The 'Four Horsemen' Discuss Experiences Advocating Against Theology

On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion:

[Sam Harris] "Well thats what it is to trespass a tabboo. I think we're all gathering the fact that religion is held off the table of rational criticism in some kind of formal way, even by--we're discovering--our fellow secularists and our fellow atheists [who will say]: "Just leave people to their own superstition even if it's abject and causing harm. Don't look too closely at it.""

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Hitchens on "The Moral Necessity of Atheism"

Chistopher Hitchens speaks at Georgia University about "The Moral Necessity of Atheism."

"But I do want to propose the concept of an anti-theist as opposed to the non-theist or agnostic. The anti-theist, such as myself, is someone who is hostile to the idea of religion, [and] takes no position as between faiths. We maintain that the pluralism of faith..and the schism within existing faiths, the number of churches--if not churches, synagogues or [ ] or temples--claiming to possess an avenue to the truth and competing with one another is susceptible of a very simple explanation: the pluralism of religion is attributable to the fact that Man created God, and not the other way around."

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