Ambling across the lobby with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, my antagonist nodded to me and said, "Hello, darling." It was almost time for another public debate with ...

Religious teachings are immoral. Religion promotes hatred. An atheist will eventually get elected in the U.S. So writes provocateur author Christopher Hitchens in his new book, God is Not Great: How ...

“Why [should] he that has nothing to write…desire to be a writer?” Samuel Johnson once asked in his review of a book that endeavored to prove the existence of God. Though Johnson was an ardent ...

The magician succeeds by misdirection — look here and you will not notice everything that I am doing with my left hand. Part of Christopher Hitchens’ magic in his essay is misdirection: He would have ...

This is the seventh yahrzeit (if one can accurately use the term) of Christopher Hitchens – pundit, public intellectual, pain in the butt, and notorious atheist. I miss “Hitch,” as he was ...

Among the many striking claims in Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great, there is this: “Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell, unless it ...

DALLAS (Reuters) - Combative writer Christopher Hitchens doesn't mince words in his new book. He thinks religion has done no good. In the just published "god is not Great: How Religion Poisons ...

Perhaps the best thing Jerry Falwell ever did was die so that Christopher Hitchens could go on TV and spit on his grave. “Man of God,” “Religious Warrior,” “Inspiration” read the headlines. “Wrong,” ...