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Hitchens Bros. Clash Over Belief

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Posted on Jun 13, 2007

Writer Christopher Hitchens is drawing widespread attention with his latest provocative oeuvre, “God Is Not Great:  How Religion Poisons Everything.” But one person close to him questions the integrity of his atheist stance:  brother Peter Hitchens, who told the British paper The Independent (irking Christopher in the process) that he wonders if Christopher protests too much about his lack of belief.


The Independent:

On a book tour in Los Angeles, Christopher agrees to read the review by email and then flatly rejects the idea that he is, as he put it, a ” repressed seeker.” Prefacing his response to his brother’s review with faint praise—“a quite stirring and eloquent piece”—Christopher says: “The sickly idea that this interest is a disguised cry for help ... only demonstrates the insecurity and the bad faith of the godly.” The elder brother then adds: “Though I slightly dislike to say this, [Peter] offers himself as yet another example of how the religious mentality forces honest and reasonable people to say dishonest and irrational things.”

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By jhm, June 14, 2007 at 6:16 am Link to this comment
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FWIW Peter is also a Global Warming denier/apologist.

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By Frikken Kids, June 14, 2007 at 6:05 am Link to this comment

If Christopher Hitchens “protests too much” and actually only wrote his book to try to convince himself he doesn’t believe, does that mean that all the thousands of authors of the many thousands of religious books are actually non-believers trying to convince themselves that there actually is a god? 

That would make sense to me…especially concerning the pope.  He released another book recently.  Anyone who truly believes and trusts a god - the way the pope is supposed to - doesn’t need a bullet proof pope-mobile.

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By Jason, June 13, 2007 at 6:38 pm Link to this comment

This is news?  I suppose that if truthdig is covering the Sopranos it might as well cover the intra-familial religious differences of celebrities too.

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