In the only realm that really matters, Hitchens is already dead. Continued prayers that he will awaken to real life before it is too late.
Here in lies the irony, atheists require a God to deny.
Agnosticism troubles itself with neither good nor evil, God or devil.
I believe that many atheists will repent and know the Living God while many traditional church goers will be part of the great falling away. Traditional, meaning, social, not born again.
As for the some on this subject that are lampooning God for sickness in children, creation is full of death, Christ died and was resurrected to end this cycle. Their sarcasm is crueler than the child dying, for they would shut that same child out from the promise of hope in the new creation.