Hitchens - The Morals of an Atheist

THE MORALS OF AN ATHEIST Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens is the author of more than ten books, including, most recently, God...alles » THE MORALS OF AN ATHEIST Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens is the author of more than ten books, including, most recently, God Is Not Great -- How Religion Poisons Everything. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has written prolifically for American and English periodicals, including the Nation, the London Review of Books, Granta, Harper's, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, New Left Review, Slate, the New York Review of Books, Newsweek International, the Times Literary Supplement, the Atlantic and the Washington Post. He is also a regular television and radio commentator. If there is no God—no ground of being—if human beings represent nothing more than temporary swarms of atoms, then what sense does it make even to speak of "right" and "wrong"?" Where does morality come from? Reflecting on what he calls "the appalling insinuation that I would not know right from wrong if I was not supernaturally guided,...." Christopher Hitchens takes on the likes of Jonathan Swift, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Darwin in making his case for atheism.