Dawkins reviews Hitchens

September 13, 2007 7:21 am henrymunsonjr Religious Responses to Atheist Critiques of Religion, Quixotic Atheist Militancy, Atheist Critiques of Religion

Dawkins, like Hitchens, fails to address the crucial point that people have slaughtered millions of their fellow human beings for reasons that have nothing to do with religion. Even if religion were to be eradicated from the human imagination, humans would still slaughter humans.

Bible belter - TLS Highlights - Times Online, September 5, 2007

Hitchens is especially good on the idiotic challenge “Stalin and Hitler were atheists, what d’you say to that?” – doubtless after plenty of practice. Stalin, Hitler and the others may not have been religious themselves, but they understood the ingrained religiosity of their subjects, and exploited it gratefully. Hitchens makes the point only briefly in the book, but he has enlarged upon it in later speeches and interviews:

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