![]() ![]() What sets this book apart-as Benjamin Kerstein documented in Jewish Ideas Daily-is the casual statements about Judaism that are obviously untrue, as well as its obsession with Judaism. It is easy to document historical horrors committed in the name of religion. The bestselling book of Hitchens’s career, and the one for which he is most known, is God Is Not Great: Why Religion Poisons Everything. In his writings about faith, and especially in his critiques of Judaism and the State of Israel, Hitchens reflected, with disconcerting constancy, the very vices that he purported to criticize throughout his career: bigotry, dishonesty, and ignorance. ![]() ![]() Continetti’s tribute to Hitchens is one of many over the years by authors I admire, and that is why I feel compelled-if ’tis truly the season-to explain why I consider Hitchens’s legacy to be so unworthy of celebration. ‘’Tis the season to remember Christopher Hitchens.” So my fellow Commentary columnist Matthew Continetti wrote in December in a Washington Free Beacon essay marking the 10th anniversary of the controversial writer’s untimely death. ![]()
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