For Christopher Hitchens, one of the most influential intellectuals of our time, the debate with religion is the source and basis of all debates, the beginning of all polemics about virtue and justice. His fundamental objections to faith and his irreconcilability with all major monotheisms boil down to an implacable conviction:

“Religion poisons everything it touches.”

The secular humanist Hitchens does not simply believe that the moral life is possible without religion, but accuses religion of the most dangerous crimes against humanity. The Russian reader, in all his ideological and generational diversity, has the opportunity to agree or argue with the author’s arguments, in any case paying tribute to the brilliance of his argumentation, literary talent, sincerity and erudition.