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If you really wanna understand the religious relations with Nazism and Nazi ideology I'd highly recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Reich-Conceptions-Christianity-1919-1945/dp/0521603528

The cliff notes version is essentially Christianity was very much an essential part of Nazi antisemetism and officially part of the Nazi ideology. The pagan aspects of Nazi ideology are overplayed and were not accepted by Hitler or many high ranking officers. Also, atheism was associated with Jewishness and communism, so it was absolutely hated by the Nazis.

Here are two good sources:

HUGE Archive, 93gb: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristopherHitchens/comments/1b1c5f/hitchens_archive_10_torrent_93gb/

Wakelet Collection: https://wakelet.com/@TheHitch

A friend of mine read this post and sent the article to me by email because he was afraid of the copyright violation. I'm not. :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/78fh7zh5uqdlqqm/Edward%20Teller%20Hitch%20article.pdf

A materialist in the philosophical sense though, which is not at all to be confused with the term we attach to excessive consumers. Materialism basically says that the world is to be explained via nature because matter is real (as opposed to Idealism, which says that what we see is a mental construction and reality thus immaterial). As you can tell from that, most atheists are philosophical materialists.

Anyway, I've read on several occasions that Hitch used to call himself a trotskyist marxist (which is in line with his admiration for George Orwell) and a socialist when he was younger, but later dropped socialism (because it failed to offer an alternative to capitalism) and called himself a conservative Marxist.

I think it might be save to say that he was aware of capitalism's dangers as well as its benefits. You don't have to be either/or in this question. It is perfectly plausible to admire Das Kapital and The Wealth of Nations.

I'd never presume to speak for Hitch, but I think that William James's Will to Believe is the best argument I've encountered on an individual level.

On a societal level, I think Haidt makes a pretty strong argument along the lines of group selection; I particularly liked his takedown of new atheism in the Righteous Mind.

I agree with SilentDis. Be you! That's solid advice. An online resource you might enjoy is Open Culture.

Learn critical thinking. To find your voice, start writing for yourself, putting down your thoughts and reading them back will educate in ways that will be useful later on. This exercise will give you a good idea about what subjects and ideas that interest you but more importantly how you think. As you know Hitchens always emphasized the latter. We should always try to assert views on the basis of evidence and good reasons rather than just asserting things that we think.

Finally, read Hitchens, but don't just take his word as gospel, you can enjoy his writing but disagree with what he's writing. I think this is an important point, especially, if you like me, enjoy him so much. Good luck and keep your curiosity close and treasure it, don't let anybody rip it from you!

because there is a palpable disparity (reform movements) between the mullahs and the young people of Iran.

As for the arab spring, well he was alive long enough to comment on it.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/09/christopher-hitchens-911-arab-spring

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/04/hitchens-201104

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Out of all of the references Hitchens made in this debate, the following is a must read.

You can get second hand copies for $00.01 excluding shipping. I just picked one up for $4.00 including shipping.

Enjoy.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375753788