Posted on 12/15/2011 9:12:53 PM PST by Arthurio
R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens
December 15, 2011 11:51 P.M. By Daniel Foster Vanity Fair reports that Christopher Hitchens has passed away. Often frustrating, usually provocative, always brilliant. He added to the culture, and the conversation.
I’m sure I join many in hoping he is in for a glorious, glorious surprise.
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ahem... children
my contacts need to go to bed.
Yes, it is sad. I agree with your thoughts. I appreciate you sharing them. I too wish him to RIP. His death was a loss.
I think I’ve found your problem...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2820149/posts?page=17#17
Your response on this thread is totally devoid of compassion and class.
I'm with a previous poster - I found Hitchens infuriating, pompous, cynical, insulting and very arrogant. Much like most Humanists actually. But I don't rejoice in his passing. I don't take joy in the death of any Human Being, especially one who was so far from eternal truth.
On the big question, he was either wrong and knows it, or right and doesn’t.
RIP. I was surprised to see how young he was. My mother died of this disease so I’ve related to this story. She was a very smart heavy drinker and smoker too, but she was less cranky than Hitchens (a bit) and far more consistent in her thinking (much so).
Miss you mom!
“In the end he left me without his voice, for all time.”
He had quite a “voice”, didn’t he?
I don’t understand why those who disagreed with him have to be so disagreeable about his passing.
His voice was one to which we needed to listen, as frustrating as it could be at times.
RIP Mr. Hitchens. You will be missed.
Anyway, he's right. The real enemies of the Christian faith are not atheists, or new-agers, or even muslims, they are apathy, nominalism and agnosticism.
I want to think that his brother’s prayers, and mine as well, were not in vain.
A few months ago, in a radio interview, Hitchens expressed how very touched he felt by all the people who were praying for him. SatinDoll, were you also praying for him? Which is easier, to say a short prayer for him as he was living, or to condemn him at the end?
i’m not sure what to make of that poster
i suspect it’s a game...could be anyone...probably not who they claim
He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18)
Christopher Hitchens was a proud atheist who continually rejected the free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ after being told repeatedly that reconciliation with God was available and that forgiveness of sin was purchased for him by Jesus.
There comes a time, when a person continually rejects Christ, that God no longer strives with him and gives him over to his choice. God will always respect man's decision to have nothing to do with Him, and will allow man to spend his eternity where man chooses to spend it.
We do no one any favors by pretending that Christopher Hitchens is in a good place now. He is in the place where he always wanted to be.
Exactly. That’s the cold, hard fact.
Well said
Many speak of justice, what is justice? Define it please..
Thank you for pointing out what should be so obvious to others.
That remark had my poor old brain go HUH...make no sense to me..and quit trying to figure it out...
Anyone hearkening back to the clinton days saw Christopher Hitchens do the right thing even though it hurt him personally and deeply. He ws NOT an evil man.
And I too agree with your post.
The Lord always has room for an honest man. Hitchens was that if nothing else. Seems to me the Lord sought only ten honest men to save a city. There was only one. The city was not saved, but the man was. NEVER claim to speak for G-d or what G-d wants. THAT is blasphemy...
Like Gore Vidal, a very sharp tool, exceptionally so.I think in a way beyond our imagining God will use him, probably has used him all through his Hamlet-like climbing the stairs of his tower.
I did buy his No One Left to Lie To though I guess I didn't mark it because it was jettisoned while other books remained.
I think he straw-manned his anti-God argument. I think he was compelled to fight unreasoned faith with reason.
I think it's as likely he convinced anyone as it was that our Baptist counsellor at age eight convinced us to eschew burning in Hell by knowing Jesus.
The one's goal is to entice you away with high thoughts; the other, to scare you into something with dark fears.
His great gift would be his full kit of surgical sardonicism.
May he find his blissful counterstroke having relaxed his resistance.
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