“In the end he left me without his voice, for all time.”
He had quite a “voice”, didn’t he?
I don’t understand why those who disagreed with him have to be so disagreeable about his passing.
His voice was one to which we needed to listen, as frustrating as it could be at times.
RIP Mr. Hitchens. You will be missed.
Like Gore Vidal, a very sharp tool, exceptionally so.I think in a way beyond our imagining God will use him, probably has used him all through his Hamlet-like climbing the stairs of his tower.
I did buy his No One Left to Lie To though I guess I didn't mark it because it was jettisoned while other books remained.
I think he straw-manned his anti-God argument. I think he was compelled to fight unreasoned faith with reason.
I think it's as likely he convinced anyone as it was that our Baptist counsellor at age eight convinced us to eschew burning in Hell by knowing Jesus.
The one's goal is to entice you away with high thoughts; the other, to scare you into something with dark fears.
His great gift would be his full kit of surgical sardonicism.
May he find his blissful counterstroke having relaxed his resistance.
It may depend on their exposure to him. Some folks may have only seen him when he said things they disagreed with. I had seen him tweak both sides. When I disagreed with him, I could at least understand where he was coming from, although some of those times I thought he was way off base.
People have different philosophies about death. When someone they disagree with dies, they are happy and want to dance on their graves. I’ve never bought into that.
IMO, God grieves at the death of every person. He sees what could have been, and laments the poor choices that person that He loved made, and what their lives turned out like due to them. I don’t ever see Him gleeful that a person has died.
Who among us has not had a family member or a friend do things we did not support, but still loved them none the less?
I do think God could be happy that their evil actions and the resultant reactions were coming to an end.