WHAT DID HITCH MEAN FOR YOU?
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What Christopher Hitchens meant to me cannot really be described in words. He was such an amazing human being and I cannot believe he is really gone. Over the past few months he had even exchanged emails me with me on a couple of occasions. He was truly a hero.
Christopher Hitchens was a man of courage and honor. Hitch always spoke his mind and took the fight to religious bigotry and was unapologetic about it. In addition, he was not a cultural relativist or an Islamic apologist like is the case with many atheists. He called Islamic ideology for what it truly was: totalitarianism and oppression. In addition, he was a great friend for freedom and democracy and although he was a leftist all his life, he stood and supported the Iraqi people for their quest for freedom - particularly the great Kurdish people. And as an Iranian, he was a great friend of the Iranian people and it is a shame that he was not able to see a free Iran in his lifetime. Most importantly: he was genuine and one of the most insightful and intelligent human beings I have ever heard whom possessed great insight and a realistic foresight of world problems.
I will write more on him later but he was truly a hero of mine and I don't have any other heroes. He was someone that inspired me in ways that cannot be expressed. For the rest of my life, I will try to live with his ideals and inspiration as much as I can. To be honest, right now has become one of the gloomiest and darkest days, and my heart feels empty.
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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on -
More than anything, I loved hearing him speak. His voice was always very soothing to me, and his words so well selected that I've come to reflect more deeply on how I select my own.
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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on
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His command of the language was something to which it was worthy to aspire -> for he never terminated a sentence with a preposition.
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Permalink Reply by erik112358 on -
yay for making language more clunky for no reason!
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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on
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Thanks for this, Greg.
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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on
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+1
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Permalink Reply by Sean O'Keefe on -
I met Christopher Hitchens at Hay in 2008 and we spoke briefly about Carl Sagan. His intellect seemed to extend like a magnetic field from his mind. He was a touchstone for me. His words are gold in our pockets. I will miss him enormously.
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Permalink Reply by Alejandro M on -
He was the most outspoken of the "Four Horsemen". Thanks to him and to Dawkins I came to terms with being an atheist (before I considered myself an agnostic, having left the Catholic Church).
He will be remembered.
I won't pray for him...
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Permalink Reply by Dustin on -
I am actually trying to hold back tears. I have watched probably every single debate he has been in, some more than once. I haven't read all his books yet, but he changed my life for the better with his words.
Truly is a time to reflect on how great a man he was - and how great his videos and books will be for decades, if not centuries, to come.
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