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Oct 2019
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Peter Hitchens: The Rage Against God and...

SOCRATES IN THE CITY
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Eric Metaxas interviews the perspicacious Peter Hitchens, brother of the late Christopher Hitchens, about his book THE RAGE AGAINST GOD. 
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