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The entire debate isn't available on YouTube, but the segment with Hitchens is.[1] Hitchens makes three excellent points in defense of free speech, including hate speech.

This book was my introduction to Hitchens and to Orwell as something more than 1984 and Animal Farm.

Comparisons to Hitchens are similarly misleading; there is a large difference between enabling vs not stopping.

Once you go there, you no longer have freedom of speech, which I agree with Hitchens et al.

If all I'd ever got from Hitchens were the desire to read more Orwell, that would have been enough.

In 2006, Christopher Hitchens participated in a debate at the University of Toronto.

I read a bit of the content first and knew it was the inimitable Hitchens before I saw his name.

The more I see the more convinced I am that Hitchens was right: religion poisons everything.

But I'll leave you with some thoughts from Christopher Hitchens on free speech.

Penn and Teller and Christopher Hitchens certainly make a strong case that the Catholic Church and Mother Teresa and Bill Donohue are obsessed with suffering and totally full of Bullshit.

I think Christopher Hitchens put it well.

I leave you all with a fantastic speech the late Christopher Hitchens made about the freedom of speech and why there is no freedom of speech unless you extend that freedom towards people you disagree with, even the ones you find completely abhorrent.

If the world is material (natural) only, then the maxim of Hitchens and Sagan applies: "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence".

As Christopher Hitchens asked: "To whom would you want to delegate the task to decide for you what you could read?

Maybe Hitchens should write a sequel: "God: The Ultimate Bubble".

On the contrary, modern atheists in the Hitchens/Harris vein care very much how their beliefs are portrayed, and hold dearly to their cause of ridding the world of "religion".

Araji was the source of the NYT article; what I find interesting is the rhetorical trouncing dispensed by Hitchens.

Hitchens has a great bit about it in Blood, Class, and Empire.

I came to believe religion was essentially bad for humanity after reading and following Christopher Hitchens.