As much as i can listen to hitchens speak on almost any topic, his debates on atheism werent interesting, largely because it was going over old stuff formulated by past philosophers such as bertrand russell and nietschze. Journal articles interwar southeastern europe confronts the west. Christopher hitchens britishamerican writer britannica. I have seen it annexed on pamphlets bearing other runes and fetishes, such as the swastika. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a manmade wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the. Download for free in pdf midi format, or print directly from our site. Hitchens writes for the mail on sunday and is a former foreign correspondent in moscow and washington. He was a contributor to magazines including vanity fair, the atlantic, and world affairs and the author of god is not great and many other books.
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