@ray7685 Atheism is not the death of a nation. Absolute authority is the death of the people. That is what Christianity brings to the table: slavery and the abdication of liberty and individual responsibility to our neighbors.
Hitch is right: Religion is a poisoned chalice. His respect for human integrity is forever preserved in these videos and the books he wrote. I resurrect him on a daily basis.
1:53 Great moment for Hitch. This is the pathetic message of Christianity.
"that even though we were DEAD because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is ONLY by God's grace that you have been saved!" Ephesians 2-5
What an awful moment for Christians when they hear young people cheering in favor of liberation from this sort of stupidity.
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so if I don't believe what Hitch believes, I don't 'think' for myself? so Hitch and his ilk are the only ones that 'think?' so thinking people (somethingness) are suppose to have faith in nothingness? so Hitch doesn't know if there could be something after death, but decides to bash it anyway? Who really spews the poison, Hitch? amazing how an intellectual could be so empty.
he doesn't offer anything, he says go get it yourself, of course some people are terrified of being responsible for their own thoughts and actions and would rather hide them behind religion or faith or whatever other crock of bollocks someone tries to ram down our throats. If you think us empty for not clutching a pack of lies to give ourselves meaning then that's your issue, we'll just be over here getting on with our lives as usual. Or to put it another way, "fuck off".
@Ainulindale21 Be careful of this "ray7685" guy. Zero subs...zero vids, but lots of idiotic comments! I am smelling the scent of a troll here! "Stay away from a foolish man, (ray7685) for you will not find knowledge on his lips" . Proverbs 14:7
@ray7685 It is you that run to the bible when convenient, not I. And once again...zero subs...zero videos. You are just an angry troll and I have no time for you. : ) Read your book. I have... 3 times now! Just as I have read many a book of fiction. Shakespeare's and Plato's works included. Bye troll, you will not hear from me again. But...have fun with your ignorant frolicking! : ) Remember, ignorance is bliss, so keep a smile on your face! : ) Bye bye.
it's one thing to be thick and annoying, but you've crossed the line into being freaking boring, no spark of anything remotely approaching imagination, just a dulled mind in a dull person and I feel grey even reading your soupy porridged opinions. Please cease and desist. By which I mean, sod off.
@Ainulindale21 Some? Ok, so what's your argument for those of us that aren't part of the "some?" The atheists I have spoken to lump them all together as do the 4-minus-1 Horsemen.
@ray He said he did not know if the conversation would go on after his death, but while he's alive, he wants to have it. He wasn't bashing the afterlife; he said that Dembski's proposal & the offers of Christian dogma: certainty, security, impermeable faith & the thought that your life begins once you accept those notions, are not worthwhile or even appealing ideas. And "think for yourself" means exactly that. When someone speaks, pay attention to what they're saying.
@Rarae192 exactly the same I say to you: when someone speaks, pay attention! Pay attention to what he affirms and denies, and pay attention to what he doesn't say. He's an empty man with an empty faith (yes, Hitch had his own brand of faith) that excludes God. He's got nothing -- nothing! If 'think for yourself' means disregarding other sources of knowledge and calling them 'not worthwhile...and not appealing,' then I wonder how much people are really thinking for themselves. How intellectual.
@ray7685 SHUT THE FUCK UP! -- HITCHENS IS TALKING! Since you can't pay attention for two-and-a-half minutes, I'll support my earlier statement with time-stamps. Let's see you do the same with your interpretation of what he said...
@ray7685 Not amazing that an apparent Christian makes dubious claims without evidence and can offer no rebuttal when confronted with evidence; it's just hackneyed.
@Rarae192 What evidence are you confronting me with? I have heard Hitchens for years and know exactly what he thinks. He has been very vocal. Put it all together; it's very simple. His thoughts aren't difficult to discern.
@ray7685 Oh, didn't you realise that when you posted your initial comment here, you were actually commenting in reference to the video? I gave you evidence in my correction of your interpretation of the video, complete with time stamps. You ignored it and failed to give time stamps to support your interpretation. But, hey, keep ignoring it, it'll go away.
