As you all probably know by now, the great author and atheist intellectual, Christopher Hitchens, has died as a result of esophageal cancer (a particularly nasty form of cancer). As one of the handful of people I really admire, I find this particularly saddening. The intellectual light of this man has made me respect and love him more than I do many members of my own family, or many friends for that matter. A terrible loss. TJ sums it up nicely, including the flaws of this man.
And I'd like to leave you with a kind of self-eulogy Hitchens wrote when his voice gave up and he consequently had to cancel a speech.
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I have not heard of him until now.
It is odd to hear of a American conservative who is NOT a zealot Christian.
Ur-spo, "Hitch" was not an "American conservative" but a British social liberal who settled and taught in the U.S. beginning in the 1980s and eventually became a U.S. citizen. Like The Amazing Atheist said in the video, I didn't agree with a lot of his politics either, particularly his pro-invasion stance on Iraq, but loved his criticisms of religion and irrational thought.
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