RIP Christopher Hitchens: Abortion survivor, post-abortive father, cognitively pro-life

JillStanek ^ | December 17, 2011 | Jill Stanek

[raybbr]

And Hitchens obviously felt bad about killing his two of his own progeny.

What? Hitchens performed abortions? I call BS.

[kjo]

Hell is where those who deny life after life find themselves after death. The hell is of their own making.

[TBP]

RIP. Had lunch with him once. Fascinating character and an excellent conversationalist who could alternately annoy and amuse.

[hellbender]

That’s the gin.

Was he a heavy drinker? That's often what causes esophageal cancer.

[SaraJohnson]

From the article: I wonder if Hitchens got to meet his siblings or his children

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If Hitchens really rejected God like he proclaimed to the public and if the Bible is true, he won’t be meeting anyone he wants to meet given where he’s parked himself and the god he served on his preachy mission.

He had a lot to do with a resurgence of activist atheists denouncing God and harassing Christians in this country. So it was not only his soul that he took down. :(

[Dajjal]

Requiescat in pace.

[giotto]

Faith is a gift we give to ourselves. Hitchens, for whatever reason, chose to deprive himself.

[johngrace]

Every so often I would say specific prayers for his conversion. I know a great many christians were praying for him. He was so cold I think of Jesus’s line in Revelation. I really believe in faith he had a conversion up to including right before death. He may of pointed out to disregard a notion but it was before the real end of his life. Praise Jesus!

[Veto!]

Hitch was who he was, and I’m glad. He was outrageously talented and believed in himself unfailingly. .RIP, dear fellow. Many of us here enjoyed your work over the years whether or not we agreed with you.

Here’s a link to a good NYT essay about him by his friend Ian McEwan that pretty much captures the essence of the man.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/opinion/christopher-hitchens-consummate-writer-brilliant-friend.html

[D-fendr]

Heavy drinker and smoker and his dad had the same cancer.

About his diagnosis, he said something like: “it was so predictable and banal it bores even me.”

Hitch had a great deal of courage and lived life head on. I recently read his last piece, on Nietzsche’s ‘what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger’ line.

It seemed to me a portrait of a real death, one with religion removed. It is valuable for that experience, whether one is religious or not religious. Hitchens left a tremendous body of work and quite a wake behind him.

There’s much to miss, much to admire, a lot to not like, but even in the unlikable Hitch, there’s something to be learned and enjoyed; he made me feel more alive.

[johngrace]

He had an agruement at a club establishment in NY with Father George Rutler from "Christ in the City" ewtn show. I think he was escorted out. He got into cursing. Father George is a heavy intellect. I think he could not out do Father.

I would go into manhattan on sundays just to hear Father George and then David Wilkinson. What great Christians. The humble manner of these two christians were inspiring.

[grey_whiskers]

"Sir," they said, "we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, 'I will never have a deathbed conversion.' So give the order for his deathbed to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, Christian disciples may come even before the funeral and tell the people that he has accepted Eternal Life, even as did the penitent on the cross. This last deception will undo his life's work and memory."

"You have the press," he answered. "Go, make his memory as secure as you know how."

You know, if death *does* end it all, and God and God's advocates have repeatedly insisted that God accepts last-minute deathbed conversions, what's the harm in buying a little fire insurance at the last second? If you're wrong about it, you're *DEAD*. You won't even have any embarrassment to suffer.

A funny thing, pride is...

Cheers!