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A Man, Take Him for All in All

By lex, on December 16th, 2011

Christopher Hitchens stepped into the clearing at the end of the path.

Or not.

He was dying, when he wrote this. Better than anything I’ll ever do.

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December 16th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Headlines

16 comments to A Man, Take Him for All in All

  • Quartermaster
    December 16, 2011 at 4:49 am

    He was a good writer, until it came to religion, then he became pathetic. His book “God Is Not Great” was fisked many times.

    In Edvard Radzinky’s biography of Stalin, many of the men Stalin had murdered are said to have learned there actually was a God. Alas, for Hitechens, he has discovered there really is a God, and it doesn’t matter that Hitchens didn’t think he is great.

  • colagirl
    December 16, 2011 at 5:50 am

    I didn’t agree with him on a lot of things, but I’m sorry to hear he’s gone.

  • pumaking
    December 16, 2011 at 5:56 am

    A man of tremendous intellect and writing talent. Always thought his take on religion was a bit petulant, esp. for someone who brought serious intellectual integrity to most of his arguments, and who was quick to point out(often rightly so) the lack there of in others. IMHO he really had a finger on the pulse of things vis-a-vis Islam and the west. Great performance on the Bill Maher show once, really sticking it to the audience for their knee-jerk reaction to Maher’s “Bush is Stupid” fall back line(perhaps one of our more tech savy roommates could dig up a link.) All in all a guy who made me think, and with whom I did not mind “agreeing to disagree” at times.

    Cheers

  • mojo
    December 16, 2011 at 7:55 am

    The old reprobate flipped off Bill “I’m A Comedian!” Maher’s audience, and called them idiots. Live.

    That, alone, made me like the guy. He called ‘em as he saw ‘em.

  • virgil xenophon
    December 16, 2011 at 9:11 am

    As the saying goes, “He did not suffer fools gladly.” Chris was quite the guy. I always enjoyed his public “performances”as well as his writing which was first-rate. He will be missed..

  • Buck
    December 16, 2011 at 11:21 am

    Pick up Hitch 22, Hitchens’ recent memoir. It’s a GREAT read, among many, many other things. The world is a poorer place for his absence today.

  • McThag
    December 16, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    He is now a good Marxist. I spent too many cold nights staring into (and being stared back at) Czechoslovakia seeing what Marxism wrought to mourn someone who admired the creators of that.

    I find the praise for him along the lines of ignoring someone is a serial killer because they’re a five star chef.

  • Advokaat
    December 16, 2011 at 12:56 pm

    I disagreed with him on many point, but I don’t wish him ill.

    I just wonder how that “atheist thing” is working for him now…

  • SteveC
    December 16, 2011 at 3:48 pm

    Hitch was a great writer and speaker. His contempt for religion and anyone’s belief in God is no doubt right now being put to the test. Good luck Hitch.

  • Casey
    December 18, 2011 at 12:05 am

    I am reminded of Blaise Pascal’s comment:

    Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

    Smart man. ;)

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