Current world affairs concerning religious fundamentalism, have propelled these intellectuals into the spotlight as authorities on secular opinion. They also contend that the world of religion and religious belief, is often morally corrupt and needs to be open to criticism. Central to their thinking, is that there is no god, supernatural or divine being. The infamous ‘Four Horsemen’ have brought their ideas on atheism and religion into mainstream media through their television appearances, bestselling books and debates that are watched worldwide. Hitchens, has been grouped with three other current intellectuals Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, who are collectively known as ‘The Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse’.
For Hitchens, in one of his bestsellers, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, explains how belief in the supernatural and religion are detrimental to progression of humanity, because they destroy individual freedom, free expression and scientific discovery. In the clip, Hitchens and his unique style that is both unapologetic and contemptuous, not only rejects the existence of God but condemns the idea of God as ‘totalitarian’ and likens this dictatorship as being akin to a ‘celestial North Korea’. The late Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was one of the most notorious and outspoken proponents of the ‘New Atheism’ movement that developed in the 2000s. This clip of Christopher Hitchens, is taken from a debate with his brother Peter Hitchens, on the 3 rd April 2008. ‘Atheism’ – the disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or god. In this post she writes about ‘atheism’ as a philosophical keyword in recent British cultural history. Holly Meldrum took the ‘Philosophical Britain‘ module at Queen Mary in 2016.
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