Christopher Hitchens is Dead

Christopher Hitchens is dead, the news was announced on the BBC World Service minutes ago.

A great man, a great writer is dead. We must go on without him.

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[bucksmasher1]

Hitch had a lot of friends. None of them were invisible.

[Zarsthor]

I was so upset when I heard he died. An amazing man is missing from the world.

[Laughingblades]

Hehehe this is the sort of thing Hitchens would have appreciated

[grahambkk]

The messages from Christipher Hitchens, unlike those of any religious text, were clear, unambiguous, and intelligible. No need to "interpret" or have to be "clarified" but any a chosen messenger from the supernatural to convey the meaning. He did not, and could not, call for violence against those who disagreed. He sought to bring people to discuss the basic issues facing mankind in a logical and reasonable light. His debates were to this end, and he invariably proved his point.

[mydogbanjo]

Yes, I'm saddened to see such a fine mind extinguished. He will be missed.

[DMSProduktions]

@MartinJWillett Great! Thanks, he sounded like a fine intellectual.

[DMSProduktions]

@MartinJWillett Thats WHY I asked!

[MartinJWillett]

@DMSProduktions He was one of the Four Horsemen, one of the most influential public atheists, leader of the new atheists, the finest mass debater of the age. He was a master baiter of the theologically infected. A man of wit and a coiner of bon mots of the same class as Oscar Wilde. He had the brain, heart and liver of a journalist, he was employed as a columnist and he found fame as an essayist, pamphleteer and shit stirrer. He took on Saddam Hussein, Kissinger, Mother Theresa and God. And won.

[MartinJWillett]

@DMSProduktions The point stands, it should be clear from the context that Christopher Hitchens was important to me and I assume to many other people too. After his death was announced to ask baldly who is he (present tense) is likely to be taken to be tasteless. If you had wanted to avoid offending people you should have either researched first, it only takes seconds these days, or at the very least made some concession to admit that you are embarrassed not to know.

[DMSProduktions]

@MartinJWillett Martin! There is NO need to talk to me like that, we've always had pleasant exchanges.

YOU got my questioning all wrong!

All I asked was WHO he was, no need to go postal mate!

I know you may be upset at his death but to accuse me of trolling a dead man is uncalled for Martin!

[DMSProduktions]

@BritianIsFull Ahh THANK you! Thats ALL I wanted to know!

Martin could have said that but NO he had to spray vitriol at me for asking a legitimate question!

[DMSProduktions]

@osamabinlid666 I Didnt ask you!