@ray7685 It's part of the plethora of notions that Christians think you must accept in order to live a full life (in this case, under the authority of a god), notions which Christians try to make appealing, but which Hitchens sees as a poisoned chalice to be pushed away; instead, suggesting that people should think for themselves, to discover with their own cognisance what would make their lives meaningful, and that much more happiness, truth, beautify and wisdom would follow that way.
@Rarae192 very good. i did get that. now pay close attention and you'll understand my original comment: Hitchen's is saying that if i get rid of an absolute authority (God), and replace it with the absolute authority of man (or Hitchens -- because he is a real thinker, and those that believe in God aren't), then i'll have a much richer life. the main assumption is that God believers don't think for themselves, but Hitchens and his ilk do. were you able to get that? i did.
@ray No, I didn't get that because I'm not a literary pervert. If you translate "think for yourself: the value you place on your life can be your own & you can be happier for it" as "endorsing absolute authority of man" & see that as a negative outlook, then perhaps you should stop bitching if you feel Christians are being accused of not thinking for themselves; instead, be proud you are not willing to think for yourself, that you're not willing to be seduced by the authority of your own man.
@Rarae192 "atheism is the love of idiocy and its consequent striving to convince others that its not." i think you pervert what Hitchens is saying when you don't take into consideration what the man has stood for. i don't think he'd accept your defense. apparentlty you don't seem to understand your little god, Hitchens. but maybe you will should he rise from the dead to explain it to you. should we wager on his resurrection?
Atheism: "There's not enough evidence to support your position, therefore, I don't accept your fervently-held claim that it's a reasonable position to hold"
Theism: "Pleeease belieeeve meee! Stop taking atheism pills! Pleease! There is a God! Be reasonable, trust mee! - I used to sell used cars! Hitchens, Dawkins, they're all lying to you!"
For the entirety of religion's history, evidence, reason have held no value to its proponents; atheism is where you stand when you value those things
He said he did not know if the conversation 0:56-1:10 would go on after his death 1:11 but while he's alive, he wants to have it 1:15 He wasn't bashing the afterlife NA; he said that Dembski's proposal & the offers of Christian dogma: certainty, security, impermeable faith 1:22-35 & the thought that your life begins once you accept those notions 1:55 are not worthwhile or even appealing ideas. And "think for yourself" means exactly that. When someone speaks, pay attention to what they're saying
I was at this debate. I feel so lucky to have had the opportunity to see the man in person, still kicking and doing what he did best. He will be missed.
I think this sums up the perfection of his craft. I'm somewhat educated on English, and this speech was a masterpiece. So many references, a clarity and emotion unseen in a while. By comparison to this, the most apt politician pales in comparison!
Yes, this is quite frankly his crowning achievement.
In Christopher HItchens' own words, we can meet those great minds who have passed away in the immortal works that they have left behind - not in any afterlife nonsense. Now, sadly, there will be no more great writings from Hitchens, but we have his legacy. The important thing is that we now have his writings and must use them to the fullest for the benefit of those who are still in the world. Freedom from religious dogma and oppression, that is the message!
@grahambkk Atheistic nonsense and its inherent emptiness didn't make this nation great -- and it never will! Belief in the Christian God is part of USA history. I love those founding fathers who new that God is great, and helped to form a country based on biblical principles. Atheism is the death of a nation... and of the self.
@ray7685 correction: Atheistic nonsense and its inherent emptiness didn't make this nation great -- and it never will! Belief in the Christian God is part of US history. I love those founding fathers who knew that God is great, and helped to form a country based on biblical principles. Atheism is the death of a nation... and of the self.
Goodbye, Hitch. You were, are, and always will be my hero.
The world will never know another like you, and I'm not sure it would want another... You are irreplaceable. This feels like I lost a very close friend, as odd as it sounds. He's the best I never had.
The greatest loss of course is that the only person qualified to eulogize him is Christopher Hitchens. I wish you were still here and you've made a profound impact on my life. *raises glass*
May your body return to the earth as we all will, and continue in the cycle of creation and destruction as one with the universe. But your knowledge will be with us like the great plays of shakespear.
In the days when one of our number has fallen, let us turn to our friends for the consolation of brethren rather than suffer sadness alone. Not because we must continue in tradition what has been started, but so the struggle for enlightenment may continue without the burden of sorrow. Then together may form worthy a tribute to a man who dedicated his efforts to reason and solidarity.
