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Christopher Hitchens Memorial: Without God But With Style

The Almighty made only occasional appearances at the contrarian's send-off. Max McGuinness salutes a writer and a revolutionary.

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One of the problems with being an atheist is that so many of life’s salient moments have been defined in religious terms—baptism, confirmation, bar mitzvah, marriage, and, of course, death.

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