Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62 910
An anonymous reader sends this quote from the NY Times:
"Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller attacking religious belief, and dismayed his former comrades on the left by enthusiastically supporting the American-led war in Iraq, died Thursday at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He was 62. He took pains to emphasize that he had not revised his position on atheism, articulated in his best-selling 2007 book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, although he did express amused appreciation at the hope, among some concerned Christians, that he might undergo a late-life conversion. Mr. Hitchens's latest collection of writings, Arguably: Essays, published this year, has been a best-seller and ranked among the top 10 books of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review."
And now he finds out ... (Score:0, Funny)
... whether or not he was right.
Ode to Hitchens (Score:5, Funny)
Idiocy fell on his watch.
We all know that Hitch
was nobody's bitch,
so let's thank him by raising a scotch.
Re:The Atlantic (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not all religions are bad (Score:5, Funny)
Evil? What do you mean by that?
Evil implies harming, oppressing, and killing others. Some evil creatures simply have no compassion for others and kill without qualms if doing so is convenient or if it can be set up. Others actively pursue evil, killing for sport or out of duty to some malevolent deity or master. [wikipedia.org]
Re:Not all religions are bad (Score:5, Funny)
He did, they call it Islam.
Then apparently he clarified even more, and they call that Mormonism.
It's a pity that God's definition of "clarity" seems to be the exact opposite of ours.
Re:Not all religions are bad (Score:5, Funny)
So what you are saying is that God needed to add Automatic Updates into religion?
Actually, I would prefer a changelog.
Re:Not all religions are bad (Score:5, Funny)
This biblical passage is a stub. You can help Christianity by expanding it.
Re:Not all religions are bad (Score:5, Funny)
this reminds me of a debate I had with a Jehovah's Witness (normally I wouldn't, but she was cute, and I needed some eye candy at that time in my life). She was definitely set in her ways and me mine...
me: so how do you justify Dinosaurs? :I don't see how the age of the earth and belief in God have anything to do with one another, but ok...
her: the Devil put them there to deceive us on how old the world is
me: why would Satan do that? Seems like a total waste of time
her: to sway your belief
me
her: see? It has already swayed your belief
me: no it hasn't - I don't believe the world was made in 7 days either, but to me that is figurative
her: no, it's real
me: (shaking my head and looking up a verse in her Bible) hey - there's missing verse here, and this is strangely interpreted
her: there is nothing missing or incorrect in our Bible
me: so you're saying your mistranslation of a translation of a translation of a Bible doesn't have any mistakes?
her: it's not a mistranslation, God made sure our translation was perfect
me: so what is my Bible then?
her: a mistake.
Re:Thank you, sir... (Score:2, Funny)
>>You were a rare man. Thank you.
Yep. He's in heaven now.