# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413/18 "2011-12-16T16:28:03Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Look, I don’t harbor any particular animosity toward Hitchens. I think he was wrong in his atheism, but that doesn’t make him different than millions of other people, doesn’t make him worthy of disrespect, and I appreciate his intellect, wit and literary skill. I tend toward compassion toward any who dies, and their families. I even protested what I thought to be tasteless celebration of Bin Laden’s death, and Hitchens was a saint next to him. > > So I’m not saying this because I get any pleasure at all in Hitchens death: > > I dont’ see anything particularly dickish in the posts quoted in the OP. No glee, no handrubbing. From the POV of any Christian, someone dying without knowing God is a tragedy, not a victory, and I took both comments to be expressions of genuine compassion and not gloating. > > I’m sorry for Christopher’s death, and I _do_ truly pray that he finds mercy in God’s love; which is also what I pray for myself. 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413)._