Hitchens was brilliant but also seemingly rather unselfconscious of how his atheistic zealotry mirrored the religious dogmatism that he constantly railed agains

Hitchens was brilliant but also seemingly rather unselfconscious of how his atheistic zealotry mirrored the religious dogmatism that he constantly railed against. This is the paradox of religious criticism: the more you accuse of others of ignorant dogmatism, the more you become exactly what you accuse the other of.