All posts tagged "Hitchens"

A file kept by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on the late author and scholar Christopher Hitchens was released this week, revealing that he was, in his earlier years, the target of an FBI foreign counterintelligence investigation.

[rebelmouse-image 24750321 original_size="197x271" expand=1]Sigh. The one thing that makes a gleeful, Hitchens-esque pissing on Hitchens' grave less fun is all the god-botherers who are doing it wrong. I mean, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised, as the authoritarian conformists who exploit every opportunity to preen about their imaginary sky friend display very little in the way of imagination or humor, but man, it's still a major bummer seeing "let's pretend the atheist wasn't an atheist". As described by the blogger Cuttlefish:

Going a step further than , controversial right-wing radio host Bryan Fischer thought the focus should be on where the late author's afterlife will be spent.

You know what they say: If you don't have anything nice to say, post it on Overrated White Dudes. Which is naturally how I responded, at request, to Christopher Hitchens' passing. Just doing my duty in proving his theories about humor and the ladies right. There was a certain inevitability to the amount of attention Hitchens' death has attracted. Writers find other writers fascinating, and writers by virtue of our profession dominate the discourse online. I'm not immune to the "the man was an asshole and that ugly hard right turn he took in the early 21st century was probably unforgiveable, but he sure did know how to cough up sparkling sentences while having consumed so much alcohol that lesser men wouldn't be able to work the keyboard properly" narrative. it's been said, and it won't do anyone any good to have me repeat it.

Only hours after noted author Christopher Hitchens died of cancer, several of his famous Christian friends were declaring that the atheist would finally know that God is real.