The beauty of believing there is no afterlife means we have to work harder to leave a mark in this world, and he certainly did that. Let's hope he still open minds, even in death.
If you can I think everyone should make a little time today to watch, listen to, or read a little Hitches today. If not to memorialize the man then to be yourself better informed. I have not felt this loss from someone I did not know personally dying since Carl Sagan.
@sjuas690 Jesus didn't exist so Christopher is the only loss and with Carl Sagan the greatest loss to us atheists. Use your brain, Christopher would have wanted you to :)
"Hitchens - a greater loss to the world than jesus."
You should really brush up on your hitchscript. Hitchens was against "organized religion"....did he speak so boldy against Jesus (the being) or simply pick at a few instances that could be construed as "mean". I'm sure the full assessment of Jesus to the so-called "enlightended" as Hitchens would have him put Jesus in a good light as to what "humanity COULD aspire to" as an example of how to treat your fellow human beings.
@MpowerdAPE I would like to think he would say, he is still alive through his ideas and understanding of reality he inspired and hopes to continue to inspire in others. There is nothing supernatural about that and I am grateful to him for all the years of laughter and the looks of stunned silence on all those people who could not refute his way of making obvious truth unavoidable in a debate. I will miss they way he made them squirm. Here's to you Christopher.
One of the five most influential men in my life. I will always miss him. Irreplaceable. Unrivaled. I'm so glad his last interview was with Dawkins - none more fitting.
@raverdeath100 - Any 'intelligent' theist understands they lost a great adversary, possibly the greatest...But the vast majority are predictably showing their true colors, but resorting to desperate, dishonest and morally reprehensible bullshit about a deathbed conversion...As if we expected anything less.
@ray7685 Atheism is not the death of a nation. Absolute authority is the death of the people. That is what Christianity brings to the table: slavery and the abdication of liberty and individual responsibility to our neighbors.
Hitch is right: Religion is a poisoned chalice. His respect for human integrity is forever preserved in these videos and the books he wrote. I resurrect him on a daily basis.
Ematched 3 weeks ago
Socrates death sentence was self imposed he had a choice to be exiled or death he chose death he was not sentenced to death expect by his own words
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No, he was sentenced to death but had the option of escaping, which he refused.
Ainulindale21 1 month ago
1:53 Great moment for Hitch. This is the pathetic message of Christianity.
"that even though we were DEAD because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is ONLY by God's grace that you have been saved!" Ephesians 2-5
What an awful moment for Christians when they hear young people cheering in favor of liberation from this sort of stupidity.
HellRehab 2 months ago
I can say most definitively that losing my faith was the quickest path to truly appreciating beauty, wisdom, happiness, and truth.
Hitch is still a wonderful thinker and, in my mind, he hasn't died; we still have his works, his videos, his thoughts and in that way he is immortal.
micometer 2 months ago
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so if I don't believe what Hitch believes, I don't 'think' for myself? so Hitch and his ilk are the only ones that 'think?' so thinking people (somethingness) are suppose to have faith in nothingness? so Hitch doesn't know if there could be something after death, but decides to bash it anyway? Who really spews the poison, Hitch? amazing how an intellectual could be so empty.
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray7685
congratulations on utterly missing the point
Ainulindale21 2 months ago 14
@Ainulindale21 thank you
ray7685 2 months ago
@Ainulindale21 Thank you. I want to miss his point -- completely -- because he offers emptiness.
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray7685 Hitchen's would agree that you're not empty person; that, like Falwell, after an enema, your coffin need not be bigger than a matchbox.
Rarae192 2 months ago
@Rarae192 kind of sounds like your mind, buddy.
ray7685 2 months ago
@Rarae192 Wow! Kind of describes a brain on atheism. Yep!
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray7685
he doesn't offer anything, he says go get it yourself, of course some people are terrified of being responsible for their own thoughts and actions and would rather hide them behind religion or faith or whatever other crock of bollocks someone tries to ram down our throats. If you think us empty for not clutching a pack of lies to give ourselves meaning then that's your issue, we'll just be over here getting on with our lives as usual. Or to put it another way, "fuck off".
