What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
Christopher Hitchens Quotes
It's a big cultural task to separate the cultural achievement that religion laid claim to from the claims of religion itself. No one's going to deny the role of religion in, for example, architecture or devotional painting. The poetry of John Donne or George Herbert strikes me as having been produced by people who probably really believed what they were saying. I have to be impressed.
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| Birth: | 13th April, 1949 |
| Death: | 15th December, 2011 |
| Nationality: | American, British |
| Profession: | Author, Critic, Essayist, Journalist, Screenwriter |
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Christopher Eric Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. He was a british- American author, essayist, literary critic, screenwriter and journalist. He contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate and Vanity Fair. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of over thirty books, including five collections of essays, on a range of subjects, including politics, literature and religion.
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