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Maccabeus, Judah, Ref1
McCarthy, Eugene, Ref1
McCarthy, Mary, Ref1
McEwan, Ian, Ref1
Macmillan, Ken, Ref1
Madison, James, Ref1
Maimonides, Moses, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
on circumcision, Ref1
Marjoe, Ref1
martyrdom, Ref1, Ref2
and immorality of religion, Ref1
Marx, Karl, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Marxists, Marxism, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Mary, Ref1, Ref2
biblical fictions and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and destructiveness of religion, Ref1
and relationship between morality
and religion, Ref1
masturbation taboo, Ref1
Matthew, Gospel of, Ref1, Ref2
and biblical fictions, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
(McCarthy), Ref1
Mencken, H. L., Ref1, Ref2
mental illness, Ref1, Ref2
Mere Christianity (Lewis), Ref1
microcephaly, Ref1
Mill, John Stuart, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Miller, George, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Milosz, Czeslaw, Ref1
Minima Moralia (Adorno), Ref1
miracles, miraculous, miraculousness, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
bodily resurrection and, Ref1
design arguments and, Ref1, Ref2
in literature, Ref1
Marxism and, Ref1
Mother Teresa and, Ref1
natural disasters and, Ref1
UFOs and, Ref1, Ref2
Miracles and Idolatry (Voltaire), Ref1
Misago, Augustin, Ref1
Mondo Cane, Ref1
moneylending, Ref1
Montesquieu, Baron de La Brède et de, Ref1
Moon, Sun Myung, Ref1
Moon Tiger (Lively), Ref1
morals, morality, moral behavior, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12, Ref13
atonement and, Ref1, Ref2
biblical fictions and, Ref1
blood sacrifice and, Ref1, Ref2
child abuse and, Ref1
and destructiveness of religion, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
and emancipation of India, Ref1
eternal punishment and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
health issues and, Ref1, Ref2
impossible tasks and, Ref1, Ref2
King and, Ref1, Ref2
rational resistance and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
relationship between religion and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
revelation arguments and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Rwanda and, Ref1
totalitarianism and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Uganda and, Ref1
Waugh and, Ref1
“More Loving One, The” (Auden), Ref1
Mormons, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
converting the dead and, Ref1
corrupt origins of, Ref1
racism of, Ref1
Smith’s cynicism and, Ref1
and translating Book of Mormon, Ref1
Moses, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10
biblical fictions and, Ref1, Ref2
death of, Ref1, Ref2
King and, Ref1
revelation arguments and, Ref1
Muggeridge, Malcolm, Ref1
Muhammad, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
Koran and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
miracles and, Ref1
Mormons and, Ref1, Ref2
words and deeds of, Ref1
Munyeshyaka, Wenceslas, Ref1
Mussolini, Benito, Ref1
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
natural disasters, Ref1
Natural Philosophy (Paley), Ref1
Nazareth, Ref1, Ref2
Nazis, Nazism, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
reaction of church to, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Netherlands, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
New Orleans, La., Ref1
New Testament, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
fictitious events in, Ref1
on fulfilling prophecy, Ref1
hadiths and, Ref1
miracles and, Ref1
morality and, Ref1, Ref2
rational resistance and, Ref1, Ref2
revelation arguments and, Ref1, Ref2
Newton, Sir Isaac, Ref1, Ref2
rational resistance of, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
New York, health care in, Ref1
Nigeria, Ref1
Nilsson, Daniel, Ref1
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), Ref1
Noah’s Ark, Ref1
No Man Knows My History (Brodie), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
North Korea, Ref1
Norway, Ref1
nuclear weapons, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
apocalypse and, Ref1, Ref2
Numbers, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
occultation, Ref1, Ref2
Ockham, William, Ref1
design arguments and, Ref1
miracles and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Old Testament, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
child abuse and, Ref1
fictitious events in, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
fulfilling prophecies of, Ref1, Ref2
hadiths and, Ref1
King and, Ref1
Mormons and, Ref1, Ref2
rational resistance and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
and relationship between morality
and religion, Ref1, Ref2
revelation arguments and, Ref1
ontological argument, Ref1
“Organs of Extreme Perfection and
Complication” (Darwin), Ref1
Orgel, Leslie, Ref1
Origin of Species, The (Darwin), Ref1
Orwell, George, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
on totalitarianism, Ref1
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rational resistance of, Ref1, Ref2
revelation arguments and, Ref1, Ref2
slavery and, Ref1
Pakistan, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Palestinians, Palestine, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
and destructiveness of religion, Ref1, Ref2
revelation arguments and, Ref1, Ref2
Paley, William, Ref1
Pascal, Blaise, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Passion of the Christ, The, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
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pedophilia, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Pensées (Pascal), Ref1
Pentagon, U.S., Ref1
Peter Pan, Ref1
philosophers, philosophy, Ref1, Ref2
rational resistance and, Ref1, Ref2
Pickthall, Marmaduke, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
pigs, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Pikaia gracilens, Ref1
Pius XI, Pope, Ref1, Ref2
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planets, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Plato, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
polio, Ref1
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), Ref1
Powell, Anthony, Ref1
Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, The (Russell), Ref1
Prager, Dennis, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
prayer, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
design arguments and, Ref1
and destructiveness of religion, Ref1, Ref2
health issues and, Ref1, Ref2
Hitchens’s childhood and, Ref1
totalitarianism and, Ref1, Ref2
Presbyterians, Ref1, Ref2
“Prevention of Literature, The”
(Orwell), Ref1
Priestley, Joseph, Ref1
Prophet, The (Deutscher), Ref1
Protestants, Protestantism, Ref1, Ref2, Re
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and destructiveness of religion, Ref1, Ref2
totalitarianism and, Ref1
Psalms, Ref1, Ref2
Puritans, Ref1
Q, Ref1
Qaeda, al-, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Quirinius, Ref1, Ref2
racism, Ref1, Ref2
King and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
of Mormons, Ref1
rational resistance and, Ref1
religion compared to, Ref1, Ref2
totalitarianism and, Ref1, Ref2
Rajneesh, Bhagwan Sri, Ref1
rational resistance, Ref1
of Darwin, Ref1
of Einstein, Ref1, Ref2
founders of, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
of Hume, Ref1, Ref2
