(April 19, 2016 at 3:10 pm)abaris Wrote:(April 19, 2016 at 12:58 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yes, because it shows the depth of the bullshit these fucktards are willing to reach trying to prop up their silly-assed religion.
Doesn't matter, since I don't guess this guy, who's name I already forgot, did hold Hitchens's hand when he breathed his last. Also, an on a strictly personal note, I never needed any prominent atheist to become one. So I couldn't care less if one of them converted. Doesn't change my own point of view.
Fame certainly is not a good reason to hold any position, but he was educated and for me, famous or not, if you are simply holding the "off" position without any knowledge of world history or science and simply say "that's crap" you may be an atheist sure, but I'd say unarmed you'd be very easy pickings for a slick snake oil salesman.
I know far more now than I did when I first started doubting and back then in my awkward not fitting in stage if the right empathetic sounding apologist had cornered me then, I would have been much easier to convince. I guess I got lucky I didn't fall for my emotions back then and wasn't desperate enough to want to "find anything" to have a sense of belonging.
Hitchens was not an atheist simply to piss people off to get attention, or to make money. He knew his history and was well versed in theist apology and didn't single out any one religion. So I still value his works but I certainly don't worship him.
I seriously doubt he even "considered" at all. And for the author to say he liked some religious people yes he said that forever, even in "God Is Not Great" so to say that like was sudden is also bullshit. He'd always had religious friends of all stripes. He simply never feared even telling his religious friends what he though of what religion as a construct does to human thought.
