I won’t lighten up. I only met Christopher Hitchens once and he made an excellent impression on me. Having read him since the 1970s, I feel I have come to know him. His final VF article saddened me. He was a fine writer and a fellow American. I noticed in the Guardian obit photo, he is wearing his Remembrance Day poppy - so he was patriotic, too.
What a sad and cynical outlook you have on life and death.
Rip, Christopher.
What a sad & cynical life you embrace thru your rejection of God and Jesus Christ.
Clearly you place your self above God.....that is pure arrogance.
Good-bye....and good luck with that rejection of Him.
I don’t even mean to challenge you.
I just truly don’t understand.
If one doesn’t have faith, or believe in God or sin or heaven or hell, why would one care what another thinks about the afterlife of Christopher Hitchens or anyone else?
Maybe those you oppose here are wrong, or spiteful or overzealous, or just plain stupid, but why would it matter? I liked Hitchens’ writing too, and admired his courage—and I would certainly be willing to defend him on those grounds.
But why would you worry about what I think about his eternal fate?
And why on earth (!) would you go on urging what you see as his dead body to ‘rest in peace’? He’s gone, according to you: he’s done, he’s past. We would do better, again according to you, simply to urge people to read his books.
I’ll do that, and I will pray for him as well, as I have been doing since I learned of his illness. I don’t have the “gift” of faith either, but I’m supposing that neither God nor Hitchens will mind if I continue to try.