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I wouldn’t have pixelated that arsehole’s details. In fact, I’d have hacked his facebook and posted Mexican donkey porn to his wall.
Custy, you have such a way with words.
I’ve never heard of Mexican donkey porn, but it has a nice ring to it.
fnaaaarrr, fnaaaarrr ….
Clearly you have never seen Clerks.
He has freedom of speech too. He is an arse but that doesn’t mean he should get hacked.
I don’t see how exercising my own freedom of expression would prevent him from doing the same.
mmmmmmmm…..donkeys…..
I don’t recall Hitchens or any other atheist claiming to be immortal or invulnerable. We live, get sick, and die. Just like religious people. The difference is that we don’t die thinking that magic beings are waiting to greet us so that we can spend trillions of years praising that being. In fact, such a fate sounds more like hell than heaven anyway! Maybe that is why the angels rebelled. They too were sick of praising a cruel pissant tyrant. Reading the comments here by so-called Christians convinces me that their religion isn’t worthy of respect let alone belief.
I think atheists do the opposite – believe they are not immortal or invulnerable.
The difference is that we don’t die thinking that magic beings are waiting to greet us so that we can spend trillions of years praising that being.
In a way, Hitchens is immortal. As long as we read his books and articles and watch videos on the internet of him, his ideas will live on. As long as no one forgets him, he won’t be truly dead.
Cripes! How I wish that damned (pun intended) book of theirs could be banned. Look at all the trouble it causes. The Bible was written by ignorant people in a savage time, and they look on it as “Holy writ”. (Intended again, sorry)
“Holy writ”? More like wholly rot.
Len: Wholly rot – nice one! Wish I’d thought of that!
I don’t think even Hitchens would have had much quarrel with the Jeffersonian edit.
One day those believers will get THEIRS too – oblivion.
Yeah, but then I get frustrated because they’ll never know it!
Simply incredible but I expect no less from the faith-head morons who are so conceited and smug in their belief in the afterlife. They fail to stop and consider what arrogant muppets they look like to people with half a wit. I wish I could say it makes me fume but I’d rather fight their ignorance with what rationality and reason I possess.
Hitchens will come as close to immortality as is possible for any deceased being. More than can be said for the pious prats who deserve nothing more than abject invisibility and inconsequence.
I’ve written something about how psychics were trying to capitalise on the death of Hitch by piggy-backing on the #godisnotgreat hashtag and some of the more moronic statements made over the day…
Feel free to check it out http://faithfruitcake.blogspot.com/2011/12/not-without-hitch.html
Thanks for writing the above and pointing out what a bunch of morons look like.
Ignorance invites followers – Christopher invited INTELLIGENT debate….
Hitch will be alive in our memories long after the Christians have their mindless verbal puking bouts they are best known for.
Well, small minded people tend to find comfort in bashing people and things they don’t understand. How many of these people do you think have actually read any of Hitchens’ work? Or even have a working understanding of atheism? On top of which, it takes a serious deficit of character to damn a dead man on the day he dies. Though, I find some comfort knowing Hitch would probably have found this shit pretty damned amusing.
I wish I could find stuff like that amusing. I know some people get release from it, but I take it too seriously, so it’s masochism for me.
Oh, I don’t know. I didn’t feel to bad about rejoicing the day Jerry Falwell was “called home.” I was only disappointed because it was too late by years.
i literally cannot understand how xtians can be so cruel and hypocritical yet accuse us of the same thing. the gervais one just showed it perfectly.
a c**t (who happens to be an xtian) vs gervais – and gervais is nothing but polite and jokey and shrugs off most of the hate – and gervais can be cruel when he wants. gervais whooped religions arse. no one behaves so badly in the name of atheism – yet the religious seem to see the complete opposite.
thankfully hitch is no longer around to see this filth (although im sure he expected it to come before he left us), and not floating about above us watching.
I have a feeling that the atheist community will, if not collectively at least in some quarters, be rather crude and cruel in their response when Ratzinger eventually dies. However, that is because he is the leader of the world’s largest paedophilia ring and is holding a celestial gun to the heads of millions, forcing them to make choices that lead to significant suffering and early death. Beyond that sort of thing, I cannot think of a time when atheists have or would gloat or rejoice over the death of a Christian. Perhaps I just missed it, or perhaps I spend too much time around the nicer blogs (though the Freethinker can get pretty rough), but I haven’t really seen that attitude from atheists very much yet we all knew from experience this is exactly what we would get from a subset of Christians once Hitchens died.
Hitchins was a gifted orator and writer. Respected and admired by many on both sides of important issues. Several leading Christian Pastors and theologians who knew and debated him were very respectful and mourn his loss. There is no solace when a great intellect is lost. He spoke his mind and with acerbic wit. defended his positions with a take no prisoners attitude, apparently up to the very end. Any happiness in his passing is totally misguided. Some may have retaliated, remember his comments upon the passing of Rev. Falwell and Mother Theresa but that offers no excuse only lack of compassion and forgiveness.