Ainulindale21 2 months ago 9
@Ainulindale21 Be careful of this "ray7685" guy. Zero subs...zero vids, but lots of idiotic comments! I am smelling the scent of a troll here! "Stay away from a foolish man, (ray7685) for you will not find knowledge on his lips" . Proverbs 14:7
FishHeadSalad 2 months ago
@FishHeadSalad Oh, I see, running to the Bible when convenient. Sounds like a salad to me.
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray7685 It is you that run to the bible when convenient, not I. And once again...zero subs...zero videos. You are just an angry troll and I have no time for you. : ) Read your book. I have... 3 times now! Just as I have read many a book of fiction. Shakespeare's and Plato's works included. Bye troll, you will not hear from me again. But...have fun with your ignorant frolicking! : ) Remember, ignorance is bliss, so keep a smile on your face! : ) Bye bye.
FishHeadSalad 2 months ago
@ray7685
it's one thing to be thick and annoying, but you've crossed the line into being freaking boring, no spark of anything remotely approaching imagination, just a dulled mind in a dull person and I feel grey even reading your soupy porridged opinions. Please cease and desist. By which I mean, sod off.
Ainulindale21 2 months ago 2
@Ainulindale21 Some? Ok, so what's your argument for those of us that aren't part of the "some?" The atheists I have spoken to lump them all together as do the 4-minus-1 Horsemen.
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray7685 Trust us, after that enema, you'll be empty too.
Rarae192 2 months ago
@ray He said he did not know if the conversation would go on after his death, but while he's alive, he wants to have it. He wasn't bashing the afterlife; he said that Dembski's proposal & the offers of Christian dogma: certainty, security, impermeable faith & the thought that your life begins once you accept those notions, are not worthwhile or even appealing ideas. And "think for yourself" means exactly that. When someone speaks, pay attention to what they're saying.
Rarae192 2 months ago
@Rarae192 exactly the same I say to you: when someone speaks, pay attention! Pay attention to what he affirms and denies, and pay attention to what he doesn't say. He's an empty man with an empty faith (yes, Hitch had his own brand of faith) that excludes God. He's got nothing -- nothing! If 'think for yourself' means disregarding other sources of knowledge and calling them 'not worthwhile...and not appealing,' then I wonder how much people are really thinking for themselves. How intellectual.
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray7685 SHUT THE FUCK UP! -- HITCHENS IS TALKING! Since you can't pay attention for two-and-a-half minutes, I'll support my earlier statement with time-stamps. Let's see you do the same with your interpretation of what he said...
Rarae192 2 months ago
@Rarae192 amazing to see hear someone feeding off his emotions without much thought.
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray7685 Not amazing that an apparent Christian makes dubious claims without evidence and can offer no rebuttal when confronted with evidence; it's just hackneyed.
Rarae192 2 months ago
@Rarae192 What evidence are you confronting me with? I have heard Hitchens for years and know exactly what he thinks. He has been very vocal. Put it all together; it's very simple. His thoughts aren't difficult to discern.
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray7685 Oh, didn't you realise that when you posted your initial comment here, you were actually commenting in reference to the video? I gave you evidence in my correction of your interpretation of the video, complete with time stamps. You ignored it and failed to give time stamps to support your interpretation. But, hey, keep ignoring it, it'll go away.
Rarae192 2 months ago
@Rarae192 what do you think Hitchens is referring to in time stamp 2:18?
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray7685 It's part of the plethora of notions that Christians think you must accept in order to live a full life (in this case, under the authority of a god), notions which Christians try to make appealing, but which Hitchens sees as a poisoned chalice to be pushed away; instead, suggesting that people should think for themselves, to discover with their own cognisance what would make their lives meaningful, and that much more happiness, truth, beautify and wisdom would follow that way.
Rarae192 2 months ago
@Rarae192 very good. i did get that. now pay close attention and you'll understand my original comment: Hitchen's is saying that if i get rid of an absolute authority (God), and replace it with the absolute authority of man (or Hitchens -- because he is a real thinker, and those that believe in God aren't), then i'll have a much richer life. the main assumption is that God believers don't think for themselves, but Hitchens and his ilk do. were you able to get that? i did.
