It's Jesus' birthday, but YOU get the gift! For the viewing pleasure of all you devil-worshipping atheists this Christmas, an hour-long Authors@Google special with Hitch promoting his book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” in which he defends the subtitle.

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“God is never mentioned in the United States constitution, except in order to limit religion, and keep it out of politics and put it under legal control. This achievement was described by President Jefferson – whose biographer I am in a small way – to the Baptists of Branbury Connecticut in a letter after they’d written him for fear of persecution… [they were terrified by the Congregationalists of Branbury Connecticut] … The President wrote back and said, “You may be assured that ever will be in this country, a wall of separation between the church and the state.

“So I have a new slogan, and I’m taking it on tour, and I invite you to join me in it and it goes like this: “Mister Jefferson: build up this wall!”

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A 25 minute lecture is followed by a half hour of Q & A with lots of amusing anecdotes.

Merry Christmas fellow Soloists!

Glenn