We Will Miss You Christopher Hitchens

I read today that the well-known author and opponent of religion, Christopher Hitchens, has died yesterday. He was 62. Hitchens, who had been battling esophageal cancer since early 2010, died at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, surrounded by friends, Vanity Fair said. Hitchens is survived by his wife, Carol Blue, their daughter, Antonia, and two children from a previous marriage, Alexander and Sophia.

It was always a joy to listen to his debates and talks. He had a way with words that was so powerful and so rare. He was one writer whose arguments helped to confirm by emerging atheism, and his books were just as powerfully and well-written as his spoken words.

Here is one of my favorite debates of his. On October 11, 2007 Christopher Hitchens debates Oxford University professor Alister McGrath in a debate titled Poison or Cure - Religious Belief in the Modern World.