News of eminent atheist Christopher Hitchens’ death triggered a revisit to days when my life was simple, believed that the bible was the word of God, and when religious faith was a part of my life.
The passing of Christopher Hitchens, who recently died of pneumonia, a complication of esophageal cancer, triggered a revisit to those days when life was so simple. It was a time when I attended church, believed that the bible was the word of God, and a time when religion was very much a part of my life.
Christopher Hitchens was an intellectual, author, a provocative essayist, and formidable polemicist. Like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, he too was an avowed atheist and champion of the New Atheism movement.
Like Hitchens, Harris, and Dawkins, now, I too believe time has come to cast out religious ideology. I no longer believe in an anthropomorphic Personal God, God of the Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, who are and have been the reason for so much suffering and misery in this world.
The transformation from youthful credulity …
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Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the most well known voice amongst the new atheists Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennet.