christopher hitchens

[norseamd]

What do you guys think of him?

 

[alcoholbob]

RIP socially liberal neocon?

 

[buckshot24]

He made horrible arguments against God's existence.

 

[sandorski]

Great Debater, whit, and Wordsmith. As a Debater, he wasn't always fair and would use various persuasion techniques that are Logical Fallacies(Appeals to Emotion were common), however, so did his opponents. All who dared to debate him were always challenged and even the best of them often came away dazed by how he took the audience away from them.

Much more can be said about him, he was just such a great orator. We all lost someone truly talented when he died.

 

[sandorski]

He made horrible arguments against God's existence.

Unfortunately for you, arguments For "God's" existence are even more horrible.

 

[who?]

I think that he is dead.

 

[MajinCry]

Initially, I was put off by his manner of speech, where he would often make pauses.

After getting twenty minutes in to his debate, which IIRC was with Frank Turek The Spineless, I was hooked.

The guy was smart, moral and had a sharp wit. That debate where it was him up against five or six other religious lads...Hoo-ee. He didn't give no quarter; 'twas amazing.

And his evisceration of public figures, Mother Teresa & Bill Clinton especially, is always worth listening to. I really ought to read that book of his on the ol' rapist Clinton.

 

[kage69]

Great writer, great thinker, and a hero of the anti-theocratic movement. He gobbled up christian and muslim shills like xmas cookies, and made it sound easy and even humorous at times. His intimidating intellect and hatred for bullshit made fundies quiver, at least at the thought of having to share a stage with him.

If there's a debate or appearance of his where he didn't absolutely crush the evangelicals/catholics/muslims/etc with a firm Hitchslap (or several) that would be news to me. I usually end up almost feeling a little sorry for the proponents of organized religion after Hitch is done with them.

 

[compuwiz1]

Last time I checked he was still eternally dead.

Where's the news?
Where's the politics?

 

[buckshot24]

Great writer, great thinker, and a hero of the anti-theocratic movement. He gobbled up christian and muslim shills like xmas cookies, and made it sound easy and even humorous at times. His intimidating intellect and hatred for bullshit made fundies quiver, at least at the thought of having to share a stage with him.

He was always getting owned, his childish arguments were pathetic.

 

[Moonbeam]

Last time I checked he was still eternally dead.

Where's the news?
Where's the politics?

No more dead than other dead people.

 

[bradley]

I completely understood his argument against organized religion, just not his indignation against the concept of a higher power. In the end, his brilliance and sardonic wit couldn't save him.

I mostly viewed him as a compelling and arrogant zealot, hypocrite and monotonous at times. Being decisive in an argument only gives an air of authority to the believers and angers the detractors. The people in the middle can't be bothered with that bullshit.

What does that even mean?

His mind wasn't disciplined enough to master the very things that admittedly caused his premature death: alcoholism and tobacco. Guess you can only drink so much cognitive dissonance in one's lifetime.

 

[sandorski]

I completely understood his argument against organized religion, just not his indignation against the concept of a higher power. In the end, his brilliance and sardonic wit couldn't save him.

I mostly viewed him as a compelling zealot, hypocrite and monotonous at times. Being decisive in an argument only gives an air of authority to the believers and angers the detractors. The people in the middle can't be bothered with that bullshit.

What does that even mean?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

He was always getting owned, his childish arguments were pathetic.

incorruptible?!? is this our long lost incorruptible??

 

[buckshot24]

incorruptible?!? is this our long lost incorruptible??

No. Hitchens was a hack.

 

[buckshot24]

Hitchens always reminded me of this guy.

 

[norseamd]

Where's the politics?

Herp Derp. Was going to say where is Moonbeam, we need a CBD PSA but it looks like we already got it.

 

[Howard]

What kind of shit thread is this?

 

[brycejones]

incorruptible?!? is this our long lost incorruptible??

buckshot24 certainly is another legend in his own mind.

 

[woolfe9998]

The funny thing is I have this friend who is a born again Christian and a creationist. He is a huge fan of Hitchens even though he obviously disagrees with him on anything pertaining to religion.

I thought he had a major wit and I always enjoyed listening to him debate. Even when he was wrong (ahem, the Iraq War?) his wrong opinions were often edifying.

 

[sandorski]

The funny thing is I have this friend who is a born again Christian and a creationist. He is a huge fan of Hitchens even though he obviously disagrees with him on anything pertaining to religion.

I thought he had a major wit and I always enjoyed listening to him debate. Even when he was wrong (ahem, the Iraq War?) his wrong opinions were often edifying.

Ya, I disagreed with him on Iraq too. That and his opinion of Clinton I just don't get. He had his reasons though(which were actually well thought out), I just didn't agree with them.

 

[DrDoug]

Unfortunately for you, arguments For "God's" existence are even more horrible.

Kudos, you saved me the response!

He was always getting owned, his childish arguments were pathetic.

Coming from you, an expert on pathetic, I'm tempted to believe your assessment.

 

[buckshot24]

Sandorski is a person who thinks pointing at existing eyes is good evidence that they evolved, by assuming that they evolved.

 

[norseamd]

Sandorski is a person who thinks pointing at existing eyes is good evidence that they evolved, by assuming that they evolved.

What the fuck are you on about now?

 

[buckshot24]

What the fuck are you on about now?

Sandorski isn't in any position to evaluate valid arguments.