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This reads as a declaration of steady, lifelong resistance to superstition, not a promise of victory. It points to the idea that some struggles are endless because they are tied to how people think, and it lands when someone keeps arguing for reason even after repeated setbacks.
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About Christopher Hitchens
British and American author and journalist
Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British and American author and journalist. He was a public intellectual of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, known for his work as a columnist and speaker, and for his role among the so-called “Four Horsemen” of New Atheism. He became widely noticed for sharp, argumentative writing and for the principle often linked to him that claims without evidence need not be accepted. That idea, sometimes called Hitchens’s razor, is cited in philosophy and law, and it reflects the evidential style associated with his work.
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Books by Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great
2007
Thomas Jefferson
2005
Is Christianity good for the world?
2008
The Missionary Position
1995
Thomas Paine's Rights of man
2006