Peter Hitchens vs. Christopher Hitchens: Can Civilization Survive Without God?

In late 2010, the Hitchens brothers debated the link between "civilization" and belief in God.

Christopher Hitchens died in 2011. A little over a year earlier, he did one last debate with his brother Peter. It was hosted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Unlike the Hitchens brothers’ previous confrontations in 1999 and 2008, this one doesn’t seem to have been preserved on YouTube—but you can read a transcript here.

The topic was, “Can Ci…