Dec 152011
Age 62, due to cancer. Hitchens was known for his anti-religion writings, and for a biography that showed that Mother Theresa was a scumbag, not the saint she’s generally seen as.
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Hitchens will be missed. He was a brilliant man, although his politics were sometimes misplaced.
He’s not an atheist any more.
May God have mercy on this horrible, horrible man. And I say that as a horrible, horrible man myself.
> He’s not an atheist any more.
Of course not. He’s dead. Beliefs, or the lack of them, are a property of a functioning brain. A dead brain no longer functions, therefore it does not have such properties.
Whether a person believes or not makes no difference to me, but painting a woman whose whole life was dedicated to charitable works is just wrong. In regards to what happens after death I think my dad summed it up best when speaking to an atheist: “Only one of us will be surprised at what is found after death.”
> ainting a woman whose whole life was dedicated to charitable works is just wrong.
Wouldn’t that rather depend on the “charitable works?” In my view, Ma T devoted her life to the wrong stuff. She collected many millions of dollars in donations, supposedly to help her aid the poor… but her idea of aiding the poor was to minister to them as they died in poverty and pain, *not* to try to *heal* them or even reduce their suffering.
Some might see her as trying to save their souls through the scourging of their flesh (or something); I see her acts as sadism..
a brilliant light expired
leaving us in the twilight of bigot religions…
The saddest thing is that skeptics have no hell for their enemies. The folks who burned free-thinkers at the stake did not die in terror of being punished by a divine Carl Sagan figure. Perhaps, one day in the far,far, future– time travel and a device made to absorb the human mind at death might finally be had.
At such time, the minds of the future will look back on who was perhaps the most thoughtful and unique of their own–and it will be Chris, who would take St. Peters place to determine who will allowed to Go On in Riverworld. Fanciful thoughts of course-but at least I know that. Still, I think he might go easier on Teresa by having her suffering if any–be brief. Not even the vilest Stalinist would invent infinite punishment for finite ‘sin.’ Imagine a private ambulance driver who sees you have a wreck. You call his competitor, named Buddha, and he’s out of service area. So the victim dies burning in a car wreck, and the loving ambulance/paramedic driver says “Sorry! You called on my competitor so its too late now. I could save you but I won’t–youv’e made your decision.”
This is not the act of love. Manyy in the field of apologetics love to try to break the ice by asking if a person believes in absolutes–when the forget that an absolute is something that is wrong even if a god does it. Any deviation places said social conservative smack in the middle of situational ethics he purports not to believe in.