Here are 15 great quotes from the man.http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattcherette/the-15-most-memorable-christopher-hitchens-quotes-4td5
Whoever put those together missed these:
- Ups… hard to pick… go read for yourself
** Must admit my favourite is on the subject of failures and mistakes re: Iraq War
I mean… come on.. ins’t it Great!
I’m new to the world of atheism and don’t know a lot about Mr. Hitchens. I have a very favorable impression of him though from the few videos I’ve watched here at the dope in the last year or so. I’m going to watch more today.
I hope his death was peaceful.
You should also read his essays and columns. Here’s his final one for Vanity Fair.
Thank you, but it turns out Hitchens covered it in the video Mr. Kobayashi linked to. And I don’t have that nice accent. 
It’s been 2000 years. I’m pretty sure Jesus is done decomposing.
You have to respect the balls, at least, of a dude who criticizes the morality of Mother Theresa.
In the article you linked to, he called Mother Teresa “a fraud”. Elsewhere he accused her of “stealing millions of dollars” and being “a cult leader”. Now generally if you’re going to accuse someone in print of commiting theft and fraud, you want to be able to say when the person was convicted or at least indicted of the crime, which Hitchens couldn’t do. If not that, you at least want to be able to offer some evidence that the crime occurred, which Hitchens also couldn’t do. Indeed, in that article he offers no evidence to back up any of his serious accusations against here. There are two links within the article, but neither goes to anything.
None of that is true. Anyway I’m still waiting for the part where he said all of that stuff just because she’s Catholic, and the part where he says people should hate her. Can you quote them?
Physically.
Given your own history of making unsubstantiated claims about issues related to religion, and then running away when asked to substantiate your assertions, you shouldn’t be talking.
It doesn’t matter. Hitchens never uses the words “theft” or “stole” in that piece, and he did call her a “fraud,” but he wasn’t discussing financial fraud. And he wasn’t discussing criminal charges, so the fact that there were no criminal charges isn’t relevant. It’s over-literalism as a rhetorical dodge. Here’s what he wrote with regard to money:
He said that money didn’t help anyone and was badly spent or went nowhere, but he doesn’t say she stole it.
I will. I just read this one, thanks for linking it. That was hard to read. Very evocative. I could almost feel the physical pain he was in. 
I recognize that. I was more making a comment about ITR.
Some time back, i engaged him in a thread he started about the Inquisition. At the time, i had no idea about his religious leanings, and i thought it was just another thread about history. It soon became clear, though, that when historical evidence contradicted his dogmatic assertions, he was more inclined to run away from the debate rather than back up his spurious allegations. At that time, he went into my memory banks as someone who should not be engaged in rational debate on the issue of religion.
No, but they’re all gone . . . One of the paramedics who handled them was a smoker . . . :o
It’s hard to read and rings very true.
I don’t want this to get too personal, and I don’t know about the history there. What I did want to say is that the argument style and the claims don’t hold up. Keating lead a financial fraud and Duvalier was a brutal dictator. It’s fair to say that if Mother Teresa took money from them, she took stolen money. That’s not a claim that requires a legal charge although there may be arguments to the contrary. It’s fair to ask how the money she did receive was spent. Hitchens argues that she didn’t do much of anything to help people. I’d argue that letting people die with dignity is better than having them die in the gutter and I don’t think he really addresses that, at least not in the pieces I’ve read. But helping people die with dignity is not as good as building hospitals, let alone educating people and doing other things that fight poverty and the effects of poverty more effectively. Hitchens argues that she didn’t do those things because she didn’t think they were really all that bad and because of the Christian view of poverty and suffering.
For some reason, this brings me to a page with a bunch of links to books, recent posts, and some other stuff, but nothing to read. Clicking on the recent posts brings me nowhere, either. Anyone else having this issue?
Always made worthwhile contributions. I liked his Atlantic and Vanity Fair pieces best.
I didn’t know this, but he popularized the term “Islamofascism” – rightfully so.
Yep. Had it using Firefox and AdBlock plus. The article is flagged with the ads annoyingly. Disable AdBlock just for that page and refresh. Bada Bing 
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