# Christopher Hitchens just died **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 16, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384 "2011-12-16T05:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 55
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/55 "2011-12-16T16:52:49Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The other unfortunate part about saying “I hope he reconsidered” is \*that I don’t think any atheist would ever say this about a noted religious figure. I’ve never seen that and I don’t think I ever will. \*I’m not sure why anybody would wish for something like that and it suggests a very misinformed view of what atheism is and why people become atheists, and that’s probably a better topic for another thread. (emphasis added) Is that a fact, **Marley**? I direct your attention to the following: > [@Religious people who are being dicks in the Christopher Hitchens thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/18): > > I’m sure Hitchens would honestly hope that you’ll stop wasting your life on bronze-age nonsense and live unfettered by delusion for a time. Since this life is all you have, and you’ll end utterly when it’s over. > [@Religious people who are being dicks in the Christopher Hitchens thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/23): > > > [@Religious people who are being dicks in the Christopher Hitchens thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/15): > > > > I would pray for anyone when they die (and preferably beforehand) to find reconciliation with God. Does that make me a dick? > > Nope, just a sanctimonious douche-bag. > [@Religious people who are being dicks in the Christopher Hitchens thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/36): > > But are you really praying for him? I mean, really, really hard, so that God brings hm back to life, and of course he realizes that he was wrong, and renouces atheism. Because if anyone coming back from the dead and renouncing atheism would get a lot of attention and converts, it would be Christopher Hitchens. How tough would it be to get God onboard with this one? > > I know you really believe in this stuff, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you aren’t praying hard enough. Did you did something to piss God off, and so you’d better clear that up first, then get on the Hitchens reanimation project? > > Maybe prayer isn’t enough: you need to keen, too. C’mon: make at least a half-hearted attempt to keen, you guys. I want a zombie evangelical Hitchens on my TV on Christmas Day, preaching The Word between bites of Richard Dawkins’ clove-studded brain. Fatuousness doesn’t really become you, **Marley**. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384)._