Christopher Hitchens, EXPERT ASSHOLE, is dead.
 

aw

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who

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens

that guy

He's with Jesus now

i'm not saying i'm glad he's dead but it does kind of vindicate criticisms of atheism and the path it can take you down

/me takes my hat off.

He was an inspiration to every asshole, contrarian and internet troll that ever lived. A model and guide for us all.

i loved his Letters to a Young Contrarian

i loved reading a philosophical justification to be an asshole because, dammit, someone has to be.

what?

atheists get cancer?

wtf

it led to a life of drinking and smoking, which led to the cancer. so in a way, yes

i can never tell when karl connor is being serious or not

is that my fault or his

religious people drink, smoke, and get cancer

i bet waayyyyyy more religious people get cancer


i think you're joking now though. : /

i'm kidding but i did think he was kind of a blowhard. though maybe that's being unfair because i never read his books

yes he was because someone has to be

he pissed you off because he was trying to

if there ever is a Trolling Hall of Fame i think C. Hitch should be an inaugural inductee

yours

oh he was a total blowhard

but usually right on at least some level. and an all around interesting guy.

i'll try to do better

except iraq

god is not great is a pretty good book

that's a rather odd statement and I ask you to clarify what exactly you are implying through that statement

i'm just saying that people who criticized his views ended up being on the right side of the argument. if atheism and hard drinking are so great, why did he end up the way he did?

^ this guy is also an inaugural inductee to the trolling hall of fame

Didn't like his stance on the last two US wars, but his books were just brilliant. Man, what a loss.

too much jesus probably does it

the dude was coll

one of the few real intellectuals left in the USA and UK. and he stuck to his guns till the end.

Intellectual LOL

He was a lazy arts graduate who wrote a bunch of shit about a bunch of crap as a journalist and then rode the anti-religion book gravy train that Dawkins started. His work is derivative and shallow. because you know.....that's what journalists usually produce.

Having said that, he could crack a good joke.

And I think a study has been done linking religiosity with better health and there were a number of possible explanations as to why that is the case. So I don't think it's that much of a stretch that his atheism made him less healthy than he would have been if he'd been religious.

Sad to hear he died, I knew he had lung cancer. Nobody deserves that so I feel sad for his family and friends, to have to watch him go that way. RIP.

chris buckley:

oh jesus, shut the fuck up. his one religion book was published in fucking 2007. implying that he built his career on it is asinine.

ugh you are so obnoxious.