I've read about this. Hitchens realises he doesn't have long to live and wants to be remembered as a man who stood for science and reason over superstition and irrationality. While I will not talk to myself (pray) for Hitchens, he has my utmost respect.
No doubt there will be the religious morons out there who claim his disease was given as a punishment by their invisible friend, at the same time ignoring millions of other people are dying due to the same disease, religious or not. If an atheist has a terminal disease, it is a punishment by their sky daddy for not believing, but if he was a Christian then "It is god's will, he works in mysterious ways".
Major hypocrite assholes those Christians.
No doubt there will be the religious morons out there who claim his disease was given as a punishment by their invisible friend, at the same time ignoring millions of other people are dying due to the same disease, religious or not. If an atheist has a terminal disease, it is a punishment by their sky daddy for not believing, but if he was a Christian then "It is god's will, he works in mysterious ways".
Major hypocrite assholes those Christians.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
