We thank gentle reader MattC for pointing us to the Daily Mail's column featuring a sort of book review of Christopher Hitchens's God Is Not Great by, of all people, his brother Peter, a faithful Anglican.
We largely affirm the perspective of the less-well-known Hitchens, save for what we see as his failure to grasp the grim moral imperative of just war and his use of the common and grossly imprecise epithet "literal" to describe some approaches biblical interpretation with which he differs. We note that razor-sharp wit seems to be a quality generally shared in the Hitchens family.
We also note respect in which Peter differs from Chris besides their takes on theism and the Iraq War: Peter's sentences are short and crisp.
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