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‘A great loss to humanism’: BHA mourns Christopher Hitchens

Fri, Dec 16, 2011 15:37 CET

The British Humanist Association (BHA) is today mourning the death of Christopher Hitchens, a great loss to Humanism, who brought some of the clearest, most eloquent arguments for reason, political secularism, and humanist ethics to a worldwide audience.A prolific writer and inspiring orator, Hitchens brought his own brand of unbelief to mass audiences, becoming part of the 'new atheist' publishing phenomenon with his 2007 work ‘God Is Not Great’, but had for many years been an activist for secularism and many of the other causes dear to humanists. BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said:

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