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Merged Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

One of Earth's greatest minds has left us. Farewell, Christopher.
 
Goodbye Mr. Hitchens, you've touched my life live no other.

ETA: I just read that he passed away at the same place as my mom here in Houston. That is surreal.
 
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Brown said:
Sad, but not unexpected. Cancer, after all, is a bitch.

We have not heard the last of Hitch. I suspect that he has written quite a bit of material that has not been published, Some of them might have been withheld for posthumous publication or because they relate to events that have not occurred. It would not surprise me, for example, if we see an obituary for Billy Graham written by Christopher Hitchens, even though Graham had the "good fortune" of outliving Hitchens. It would not surprise me to see an essay by Hitchens about the end of the Iraq occupation. It would not surprise me to see an essay, perhaps written over a very long period of time, about last-ditch efforts to convert him to some form of creed.
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Tupac Hitchens?
 
The first I knew of Christopher Hitchens was an appearance on Politically Incorrect years ago. I found him terribly offensive because he was savaging Mother Teresa, of whom I knew only the popular mythology regarding her mission. After I looked into Mother Teresa in more detail and read Hitchen's book The Missionary Position, my opinions of both Hitchens and Mother Teresa were altered considerably.

Thank you Mr. Hitchens. Your life was shorter than it should have been, but you spent it well.
 
Foster Zygote said:
The first I knew of Christopher Hitchens was an appearance on Politically Incorrect years ago. I found him terribly offensive because he was savaging Mother Teresa, of whom I knew only the popular mythology regarding her mission. After I looked into Mother Teresa in more detail and read Hitchen's book The Missionary Position, my opinions of both Hitchens and Mother Teresa were altered considerably.

Thank you Mr. Hitchens. Your life was shorter than it should have been, but you spent it well.
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"Made me think." He was good at that. And the believers hated him for it. Win for the Hitch.
 
Absolutely devastated. It hit me harder than I thought it would.

It feels like I lost a parent.
 
I'm trying to find a quote that I thought came from Hitch. I can't remember it exactly. But it was in reference to the way Muslims pray, bowed down with their faces on the floor and their rumps in the error. And the quote was something like "I don't trust a religion that requires you to elevate your ass above your brain." He likely said it better, if he said it. The point being not the actual elevation by the symbol of putting your rear end in a more important position than your brain. Anyone else hear this or have a source for it? I think I saw him say it on TV once.
 
I also liked the way he talked, his flow. Whenever I read a book in English I have his voice in my head. :D
 
Damn. The world has lost a wonderful voice, one that I greatly admired and respected. What I would give to have been a fly on the wall on those Friday lunches with him, Rushdie, and the Amis's...
 
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