Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

British-born journalist and atheist writer Christopher Hitchens has passed away in Houston, Texas from a long illness with throat cancer.

See the ABC News video and article here and the obituary in Vanity Fair.

Any death is sad, more so when a man dedicates so much of his life to heaping scorn and mockery on the one person, Jesus Christ, who could have brought hope, peace, and victory over death for Hitchens.