My favorite exchange of his was when he went on an evangelical christian radio show and destroyed the dude who tried to ask him basic evangelical questions. I think the best exchange was:

"If you concede - for the sake of argument - that god is the one who created you and who sustains you, and who give you life and everything in it, do we not owe him devotion and love and worship and obedience?"

"No, because I will not be a slave."

Cool. Andrew Sullivan is also giving quite the Hitchens tribute (new window) today.

Gotta like his equal opportunity targeting of the pompous.

My favorite was when he tried to justify the invasion of Iraq by saying one of the guys who mixed some chemicals for the first WTC attack sought refuge in Iraq.

Htchens was an arrogant, smug, condescending bastard...and he liked it that way. I hope some day when they shove my remains in the barbecue someone will something similar about me.

gilatrout: Anal sex is not overrated.


I can't speak regarding that topic, but I'll put in my two cents and say that lobster and champagne are not overrated.

/Picnics?
//Absolutely.

trappedspirit: I thought biting the hand that feeds you was seen as a sign of stupidity.

It's also a hand that beats you for no reason and tells you that it's good for you and that it's all "part of a plan."

/I like this game! :P

steamingpile: I want there to be a God just to wipe the smug off atheists faces.

Now why would a loving god be so mean?

Skanque: LOBSTERZ!!!

OMG LOBSTERZZZ!!!!

Sorry, but I love lobster. The whole ritual of sacrificing a live animal then tearing its succulent flesh from its exoskeleton, dipping it in lemon butter and then ingesting it slowly, savoring its satisfying goodness is a ritual none can compare to.

NOMNOMNOM


Cool story bro:

On Tuesday, I attended a supplier's kick-ass Christmas party. They had a mashed potato bar, and when the server asked what kind of sauce I wanted, I completed tuned him out after he said "lobster sauce".

Skanque: gilatrout: Anal sex is not overrated.

LOBSTERZ!!!

OMG LOBSTERZZZ!!!!

Sorry, but I love lobster. The whole ritual of sacrificing a live animal then tearing its succulent flesh from its exoskeleton, dipping it in lemon butter and then ingesting it slowly, savoring its satisfying goodness is a ritual none can compare to.

NOMNOMNOM

Put lemon & butter on a turd & I bet that'll taste good, too!

Having never had anal sex with a lobster drenched in champagne while picnicking, I'm in no position to argue with him. Mind you, neither is he.

/Poor Pinchy

trappedspirit: Have you seen God beating people and not reported it?

I did, but the police said that they're backlogged with over 2,000 years' worth of cases, so there's not much that they can do for me right now. :(

trappedspirit: JesseL: trappedspirit: DamnYankees: My favorite exchange of his was when he went on an evangelical christian radio show and destroyed the dude who tried to ask him basic evangelical questions. I think the best exchange was:

"If you concede - for the sake of argument - that god is the one who created you and who sustains you, and who give you life and everything in it, do we not owe him devotion and love and worship and obedience?"

"No, because I will not be a slave."

I thought biting the hand that feeds you was seen as a sign of stupidity.

Not when you're perfectly capable of feeding yourself.

So Hitchens is not able to spontaneously create life and sustain it now? I know some people were in near whorship of the guy but I didn't think you would be sucked into his near logic field.

The point being that he'd be perfectly capable of sustaining his own life of his own volition.

Lobsters are that good
Champagne is that good

picnics blow balls
anal sex is not superior to sex-sex.

StrangeQ: /religion is about control. Always has been, always will be.

And that's why it'll be around long after we're all dead and buried.

steamingpile: I want there to be a God just to wipe the smug off atheists faces.

And I want there to be a God just so he will eternally drive Satan's dick deep up the asses of every smug Christian who did terrible things in the name of Jesus and whose only act of faith was to believe that they could get away with any vile, barbaric, debased, inhumane behavior--not because they could confess their sins but because they could justify to themselves that behavior as godly.

And yes I am familiar with between two thieves. But there is a reason why Jesus was in such anguish in Gethsemane and if you haven't been there and done that, then, bubby, bless you and yours.

meat0918: steamingpile: I want there to be a God just to wipe the smug off atheists faces.

Now why would a loving god be so mean?

Who says it's the loving New Testament God? What if it's the pissed off Old Testament God, or a God not of the Abrahamic tradition, like Shiva or Kali, or Pluto or Zeus?

StrangeQ: microlith: meat0918: steamingpile: I want there to be a God just to wipe the smug off atheists faces.

Now why would a loving god be so mean?

Because they want their God to be as hateful and spiteful as they are.

Otherwise how would they be able to justify their unfounded feelings of superiority towards those whose lifestyles they disagree with?

Like the rest of us do, through schadenfreude.

//Wait a tick... It's all schadenfreude, isn't it?

Hitchens was the very definition of a Magnificent Bastard. I'm going to try to be a little more honest today as a tribute to him.