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray No, I didn't get that because I'm not a literary pervert. If you translate "think for yourself: the value you place on your life can be your own & you can be happier for it" as "endorsing absolute authority of man" & see that as a negative outlook, then perhaps you should stop bitching if you feel Christians are being accused of not thinking for themselves; instead, be proud you are not willing to think for yourself, that you're not willing to be seduced by the authority of your own man.
Rarae192 2 months ago
@Rarae192 "atheism is the love of idiocy and its consequent striving to convince others that its not." i think you pervert what Hitchens is saying when you don't take into consideration what the man has stood for. i don't think he'd accept your defense. apparentlty you don't seem to understand your little god, Hitchens. but maybe you will should he rise from the dead to explain it to you. should we wager on his resurrection?
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray
Atheism: "There's not enough evidence to support your position, therefore, I don't accept your fervently-held claim that it's a reasonable position to hold"
Theism: "Pleeease belieeeve meee! Stop taking atheism pills! Pleease! There is a God! Be reasonable, trust mee! - I used to sell used cars! Hitchens, Dawkins, they're all lying to you!"
For the entirety of religion's history, evidence, reason have held no value to its proponents; atheism is where you stand when you value those things
Rarae192 2 months ago
He said he did not know if the conversation 0:56-1:10 would go on after his death 1:11 but while he's alive, he wants to have it 1:15 He wasn't bashing the afterlife NA; he said that Dembski's proposal & the offers of Christian dogma: certainty, security, impermeable faith 1:22-35 & the thought that your life begins once you accept those notions 1:55 are not worthwhile or even appealing ideas. And "think for yourself" means exactly that. When someone speaks, pay attention to what they're saying
Rarae192 2 months ago
@ray7685 It's amusing to watch an entirely irrational person play with reason.
Shoesarequiteuseful 3 days ago
I was at this debate. I feel so lucky to have had the opportunity to see the man in person, still kicking and doing what he did best. He will be missed.
badmovebaker 2 months ago
@badmovebaker You mean, you had a Golden Crocoduck of an opportunity to take Demsbki out and you just sat there and watched?
Rarae192 2 months ago
I have to reread all of his works. He had a mind the likes of which we will not see again for some time.
Corneilius5188 2 months ago
I think this sums up the perfection of his craft. I'm somewhat educated on English, and this speech was a masterpiece. So many references, a clarity and emotion unseen in a while. By comparison to this, the most apt politician pales in comparison!
Yes, this is quite frankly his crowning achievement.
LichQueenKathie 2 months ago
@LichQueenKathie well typed :)
fewhavestrength 2 months ago
In Christopher HItchens' own words, we can meet those great minds who have passed away in the immortal works that they have left behind - not in any afterlife nonsense. Now, sadly, there will be no more great writings from Hitchens, but we have his legacy. The important thing is that we now have his writings and must use them to the fullest for the benefit of those who are still in the world. Freedom from religious dogma and oppression, that is the message!
grahambkk 2 months ago
@grahambkk Atheistic nonsense and its inherent emptiness didn't make this nation great -- and it never will! Belief in the Christian God is part of USA history. I love those founding fathers who new that God is great, and helped to form a country based on biblical principles. Atheism is the death of a nation... and of the self.
ray7685 2 months ago
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@ray7685 correction: Atheistic nonsense and its inherent emptiness didn't make this nation great -- and it never will! Belief in the Christian God is part of US history. I love those founding fathers who knew that God is great, and helped to form a country based on biblical principles. Atheism is the death of a nation... and of the self.
ray7685 2 months ago
Hitch was not Great - just a successful polemicist.
BinkyHuckleback 2 months ago
Goodbye, Hitch. You were, are, and always will be my hero.
The world will never know another like you, and I'm not sure it would want another... You are irreplaceable. This feels like I lost a very close friend, as odd as it sounds. He's the best I never had.
Esiotrat 2 months ago 3
It's a damned shame he won't get to make more of his works. So sad to see people of his calibre go.
coolman9999uk 2 months ago
A great man who will be sadly missed. But celebrated so much more!
hairyreasoner 2 months ago
One dislike...courtesy of (no doubt) a christard who is offended by intelligence & truth.
atrumira 2 months ago 2
The greatest loss of course is that the only person qualified to eulogize him is Christopher Hitchens. I wish you were still here and you've made a profound impact on my life. *raises glass*
29Ocelot 2 months ago 2
I'm seriously calling into work tmrw sick. i have Hitch 22 to read..
