# Religious people who are being dicks in the Christopher Hitchens thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413 "2011-12-16T15:19:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/121 "2011-12-16T21:55:50Z")
> [@bup](#): > > **Slithy’s** with Jesus now. Jesus loves you physically! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/122 "2011-12-16T22:25:06Z")
Only read the OP, not the thread: I am surprised at the OP. MsWhatsit usually says shit that I agree with. However, she is dropping the ball on this one. The atheists are supposed to be the cool cats and the religious right is supposed to be the kind of cornballs that get offended at shit like this. Hitchens would have knocked back a shot of scotch and laughed his ass off. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/123 "2011-12-16T22:38:39Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I would pray for anyone when they die (and preferably beforehand) to find reconciliation with God. Does that make me a dick? No, it makes you a stooge. ---
**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, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/124 "2011-12-16T22:54:37Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > So unless you e done more for religion, purely out of a belief in respect and kindness as values in themselves, than I have; but instead gauge human decency in terms of being offended on God’s behalf over a post on a message board’s free-fire zone, then fuck you. > > (which is what I couldn’t say to the poster who pulled my post from here into the genteel forum) I suppose that periphrasis is meant for [me](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14572578&postcount=55). I am reluctant to respond to it, since I can’t be sure that in another five hours there won’t be another post further revising and extending your remarks. Although considering that I can’t make heads or tails of what it is you’re driving at in the paragraph that you allegedly couldn’t say to me, perhaps that’s not a bad thing. It seems that you’re giving yourself an indulgence for jerky remarks here for earlier good works performed elsewhere (to wit, your extraordinary charity in not reproaching dying Christians and Hindus when you once volunteered at a hospice). Do let me know when you’re prepared to stand behind your posts once and for all; I’m sorry I quoted what you now seem to be distancing yourself from as an incomplete first draft. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/125 "2011-12-16T22:55:54Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > No, it makes you a stooge. Nyuck nyuck nyuck! Why I oughta… ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/126 "2011-12-16T23:03:16Z")
[Speaking of Hitchens and Jesus…](https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=331027216924828&set=a.329906680370215.92926.167938346567050&type=1) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/127 "2011-12-16T23:05:47Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Nyuck nyuck nyuck! Why I oughta… [cut to Curly on the cross, between Moe and Larry on theirs, at the end of their classic “Silly Saviour”; “3 Blind Mice” plays] ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/128 "2011-12-16T23:21:30Z")
He’s burning in Hell right now. /obligatorypost On a serious note, those comments are quite harmless-- close to nothing-- all things considered. I’ve seen some downright… terrible… comments from some of the more liberal/non-religious folks around here. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/129 "2011-12-16T23:24:57Z")
Meh. I get what you’re saying, MsWhatsit, but Christers are going to do what they do. It’s a bit like pitting dogs for chewing bones. Hitchens was by all accounts a difficult, argumentative man, who was in his own words seduced by opposition. The fact that he’s gotten so far under the skin of religionists that they gloat at his passing is more of a compliment than anything else. Plus, I’m totally having a party when Cheney goes, just saying. With ballons and everything. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/130 "2011-12-16T23:31:24Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > Plus, I’m totally having a party when Cheney goes, just saying. With ballons and everything. Make that, a party with stakes and garlic and holy water and everything. First things first. A party of four or five is usually sufficient; add a black one in case a heroic self-sacrifice is needed and we’re set! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/131 "2011-12-16T23:38:53Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Only read the OP, not the thread: > > I am surprised at the OP. MsWhatsit usually says shit that I agree with. However, she is dropping the ball on this one. The atheists are supposed to be the cool cats and the religious right is supposed to be the kind of cornballs that get offended at shit like this. Hitchens would have knocked back a shot of scotch and laughed his ass off. Agreed. As far as preachy bullshit, the stuff in that thread was very very tame. Hitchens had a tough skin, so I doubt he’d be concerned about that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/132 "2011-12-16T23:42:25Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I’m having my wake before I die. Waiting until afterwards is entirely pointless. I would prefer to be dead for the boring stuff like funeral and eulogies though. It’s been done: [**Get Low**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194263/). Based on actual events; highly recommended if you haven’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/133 "2011-12-16T23:54:00Z")
> [@Kinthalis](#): > > Religious people being smug dicks? > > You don’t say! Its not like the board atheists have a monopoly on smug dicks. There are smug dicks of every type on this board, just like in real life. RIP Christopher Hitchens ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/134 "2011-12-17T00:02:36Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > On a serious note, those comments are quite harmless-- close to nothing-- all things considered. I’ve seen some downright… terrible… comments from some of the more liberal/non-religious folks around here. And what harm did _those_ statements cause, my little hothouse orchid? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/135 "2011-12-17T00:05:06Z")
I can just imagine how Fox News is going to announce Hitchens’ death: “Christopher Hitchens is now in Hell.” ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/136 "2011-12-17T00:06:35Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > I suppose that periphrasis is meant for [me](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14572578&postcount=55). > > I am reluctant to respond to it, since I can’t be sure that in another five hours there won’t be another post further revising and extending your remarks. Although considering that I can’t make heads or tails of what it is you’re driving at in the paragraph that you allegedly couldn’t say to me, perhaps that’s not a bad thing. It seems that you’re giving yourself an indulgence for jerky remarks here for earlier good works performed elsewhere (to wit, your extraordinary charity in not reproaching dying Christians and Hindus when you once volunteered at a hospice). > > Do let me know when you’re prepared to stand behind your posts once and for all; I’m sorry I quoted what you now seem to be distancing yourself from as an incomplete first draft. Now I’m fucked! I’ve incurred the wrath of someone who wields “to wit!” ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/137 "2011-12-17T00:07:52Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > I can just imagine how Fox News is going to announce Hitchens’ death: > “Christopher Hitchens is now in Hell.” “Christopher Hitches (D) is now in Hell” ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/138 "2011-12-17T00:11:26Z")
I dunno, I’ve re-read the original thread a couple of times and the comments I quoted in the OP still just come across really douchey to me. I wouldn’t say I’m “offended,” though. To me, “offended” implies Kyle’s mom from South Park, gasping, “What what what!” and running around with hands on hips shouting, “How dare you!” My reaction was more, “ugh, that was douchey.” ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/139 "2011-12-17T00:11:57Z")
> [@Algher](#): > > “Christopher Hitches (D) is now in Hell” You win. 😃 Edit: Hey, waaaaaaaaaaaaait a minute, Hitchens is British! They don’t have (D)'s over there. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/140 "2011-12-17T00:15:58Z")
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