Christopher Hitchens talks about George Orwell’s false gods
• Skeptics & Atheists
He certainly regarded it as a system of belief and organisation that was principally responsible for fascism. In his critiques of the fascist ideology in Spain, Italy and Austria, he pointed out the collusion of the church with such forces. At one point he says of a certain proposition he wants to advance — this was in the Forties — he said “I could no more prove this scientifically than I could prove that the Catholic Church was in favour of fascism in the 1930s. But I know it to be true.”