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wintertriangles
12-24-11, 12:45 PM
This is probably how he would have wanted to go out:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/25-dumbest-reactions-to-godisnotgreat
Nausicaä
12-24-11, 02:46 PM
What lovely people...

"kill yourself"
Swearing their heads off
"Gotta kill the person who said this"

And so on...

And these people are suppose to be Christian?

Am I reading that link right?


:eek:
wintertriangles
12-24-11, 02:59 PM
And that's only 25 of them haha

It was sad too, I've been watching his debates for a couple years now. Listened to the audio book of God is Not Great last week too.
akatemple
12-24-11, 05:59 PM
What is the book about, feeling lazy and don't wanna google it for myself.
will.15
12-24-11, 06:34 PM
He is with God now.:D
wintertriangles
12-24-11, 08:21 PM
What is the book about, feeling lazy and don't wanna google it for myself.It's almost like a companion piece to Mencken's Treatise Of The Gods, though Hitchens may not agree as his book is far more subjective, but basically discusses the history of religion, mainly Christianity, and how it is bad for our species.
Tyler1
12-24-11, 10:59 PM
What lovely people...

"kill yourself"
Swearing their heads off
"Gotta kill the person who said this"

And so on...

And these people are suppose to be Christian?

Am I reading that link right?


:eek:


Many Christians behave this way too. Nothin surprising to me.
mark f
12-24-11, 11:13 PM
It appears that the Twitter is bad for our species too.
nebbit
12-24-11, 11:22 PM
R.i.p. :(
wintertriangles
12-25-11, 12:44 AM
Just some stats for people who may not know him:

He was a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 was voted the world's fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll.

Worked as an editor and journalism throughout the 70s and 80s for International Socialism and New Statesmen, but notably The Nation where he had some caustic critiques of Reagan, Bush senior, and American foreign policy.

Wrote literary reviews in The Atlantic, in favor of such authors as George Orwell, Huxley, and Conor Cruise O'Brian, as well as contributing to literary journals, including biographical essays on Orwell, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine

Has a number of books besides the aforementioned, including a ballsy critique of Mother Teresa, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, among others

He left two children and a wife and millions of fans, including lauding from Richard Dawkins, Tony Blair, Ed Harris, and Francis Collins, all calling him one of the greatest orators of all time

It appears that the Twitter is bad for our species too.
I've been saying that since it started
Deadite
12-25-11, 04:26 AM
The world is a bit darker now.
honeykid
12-25-11, 01:51 PM
They showed this the day he died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-s9AyNQyCw

It's a great interview.

I watched his brother interviewed on the "In Confidence" series last week, so I thought I'd take a look and see if Christopher had been interviewed for it. He had.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7t4rV7wbRo

Sadly I can't find Peter's episode, atm.