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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

"Everybody Pray for Hitchens Day" is insulting.



Famed atheist and author of the book "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything"  Christopher Hitchens found out in June of this year that he had 
esophageal cancer.  Apparently some form of internet movement led to Monday being unofficially made a sort of holiday in backhandedly supporting Hitchens in his fight.  He has declined to participate in his own "holiday", for obvious reasons. The upsetting part of this story to myself is that I highly doubt and Christian organization would proclaim a holiday for a practitioner of another face.  I'm sure the Jewish community would be outraged if Christians felt the need to proclaim a day as "Let's give Mel Brooks a Christmas" Day.  

17 comments:

  1. interesting read. keep em coming.

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  2. Well he sounds a bit bitter, everyone is affected by religion whether they know it or not, some people just have different motivations to keep them busy flaming or loving, dying or living, bleh

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  3. hitchen's day? what month does that fall from?

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  4. my uncle had the same type of cancer, its a terrible disease...

    Its really sad because I liked his book and his style, hes not as narcissistic and egomaniac as Richard Dawkin for example...

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  5. religion DOES poison everything, or so I hear from this blog!

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  6. Interesting article, looking forward to more in the future.

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  7. haha who the hell is he , he looks like a mug

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