Christopher Hitchens
1949-2011 · Secular Thought · Renowned
Hitchens was a British-American journalist who argued in God Is Not Great that religion is made by men and does harm. He called himself an antitheist, glad that the claim was false. A materialist, he held that the universe has no purpose built into it, that morality is innate and needs no God, and that death ends you. He defended free expression without exception and backed the Iraq War.
Signature
The position Hitchens is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Ignorance
- strongly leans Bondage
- Theology
- Atheism
Positions on the 9 axes the sources answer
- Natural Processes
- leans Mechanistic (20 on a 0–100 scale from Mechanistic to Purposeful)
- Meaning
- strongly leans Constructed (9 on a 0–100 scale from Constructed to Inherent)
- Ground of Being
- strongly leans Immanence (10 on a 0–100 scale from Immanence to Transcendence)
- Truth
- leans Objective (85 on a 0–100 scale from Subjective to Objective)
- Polity
- strongly leans Liberalism (94 on a 0–100 scale from Illiberalism to Liberalism)
- War
- leans Militarism (88 on a 0–100 scale from Pacifism to Militarism)
- Ignorance
- strongly leans Bondage (6 on a 0–100 scale from Bondage to Bliss)
- Conviction
- leans Uncertain (18 on a 0–100 scale from Uncertain to Certain)
- Allegiance
- leans Global (79 on a 0–100 scale from Local to Global)
11 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Hitchens refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Atheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Good and Evil
- Natural Emergence
What is the fundamental nature of good and evil? - Knowledge
- Sense Experience
What is the ultimate foundation of knowledge? - Death
- Annihilation
What happens at death? - Human Nature
- Evolved Animal
What is human nature?