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Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an English American author and journalist whose career spanned more than four decades.
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m. Friday morning to tell me that Christopher Hitchens had died. The news brought with it a deep sadness and I instantly recited the Jewish prayer upon hearing of the passing of a friend, “Blessed is the true Judge.” That instinctive religious action captured the paradox of our unpredictable friendship, born in battle in four public debates – stretching from 2004 until 2010 – on G-d, faith, evolution, and religion, but solidified over food at kosher restaurants, kosher wines, and, of course, healthy swigs of whisky.We were planning, over the last few months, to do another debate on whether the Jews are the Chosen people, and given Hitchens discovery that he was Jewish only when his mother revealed it to him in his twenties, the subject held a particular interest for him. Back and forth we went, trying to find a time that might suit him as he awaited the literal return of the voice he had lost to his treatment against esophageal cancer. His...
Alan speaks with Christopher Hitchens about the writer's unique life.
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Christopher Hitchens on religion!
O'Reilly debates Christopher Hitchens about torture and water-boarding
Alan moderates a debate between leading atheist Christopher Hitchens and Pastor Douglas Wilson on the value of religion
War on Terror supporter Christopher Hitchens explains why he's voting for Obama
Christopher Hitchens , contributing editor of Vanity Fair and author of God is Not Great joins Alan to discuss the state of religion in America
American Evangelical theologian William Lane Craig is ready to debate the rationality of faith during his U.K tour this fall, but it appears that some atheist philos...
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They are not exactly Cain and Abel, but theologically and philosophically Christopher and Peter Hitchens are just as divided as the brothers of the Old Testament.Chr...
Pope John Paul II 's beatification on Sunday may draw as many as a million people to Rome. Well over that number came six years ago when John Paul died, many of them...
--" Christopher Hitchens was a complete one-off, an amazing mixture of writer, journalist, polemicist, and unique character. He was fearless in the pursuit of truth ...
Christopher Hitchens is dead and it's a loss. As a believer in both God and religion, it may come as a surprise to some that I mourn the loss of a man who not only w...
Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right and wrote the provocativ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Stricken with cancer and fragile from chemotherapy, author and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens sits in an armchair before an audience and ...
Stricken with cancer and fragile from chemotherapy, author and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens sits in an armchair before an audience and waits for the only q...
Former British prime minister Tony Blair said Friday his religious beliefs did not play a role in his decision to support the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq during a deba...
The atheist "Reason Rally" that will take place in Washington on Saturday, March 24 symbolizes the growing strength of atheism in American culture and politics. Even...
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