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Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Eric Hitchens, (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011; born in Portsmouth, England) was an English American author, journalist, and professor whose books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. He was a columnist and literary critic for The Atlantic, Free Inquiry, The Nation, Salon, Slate, Vanity Fair, World Affairs, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He was a staple of talk shows

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  1. Putting It Mildly
  2. Religion Kills
  3. A short digression on the pig; or, Why Heaven hates ham
  4. The Metaphysical Claims of Religion are False
  5. Arguments from Design
  6. The Koran is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths
  7. The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell
  8. Quotations
  9. The "New" Testament exceeds the evil of the "Old" one
  10. A Coda: How Religions End
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  1. 101 _ How Religion Poisons Everything _ Opening Quotations
  2. Does Religion Make People Behave Better?
  3. Is Religion Child Abuse?
  4. Religion as an Original Sin
  5. There is no "Eastern" solution
  6. 102 _ Ch 01 _ Putting It Mildly _ Read by the author
  7. A Note on Health, to which Religion can be Hazardous
  8. A Finer Tradition: The Resistance of the Rational
  9. In Conclusion: The Need for a New Enlightenment
  10. 107 _ Ch 02 _ Religion Kills
  11. The Portable Atheist
  12. Revelation: The Nightmare of the "Old" Testament
  13. 201 _ Ch 03 _ A Short Digression on the Pig _ Why Heaven Hates Ham
  14. 203 _ Ch 04 _ A Note on Health, to which Religion can be Hazardous
  15. A note on health, to which religion may be hazardous
  16. 211 _ Ch 05 _ The Metaphysical Claims of Religion are False
  17. 301 _ Ch 06 _ Arguments from Design
  18. 310 _ Ch 07 _ Revelation _ The Nightmare of the Old Testament
  19. "The Lowly Stamp of Their Origin": Religion's Corrupt Beginnings
  20. 401 _ Ch 08 _ The New Testament Exceeds the Evil of the Old One
  21. Revelation: The Nightmare of the Old Testament
  22. 406 _ Ch 09 _ The Koran is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths
  23. Chapter 1
  24. 510 _ Ch 12 _ A Coda _ How Religions End
  25. Why Women Still Aren't Funny
  26. 412 _ Ch 10 _ The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell
  27. The Best of the Hitchslap
  28. 505 _ Ch 11 _ Lowly Stamp of Their Origin _ Religion's Corrupt Beginnings
  29. An Objection Anticipated: The Last-Ditch "Case" Against Secularism
  30. Hitch-22-Part01
  31. 511 _ Ch 13 _ Does Religion Make People Behave Better?
  32. 606 _ Ch 14 _ There Is No Eastern Solution
  33. 701 _ Ch 16 _ Is Religion Child Abuse?
  34. 706 _ Ch 17 _ An Objection Anticipated _ Last Ditch Case Against Secularism
  35. 610 _ Ch 15 _ Religion as an Original Sin
  36. I must not pretend
  37. Lowly Stamp of Their Origin: Religion's Corrupt Beginnings
  38. Chapter 2
  39. We do not hold
  40. Past and present
  41. 805 _ Ch 18 _ A Finer Tradition _ The Resistance of the Rational
  42. Marx and Freud
  43. When I first saw Beirut
  44. Hachette Audio Presents God Is
  45. 813 _ Ch 19 _ In Conclusion _ The Need for a New Enlightenment
  46. Take a single example
  47. Chapter 3
  48. Chapter 4
  49. By the time I visited
  50. An Objection Anticipated: Last Ditch Case Against Secularism
  51. Chapter 5
  52. Some of these tempests
  53. I am not here
  54. Sheltered as my own
  55. I did not have to travel
  56. Tribute
  57. In this respect
  58. Matters continued
  59. It is interesting
  60. A consistent proof
  61. In normal circumstances
  62. To press this
  63. Mother Teresa: Hell's Angel
  64. Before Charles Darwin
  65. In our new semi-secular
  66. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Unabridged)
  67. Chapter 8
  68. You may say
  69. I do not set myself up
  70. I shall not disagree
  71. Hitch-22-Part02
  72. It was actually Ockam
  73. This is sheer manic relish
  74. Chapter 9
  75. Hitch-22-Part03
  76. Chapter 11
  77. Notwithstanding all that
  78. According to Karen Armstrong
  79. Chapter 6
  80. God Is Not Great (Unabridged)
  81. The Gospel According to Luke
  82. Chapter 10
  83. I have tried my best
  84. In order to resolve
  85. I am not choosing a straw man
  86. The New Testament
  87. Chapter 7
  88. Chapter 12
  89. I have spent much of my life
  90. Even supposing this version

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