A wee dram for Christopher ...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Hitchens was a unique spirit who marched to his own drummer. It would be presumptuous for anyone to assume the final destination of his spirit, for that is in the hands of God. No matter what our clergy may say about belief, God is the ultimate arbiter of our position in the afterlife, certainly Jesus helps a lot, but any who condemn a firey end for Hitch, do so because they think it will raise their own prospects, as some sort of arbiter of judgement. And in the end a person’s position in the afterlife is solely in His hands. On balance, I believe Hitch will be well treated because no matter what one can say about his lack of religiousity, he understood gross evil emblematic of Islamofacism, and spoke out.
Agnostic.
I noticed the Unitarian Church in one town in Arkansas is having a winter soltice celebration and then doing crafts for their “Christmas Celebration”. It was in the State Paper today and I just shook my head in disbelief. Hitchins MIGHT have had a death time conversion. Who knows? I highly doubt it. And if you ever watched any of his debates on many University campuses he might have caused others to follow his lead. That will not go over well in heaven.
LOL! - I think he’d laugh at that as well.
Ahh, a fence sitter. Got it.
RIP.
May God have mercy on his soul.
A wee dram for Christopher ...
I avoided him like the plauge for the most part. Garbage in, garbage out.
I have seen clips of his debates and it made me very angry because he was knowingly and intentionally turning people from God. And he was good at it. In my mind that makes him evil.
Is it theoretically possible for him to have a deathbed conversion? Sure. Likely? Not a chance.
And frankly I am rather disgusted at all the people fawning over him.
I don’t deserve to be in heaven. You don’t deserve to be in heaven.
Anyone who makes it only makes it by the grace of God who sent his own son to die for us so that we have a chance down to the last breath.
His finest moment =
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/354470.stm
“War criminal, criminal psychopath and rapist” are descriptions of Bill Clinton that you won’t find in the Starr report.
They are all charges made by Christopher Hitchens whose new book on the US president, No One Left To Lie To, is riding high in the American bestseller lists.
I’ve just read through the entire 40+ posts on this thread, and so while what I’m about to say is critical specifically of what you said, please don’t interpret my criticism to be directed solely towards you and what a total prick you really are.
If I can interrupt for a moment your gloating dance on Christoper Hitchens’ grave, maybe I could point out that he, like you, and like me, are born into sin and condemned to hell. Presumably you, as have I, accepted Jesus’ sacrifice as the atonement for your sin. I would therefore expect that you, like me, would agree with God that He does not wish that any (no, not even Christopher Hitchens) should perish in hell. So, what the hell are you saying....?
Lord, he was as imperfect as all of us. Show him Your mercy and invite him into the Kingdom he so long denied to himself. R.I.P., Hitchens.
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-kTFIO3wkA
When Socrates was sentenced to death, for his philosophical investigations and his blasphemy, for challenging the gods of the city, he accepted his death.
He did say, “Well, if we’re lucky, perhaps I’ll be able to hold a conversation with other great thinkers and philosophers and doubters too!”
In other words, that the discussion about what is good, what is beautiful, what is noble and what is pure and what is true can always go on.
Why is that important, why would I like to do that? Because that is the only conversation worth having. And whether it goes on or not after I die, I don’t know, but I do know that it is the conversation I want to have while I am still alive.
Which means that to me, the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having.
I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet.
That I haven’t understood enough.
That I can’t know enough, that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom.
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
And I urge you to look at those of you that tell you... those people that tell you at your age that you are dead until you believe as they do. What a terrible thing it is to be telling to children. And that you can only live... and that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority.
Don’t think of that as a gift, think of it as a poison chalice.
Push it aside no matter how tempting it is.
Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
- Christopher Hitchens
1949 - 2011.
Well said.
Brendan Banaszak/NPR
Hitchens was diagnosed with metastasized esophageal cancer in June 2010. He told NPR that while doctors say he has a chance of remission, his chances of living longer than five years are slim.
“...what the hell are you saying....?
Believers go to Heaven. Nonbelievers go to Hell.
So, that makes me a prick?
Good for you. Well said.
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