All I said was he did drugs. I didn't condem his soul.
No it's the digusting way the media and a few seem to think this guy is some literary giant. It's called drawing atention to the absurd with absurdity.
If you can name one redeeming quality of HST that I should admire other than his support of the 2nd amendment, fine. But even Neo-Nazis support the 2nd amendment. HST was a drug addict, an alcoholic, a second rate writer, and an old man who couldn't leave the 60's. He was bitter and unforgiving. He was no better than Ward Churchill. I am from his generation and am ashamed that he, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, and Jack Kerouac are what people have to remember us. I'm sorry when any one dies, but I don't have to admire them. And that is not being hypocritical.
Reading some of the posts in this thread reminds me of why FreeRepublic detractors are sometimes correct about the hypocrisy of the "Christian Right" as to compassion, forgiveness, from stone throwing glass house dwellers, and the inability by many here to find absolutely NO redeeming qualities from people with whom they disagree.
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Well said bump.
Just a reminder to you that Free Republic is about freedom, not Christianity.
Conservative? Yup. "Right-wing"? Yes, indeedy. Christian? Nope. Unh uh. No way.
Many here are Deists in the spirit of Jefferson, Adams, and Paine. Many are Jews. Many are whatevers. Many are atheist. And, yes, many are Christian.
But that's not what FR is about.