Hitchens Bros. Clash Over Belief
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.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.
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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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