"Was Hitchens’s critique of Christianity, he said, not as wan and naive
as Christianity itself? Christianity had bound together the
civilizations of Europe, and now Hitchens wanted to replace it
with—well, what exactly? American neoliberal internationalism? Why
should anyone care if Christianity was irrational and illiberal, when
rationality and liberalism had never been its purpose? Hitchens had
missed the point."
--"His Kampf" by Graeme Wood, The Atlantic
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