Evidence for God from Science

DRDS wrote:Here is a link on the story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16212418


God help his soul.

Hitchens gave short shrift to the "insulting" suggestion that cancer might persuade him to change his position where reason had not, arguing that to ditch principles "held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute" would be a "hucksterish choice", and urging those who had taken it upon themselves to pray for him not to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries".

Writing in his 2010 memoir, Hitch-22, Hitchens said that he hoped and believed his "advancing age has not quite shamed my youth", disavowing the "'simple' ordinary propositions" of his younger days in favour of the maxim that "it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties".

"One reason, then, that I would not relive my life," he continued, "is that one cannot be born knowing such things, but must find them out, even when they then seem bloody obvious, for oneself."

Silvertusk wrote:This is so desperately sad. Another soul wasted, such talent misdirected. I can imagine such bitter regret when he see's our Lord. A life spent drawing people away from the source of all joy. Reading the comments on that website as well there are so many people who are lost - who think that he was the voice of reason in this dark age of fantasical religion. So very very sad.

I hear a lot of people say that. He was apparently a very good writer and had a lot of wit, but sadly not a lot of sense. Nothing we can do now but pray.

jlay wrote:

I hear a lot of people say that. He was apparently a very good writer and had a lot of wit, but sadly not a lot of sense. Nothing we can do now but pray.

Uh, nothing we can do now. Save your prayers for the living.

Callisto wrote:

Silvertusk wrote:This is so desperately sad. Another soul wasted, such talent misdirected. I can imagine such bitter regret when he see's our Lord. A life spent drawing people away from the source of all joy. Reading the comments on that website as well there are so many people who are lost - who think that he was the voice of reason in this dark age of fantasical religion. So very very sad.

I hear a lot of people say that. He was apparently a very good writer and had a lot of wit, but sadly not a lot of sense. Nothing we can do now but pray.

PaulSacramento wrote:

Callisto wrote:

Silvertusk wrote:This is so desperately sad. Another soul wasted, such talent misdirected. I can imagine such bitter regret when he see's our Lord. A life spent drawing people away from the source of all joy. Reading the comments on that website as well there are so many people who are lost - who think that he was the voice of reason in this dark age of fantasical religion. So very very sad.

I hear a lot of people say that. He was apparently a very good writer and had a lot of wit, but sadly not a lot of sense. Nothing we can do now but pray.

He was very honest on why He had issues with God and Theisim, he didn''t like or agree with the whole notion of God and sin and so forth.
He didn't try to over his disdain with some artificial moral superiority, he was a Live and do what you want type of guy and made that clear.
He was not very knowledgeable about theology or even the bible but what he knew was typical of mainstream religious knowledge and he didn't like it or agree with it.