There are plenty of Christians who condemned Falwell, Dobson, Robertson, etc.

Very true. As for Hitchens, to me he comes across as someone who hates anyone who doesn’t agree with him.

You belie your handle by your seeming-ideological ranting over Hitchens. The beating of the “dead horse” is your persistent castigation of views that no one is defending. As I said, Hitchens will wear this one, and so will we all. Don’t kid yourself, we’re all, in one way or another, to some extent, responsible for what is happening now in the middle east. We will all be haunted by these tragedies.

. . . Hitchens support [of the war in Iraq] . . . should make anything his says worthless.

That’s a silly notion. Try that out on anyone who’s work you admire–nobody’s a saint all the time. Woody Allen diddles little girls; so does Roman Polanski. Stravinsky was an arrogant patrician. Jackson Pollack was a hard-drinking son of a bitch. Richard Wagner was an antisemite. Bill Clinton is a sex addict. You can’t dismiss every product of a creative person because you detest one of them.

Unfortunate use of metaphore, it would seem. I think some positions can be so clearly wrong from the beginning, so irresponsible and bring such horrible results that taking that position should haunt someone for the rest of their public careers. Hundreds of thousands of dead people, the re-enslavement of Iraqi women, the ethnic purges that a lot of us predicted would make Hitchens support (which I have to point out was touted in the Kurtz comeon I just got for “Skeptical Inquirer”) should make anything his says worthless.

Hitchens, with his support for mass slaughter has done considerably more than just express hatred, he’s doing what he can to get the policy put into effect.

You’re beating a dead horse. Hitchens will wear this one like all the other stupid ideas that he’s had through his life. He’s got lots of company.

Quite frankly, I’m kind of surprised more atheists aren’t condemning C. Hitchen’s frankly stated hatred of people who hold religious beliefs.

Maybe it’s like the majority of Christians who silently tolerated the bilious hate-mongering of Falwell for so long. Apathy, shortsightedness, lack of awareness of how much damage was being done to their reputation, something like that. I’m not sure how I personally could repudiate Hitchen’s negativity other than by not purchasing his books, or talking about it on a blog like this. Not that this gets that much public exposure.

What you need to know about me is that I can’t be responsible, and I won’t be, for others shoddy thinking.

You don’t have to take personal responsibilty but there might be times when you want to point out that you disagree with someone who is used as a poster boy of the group you are in, as Peter Hitchens has done with his own brother.

Quite frankly, I’m kind of surprised more atheists aren’t condemning C. Hitchen’s frankly stated hatred of people who hold religious beliefs. That should certainly call into doubt anything he has to say on the subject. Would you trust anything Richard Butler said about Jews or Black people? Anything that Robertson or Dobson said about Atheists?

George Galloway was as right about Hitchens as anyone has ever been.

great points, bad example.

ewwwwwwww *shudders*