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Christopher Hitchens: Rhetoric, Religion, and Ramadan

Decoding the Gurus

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Hitchens: A Traditional Secular Guru

I'm in favor of debonair, cosmopolitan, knocking back a whiskey or not. But if you want to live under a religious bureaucracy, I have no issue with that. I just don't want to be there with you. You can go live other religious bureaucracy and I will stay in a secular democracy. We couldn't resist our old new atheist stripes, read their ugly hackles. And we got involved. It's hard to say how Hitchens would have turned out overall because he was at his peak before the social media age had properly fully developed. He did take his positions often to a particularly strong position or a polemical point of view. As a result, nuance

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