..and the comments of Christians live on in the hearts of atheist because their ways brings us the truth of how really stupid their religious minds are.
Amen!
Where does one start? It might be better not to. These responses are entirely predictable but that makes them no less offensive. If anything, these petty, small minded comments, only solidify our reasons for abandoning religion and confirm our decisions to do so.
So Al Mohler thinks Christopher Hitchens died because he didn’t believe in a god? What a moron.
Never mind! The wages of sin are death so he won’t have to suffer from any more hellish pain. It is ironic that Christians who believe that the Jesus god has provided them with everlasting life which will be spent in everlasting god-praising in Heaven, also believe in everlasting hell where those who have not been provided with eternal life are tortured unmercifully for ever. Wait! How can someone who is eternally dead suffer from anything?
In other words, the Christian concept of Hell as well as Heaven requires that everyone be resurrected and given eternal life. Not well thought through, guys!
Your physical body is not what Christians are talking about. It is your soul, which they believe can never be destroyed and can suffer harm and feel pain.
Heaven must suck for everyone who’s had surgery. I mean remembering all that horrible cutting and probing that your physical body was kept unaware of by anesthetic.
I may not have agreed with Hitchens, but I’m thankful for the places where he had genuine insight and I had to grapple with his arguments.
And the good news is Hitchens will live on as a constant confrontation of religionists in demonstrating how wrong and foolish their beliefs are. His works will serve as a vast resource of brilliantly reasoned refutation of their theological deceptions and quackery. It will be as he would’ve wanted it to be.
Christopher Hitchens died?! :( :( :(
Just so you all know Mark J. L. Mattheiss’ facebook page is ready for the picking. Although he’s well versed in the thoughts and ways of the Lord, he don’t know jack shit about privacy settings.
Hey, he likes Yusuf Islam and The Brief History of Time. Very progressive for a God Warrior.
Well, that depends if he likes him during or post-Cat Stevens phase.
These so called christians want all people to be christians,but reading their comments on Hitchens dead ,I rather stick to atheism.I have no wishes to join a cult of bigots and hateful people.Good to see who you really are,it’s ugly but very helpful.
That Mark Mattheis dude is creep-ee. What’s with the whole comparing truth to date rape and various spousal relationships? He strikes me as the kind of guy who who prays to god every day to help him stop watching porn and then orders one of those life-size Japanese dolls with a stolen credit card.
._. Their blockheadedness never ceases to amaze me… On that guy’s facebook they actually claim there is EVIDENCE that god exists… DX
On the other hand the thought that there are lots of people like that out there terrifies me, and it’s not just the xtians :s
I knew Hitch. There was a whole lot more to him than his faith or lack there of. He stood for something and he fought for it. Most people can’t really say that. People need to pick up their own game and quit worrying about how he played his. He will be fine where ever he is at. He may not have believed in God, but his life showed that God believed in him.
Another moron crediting his deity for things another human being did.
Yeah it’s awesome how somebody comes up and belittles all your life’s achievement by claiming you never would have done so well without the intervention of a mythical creature.
Thousands of children die of starvation every day, are you going to give credit to your god for that too?
Moron.
I want to projectile vomit in your eyes for this. There’s no excuse on the planet for your mother not having an abortion, and instead giving birth to a living, breathing, walking, abortion of a shell of a morally bankrupt human being like you.
I’m sensing that you do not believe that an atheist’s success in life should be attributed to a unproven supernatural agent that is reputed to hate atheists. Or am I reading too much into your post? ;)
Oh, you didn’t read too much into it. While your interpretation was the main gist of my post, I meant it as a fractal refutation of a fractally offensive statement.
It’s really not an uncommon reaction for me. Any time someone thanks ‘god’ for something a human did, I want them sterilized. This prick just happened to make me want to go back a few generations, not only from the complete inanity of “he doesn’t believe in god, but god believes in him”, but from the genocide-sympathizer actually claiming to have known him, then to say something as blatantly disrespectful as that…
It’s much akin to the scumbags that said Tillman was ‘in heaven’. They just never miss a chance to sit in judgement of others, while perched on their high horse. There’s wrong, and then there’s CHRISTIAN WRONG™.
I will miss Hitchens, as will a lot of other people. I am so lucky that many of his words and actions were captured and saved on video and the internet so that I can continue to appreciate what his legacy.
The manner of his death was a shinning beacon in the wilderness of Christian and Muslim pettiness. I have no doubt that he was a “real” atheist but I also have no doubt that some embarrassed Christians will be retrospectively labeling the authors of the disgraceful text cited above as “not real Christians”. The true Scotsman is alive and well.
He didn’t actually wait till Hitch died. But William Lane Craig’s reaction to Hitchen’s death is infuriatingly smug.
Turns out Christopher Hitchens had fans and admirers from all walks of life. Found this post commemorating Hitchens by a rather unlikely blogger. Funny and poignant. He will be missed. Click here to read it for yourself http://bit.ly/w40uFn
“The smug and moronic responses have begun” yeah because we are NEVER smug and moronic ourselves. uhhuh