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![]() ![]() He was not so much attracted to a reductionist picture of the world, as repelled by the perceived repugnance of theism: ![]() “There is … no special reason to credit ‘science’ as the father or godfather of all reason,” he wrote in the introduction to The Portable Atheist, a tome that turns out to be far more atheistic than portable. ![]() (“God” with a lowercase “g,” if you please!)Īmong the “four horsemen of the counter-apocalypse,” the grandiose name that he (jokingly?) bestowed upon this infidel quartet, Hitch was, to his credit, least given to the exaltation of the physical sciences. Hitch became infamous as one of the “New Atheists” alongside Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Richard Dawkins, and the author of god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. If he was notorious on the Left for this post-9/11 apostasy, he was no less so on the Right for his strident atheism. Hitch, over the course of his life, migrated from Trotskyite leftism to a rogue supporter of the U.S. ![]() As an iconoclast, he seemed to relish taking positions that others found shocking. “Hitch”) was a hard-drinking, heavy-smoking writer and public speaker with an acerbic wit. The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious AtheistĬhristopher Hitchens (a.k.a. ![]()
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