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October 13, 2010

Wash. Post: Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens spar over religion in cold, civilized debate

by Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger
The Washington Post

It was a most unusual brother act: Christopher Hitchens and Peter Hitchens debating religion; the latter a believer, the former decidedly not. And while the British-born writers had aired their disagreements in public before, their Tuesday forum at the Pew Research Center in Washington was their first since the atheist brother -- Christopher -- announced that he is dying of esophageal cancer.

Has it changed their relationship?

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