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Never heard of Christopher Hitchens.
Richard Dawkins is Jewish by his motherline and he admitted that the Jews act as an inspiration for him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_dawkins
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Dawkins_Richard.html
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme.
Jew by Halakha. His mother was Jean Mary Vyvyan Dawkins (nee Ladner). Ladner is a Jewish (Ashkenazic) occupational name for a shopkeeper, from a derivative of Laden 'shop'. Dawkins is a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. British Humanist Association committed to human rights, democracy, egalitarianis. The Brights movement is a social movement that aims to promote equal civil rights and acceptance for people who hold a naturalistic worldview. Dawkins cited the "Jewish lobby" as a model for his campaign. Dawkins describes himself as "a deeply religious non-believer." He calls his belief system "Einsteinian religion," and waxes poetical as follows:
Let me sum up Einsteinian religion in one more quotation from Einstein himself: "To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious."
Albert Einstein was born into a Jewish family and had a lifelong respect for his Jewish heritage. Around the time Einstein was eleven years old he went through an intense religious phase, during which he followed Jewish religious precepts in detail, including abstaining from eating pork. He composed several songs in honor of God. Einstein's Jewish background and upbringing were significant to him, and his Jewish identity was strong, increasingly so as he grew older. Einstein was opposed to atheism. The simple appellation "agnostic" may not be entirely accurate, given his many expressions of belief in a Spinozan concept of Deity. It is accurate enough to call his religious affiliation "Jewish," with the understanding of the variety encompassed by such a label. Einstein had a positive attitude toward religion. He wrote of his belief in a noble "cosmic religious feeling" that enables scientists to advance human knowledge. One of Einstein's most famous quotes on the subject of science and religion is: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." The Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: "Firmly denying atheism, Einstein expressed a belief in 'Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the harmony of what exists.' This actually motivated his interest in science, as he once remarked to a young physicist: 'I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.' Einstein's famous epithet on the 'uncertainty principle' was 'God does not play dice.'"