The world will miss Christopher Hitchens. He won't miss the pain he was in here. Good luck on your voyage into the next adventure, Hitch - keep questioning.

damn, that sucks. RIP.

Thanks for posting this, because this big man deserve real RIP. Thanks Christhoper for your whole approach, specially about religion! You miss to the whole world!

Wow. A great, vital mind until the end. I didn't always agree with Hitch, but I always enjoyed hearing what he had to say.

I know this may not seem like a nice thing to say, but the world is not any worse off with him gone.

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I know this may not seem like a nice thing to say, but the world is not any worse off with him gone.

It's not polite to speak ill of the dead, especially when we're talking about a delightful human being.

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I know this may not seem like a nice thing to say, but the world is not any worse off with him gone.

It's not polite to speak ill of the dead, especially when we're talking about a delightful human being.

Not when is comes to a guy who advocated policy that could lead to the destruction of my people.

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I know this may not seem like a nice thing to say, but the world is not any worse off with him gone.

It's not polite to speak ill of the dead, especially when we're talking about a delightful human being.

Not when is comes to a guy who advocated policy that could lead to the destruction of my people.

I don't think Hitchens wanted any peoples destroyed. If you're talking about his opinions about Israel, I have to say that - as a (albeit very secular) Jew - I was never upset about anything he said in that regard.

RIP Hitch. I didn't agree with everything either, but he was one of the best.

Someone always worth listening to, even if you disagreed with him. He had an amazing intellect and bore the illness that killed him with great fortitude. He will be greatly missed. RIP.

Hitch was fascinating, and, though my religious orientation is Catholic, I found myself agreeing with Hitch re: Mother Teresa.

He also was on the nail re: Islamic Fascism post 9/11, and I am also fond of his travelogue along Route 66.

R.I.P

Sad news indeed..

He was alternately fascinating and frustrating. Whatever was going on between that man's ears was fairly remarkable. Even when I disagreed with his views (which as almost as often as not), I always admired his intelligence and consistency in his stances.

Very sad news indeed.
I really enjoyed reading his books and hear him debate. He was one of the greatest thinkers of modern time. Hitchens will be deeply missed.

Very sad indeed!
We need more Christopher Hitchens in this crazy world of ours!
RIP Christopher Hitchens

He kept writing and some of his best work appeared in the last year.
Very brave in the face of adversity.

My favorite Hitch thing is he wrote a book critical of Mother Teresa. This was so outrageous that he couldn't even get a publisher in the U.S. However, no one could dispute the actual facts in his book, they are all just so outraged anyone would dare take down the Mother Teresa myth. Whether we agree with him or not, we need voices like Hitch's to make us question sacred cows and conventional thinking.

One of the best writers around. I heard him talk a couple times, and had him sign a few books after one of the talks, and he was impressive. He pointed at the paperback edition of my copy of his Clinton book NO ON LEFT TO LIE TO and said, "This includes the rape chapter." (The hardcover edition did not have that chapter.)

What made Mother Teresa so vile as a character was that she actually advocated poverty, and that she believed the poor shouldn't try and better their status. Bravo to Hitch for debunking the myth !

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What made Mother Teresa so vile as a character was that she actually advocated poverty, and that she believed the poor shouldn't try and better their status. Bravo to Hitch for debunking the myth !

I agree completely. Her mission was to save souls, not to alleviate poverty or illness. Yet she was made a saint by her great PR. That's why we need people like Hitch.

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Thanks Rockman. Nice tribute.

Have a had a little sadness in my heart all day today. The world is now a slightly less interesting place. Saw him once in the audience at a Dylan concert in D.C, just hanging out and taking it all in, in a reserved way, but in an interested way.

Also saw him debate a couple of times in recent years (post God is Not Great publication) on religion. Each time was very compelling, and he was a pitbull, but yet somehow gracious with his sparring partners. (Dinesh D'Souza and he put on a great performance, and a very civil, respectful, and interesting debate, at the Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis back in 2008 that was a treat to attend.)

RIP, Hitch. You are missed already.

You bitter f#@kers remind me of Lou Reed saying that when he and his friends learned that Jim Morrison had died they all raised their drinks in celebration, they were so thrilled he was dead. Jim Morrison was worth ten Lou Reeds. (As much as I like Lou Reed.)

Tim Tebow, the Denver Quaterback, is lauded as courageous for espousing his religious views openly. What's so courageous about that? Someone like Hitch was a lot more courageous for espousing atheism, whether you believed him or not. The world does not treat atheists kindly. You probably couldn't be elected President of the United States if you didn't swear allegience to some unseen deity. Hell, Texas is trying to rub out the memory of Thomas Jefferson in its textbooks.

What was so offensive about Hitchen's view on Israel? I find it appalling in America that you can't even criticize Israel without being called anti-semitic. Why do we have to bow to some foreign country that's no more equal to us than any other foreign country? They're not the 51st state.

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Tim Tebow, the Denver Quaterback, is lauded as courageous for espousing his religious views openly. What's so courageous about that? Someone like Hitch was a lot more courageous for espousing atheism, whether you believed him or not. The world does not treat atheists kindly. You probably couldn't be elected President of the United States if you didn't swear allegience to some unseen deity. Hell, Texas is trying to rub out the memory of Thomas Jefferson in its textbooks.

What was so offensive about Hitchen's view on Israel? I find it appalling in America that you can't even criticize Israel without being called anti-semitic. Why do we have to bow to some foreign country that's no more equal to us than any other foreign country? They're not the 51st state.

+ 1 (and I'm Jewish)

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You bitter f#@kers remind me of Lou Reed saying that when he and his friends learned that Jim Morrison had died they all raised their drinks in celebration, they were so thrilled he was dead. Jim Morrison was worth ten Lou Reeds. (As much as I like Lou Reed.)

Well, now you're confusing the issue, somehow comparing those with anti-Hitch sentiment to those who also harbor anti-JM sentiment. That's like comparing apples and oranges. And your note above only serves to make me like Lou Reed even more. Remember what Mick Jagger said about Morrison? Was Jim Morrison worth five Mick Jaggers? You seem to think so. I think Morrison was worth, oh, about what I'm worth. [Which as you'll rightly point out is next to nothing.] Ya got it backwards--Lou Reed is worth at least ten Jim Morrisons, and probably more. Ha, well, IM not so HO. Anyway, as said by others here, peace.

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You bitter f#@kers remind me of Lou Reed saying that when he and his friends learned that Jim Morrison had died they all raised their drinks in celebration, they were so thrilled he was dead. Jim Morrison was worth ten Lou Reeds. (As much as I like Lou Reed.)

and this is the same Lou Reed who once told a journalist that he doesn't do drugs and then 10 seconds later answered another journalist's question of "what do you spend your money on?" with "drugs". In other words, I wouldn't take what Lou says to heart.

Christopher Hitchens' death degenerates into a fight over Lou Reed vs. Jim Morrison. Sigh.



And I kind of like the 'porky satyr' poem Morrison wrote as a eulogy for Brian Jones.