He said: "I was reading far too much Peter Hitchens and listening to Wings back then. "It got to the point where I even accused my wife of being a Bulgarian fruit picker. I was in a very dark place. "But then my doctor told me he was trialling a radical

My latest article has been posted on AlterNet, Once Again, Believers Have it Wrong: Atheists Don't Just Want Sex, Drugs, and Lack of Morality. As you might have guessed, it's the culminating entry in my recent exchange with Peter Hitchens. In it, I discu

Of course, he took on God, a dangerous occupation in the United States, declaring him not great and religion the product of a time when nobody "had the smallest idea what was going on." Like Einstein, he viewed ethics as "an exclusively human concern wit

Thus writes Peter Hitchens, who goes on to say: Akulic, who, like you and me (though I'd much rather not be), is a citizen of the European Union, drifted unhindered into the Euro-region formerly known as Great Britain in 2010. Nobody cared that he had sp

For Sir Murray Halberg, it was a night tinged with death and sadness. For Peter Snell, it was the moment he realised he wasn't just an 800m runner. For athletics official (and an athlete himself) Toby Bowyer, it was a time when the police detective didn'

The fact that men professing to be Christian believers try to rewrite or reinterpret the laws of God does not get rid of the idea that, to be true moral laws, those laws have to be beyond the power of man to alter. That is, it has to be possible to disco

I simply dispute the assertion by our host that there is no evidence to support Christian belief. There is such evidence. An atheist in a society still governed by the Christian moral law has great personal advantages. The almost universal idea among the

He made an assertion of opinion ('there is no non-human moral authority'), mistaking his opinion for a fact. Now anti-religious people do it, and need to have it explained to them that the existence or non-existence of a Divine being (upon which the exis

Like Einstein, he viewed ethics as "an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it," a position that sparked conflict with his journalist brother, Peter, who has argued that, "For a moral code to be effective, it must be attributed t

Even in death he stands tall and apart from the parochial, bien-peasant, trilling, beard-stroking mediocrities – face-timers and time-servers of the writing life, men and women who have never written a good line of prose or provided a single insight into

In the news Prince William named 'most influential man in Britain' Read more... David Cameron is the London born, Etonian educated, PM wannabe, MP for Witney who believes he’s the handyman to fix UK PLC and sort out ‘broken Britain’. But is there more to

His brother had that chance. Peter Hitchens shared his older brother's atheism until returning several years ago to the faith they abandoned. In The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me To Faith, he describes eloquently this ideological journey. He makes

"Many people who should know better are still cheering David Cameron for his supposed mighty veto in Brussels on December 9", Peter Hitchens says. "They are doing this because they passionately want it to be true. They want Mr Cameron to be a patriotic c

LONDON — Christopher Hitchens, who died Thursday at the age of 62, described himself as an “essayist and a contrarian.” As a journalist, critic, war correspondent and bon vivant, he enjoyed a 40-year career as one of the world’s most ubiquitous, prolific

Christopher Hitchens: 'Even those outraged by him will miss him'. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images Journalists are notoriously sentimental about the loss of one of their own: gusts of hyperbole appear about the recently departed only to be forgott

Buy now from these online retailers: In this fierce essay, leading Bible scholar Scot McKnight tells the story of Junia, a female apostle honored by Paul in his Letter to the Romans—and then silenced and forgotten for most of church history. But Junia’s

Peter Hitchens, who is a regular columnist and journalist for the U.K. digital publication, admitted in his article that he struggled with how to respond to condolences and inquiries for interviews in light of a sometimes strained but very public relatio

As Peter explains, he didn't have to write anything and people would have understood. This is true. But then again, the younger Hitchens - a talented writer in his own right - imparted some insight into Christopher's life that we couldn't get from anywhe

I have been unbelievable swamped all day, working on final grades for the fall term at the Washington Journalism Center. That’s doesn’t matter to GetReligion readers, of course, but it does mean that I have not been plugged into the World Wide Web all da