Guess you didn’t take a minute or 2 to read it.
I read it.
Reading it changes nothing, except.to make clear a certain amoit of personal hypocracy on the part of Hitchens.
He would be polite and respectful to the face of a religious person, and then savage and relentles in attacking their religion in print or on a public forum. Some people need a mob to back them.
Not sure why you find that laudable.
Hitchens was never an athiest. An athiest doesn’t believe in a diety, and will defend that nonbelief. Either way, what you believe or do dot believe doesn’t affect him.
Hitchens went out of his way to get into debates the purpose of which was to persuade others not to believe in any sort of deity or hereafter either. That is anti-theism.
I hope he acknowledged God and.accepted his forgiveness as he lay dying, however unlikely.