http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKjgknOPnqc

Hitch was the catalyst that freed my mind. This video is from the 2011 Texas Free Thought Convention and is one of Hitch’s last public orations.

As Dawkins notes, the debate style that made Christopher such a grand orator has become known as the “Hitchslap”:

Hitchslap: The process of utterly obliterating an opponent’s entire (usually religious or political) argument, usually in one or more succinct or terse statements, orally or in writing.