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 Sassan K. on -
Beautifully put and I agree with you 100%. We do prob. mourn more than believers for the reasons you cited.
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Permalink Reply by Sultan Sharaf Eldeen on -
"The one word that comes to mind when I think of my brother is ‘courage’. By this I don’t mean the lack of fear which some people have, which enables them to do very dangerous or frightening things because they have no idea what it is to be afraid. I mean a courage which overcomes real fear, while actually experiencing it."- Peter Hitchens..this says it all..there will be no another Hitch!!
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Permalink Reply by bob spencer on -
...slightly more composed now. spent the morning crying and the afternoon defending Hitch from bigots and ...well you know. Hitch was a one-off like all of us.He was egalitarian.He wasn't afraid to abuse and took abuse as a compliment .He could tell people to fuck off and mean it.Just gonna listen to Dylan's Idiot wind and grieve...
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Leon Bogardus on -
he was one of the reasons why i became a militant atheist him and richard dalkins made me proud to be an atheist and taught me to be myself and speak out so i came out about being bi and all the dipression slipped away so in a form he helped me save my life decay without disturbance C.H.
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Permalink Reply by Tex on -
I have tears running down my face as I type this and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
We have lost a champion of common sense, rational thought, & critical thinking, who can possibly take up where he left off?
Take a look at some of the terrible things these loving Christians have said about Hitch on www.yahoo.com, these delusional idiots surely do not practice what they preach.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Leon Bogardus on
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i put my own oppions on some of them because i started getting mad at the imbisiles who where insulting him
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Permalink Reply by Jonathan on -
Hitch got me past some rough times to honor him and to make a point to the theists I'm starting the phrase "Happy Hitchmas"
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Permalink Reply by UnTarded on -
I just toasted the man and his legacy with some Johnny Walker Black.
New Atheist Holiday: December 15, HITCHMAS!
Thanks Jonathan.
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