Christopher Hitchens: The False Promise of Eternity (2/5)

Christopher Hitchens with Sally Quinn.

Links to this Week's Series of Articles on Christopher Hitchens:

Pray for me? Christopher Hitchens?
By Christopher Hitchens
http://bit.ly/csKUMR

Praying for my friend Christopher Hitchens
By Francis Collins
http://bit.ly/cQaCeC

Praying for Hitchens as an act of love
By Patrick Archbold
http://bit.ly/aZpHJ3

Thank goodness for Christopher Hitchens!
By Daniel C. Dennett
http://bit.ly/ajaxhK

Hitchens lives for debate
By David Wolpe
http://bit.ly/9pExX0

Don't Pray for Christopher Hitchens
By Rabbi Jennifer Krause
http://huff.to/drKnhB

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[bermudaguy1]

Here is a man who has helped many people de-program themselves from the bondage of religious dogma.He has inspired me so much ( and Dawkins) that

I have decided,that I will (as best as I can) carry his message on to others, with perhaps less charisma (hahaha) than he, but never the less, try to help others as i have been helped. He is brilliant!

[Hitchism1]

@bermudaguy1 I feel exactly the same way. Thanks to Hitch I finally stood up to some of my fundamentalist family and man did it feel good!! I have felt this way for a long time Hitchens just helped me to finally debate my thoughts. Thank you Christopher Hitchens!!

[Mzungu64]

Bernard Manning did his own funeral, damn good.

[deanmullen10]

Some great words, unless time itself is looped, could be for all we know, this is our one shot and we can make it count :)

[Flipper79able]

@Hitchism1 Good for you. We all have to step into intelligent thinking.

[PAULOcbi]

@bermudaguy1 yup,great progressive thinking.We are actually seeing the emancipation of the human conciousness from its dogmatic state of ignorance and error.I mean after all, we had enuff biology,psychiatry,geology,ast­ronomy,paleontolgy,physics and history during the ScientificRevolution of the 1700`s and the AgeOfEnlightenment of the 1800`s to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the realm of the supernatural does not exist,too bad it went over evryones` heads.

[behrooz4]

@bermudaguy1 Yeah! You could have a group that gets together every seven days, and you could get up in front of them and speak for forty minutes about the lies of religion. Then during the week, you can go door-to-door and ask if people can accept that God is a delusion. What a wonderful idea!

[Sirstingray]

@NorthNorth2009

Hitchens doesn't pick a side in the abortion debate. He does, however, maintain that he cares a great deal about the unborn.



[dannywizz]

@NorthNorth2009 Jesus was not murdered, he was sacrificed for our sins. The ultimate sacrifice, it was not a sad incident, it was the only way for our salvation. The whole old testament is a build up to that sacrifice. God saves us from our self in the end. Jesus (God) reached his objectives when he died on the cross, that is why it is so important to preach the Cross and the meaning of it.

[harpersneil]

Best account name I've ever seen!!! Nice work! :)

[studioROT]

@NorthNorth2009

On the basis of an empirically unferifialble proposition you are lead to believe that the torture of at least one man (Jesus) is beneficial to you (although you can not seem to admit that here). You have been convinced that your fellow humans will somehow survive their death. And now you happily believe that after they die, they'll be justifiably tortured for eternity. And you are convinced that you are not brainwashed.

What will you believe next? Have you no dignity?