Presumably, plenty of Freepers weighed in on how we can only pray that God will comfort her family and how we must all have faith that she is in a better place now.
Now, 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. But why would I do that, hm? What is the point? Why be RUDE on a thread about someone's death?
Now, either you understand what I'm saying and you're pretending not to because it pleases you to do so, or you haven't the intellectual oomph to carry your end of this conversation.
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.