Christopher Hitchens gives a speech at the Freedom From Religion Foundation after receiving an award. This is from October 12, 2007.

Kevin Phillips examines the axis of religion, politics, and borrowed money that threatens to destroy the nation. He maintains that every world-dominating power has been brought down by a related set of causes: a lethal combination of global over-reach, militant religion, resource problems, and ballooning debt. Series: “Walter H. Capps Center Series” [1/2007] [Public Affairs] [...]

Religion does not have any of its own resources – they are hijacked from other areas of human life. Cynical and desperate religious leaders are trying harder and harder to claim that some of the most numinous and personal human experiences are the unique province of religion. They are doing this because they are increasingly [...]