“(CNN) -- British-American author and essayist Christopher Hitchens died Thursday from complications of esophageal cancer. He was 62.
Hitchens was known for his wry monthly columns for Vanity Fair magazine.
"There will never be another like Christopher. A man of ferocious intellect, who was as vibrant on the page as he was at the bar," said Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter. "Those who read him felt they knew him, and those who knew him were profoundly fortunate souls."
Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1949 and graduated from Oxford University in 1970…”
I was not a fan of Christopher Hitchens. I have family members and friends that loved him and will feel like he is a saint now. There is no question that he had a God given ferocious intellect.
I just think it was a sin shame that such a great writer used all that great talent to attack Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Christopher Hitchens was violent, irrational and intolerant of religion. He was, of course, anti-Catholic but then he was born and education in England so it was to be expected. He went out of his way to attack the faith of others. He made his living attacking the faith of people.
“…In the question and answer session following a speech Hitchens gave to the Commonwealth Club of California on 9 July 2009, one audience member asked what was Hitchens' favorite whisky. Hitchens replied that "the best blended scotch in the history of the world" is Johnnie Walker Black Label. He also playfully indicated that it was the favorite whisky of, among others, the Iraqi Baath Party, the Palestinian Authority, the Libyan dictatorship, and "large branches of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family". He concluded his answer by calling it the "breakfast of champions" and exhorted the audience to "accept no substitute"…[154]” Wikipedia
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