Jeffersonwazright 2 months ago
May your body return to the earth as we all will, and continue in the cycle of creation and destruction as one with the universe. But your knowledge will be with us like the great plays of shakespear.
Sorakasharri 2 months ago
goodbye, Hitch.
Homoloquenslibidinus 2 months ago
A tremendous loss to the voice of reason and the fight against the tyranny of religion.
mhender668 2 months ago 2
RIP
Rusvi1 2 months ago
If I even had an atomic sized amount of Christopher Hitchens' courage, insight and intelligence, I would be a better person.
muzvh1 2 months ago 7
In the days when one of our number has fallen, let us turn to our friends for the consolation of brethren rather than suffer sadness alone. Not because we must continue in tradition what has been started, but so the struggle for enlightenment may continue without the burden of sorrow. Then together may form worthy a tribute to a man who dedicated his efforts to reason and solidarity.
RakaTheTenacious 2 months ago
Class is permanent so Hitchens will exist forever.
If people ask me where I'll go when I die, I'll tell them 'In the ground'.
mystereed72 2 months ago 2
Christopher Hitchens, you have made this world a better place! RIP, you will always be a hero!
captaindisguise 2 months ago 4
I'm in tears.
Dimenchemist 2 months ago
The beauty of believing there is no afterlife means we have to work harder to leave a mark in this world, and he certainly did that. Let's hope he still open minds, even in death.
Meiklelodians 2 months ago
thank god for Hitchens
mykmmc 2 months ago
An absolutely perfect eulogy for Hitch by Hitch.
chrisose 2 months ago
As much as he will be missed his words will live on.
krustofskie 2 months ago
Bye Christopher! Your wise words will be missed by many!
Tycetto 2 months ago
And then there were three...
thatguywhodoesvidoes 2 months ago
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thatguywhodoesvidoes 2 months ago
Goodbye, Hitch. Thanks for everything. We are indeed diminished with his passing. Thank FSM his works are so widely available.
y0nd3r 2 months ago
I am crying so badly my eyes stings, that alone speaks how great of a loss this is to me, and I didn't ever meet the man.
ShadowReubenKee 2 months ago
If you can I think everyone should make a little time today to watch, listen to, or read a little Hitches today. If not to memorialize the man then to be yourself better informed. I have not felt this loss from someone I did not know personally dying since Carl Sagan.
harveyts3 2 months ago 3
Luckily we have at least his YT videos, and books. So the loss is not that devastating.
SmartK8 2 months ago
@SmartK8 What a strange thing to say?, yes of course we have the work he has done,
but what about future projects?, books, articles, opinion etc that he undoubtedly would have but is now unable to contribute.
You talk as if he were retired or washed up as a writer, when by contrast the passion for his craft he displayed until his final days.
You don't think that Chapman asshole didn't rob the world of some great future work / songs when he shot Lennon?
We have lost a great thinker / writer.
PiskieBenWa 2 months ago
what speech/lecture/debate was this?
ladicius 2 months ago
@ladicius
All of them
Ainulindale21 2 months ago 9
@ladicius
or, if i'm not permitted to be a profound wanker, search "hitchens dembski debate" :]
Ainulindale21 2 months ago 21
@Ainulindale21 oh, i was inquiring as to which event he was speaking at in this video clip.
ladicius 2 months ago
RIP Hitchens.
sweetmonkeylove1 2 months ago
Hitchens - a greater loss to the world than jesus.
sjuas690 2 months ago 118
@sjuas690 Jesus didn't exist so Christopher is the only loss and with Carl Sagan the greatest loss to us atheists. Use your brain, Christopher would have wanted you to :)
fewhavestrength 2 months ago
@fewhavestrength I agree - I was just trying to piss off any theist who may be gloating - It's what Hitch would have wanted.
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Please - join me in downing a full bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label in tribute to Hitch.
sjuas690 2 months ago
@sjuas690 Especially because we know FOR SURE that Hitch existed...!