Jews and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
of Kant, Ref1
private thoughts in, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
of Spinoza, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
religion, religions, religious faith: coexistence of, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
corruption of, Ref1, Ref2
destructiveness of, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
dietary laws of, Ref1
end of, Ref1, Ref2
founders of, Ref1, Ref2
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as plagiarism of a plagiarism, Ref1
power of, Ref1, Ref2
as source of comfort, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Republic (Plato), Ref1
resurrections, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
revelations, revelation arguments, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
archaeological evidence on, Ref1
and author of Bible, Ref1
and corruption of religion, Ref1, Ref2
discrepancies in, Ref1
Koran and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
morality and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Mormons and, Ref1
Ten Commandments and, Ref1, Ref2
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Robertson, Pat (senator), Ref1
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Russian Revolution, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Rwanda, Ref1
Sacré Coeur, Ref1
Sai Baba, Ref1, Ref2
Salgado, Sebastião, Ref1
Sarah, Ref1
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), Ref1
Saudi Arabia, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Schiller, Friedrich von, Ref1, Ref2
Schneerson, Menachem, Ref1
Schumpeter, Joseph, Ref1
scientists, science, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12, Ref13, Ref14
apocalypse and, Ref1
attempts to reconcile religion with, Ref1, Ref2
design arguments and, Ref1, Ref2
rational resistance and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
secularism, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
child abuse and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and destructiveness of religion, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
and emancipation of India, Ref1
health issues and, Ref1, Ref2
King and, Ref1
and relationship between morality
and religion, Ref1, Ref2
totalitarianism and, Ref1, Ref2
September Ref1, 2001, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
Serbs, Ref1, Ref2
Serge, Victor, Ref1
Sermon on the Mount, Ref1
Servetus, Michael, Ref1
Seth, Ref1
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sex, sexuality, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
biblical fictions and, Ref1
child abuse and, Ref1, Ref2
Eastern beliefs and, Ref1, Ref2
health care and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and relationship between morality
and religion, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
repression of, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
totalitarianism and, Ref1
Shadow-Line, The (Conrad), Ref1
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Shermer, Michael, Ref1
Siege of Krishnapur, The (Farrell), Ref1
Silberman, Neil Asher, Ref1
sin, sins, sinners, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12, Ref13
biblical fictions and, Ref1, Ref2
health and, Ref1, Ref2
and relationship between morality and religion, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
totalitarianism and, Ref1
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slaves, slavery, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3abolitionism and, Ref4
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smallpox, Ref1, Ref2
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racism of, Ref1, Ref2
and translating Book of Mormon, Ref1
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Somalia, Ref1
Something Beautiful for God, Ref1
Sophocles, Ref1
soul, souls, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
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stars, Ref1
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suicide, Ref1
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and immorality of religion, Ref1
sun, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Syriac-Aramaic Version of the Koran, The (Luxenburg), Ref1
Taliban, Ref1, Ref2
Talmud, Ref1, Ref2
Tamils, Ref1
Ten Commandments, Ref1, Ref2
and immorality of religion, Ref1, Ref2
revelation arguments and, Ref1, Ref2
Teresa, Mother, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Tertullian, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
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Tiktaalik, Ref1
totalitarian states, totalitarianism, Ref1
morality and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
racism and, Ref1, Ref2
secularism and, Ref1, Ref2
theocracies as, Ref1
Tractatus (Spinoza), Ref1
Treatise on the Gods (Mencken), Ref1
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Uganda, Ref1, Ref2
unidentified flying objects (UFOs), Ref1, Ref2
United Nations, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
health care and, Ref1
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Witness (Chambers), Ref1
Wonderful Life (Gould), Ref1
World War I, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
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totalitarianism and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
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ARGUABLY
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
ARGUABLY
ALSO BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Books
Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger
Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies
Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles
Why Orwell Matters
No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
Letters to a Young Contrarian
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man”: A Biography
god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
The Portable Atheist
Hitch-22: A Memoir
Pamphlets
Karl Marx and the Paris Commune
The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favorite Fetish
The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice
A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
Collected Essays
Prepared for the Worst: Essays and Minority Reports
For the Sake of Argument
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays
Collaborations
James Callaghan: The Road to Number Ten (with Peter Kellner)
Blaming the Victims (edited with Edward Said)
When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (photographs by Ed Kash)
International Territory: The United Nations (photographs by Adam Bartos)
Vanity Fair’s Hollywood (with Graydon Carter and David Friend)
The Quotable Hitchens (with Windsor Mann)
“Live all you can: It’s a mistake not to.”
—Lambert Strether, in The Ambassadors
To the memory of Mohemed Bouazizi, Abu-Abdel
Monaam Hamedeh, and Ali Mehdi Zeu.
Contents
Introduction
ALL AMERICAN
Gods of Our Fathers: The United States of Enlightenment
The Private Jefferson
Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates
Benjamin Franklin: Free and Easy
John Brown: The Man Who Ended Slavery
Abraham Lincoln: Misery’s Child
Mark Twain: American Radical
Upton Sinclair: A Capitalist Primer
JFK: In Sickness and by Stealth
Saul Bellow: The Great Assimilator
Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita
John Updike, Part One: No Way
John Updike, Part Two: Mr. Geniality
Vidal Loco