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    Quote Originally Posted by Eldritch View Post
    While I think I understand what his point was, I'm not sure I agree with this sentiment.

    But anyway, what can one say. Looks like he won't get to enjoy a long retirement, whether you think he deserved it or not. I think he would have.
    Agreed. It's the Marxist streak that runs in his vains a bit. I used to say the same types of things. I guess it has a nice humility to it though. Again, he's still a good man in my book.
    "For it is by no means the case that only those who believe in God could possibly have a vested interest in the question of His existence."
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    "Our civilization has had many religions and many dispensations of thought. But one of the things that we have forgotten is that open-mindedness to the future and respect for evidence does mean wooliness and an absence of certitude in what we are."
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    A couple recent, very absorbing and thought-provoking interviews with Mr. Hitchens. I find his opinions and viewpoints on death (and religion) very close to my thoughts also. It really sucks he is so ill. We could use more like him. He is just brilliant!!

    This is from The Charlie Rose Show. He (Charlie Rose) interviewed Christopher at his apartment in DC on 13 August 2010. INTERVIEW.

    Anderson Cooper of CNN interviewed him also recently. INTERVIEW.

    Not to be missed, is his perspective on the Cordova House mosque, which is planned to go up near the World Trade Center. Err, where it used to be..."A Test of Tolerance: The 'Ground Zero mosque' debate is about tolerance—and a whole lot more."

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    Hitchens sort of likes to have his cake and eat it too. I don't understand how he cannot see the destruction of Western European culture as being precisely what has allowed Islam to plant itself in there the way it has in the first place.
    "For it is by no means the case that only those who believe in God could possibly have a vested interest in the question of His existence."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Debaser11 View Post
    Hitchens sort of likes to have his cake and eat it too. I don't understand how he cannot see the destruction of Western European culture as being precisely what has allowed Islam to plant itself in there the way it has in the first place.
    He's a conservative. Who says he's against the West?

    Anyhow, he has esophageal cancer and he smokes and drinks? Put down the freaking cigarettes dude! I too have esophageal difficulties and I stopped smoking because of them. Smoking will kill you faster than anything. He's an incredibly smart man, but he's not too smart if he continues ingesting poison.
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    Hitchens is not, nor has he ever been, a conservative. He can be conservative on certain issues, but he takes issue with being labeled a conservative. I've even heard him explain that, despite the fact he no longer has Trotskyist views, that he still has sympathy for such people.

    He defends the West. But he thinks the West in its current form can stand up to Islam. I see no evidence of this whatsoever. Ironically, such a stance requires more faith than believing in God.


    Oh, and I was under the impression Hitch had stopped smoking three years back or so?
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    Never ceases to amaze how wise men such as him can actively destroy the husk which holds their mind.

    Smoking is a mental defect of sorts I think as is excessive drinking.

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    I've been praying for his conversion. Even fools are worthy of salvation you see, and great fools like him no less.
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    Last Weekend a famous German Regisseur died because of Cancer at the age of 49


    His Name is Christopher Schlingensief
    Last edited by Arne; 08-25-2010 at 08:47 AM.

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    Hitchens, I don't take too seriously. He can be brilliant at some times, but he has so much in the way of other..let's say IMO off base views..that I check what other scholars in more or less his same camp have to say before agreeing with him with any sense of safety.

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    We know he will not be blaming God for his cancer. Christopher Hitchens is who Bill Maher (HBO) wishes he could be.
    ROPE and CHAINS

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