Tony Blair debates faith with writer Christopher Hitchens
Mr Blair, who converted to Roman Catholicism after he stepped down as Prime Minister in 2007, was to address the question "Is religion a force for good or ill?" with Mr Hitchens, author of the best-selling God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.
Mr Hitchens, 61, a former socialist who supported the Iraq war, is having chemotherapy for oesophageal cancer, and has indicated he believes he may not have long to live. He recently debated his brother, the conservative journalist Peter Hitchens, 59, in Washington on the subject: "Can Civilisation Survive Without God?"
Throughout his time in front-line British politics, Mr Blair was reluctant to discuss his faith, although it was known he regularly attended Catholic masses at the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Great Missenden, the nearest Catholic church to Chequers. In his recent autobiography, Mr Blair gave few details of his conversion to...
Dr. Jason Lisle | 6/1/2005
