Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. He was a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He was a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 was voted the world's fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll. He was a champion for atheism, skepticism, science, history and common sense. He will be sorely missed.

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[SulaymanP]

Christopher Hitchens brought me to Atheism, thank you Sir

[veronicats100]

Only the irrational and stupid do not love this man. His words were always thrilling.

[Jesse Sisolack]

...what?

[poisondripingsword]

"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." (1. Corinthians 1:18-19)

[Akron162]

The same way the theories of Einstein, Newton, Faraday and many others have no validity because they are all dead? You are just really stupid or a very lazy troll.

[Akron162]

A communist and a drunk? So what? That makes his arguments less intelligent or valid? I bet you think "oh, this guy likes to drink, therefore im right and he is wrong", and thats just stupid. And other thing, those dictators comparisions are getting really old, and im sure you have heard rebutals to all of them, but as always you just plug your ears and chant "la la la la i cant hear you". So whatever, fuck you.

[Darth Solus]

Yes because the bible is viable evidence...