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Hitchens wins religion debate with Blair | Christian News on Christian Today
Atheist campaigner Christopher Hitchens appears to have emerged the winner of yesterday’s debate on religion with former Prime Minister and Catholic convert Tony Blair.
The two went head to head in Toronto to debate whether religion is a force for good in the world.
Hitchens, author of the book ‘God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything’, argued that religion had caused misery throughout the ages by aggravating many of the world’s conflicts.
He likened God to a “divine North Korea” and questioned how good it was for the world to “worship a deity that takes sides in wars and human affairs, to appeal to our fear and to our guilt”.
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