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Christopher Hitchens, militant pundit, dies at 62
The Washington Times ^ | December 16, 2011 | Hillel Italie

Posted on 12/16/2011 5:22:24 AM PST by markomalley

Cancer weakened, but did not soften Christopher Hitchens. He did not repent or forgive or ask for pity. As if granted diplomatic immunity, his mind’s eye looked plainly upon the attack and counterattack of disease and treatments that robbed him of his hair, his stamina, his speaking voice and eventually his life.

“I love the imagery of struggle,” he wrote about his illness in an August 2010 essay in Vanity Fair. “I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.”

Hitchens, a Washington, D.C.-based author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of his esophageal cancer, according to a statement from Vanity Fair magazine. He was 62.

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KEYWORDS: antitheists; drunk; gagdadbob; godhaters; hitchens; miliantatheists; moralabsolutes; onecosmosblog
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To: Future Snake Eater
No. Because I have the same respect for atheists and their beliefs that they have for me and mine. Sucks doesn't it?

What goes around, comes around......

241 posted on 12/19/2011 7:58:53 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: A_perfect_lady
"...It’s just a sneaky way of trying to get me to read your favorite moralist and I’m not going for it. .."

"moralist". Now THAT'S funny!!!

242 posted on 12/19/2011 9:36:03 PM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Did that woman do anything even slightly negative to atheists, very publically? Did her followers? Was she “brilliant” as well as a cocky prick? No? Then your example is irrelevant.

What’s fascinating is that you’re so jaded you think people are just saying they’re hoping for a deathbed confession/conversion as a means of saying “nyah nyah” covertly. You don’t know anything about Christians, obviously, b/c I know they’re completely genuine. You think they sully your Great One’s memory by showing compassion to what is very likely his ultimate end. I personally don’t believe he deserves the same fate as Kim Jong Il, but I don’t get to make those decisions.

The people praying for Hitchens are far better people than I, and, while I am trying to improve my attitude, I have a huge problem with compassion towards unbelievable arrogance.


243 posted on 12/20/2011 5:16:42 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: Future Snake Eater
He's not a Great One to me; I was barely aware of him. So is that why Christians are gloating now? He was "cocky?" He dared to disagree with them during his life, so they're all over the place doing the Last Laugh thing? Well, you're right, I didn't know anything about Christians. I actually had expected better of them. I will lower my expectations accordingly now that you've slipped up and clued me in.
244 posted on 12/20/2011 5:42:38 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: Matchett-PI

My mistake. You were trying to get me to read your blog. Also something I don’t go for.


245 posted on 12/20/2011 5:44:44 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady
"My mistake. You were trying to get me to read your blog. Also something I don’t go for."

Another funny! Want to go for strike three?

246 posted on 12/20/2011 5:50:41 AM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: Matchett-PI

Look, I’m not kidding: you make no sense to me. Seriously. I have no idea what you want. If you can’t just talk to me without quotes and links, let it go.


247 posted on 12/20/2011 5:55:54 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

You seem to be confusing me with Ned Flanders. That’s a huge mistake on your part.


248 posted on 12/20/2011 6:08:05 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: Future Snake Eater

No, you are simply another poster who addressed me without me having first addressed him.


249 posted on 12/20/2011 6:11:01 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady
"I could go over there and be a butthead, and post something commenting on how it's a shame she's dead because there is no afterlife and her loved ones are NOT going to be seeing her again. I am quite certain this is true." ... Would you like to elaborate on how you reached such certainty?
250 posted on 12/20/2011 6:25:31 AM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

No, there’s no point. You wouldn’t understand.


251 posted on 12/20/2011 6:32:19 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

In a public forum?! Perish the thought!


252 posted on 12/20/2011 6:39:19 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: Future Snake Eater

So what is it that you want?


253 posted on 12/20/2011 6:41:08 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

You already know the answer to that. Instead, you went off on some whiny caveat about how “there’s no place for atheists to congregate on FR” or some such. Given that atheists are such an incredibly small minority in this country, I’d have figured you’d be used to it.


254 posted on 12/20/2011 6:49:58 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: Future Snake Eater

No, I really don’t know what you want. Say it.


255 posted on 12/20/2011 7:02:10 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady; betty boop
"Look, I’m not kidding: you make no sense to me. Seriously. ..."

Look, do you think that's news to me? I already know you're not kidding.

How could I make sense to someone who dwells in an alternative, or "second reality"? -- Seriously.

256 posted on 12/20/2011 7:47:28 AM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: A_perfect_lady

“You wouldn’t understand.” In Jungian terms, that is such an air tight defensive mechanism that I shall not endanger your comfort by asking anything further of you. Have Nice Day


257 posted on 12/20/2011 8:14:35 AM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Matchett-PI

Then why do you keep pinging me?


258 posted on 12/20/2011 8:14:35 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: MHGinTN

You too.


259 posted on 12/20/2011 8:15:17 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady
"Then why do you keep pinging me?"

A response to your questions aren't "pings".

PS: This isn't a "ping".

260 posted on 12/20/2011 8:25:08 AM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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