Here's KaraRvn ventriloquizing and psychoanalyzing the thinking of "every single theist" on God and on Hitch's cancer. This was posted in early July and she was obviously a bit cut up about the news. Still, Kara is one of a large and vocal group of apparently smart secular sophisticates who dote on the Popinjay as if it was 1964 and he was all four of the Beatles.
Some off-top-of-the-head thoughts: Kara has done a good job of explaining ad-lib how a lot of monotheists think. But when she starts talking about the ultimate arrogance of people who say their God has struck Hitch down, I have to start questioning the validity of her thesis. I've been around a while, and I've never come across anyone as arrogant as Christopher Hitchens. More conceited? Sure. More arrogant? No way!
Also, a lot of what she says about the Godders can be applied mutatis mutandis with equal effectiveness to the Hitch and his ilk. Because anything the theists can do do, Christopher can do better. When it served his cause, he has publicly blamed victims of injustice for their sufferings, made light of atrocities committed by his side, wished wasting diseases on his political opponents, joked that other people's misfortunes make his life bearable, and I seem to recall him alluding impishly, not to mention impiously, in an interview somewhere, to some mysterious power that brings misfortune on his enemies.
On top of all that, he says that despite knowing the health risks he would do it (hard-drinking, chain-smoking) again.
There are two main theories about Hitchens's cancer: (1) Act of God, or in other words, natural causes, fate, bad luck, the deity giving him a test, etc., and (2) Act of Hitch, or self-inflicted. You can all take your pick and strum your guitar with it for all I care. My pick, as I see it, is that nobody else struck Christopher Hitchens with cancer. He struck himself by pursuing behavior (spending decades of smoking like a chimney, drinking enough to stun a mule, and belching to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner) that was highly likely to increase his chances of getting this or any of a couple of dozen other life-ending maladies. The real miracle is why anyone should be so shocked that he has finally hit the jackpot.
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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