Christopher Hitchens diagnosed with cancer

[Thorum]

I've been praying for his conversion. Even fools are worthy of salvation you see, and great fools like him no less.

You have nothing better to do? I consider your praying to be the utmost in foolishness. Frankly, I believe it is you who are the fool....or perhaps you are just fooled?

[Eldritch]

Hitchens on Life, Death, and "the False Promise of Eternity"

Video: Sally Quinn interviews Slate Columnist Christopher Hitchens.

Slate columnist Christopher Hitchens talks with the Washington Post's Sally Quinn about how he first found out he had esophageal cancer, the same disease that killed his father.

Watch video here.

[Farcebook]

I've been praying for his conversion. Even fools are worthy of salvation you see, and great fools like him no less.

Theists say the darndest things.

Hey Eoin. I am teh Izzlum. I pray to Allah you fool convert MY religion! You is burley wurdy of teh salvation of Allah!

[Murphy]

Theists say the darndest things.

Hey Eoin. I am teh Izzlum. I pray to Allah you fool convert MY religion! You is burley wurdy of teh salvation of Allah!

And you are?

[Wyn]

I've been praying for his conversion.

Same, along with petitions for Christ's mercy.

In a fairly recent interview he seemed genuinely insecure.

[Murphy]

Same, along with petitions for Christ's mercy.

In a fairly recent interview he seemed genuinely insecure.

I wonder if there is an ongoing rosary crusade for his conversion? It would be nice to sign up. We should also pray that his brother receives abundant graces, as it's likely he would be God's vehicle for carrying out the conversion.

[Beorn]

Same, along with petitions for Christ's mercy.

In a fairly recent interview he seemed genuinely insecure.

All men will acknowledge the divine before they die, whether publicly or personally. They will all hedge their bets at the final tick of the clock.

[Austin]

All men will acknowledge the divine before they die, whether publicly or personally. They will all hedge their bets at the final tick of the clock.

Well if I was an atheist and was Christopher Hitchens I'd hedge my bets by giving allegiance to aliens so as perhaps they afford me resurrection in the above realm if there is one for my intellect. That seems like a much better bet from a realists point of view, not giving it to some human-god figure that we dreamed up as a species.

[Eldritch]

Well if I was an atheist I'd hedge my bets by giving allegiance to aliens. That seems like a much better bet from a realists point of view, not giving it to some human-god figure that we dreamed up as a species.

It's all a simulation that has already been run anyway.

[Beorn]

That seems like a much better bet from a realists point of view, not giving it to some human-god figure that we dreamed up as a species.

Proof?