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Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies

Hitchens was an antisemite and a christian basher. He is forever burning in a lake of fire about now. Good riddance. The world will be a better place with out the SOB.
 
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Hitchens was an antisemite and a christian basher. He is forever burning in a lake of fire about now. Good riddance. The world will be a better place with out the SOB.

Haha - acting like a Christian and not like Jesus, I see.

He wasn't an Anti-Semite and, if by "Christian basher," you mean he didn't tread lightly as to avoid stepping on its toes, you'd be correct. He didn't give religion special treatment, one of his best qualities.

The world is a better place without him? How so? His journalistic contributions, books, and debates will be surely missed.
 
Hitchens was an antisemite and a christian basher. He is forever burning in a lake of fire about now. Good riddance. The world will be a better place with out the SOB.
He also bashed Muslims and many other religions.

Something tells me he would have really loved your post about him, lol.
 
Hitchens was an antisemite and a christian basher. He is forever burning in a lake of fire about now. Good riddance. The world will be a better place with out the SOB.

He might have been a lot of things, but he was not an anti-semite. And he isn't burning in a lake of fire now, because nobody except the brain dead and four year old children believe in that nonsense. But I'm sure you're a 'good Christian' and merely expressing the sentiments of the rest of your deluded ilk.
 
What I would give to see his face when he arrived at the gates of hell and realized that he was wrong and nothing can save him from eternal damnation.
 
What I would give to see his face when he arrived at the gates of hell and realized that he was wrong and nothing can save him from eternal damnation.
I like mythology as much as the next guy but your elitism is giving it a bad name.
 
What I would give to see his face when he arrived at the gates of hell and realized that he was wrong and nothing can save him from eternal damnation.

He met his Noodly Master! Ramen!
 
What I would give to see his face when he arrived at the gates of hell and realized that he was wrong and nothing can save him from eternal damnation.

I agree, it's fun to have a lofty imagination and play pretend.
 
Re: Christopher Hitchens Dies dec 15 at age 62

That's your opinion, and you could say the same thing about anyone who is good at what they do and makes money at it.

I've watched many debates, I've read a number of books and read alot of articles involving religion and world politics. Hitchens debates were always the best, his books were among my favorites and his articles were amongst the best I've read. To me that means something and I will miss his contributions.

The labourer is, doubtless, worthy of his hire, and he was a good entertainer. My point is that he was deliberately reviving what is, for almost all British people, a dead debate, because it was safer to rant on about an archaic religious position than to take on the people who - he knew perfectly well - really had financial and intellectual power. To do what he knew was right would have hurt his pocket. Compare him with another very good journalist, Paul Foot, also an IS member, to get the point.
 
Re: Christopher Hitchens Dies dec 15 at age 62

What I would give to see his face when he arrived at the gates of hell and realized that he was wrong and nothing can save him from eternal damnation.

Such desires are earning you a ticket to sit alongside him in the great underneath.

He was, like me, a member of the International Socialism Group. They had a remarkably good education programme: he knew exactly what he was doing when he talked political gobbledegook for money.

Which political gobbledy-gook? The stuff where he starts thinking independently of the socialist collective? And what's wrong with making money?

You haven't defended your comparison to Darwin and Huxley. They were about promoting evolutionary theory with God's existence not necessarily at stake, Hitchens primarily focussed on the dangers religion bring to society and geopolitics. Darwin and his bulldog wouldn't have touched that issue, nor does Hitchens go in to great detail about science in his talks or writings.

No - he would have been opposing imperialism, as he knew very well - so he invented political illiteracies like 'Islamo-fascist' to make believe he was still human.

He didn't invent that term. And he wasn't human now, cause he broke away from the devout socialist flock? He opposed Islamic imperialism, communist and western imperialism throughout the course of his career.

I don't understand this. In the country we were brought up in it wasn't an issue: he was doing this stuff because it went down big with Americans and brought in money.

Since you erroneously compared his anti-religious debating style to Huxley, I would have to say you never read or heard Hitchens speak on the issue (otherwise I'd have to doubt your fantastic education on Darwin) or were going in prepared to dislike what he said because he betrayed your "cause" by arguing for universal human rights.
 
Re: Christopher Hitchens Dies dec 15 at age 62

Such desires are earning you a ticket to sit alongside him in the great underneath.



Which political gobbledy-gook? The stuff where he starts thinking independently of the socialist collective? And what's wrong with making money?

You haven't defended your comparison to Darwin and Huxley. They were about promoting evolutionary theory with God's existence not necessarily at stake, Hitchens primarily focussed on the dangers religion bring to society and geopolitics. Darwin and his bulldog wouldn't have touched that issue, nor does Hitchens go in to great detail about science in his talks or writings.



He didn't invent that term. And he wasn't human now, cause he broke away from the devout socialist flock? He opposed Islamic imperialism, communist and western imperialism throughout the course of his career.



Since you erroneously compared his anti-religious debating style to Huxley, I would have to say you never read or heard Hitchens speak on the issue (otherwise I'd have to doubt your fantastic education on Darwin) or were going in prepared to dislike what he said because he betrayed your "cause" by arguing for universal human rights.
Alas, like most people here, you are ignorant of socialism and know nothing of the International Socialist Group or - I fear - cultural history in the UK, so what exactly do you see as the point of this discussion?
 
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Although he was all over the map when it came to his political positions and God I liked to hear Hitchins interviewed. I hope God will forgive him for his hatred. May he rest in peace.
 
Although he was all over the map when it came to his political positions and God I liked to hear Hitchins interviewed. I hope God will forgive him for his hatred. May he rest in peace.

Except Hitch didn't believe in the afterlife and there is no evidence for you to assert such a claim.
 
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