Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens spar over religion in cold, civilized debate

Christopher, left, and Peter Hitchens, in their forum on Tuesday. (Courtesy of the Pew Research Center) 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? "I don't have long to live," Christopher, bald and thinned by chemotherapy, said tersely, "and it's not something I wish to focus on in this argument." Would Peter address it? "I thought we'd already done that," he said. And so it went, a strangely cold yet emotionally fraught conversation, over the hum of video cameras and gentle clank of silverware, before a luncheon audience of riveted

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