Christopher Hitchens Death not without Irony

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Christopher Hitchens died December 15, 2011. He was a staunch anti-theist and made a considerable living writing books denouncing the belief in transcendental realities like God. He also worked the debate circuit challenging great thinkers like William Lane Craig and Frank Turek.

The irony here comes in the way Hitchens died - Esophageal cancer - or cancer of the throat. He was literally rendered speechless. Interesting, is it not, that a man dedicated to speaking out against the existence of God would get a disease which disables one's ability to speak? No? Right - it's probably just a giant coincidence.


Christopher was a foul human being. He resisted the classy route of cordial debate and instead mocked and ridiculed his opponents no matter how dedicated the theist was in remaining respectful. More often than not Hitchens wouldn't even look his opponent in the eye - a disrespect Al Sharpton was quick to rebuke Hitchens for in their debate.


I realize some people may be thinking "it's too soon". Wrong. Hitchens deserves no less than a rude homage - a roasting from the living to the dead atheist.  "When he eulogized famous religious figures, Christopher Hitchens contemptuously brushed aside conventional sensibilities, unleashing his Oxford-bred, wickedly witty disdain on the departed, often, it seemed, before the body had became cold" wrote WND's Art Moore. Is this article a case of paying evil for evil? Not at all. This is the harvest Hitchen's gets for the seeds of anger, vitriol, and disrespect he sowed into the soil in the arena of ideas. Moore further writes:

Of the Moral Majority founder he wrote in 2007: "The discovery of the carcass of Jerry Falwell on the floor of an obscure office in Virginia has almost zero significance, except perhaps for two categories of the species labeled 'credulous idiot.'" He closed the piece lamenting it's "a shame that there is no hell for Falwell to go to." Among his tamer descriptions of Mother Theresa, whose order said it would pray for Hitchens' soul after his death Thursday, was: "A fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud."

Hitchens was a leading figure and one of the "four horsemen" of the New Atheist movement. He resembled that pudgy little kid that everyone thought was "cute" no matter the caustic nonsense that spews out of the hole in their head. The article in WND by Moore expressed a fondness for "Hitch" by many of the people who debated him but it was merely a fondness for a joke - a silly man who knew big words and resembled a child so ugly only a mother could love it - proverbially speaking of course.

"I do it because I think the essential argument that underlies all other arguments is the one between belief in the supernatural and repudiation of that," he said. "It cuts across all the left-right, libertarian-statist arguments" - Christopher Hitchens

Yet the anecdotal evidence provided by millions of witnesses that the supernatural realm exists completely confounded him. He was like that crazy uncle who would shop at WalMart for hours and then tell everyone there's no such thing as WalMart - borrowing from God by using logic and then saying God doesn't exist - further exhibiting the atheist mental disorder conundrum.

In Mike Shoesmith's book "The Atheists Are Wrong: How Modern Atheism Ruins Everything" we see an abundance of material refuting the entire life's work of Christopher Hitchens. He personified the wasted life - a life lived as a fool. To live as one who embraces the philosophy of naturalism is to live a wasted life void of any originally intended and designed significance. It is the most closed-minded philosophy imaginable. Such a description is the legacy of Christopher Hitchens - a wasted life - a life spent as one fighting the ultimate reality. And just as all those who lived between the time Jesus walked the earth and now, Christopher Hitchens died in 2011ad - the year of our Lord.