Christopher Hitchens: The scrapper faces the enemy within

UK Guardian ^ | July 4, 2010 | Andrew Anthony

[don-o]

Recently, Martin Amis noted, half-jokingly, that becoming a grandfather was like receiving a telegram from the mortuary. If so, then the news last week that his closest friend, Christopher Hitchens, has cancer of the oesophagus is more like getting a generational summons from the grave.

That is not to overstate the seriousness of Hitchens's diagnosis – although oesophageal cancer is indeed a grim condition – but simply to recognise the legend of an indestructible constitution that has long attended the celebrated journalist, polemicist, author, anti-theist and bon vivant. And no less to acknowledge the vitality habitually displayed by Hitchens in the dissemination and discussion of political and cultural ideas.

[don-o]

and another snip

His mother, to whom he was close, took her own life when he was 24. She had run away to Greece with a defrocked vicar and they killed themselves in a lovers' pact. It's one of the few areas of emotional autobiography into which Hitchens has ever strayed, even in his own memoir.

[thethirddegree]

I hope he gets right with God before he dies.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Maybe he could pray for supernatural healing. Oh, wait...

[13Sisters76]

This man has spent his entire life celebrating his own superiority and infinite erudition. Now he faces something even HE- the great one- cannot avoid...his mortality. Perhaps he, like so many self-promoters from the past before him, will now wonder if he was right.

[Popman]

I hope he gets right with God before he dies.

Why would he get right with he Flying Spaghetti Monster in the sky?

/S

[don-o]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2546716/posts

Should we pray for Christopher Hitchins?

[Cheetahcat]

He needs live long and suffer.

[Mmogamer]

Of course..

[jla]

One thinks of the Vincent Price’s character, Vital Dutour, in The Song of Bernadette.

[don-o]

He needs live long and suffer.

You do realize that what you wish for him may well be visited upon YOU?!

[Mears]

bfl

[Cheetahcat]

“He needs live long and suffer.

You do realize that what you wish for him may well be visited upon YOU?!”

No I fear God and not his flying spaghetti monster.

[McGavin999]

Christopher Hitchens is by far my favorite commie. I love his wit, I love to listen to him debate, and his intellect is awesome. I have always respected his right to be an athiest, but for all our sakes, I hope that I am right and he is wrong because to lose that beautiful would be a terrible shame.

Besides, the thought of he and Sister Theresa having a debate up in heaven somewhere just brings a smile to my face.

I wish him well, I hope he conquors this and, whether he would approve or not, I shall pray that he defeats this cancer.

[McGavin999]

Oops, should have been beautiful mind.

[The Comedian]

I don't think there are any historical precedents for miracle healing of atheists. So sad. Buh bye.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Sender]

Get Well Soon, Christopher

[daisy mae for the usa]

His soul has been dying long before cancer invaded his physical being. We should pray for him. We should pray that his soul, which is eternal, beats the cancer which eats it.

[theDentist]

Though he has said he wants no prayers for him, I shall anyway... if for no other reason that to irritate him.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

[Argus]

Matthew 7:1-2