Christopher Hitchens and Cancer

By THE WAY OF THE MISTER - BRIAN KEITH DALTON
Added: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:38:10 UTC

Late one night in early July, I was working in my lab when I noticed a sudden burst of activity from our schadenfreudeometer. I'd never seen anything like it — with readings registering far above the announcement of Reagan's Alzheimer's, and an amazing 89.7% above the announcement of Dick Cheney's shooting of a fellow hunter in the face. As I began to look at the data in an attempt to make sense of it all, I noticed that the strongest readings were coming from the so-called "Christian" countries, with Virginia Beach, Virginia and Vatican City registering off the charts. Instinctively, I knew that one of the "four horsemen" of the New Atheism was in trouble. My first thought, of course, was that Richard Dawkins had been hit by a bus bearing the banner, "There's probably no God." But as I Googled their names — Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens (in that order) — I finally learned the disheartening news that Christopher Hitchens had been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.
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TAGGED: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, COMMENTARY

Jeff Schweitzer - Huffington Post 35 Comments

So, in honor of Hitchens I propose here guidelines to how we can make those daily decisions, a secular distillation of moral behavior derived from those characteristics that define us as human.

The atheist who tried to steal Christmas

Larry Taunton - USA Today 70 Comments

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Searching under the lamp-post

Richard Dawkins - RichardDawkins.net 89 Comments

I suspect that there is life elsewhere in the universe, but it is probably extremely rare and isolated on far-flung islands of life, like a celestial Polynesia.

Evolution, Christmas and the Atonement

Denis Alexander - The Guardian... 59 Comments

We are not descended from Adam and Eve – but still, Jesus was born to save us.

Turin Shroud resurrected

Richard Dawkins - RichardDawkins.net 351 Comments

The new 'evidence' amounts to yet another 'Argument from Personal Incredulity': the Italian scientists cannot understand how it could have been faked.

Americans: Undecided About God?

Eric Weiner - New York Times 59 Comments

Nones don’t get hung up on whether a religion is “true” or not, and instead subscribe to William James’s maxim that “truth is what works.”