Posted on 12/15/2011 9:12:53 PM PST by Arthurio
R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens
December 15, 2011 11:51 P.M. By Daniel Foster Vanity Fair reports that Christopher Hitchens has passed away. Often frustrating, usually provocative, always brilliant. He added to the culture, and the conversation.
Im sure I join many in hoping he is in for a glorious, glorious surprise.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
all true....but I liked him anyway...
...the wife and I had the discussion about what he thinks NOW. I, having been a lapsed Catholic for the past 40+ years admitted, he might not know anything(thus proving his own point)....the Wife who KNOWS there is something MORE, thought he would be surprised when he reached his ‘rewards’.
I intoned that if this was the only way any of us will know the truth and that I am in no hurry to find out one way or another
Mr. Hitchens certainly added to the conversation.
RIP
Hitch was awesome. Fearless speaker and writer. I’ll miss him. And yes he was one of the only guys that would take down Islam in public and call it what is was.
RIP
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.
**Mr. Hitchens certainly added to the conversation.**
Getting to the end of the thread for your comment was worth the slings and arrows.
He was, in many ways a messenger - because he made us talk, think and write about falling from faith - and reclaiming it.
God probably sent him and has taken him back.
Your words are very, very moving to me. It is words like yours that lead me in the direction of religion and not back away from it. Unfortunately, I do not have the gift of faith.
We all fight on this site and we all make up as well. I’m sure I gave as good as I got and a Merry Christmas to you, too.
Tonight I will lift a glass of single malt to the gallant Mr. H.
I will join you in that toast to Mr. Hitchens, and my sincere wishes to you for a Happy New Year.
Intellect tells you that??...so if you live in Indonesia and you are brought up listening to some moronic Imam...then Intellect will tell you what? Or you are brought up in India and your intellect will tell you to be saved by some ‘’heavenly’ guy with 8 arms.
So if you are a Jew, Muslim, Rastafarian,(Hitchens Maternal Grandmother was a Jew, ergo he was a Jew) you should believe ONLY believing Christ as your Lord and Savior will allow you to enter Heaven??
what arrogance and profound lack of intellect....Faith means belief without hard proof. Believe if you will, but it is not an intellectual exercise
I have heard that Mr. Hitchens made peace with God towards the end of his life? Do not know all the details though. Please fill in the details. Thanks!
Deathbed or near deathbed conversions can and do happen. You can hope.
:^)
"Nay, and of hearts which follow other gods
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In simple faith, their prayers arise to me,
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O Kunti’s Son! though they pray wrongfully:
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For I am the Receiver and the Lord
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Of every sacrifice, which these know not."
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: IX, Lines: 92-96.
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The Bhagavad-Gita. |
Chapter XII |
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“Here shall no end be hindered, no hope marred
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No loss be feared: faith—yea, a little faith—
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Shall save thee from the anguish of thy dread.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: II, Lines 140-142.
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ARJUNA:
“And what road goeth he who, having faith, |
Fails, Krishna! in the striving; falling back
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From holiness, missing the perfect rule?
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Is he not lost, straying from Brahma’s light,
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Like the vain cloud, which floats ’twixt earth and Heaven
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When lightning splits it, and it vanisheth?
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Fain would I hear thee answer me herein,
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Since, Krishna! none save thou can clear the doubt.”
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KRISHNA:
“He is not lost, thou Son of Prithâ! No! |
Nor earth, nor heaven is forfeit, even for him,
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Because no heart that holds one right desire
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Treadeth the road of loss! He who should fail,
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Desiring righteousness, cometh at death
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Unto the Region of the Just.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: VI, Lines 125-138.
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“Of many thousand mortals, one, perchance,
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Striveth for Truth; and of those few that strive—
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Nay, and rise high—one only—here and there—
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Knoweth Me, as I am, the very Truth.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: VII, Lines 8-11.
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“There be those, too, whose knowledge, turned aside
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By this desire or that, gives them to serve
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Some lower gods, with various rites, constrained
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By that which mouldeth them. Unto all such—
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Worship what shrine they will, what shapes, in faith—
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’Tis I who give them faith! I am content!
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The heart thus asking favor from its God,
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Darkened but ardent, hath the end it craves,
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The lesser blessing—but ’tis I who give!
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Yet soon is withered what small fruit they reap
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Those men of little minds, who worship so,
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Go where they worship, passing with their gods.
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But Mine come unto me! Blind are the eyes
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Which deem th’ Unmanifested manifest,
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Not comprehending Me in my true Self!
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Imperishable, viewless, undeclared,
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Hidden behind my magic veil of shows,
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I am not seen by all; I am not known—
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Unborn and changeless—to the idle world.
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But I, Arjuna! know all things which were,
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And all which are, and all which are to be,
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Albeit not one among them knoweth Me!”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: VII, Lines 69-90.
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“Nay, and of hearts which follow other gods
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In simple faith, their prayers arise to me,
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O Kunti’s Son! though they pray wrongfully:
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For I am the Receiver and the Lord
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Of every sacrifice, which these know not
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Rightfully; so they fall to earth again!”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: IX, Lines 92-97.
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“Yet not by the Vedas, nor from sacrifice,
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Nor penance, nor gift-giving, nor with prayer
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Shall any so behold, as thou hast seen!
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Only by fullest service, perfect faith,
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And uttermost surrender am I known
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And seen, and entered into, Indian Prince!
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Who doeth all for Me; who findeth Me
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In all; adoreth always; loveth all
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Which I have made, and Me, for Love’s sole end,
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That man, Arjuna! unto Me doth wend.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: XI, Lines 332-344.
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Bhagavad Gita....Vishnu and J. Robert Oppenheimer
Cancer sucks.
RIP Mr Hitchens
Bless you!
He continues to give and to bless even those who intentionally spit in His eye and claim He does not exist.
He even loves us enough to respect our last wishes; living away from God.
I don't understand why folks find this peculiar. He doesn't choose where folks spend eternity; they do.
I'm sure that would be surprising to folks who expect that their good deeds will get them to Heaven even if they don't believe, but you can't reject God and expect to live an eternity in His presence.
You seem to wish him in Hell.
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