Dennett is referred to as one of the " Four Horsemen of New Atheism ", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.

* In the opening chapter of his book God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens quotes from Richard Le Gallienne's translation of Khayyam's famous quatrain:

Writer Christopher Hitchens, when asked for his favorite Bible story replied “ Casting the first stone ” is a lovely story, even though we ’ ve found out how much it wasn ’ t in the Bible to begin with.

D ' Souza has debated several atheists and critics of Christianity at programs at various universities, including Peter Singer, Bart Ehrman, Christopher Hitchens, and David Silverman, on issues including whether there can be morality without God, how a benevolent God can allow suffering, the concept of religion in general, and whether Christianity is good for America, among others.

Christopher Hitchens in God is Not Great has argued that " Modern vernacular describes conscience-not too badly-as whatever it is that makes us behave well when nobody is looking ... Those who believe that the existence of conscience is a proof of a godly design are advancing an argument that simply cannot be disproved because there is no evidence for or against it.

Christopher Hitchens wrote in 2011: " hat is extraordinary is the number of apparently level and careful people who, in pursuit of the better and bigger orgasm, were prepared to lower themselves into Reich's jerry-built ' orgone box ' and await blissful developments.

" According to Hitchens, the concept of a god or a supreme being is a totalitarian belief that destroys individual freedom, and free expression and scientific discovery should replace religion as a means of teaching ethics and defining human civilization.

Christopher Hitchens is often mentioned in connection with Cockburn as ideological differences on various issues caused bitter moments between the two men.

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by Christopher Hitchens about Mother Teresa's life and work.

" In 1996, The New York Times published a favourable review by Bruno Maddox in which he says: " Mr. Hitchens, a columnist at Vanity Fair and The Nation, is rather convincing " and " Hitchens argues his case with consummate style ".

Hell's Angel is a 1994 Channel 4 television documentary about Mother Teresa by Christopher Hitchens, a precursor to his book, The Missionary Position.

Peter Jonathan Hitchens ( born 28 October 1951 ) is an English columnist, foreign correspondent and author.

He is the younger brother of the late writer Christopher Hitchens.

In 2010 Michael Gove, writing in The Times, asserted that, for Hitchens, what is more important than the split between the Left and the Right is " the deeper gulf between the restless progressive and the Christian pessimist ", and in 2010 Hitchens himself wrote " in all my experience in life, I have seldom seen a more powerful argument for the fallen nature of man, and his inability to achieve perfection, than those countries in which man sets himself up to replace God with the State ".

Hitchens, a former atheist, is a member of the Church of England and an advocate of moral virtues founded on Christian faith and institutions such as marriage, which he argues have since the 1960s been undermined by social liberals and cultural Marxists.

Cockburn has also been highly critical of his former friend and colleague, Christopher Hitchens.

Hitchens also includes the contents of a letter written to Mother Teresa by the man prosecuting the case against Keating, Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles Paul Turley.

Hitchens has also written for The Spectator and The American Conservative magazines,

It has also been suggested that the character of Peter Fallow is based on British expatriate journalist Christopher Hitchens.

Hitchens also compared Michael Moore to Leni Riefenstahl in his critique for Slate magazine: " Here we glimpse a possible fusion between the turgid routines of MoveOn. org and the filmic standards, if not exactly the filmic skills, of Sergei Eisenstein or Leni Riefenstahl.

" Film critic Christopher Parry also took issue with Hitchens ' interpretation of Moore's remarks, writing " If you've got to build a case against Jeffery Dahmer, you've got to build a case against Bin Laden.

Hitchens also claims that Mother Teresa accepted money from Charles Keating despite knowing it was obtained illegally.

The graphics were created by Joe Hitchens, who also contributed to Epic Pinball and Jill of the Jungle.

Nevertheless, Hitchens stayed in Italy for nine years ( a record which still stands in the Guinness Book of records ), also playing for Torino, Atalanta and Cagliari.

All three match Hitchens ' usage, not only a generally anti-religious belief and disbelief in a deity, but also opposition to a god's existence.

As editor of the New Statesman ( 1972 – 78 ), succeeding Richard Crossman, whose deputy he had been ( 1970 – 72 ), he appointed Robin Cook as the magazine's parliamentary adviser in 1974, ( Cook also contributed articles ), James Fenton, Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis as literary editor in 1977.

Hitchens and the United Nations also say that Islam is used to justify unnecessary and harmful female genital modification and mutilation, when the purposes range from deprivation of sexual satisfaction to discourage adultery, insuring virginity to their husbands, or generating appearance of virginity.

Christopher Hitchens, in his autobiography, describes a dinner with Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, that became increasingly uncomfortable as the night wore on, where " The anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice.

Hitchens died on December 15, 2011, from complications arising from oesophageal cancer, a disease that he acknowledged was likely due to his lifelong predilection for smoking and drinking.

Hitchens was " bowled over " in his adolescence by Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, R. H. Tawney's critique on Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, and the works of George Orwell.

Hitchens argues that the tactic " has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue " in that it creates " The need for Rowling to play catch-up with her many convolutions ".

In a Counterpunch article in August 2005, Cockburn referred to Hitchens as: " A guy who called Sid Blumenthal one of his best friends and then tried to have him thrown into prison for perjury ; a guy who waited til his friend Edward Said was on his death bed before attacking him in the Atlantic Monthly ; a guy who knows perfectly well the role Israel plays in US policy but who does not scruple to flail Cindy Sheehan as a LaRouchie and anti-Semite because, maybe, she dared mention the word Israel.

Hitchens mentioned that he had recently attended a Cockburn family wedding in which Alexander officiated, and that he and Cockburn used to see each other more frequently when they had both lived on the same coast of the United States.

In the case of Hitchens ' criticisms of Said on his death bed, Hitchens replied, " It's actually rather silly of Alexander to say that ... he's often written counter-obituaries of people who have been overpraised and has chosen precisely the moment when there's a lot of sentimental garbage being published to say, ' come on, this guy wasn't so great!

The author and journalist Christopher Hitchens and the German magazine Stern have alleged that Mother Teresa did not focus the money on alleviating poverty or improving the conditions of her hospices, but on opening new convents and increasing missionary work.

* Tariq Ali and Christopher Hitchens – took opposing sides in two debates over the Iraq War, on December 4, 2003 and October 12, 2004.

* Eric Alterman and Christopher Hitchens on Bloggingheads, October 12, 2008.

* Eric Alterman on Charlie Rose, discussing the Iraq war with Christopher Hitchens.

Traditionalist conservative columnist and author Peter Hitchens has written that, " Mr Cameron has abandoned the last significant difference between his party and the established left ", by embracing social liberalism and has dubbed the party under his leadership " Blue Labour ", a pun on New Labour.

Hitchens writes for Britain's The Mail on Sunday newspaper, and describes himself as a Burkean conservative.

Hitchens began on the far left of the political spectrum before moving to the right.

Hitchens joined The Mail on Sunday, where he has a weekly column and weblog in which he debates directly with readers.

In 2011, Hitchens was booed by the audience for a Question Time programme, on which he appears regularly, when he said that sex education was causing teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

During the same programme, chairman David Dimbleby quoted to Hitchens comments made by John Bercow that The Mail on Sunday was " a bigoted, sexist, homophobic comic strip ".

Hitchens has authored and presented several documentaries on Channel 4, including critical examinations of Nelson Mandela and David Cameron.