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Comment author: buybuydandavis 17 December 2011 06:55:31PM *  0 points [-]

After a 3 second search, I couldn't find the quote, but I recently read a quote from Hitchens saying he had no political party, and was just a rationalist.

He's said it in many ways at different times, but he seemed to characterize himself as a partisan of Enlightenment values of rationality and freedom over faith and force.

Comment author: hairyfigment 23 December 2011 06:23:55AM 1 point [-]

This quotes him as saying,

"I'm a member of no (political) party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us."

Comment author: wedrifid 23 December 2011 08:23:33AM 2 points [-]

I have no ideology.

Haha.

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