redhen Posted December 17, 2011 #1 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I apologize if this news has been posted but I haven't found it. Christopher Hitchens, the noted writer and atheist died two days ago. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16212418 Given his militant atheism, I expected some conversation on the UM forums. A quote from the BBC article; The author and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins described him as the "finest orator of our time" and a "valiant fighter against all tyrants including God". I have mixed feelings about his legacy. Sure he was a great writer and debater, but his scathing attack and allegations against Mother Theresa was in bad taste. Just my 2 c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__Kratos__ Posted December 17, 2011 #2 Share Posted December 17, 2011 He was a brilliant drunken ahole... And he was ours. <3 I'll miss him. I added some quotes by him in my signature last night when I saw the news. Also toasted a glass of scotch to him. As for Mother Theresa... She forcefully converted people on their death beds, ran below health standard clinics and a lot of the money her groups were managing went "missing". In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in Vanity Fair since 1992, when he was named contributing editor. “Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic,” Hitchens wrote nearly a year ago in Vanity Fair, but his own final labors were anything but: in the last 12 months, he produced for this magazine a piece on U.S.-Pakistani relations in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, a portrait of Joan Didion, an essay on the Private Eye retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a prediction about the future of democracy in Egypt, a meditation on the legacy of progressivism in Wisconsin, and a series of frank, graceful, and exquisitely written essays in which he chronicled the physical and spiritual effects of his disease. At the end, Hitchens was more engaged, relentless, hilarious, observant, and intelligent than just about everyone else—just as he had been for the last four decades. “My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,” he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many of us who will miss him dearly. Article found here: Source ------------------------------ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Waters Posted December 17, 2011 #3 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I apologize if this news has been posted but I haven't found it. Christopher Hitchens, the noted writer and atheist died two days ago. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16212418 Given his militant atheism, I expected some conversation on the UM forums. There's another thread here - http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=219401 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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