Christopher Hitchens, EXPERT ASSHOLE, is dead.

[sickbadthing]

http://networkedblogs.com/rC0Tk

[Eulogy]

aw

: /

[stripes]

who

[Eulogy]

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

that guy

[Ball Sack Face]

He's with Jesus now

[Order 66]

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

[Trotskilicious]

/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.

[Trotskilicious]

i loved his Letters to a Young Contrarian

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

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Order 66

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

what?

atheists get cancer?

[Eulogy]

wtf

[Order 66]

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

[Eulogy]

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

is that my fault or his

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Order 66

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

religious people drink, smoke, and get cancer

i bet waayyyyyy more religious people get cancer


i think you're joking now though. : /

[Order 66]

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

[Trotskilicious]

yes he was because someone has to be

he pissed you off because he was trying to

[Trotskilicious]

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

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

is that my fault or his

yours

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Order 66

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

oh he was a total blowhard

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

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

yours

i'll try to do better

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

but usually right on at least some level.

except iraq

[reprise85]

god is not great is a pretty good book

[killtrocity]

Originally Posted by Order 66

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

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

[Order 66]

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?

[Trotskilicious]

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

[Mo]

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

[Future Boy]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

i bet waayyyyyy more religious people get cancer

too much jesus probably does it

[MyOneAndOnly]

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.

[vixnix]

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.

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chris buckley:

"One of our lunches, at Café Milano, the Rick’s Café of Washington, began at 1 P.M., and ended at 11:30 P.M. At about nine o’clock (though my memory is somewhat hazy), he said, “Should we order more food?” I somehow crawled home, where I remained under medical supervision for several weeks, packed in ice with a morphine drip. Christopher probably went home that night and wrote a biography of Orwell. His stamina was as epic as his erudition and wit."

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by vixnix

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.

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.