Freethinker45 2 months ago
@Freethinker45 Exactly ! - join me in downing a full bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label in memory of Hitch - it's what he would have wanted.
sjuas690 2 months ago
@sjuas690 As well a greater loss than Hercules, and all the other dead demi-gods that mythologies have invented over the ages.
puellanivis 2 months ago 2
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"Hitchens - a greater loss to the world than jesus."
You should really brush up on your hitchscript. Hitchens was against "organized religion"....did he speak so boldy against Jesus (the being) or simply pick at a few instances that could be construed as "mean". I'm sure the full assessment of Jesus to the so-called "enlightended" as Hitchens would have him put Jesus in a good light as to what "humanity COULD aspire to" as an example of how to treat your fellow human beings.
hexusziggurat 2 months ago
He's not resting, he's not in peace....
he's fuckin dead.
he would want me to tell you that.
MpowerdAPE 2 months ago 150
@MpowerdAPE It is a cultural thing. Like when someone sneezes. 'Bless you' Or I stub my toe, 'goddammit' Or I spill my coffee 'oh for christs sake'
sweetmonkeylove1 2 months ago
@MpowerdAPE nonexistence seems to me to be the epitome of peacefulness.
In any event, it's a figure of speech. Go take issue with the people saying he's in hell now if you want to take issue with something.
nachtfee957 2 months ago
@MpowerdAPE I just told a friend that hahaha well said dude. we need to keep deluded assholes in check!
fewhavestrength 2 months ago
@fewhavestrength in all fairness i stole that from the eulogy of Pat Tillman delivered by his brother. "no atheists in fox holes"... my ass.
MpowerdAPE 2 months ago
@MpowerdAPE I would like to think he would say, he is still alive through his ideas and understanding of reality he inspired and hopes to continue to inspire in others. There is nothing supernatural about that and I am grateful to him for all the years of laughter and the looks of stunned silence on all those people who could not refute his way of making obvious truth unavoidable in a debate. I will miss they way he made them squirm. Here's to you Christopher.
barthburger 2 months ago
@barthburger ill drink too that.
MpowerdAPE 2 months ago
@MpowerdAPE Hitchens isn't dead, he's waiting...
CristianApostol 2 months ago
@MpowerdAPE
Nonsense. He's stubbing his cigs out in the empty eyesockets of Yahweh.
LordCustos3 2 months ago 2
@MpowerdAPE I think he may want me to tell you that there are no atheist in hell.
ray7685 2 months ago
@MpowerdAPE He may want to tell you that there are no atheists in hell.
ray7685 2 months ago
@ray7685 oh wait.... are you a christian trying to start something...? or did i read that wrong...
MpowerdAPE 2 months ago
R.I.P Christpher Hitchens.
Gontaza 2 months ago
If i could have a wish it wold be for him to be president.
viicISrotcib 2 months ago
@viicISrotcib He passed away you know?
MzBUZZKILINGTON 2 months ago
@MzBUZZKILINGTON On that wish I would include for him to still be alive.
viicISrotcib 2 months ago
Thanks for the wit and the wisdom Mr. Hitchens. You are already missed. Salut!
sarcleaeolist 2 months ago
May his candle continue to light many others in the ever brightening dark times we are emerging from in our history.
ABitOfTheUniverse 2 months ago
Re "Immortal in the works you leave behind"
Well said.
PraktikoolSinik 2 months ago
One of the five most influential men in my life. I will always miss him. Irreplaceable. Unrivaled. I'm so glad his last interview was with Dawkins - none more fitting.
OrthodoxAtheist 2 months ago
Thank you Hitchens.
JoesephKatana 2 months ago
I will miss Hitch. Thankfully, I have his books to remember him, and the ticket stub from his debate with Blair here in Toronto.
Goodbye good sir. You are the man.
tommy605 2 months ago 5
@tommy605 Blair just paid him a rather good tribute. not bad when christopher tore him a new one! RIP Christopher Hitchens.
raverdeath100 2 months ago
@raverdeath100 - Any 'intelligent' theist understands they lost a great adversary, possibly the greatest...But the vast majority are predictably showing their true colors, but resorting to desperate, dishonest and morally reprehensible bullshit about a deathbed conversion...As if we expected anything less.
rogan71 2 months ago
@tommy605 Really jealous :( Never got to see him.
ForYeensSake 2 months ago