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Article: Christopher Hitchens.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 31, 2007
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Regarding Laura Lloyd's article on Christopher Hitchens (NCR, Aug. 3): Ms. Lloyd apparently cannot comprehend why so many Americans are buying and reading Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Although the book is a national bestseller, nowhere in her article is there even a hint of taking Mr. Hitchens' work seriously. Instead of analyzing why his antireligious arguments are so compelling to American readers, she settles for name-calling. The only opinions worthy of her article reduce author Hitchens to an amusing rant, calling him arrogant and a heavy drinker, a self-centered grouch and so on. Ms. Lloyd even included the expert opinion ...