RE: Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
January 18, 2012 at 8:37 am
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2012 at 8:39 am by Epimethean.)
Let's start here, since you revisited this so late:
"Although I did not place him on any sort of pedestal like a wide-eyed sycophantic fanboy ..."
You have your own brand of sycophancy, and its pedestal-topped hero for whom you are a wide-eyed sycophantic fanboy is mythological.
"I could not care less what intolerant people happen to think ..."
You have revealed in your "elegy" a brand of intolerance the nature of which is that creepy, insidious style, whereby you lament for a "sinner" while extolling his virtues. Bait and switch for the Hitch.
"... it utterly escapes me how identifying Hitchens as a sinner could be considered inappropriate—especially on an atheist message board."
Really? Wow.
"Hitchens is dead and will remain so [until the resurrection]."
Better when constrained by brackets.
"Constraining one single thread does not a conspiracy make."
But coming in a month later to post rejoinders helps encourage restraint, right?
"Although I did not place him on any sort of pedestal like a wide-eyed sycophantic fanboy ..."
You have your own brand of sycophancy, and its pedestal-topped hero for whom you are a wide-eyed sycophantic fanboy is mythological.
"I could not care less what intolerant people happen to think ..."
You have revealed in your "elegy" a brand of intolerance the nature of which is that creepy, insidious style, whereby you lament for a "sinner" while extolling his virtues. Bait and switch for the Hitch.
"... it utterly escapes me how identifying Hitchens as a sinner could be considered inappropriate—especially on an atheist message board."
Really? Wow.
"Hitchens is dead and will remain so [until the resurrection]."
Better when constrained by brackets.
"Constraining one single thread does not a conspiracy make."
But coming in a month later to post rejoinders helps encourage restraint, right?
Trying to update my sig ...