Christopher Hitchens dies at 62.

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Christopher Hitchens was an alcoholic, hypocritical bigot. He supported the worldview of the white European Christians he railed against. f**k him. But f**k all the so-called Christians talking about how he's burning in Hell too.

Always sad when someone passes, but have to say not a fan, backed the Iraq War and my take on God is 'can't prove he/she/it does / doesn't exist' so agnosticism is the only rational position.

You've nothing to lose either by believing, so may as well believe.

Difference between God and Richard Dawkins.......God doesn't think he's Richard Dawkins

omg ...Some AFA spokesperson said that "Hitchens in is hell because God loves him"

I believe in reincarnation, so instead of farewell...I will just say, see you later, alligator.

Jojo

He welcomed criticism of his drinking, because it's a sign of victory when your opposition resorts to ad hominem attacks. In his own words he explained that he drank to make other people less boring, as he had a great terror of being bored. And all of the comments that are ad hominem attacks are amusing to me. People actively displaying their defeat even after he's dead and gone... in the exact way many of his opponents showed him he was victorious when he was living.

I fear there will be an intellectual void that may be impossible to fill as a result of his death but I will be forever grateful for what his lifestyle produced. I can't deny that I've felt slightly depressed since hearing of his death, I wasn't surprised but I was stricken with grief that was much stronger than I had anticipated.

As for the Pascal's wager crap, you have a lot to lose if you think the options are believe and avoid hell or disbelieve and go to hell. Which god is it that you are supposed to believe in? What if you pick the wrong one? You've got a LOT of options in that regard. Even if there IS a god and you pick the right one, I sure hope, for your sake, that it's one who will reward you for believing for personal gain rather than having any real devotion to said God.

A very eloquent and witty man. I thoroughly enjoyed God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

Even though I don't agree with everything he stood for, at least in regard to his socio-economic and other political viewpoints, I like how he chose his own path regardless of what other people thought of his decisions. He could very well have been the most knowledgeable man alive regarding religion as a whole.

I owe a debt of gratitude to Christopher Hitchens. I was enmeshed in the Protestant evangelical fundamentalist mindset and needed badly to sort through what had happened to me when after 3 decades of being a devout Christian, I had a religious mental breakdown. Christopher Hitchens was one of many, who through his writings helped me to find my way out of the deeply flawed thinking I had developed.
I was surprised at how deeply I felt the loss when he passed away. I followed the course of his illness through his writings at Vanity Fair and suspected he would not survive esophageal cancer, but thought if anyone might, it would be him.

He will be deeply missed by his fans, of which I count myself as one.