His anger at God was at an emotional level. His intellectual capacity is limited, like all mortals. His inability to have faith is not unusual in humans, although societies with no faith in God are brutal and can only live in a Darwinian world or under total tyranny.
All brilliant philosophers understood the need for religion and “values” . Virtue is essential to all free Republics and only promoted by rational religions (Judeo/Christian) plus Nicomachean Ethics.
Aristotle, Cicero, Machiavelli, All the Founding Fathers, Thomas Reid, John Locke, Blackstone, Edmund Burke, Benjamin Rush, Nietzsche.....so many brilliant, knowledgeable men over thousands of years can not be wrong, especially when historical evidence exists. Hitchens was wrong—he ignored historical truths—but he was brutally honest about his thinking, in the Darwinian sense. Faith in God can be more rational than atheism (as history proves), but he never discovered that—or maybe he did in the end. Only God knows.
Most of the founding fathers were deists and not necessarily Christians. They spoke of Providence, not Jesus. There is no mention of “Christianity” in any founding documents to my knowledge. The point I want to make is we are not to judge our fellow man in spiritual matters. Our beliefs are as different as night and day yet we are subject to the ONE creator. Hitchens was an honorable man as far as I know and he contributed to society unlike a lot of people - especially as we read today about those terrorists who chopped off a woman’s breast as she fed her baby in her house and to whom I wish eternal fire and damnation upon. We have to get off this “religion” thing and live together in peace and harmony as Jesus preached. Everyone forgets that Christianity is NOT a religion.