. Christopher hitchens washington dc, 4 january 1993 20. This isnt the first time hitchens has turned his barbed pen on a despot guilty of drinking too much of his own koolaid. The passage from mencken, quoted by hitchens, appears in the book treatise on the gods, which. Jan 31, 2008 christopher hitchens sits down with plumtvs jage toba for a casual halfhour interview. Hitchens argues that bin laden and his adherents represented the most serious and determined and bloodthirsty attempt to revive totalitarian and racist ideology since 1945. I have a lot of love for christopher hitchens, not necessarily because i agree with everything he says, but because he was a smart man who always told the truth as he saw it. God is not great download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. How religion poisons everything hitchens, christopher on. May 21, 2010 in june christopher hitchens, the harddrinking polemicist and atheist, met his toughest opponent yet when he was diagnosed with cancer. Hitchens laments that the faithful of whatever persuasion have believed what the priests and rabbis and imams tell them about what the unbelievers think 10, and it follows he rages that priests, rabbis and imams would presume to know or communicate what atheists think and why. Islam, the iraq war and how a man of the left found his moment by breaking with the left hitch despised clintons, religion and authoritarianism.
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