What a waste—so smart and yet he rejected the most important thing...so so stupid.
Hope he is doing better in the afterlife than he asked for.
A lot of conservations I’ve had with people who proclaim themselves as “atheist” (which in most really cases means ‘I don’t know if there is a God’, rather than ‘there is definitely no God’), but almost all of them agree that at least having a Judeo-Christian belief system, beats the alternative, of simply proclaiming “Do What Thou Wilt shall be the whole of the law”, even they shudder to think about how things would be without some kind of religion, even if they don’t believe themselves.
Though Hitchens softened a bit in his latter years I could never understand his visceral hatred for RWR.
Hitchens, I believe, made the mistake of connecting God, to the many frauds who act in His name. One of the reasons, I get so upset at the religious charlatans, who in the end, drive more people away, because of their cynical exploitation of others through trying to use God towards their own selfish ends.
Seems to me this guy is trying to sell us all on how great this Hitchens guy was...my feeling is if you have to resort to selling a person and how wonderful and insightful they are, it means they are/were NOT.
One can only hope that Hitchens sought God at the end.
People CHOOSE to not believe in God, but they sure believe in themselves!!
I liked Hitchens, Freepers had dinner with him at one of our functions, he was interesting, but he wasn't SMART.
I read all of the article. Glad I did.
Actually not believing in God is quite normal.. maybe natural..
Having faith in a GOD is un-natural.. not normal..
Many atheists have faith there is no God.. Hitchens had faith..
Not that anyone knows what a God is.. (a real one)..
How could you know.. without being God..
A creature(being) that can create Universes?...
Who can conceive of such a “thing”(entity)?..
Believing and not believing takes faith..
cause you cannot prove either.. I choose to believe..
But what I believe I’m not sure.. thats why it is called “faith”..
A jump over logic and illogic.. maybe I am not a smart alec.. I pray..
If I “knew”, then I wouldn’t need “faith”..
I have “faith” exactly because I don’t “know”..
“Christopher Hitchens was a good man,...”
Here’s hoping God thinks so too.
Wonderful piece. Thanks for posting. I didn’t know Hitchens, but read him with gusto and loved him.
Thanks for posting. My husband and I once had an opportunity to invite Hitchens to our private club. We suspected he would love all the free booze but in the end we chickened out. So sad we did.
"Later, I would invite him to a different event. He responded he wished he could go, but it was a Jewish holiday and he would be in Temple. He added “(I know, I know.)” This was, after all, at the same time his book, God Is Not Great, was on the bestseller list.This might seem like hypocrisy, but it wasn’t. Christopher’s wife, Carol Blue, or just “Blue,” is Jewish, and she wanted him go go with her. Christopher’s family was Jewish, though he didn’t know it growing up. So maybe it also was his way of nodding to his family."
Something new to bludgeon the anti-theists with...thanks!