Posted on 12/18/2011 9:54:50 AM PST by Kaslin
What a waste—so smart and yet he rejected the most important thing...so so stupid.
Hope he is doing better in the afterlife than he asked for.
A lot of conservations I’ve had with people who proclaim themselves as “atheist” (which in most really cases means ‘I don’t know if there is a God’, rather than ‘there is definitely no God’), but almost all of them agree that at least having a Judeo-Christian belief system, beats the alternative, of simply proclaiming “Do What Thou Wilt shall be the whole of the law”, even they shudder to think about how things would be without some kind of religion, even if they don’t believe themselves.
Though Hitchens softened a bit in his latter years I could never understand his visceral hatred for RWR.
Hitchens, I believe, made the mistake of connecting God, to the many frauds who act in His name. One of the reasons, I get so upset at the religious charlatans, who in the end, drive more people away, because of their cynical exploitation of others through trying to use God towards their own selfish ends.
How about his visceral hatred for Mother Theresa - ‘the Albanian dwarf’ he called her. Could have used his gift of words to improve the world, but instead he chose to tear down good things.
Perhaps he did but he, at least, knew where to place his commas.
Seems to me this guy is trying to sell us all on how great this Hitchens guy was...my feeling is if you have to resort to selling a person and how wonderful and insightful they are, it means they are/were NOT.
One can only hope that Hitchens sought God at the end.
I once heard him say, when asked about his attitude of Mother Theresa that she called herself a friend of the poor but visited with horrid dictators and took their money (I am paraphrasing of course) But he found that being a hypocrit....
Hitchens was an anti-theist.
People CHOOSE to not believe in God, but they sure believe in themselves!!
I liked Hitchens, Freepers had dinner with him at one of our functions, he was interesting, but he wasn't SMART.
The thing is, atheists believe that faith is not rational.....to that, I say, what is their belief that there isn’t a God? Is it not as much an article of faith, as the faith that there is a God. They claim that everything can be proved.....so how do you “prove” that there isn’t a God?
I read all of the article. Glad I did.
Actually not believing in God is quite normal.. maybe natural..
Having faith in a GOD is un-natural.. not normal..
Many atheists have faith there is no God.. Hitchens had faith..
Not that anyone knows what a God is.. (a real one)..
How could you know.. without being God..
A creature(being) that can create Universes?...
Who can conceive of such a “thing”(entity)?..
Believing and not believing takes faith..
cause you cannot prove either.. I choose to believe..
But what I believe I’m not sure.. thats why it is called “faith”..
A jump over logic and illogic.. maybe I am not a smart alec.. I pray..
If I “knew”, then I wouldn’t need “faith”..
I have “faith” exactly because I don’t “know”..
“Christopher Hitchens was a good man,...”
Here’s hoping God thinks so too.
Funny. I work with a woman who does not describe herself as an atheist, but an agnostic.
I asked her “what is the difference”. She said she believes in “something higher”....just not God (she is a Jew by the way).
She celebrates all the Jewish holidays and I asked why she does it if she doesn’t believe in God. She said “because it’s tradition”.
Wonderful piece. Thanks for posting. I didn’t know Hitchens, but read him with gusto and loved him.
I have always believed that it is impossible to prove God does or does not exist but I would rather attempt to prove that he does exist than to prove that he doesn’t. Proving a negative is always more difficult than proving a positive. Can you prove that you have never killed a human being in your entire life? As far as I know I never have but I certainly could never prove it, I don’t think I can even be a hundred percent certain of it myself due to the fact that in my wild young days there were a few times when I woke up at home safe in my bed with absolutely no recollection of how I got home the night before.
I once told my brother that he could not prove that there are NOT invisible fairies living in his lawn, he seemed to think that rather laughable but he actually cannot prove it.
This is why, in any civilized society, prosecutors must bear the burden of proof rather than the accused being burdened to prove the negative.
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