DALLAS (Reuters) - Combative writer Christopher Hitchens doesn't mince words in his new book. He thinks religion has done no good. In the just published "god is not Great: How Religion Poisons ...

Two new items appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ““Armed with Righteousness and with the Power of God”: Allusions to Priestly Clothing, Priesthood, and Temple in 1 Nephi ...

One of the writers whose courage and polemical force I highly admire is Christopher Hitchens. He gives frequent proof of a passionate honesty, which sometimes has obliged him to criticize ideological ...

For all his reputed brilliance, Christopher Hitchens, the inexhaustible essayist, author and public contrarian who passed away Thursday, suffered some pretty brutal treatment from reviewers of his ...

A 1989 fatwa, or religious edict, by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, ordered the killing of novelist Salman Rushdie for his allegedly blasphemous novel “The Satanic Verses.” In 1998, Iran ended support of ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. In 2009, Marilyn Sewell, the retired minister of the First Unitarian Church of Portland Oregon, interviewed Christopher ...

Here’s an interesting exchange: New Atheist Christopher Hitchens interviewed by UU minister Marilyn Sewell. I found the article via Religion Dispatches, where it was summarized / reviewed by Eric ...

{mosads}An outspoken critic of organized religion, he maintained in his writing and television appearances that many of the problems of the world could be traced back to organized religion. In 2002, ...

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to one another in code, with the whole world watching. By Christopher Buckley The world seems primed for religious ...