Christopher Hitchens
Criticism of religion
Hitchens was an antitheist, and said that a person "could be an atheist and wish that belief in God were correct", but that "an antitheist, a term I'm trying to get into circulation, is someone who is relieved that there's no evidence for such an assertion." He often spoke against the Abrahamic religions. In a 2010 interview at New York Public Library, Hitchens stated that he was against infant circumcision. When asked by readers of The Independent (London) what he considered to be the "axis of evil", Hitchens replied "Christianity, Judaism, Islam – the three leading monotheisms." In debates, Hitchens often posed what has become known as "Hitchens' Challenge": to name at least one moral action that a person without a faith (e.g., an atheist or antitheist) could not possibly perform, and, conversely, to name one immoral action that a person with a faith could perform or has performed in the past.
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