Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)
English-American, Literary Critic, Journalist, Author,
Essayist, Polemicist, and Outspoken Anti-theist
Religion and the churches are manufactured, and this salient fact is too obvious to ignore. Ethics and morality are quite independent of faith, and cannot be derived from it.
Always Question Authority 
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Thanks for the lead: the article is quite good.
I’m not looking forward to the day Hitchens’ premature death is announced…
Damn — at first I didn’t even recognize Hitchens in that photo (I know he has cancer).
Psilomelane,
Here is an even more current picture of Christopher Hitchens, along with a great story.
Enjoy!
https://alwaysquestionauthority.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/mason-crumpacker-and-the-hitchens-reading-list/
In Reason,
Madison