Robert Weitzel, The Capital Times:
Christopher Hitchens, contrarian atheist and slayer of all beasts fascistic and theocratic, will be in Madison this fall to present the keynote address at the Freedom From Religion Foundation's fall conference. Anyone who is familiar with Hitchens' substance and style will expect a speech that is irreverent and uncompromising and totally worth the price of admission.
Predictably, letters to the editor and op-ed pieces appeared bemoaning Hitchens' upcoming visit and calling him a boorish bigot for his willingness to describe the emperor 's nakedness in all its scabious and purulent magisterial arrogance.
Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are not bigots. They are an unholy trinity of best-selling atheist authors who are fed up with having to tap dance around people of faith whose religious beliefs are as irrational as they are ubiquitous, and as potentially deadly as they are personally cathartic.
I wish I could repost the whole thing here, but copyright's a bitch. Go check it out.
