06.30.07
Hitchens article
Last month at a debate in Berkeley, Calif., Christopher Hitchens ranted for the better part of two hours with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges over the value of faith.
Shouting Hedges down and hurling profanities at audience members who chided him for his support for the Iraq war, the celebrated author reached his crescendo ahead of schedule and stalked off the stage.
Hitchens, 58, now has unleashed his mighty ego on a book tour plugging his latest opus, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.
He quietly confirmed that he has known religious people who exemplified their faith, like the Greek bishop in Albania whom he describes as “saintly.”
“I’ve asked myself, without religion would we be nicer?” he muses.
Pause 2-3-4.
Nah.