[lbo-talk] Fall in love with Hitchens all over again

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu>
>
>Ravi:
>
>I don't know about you guys but as far as I am concerned, all is
>forgiven! ;-)
>
>http://tinyurl.com/2okd9o
>
>
>[WS:] I am pretty much with you on this, Ravi.  I did not feel very bad
>about Hitchens to begin with, since his repudiation of the left's stale
>mantra was for the most part justified.

Nonsense.  True, I read with pleasure Hitchens' wry remarks about Mormonism 
-- probably the most preposterous religion extant -- on Slate.  But 
Hitchens' recent thunderous denunciations of religion are transparently an 
attempt to reingratiate himself with the left after his relentless 
cheerleading for the war on Iraq, which included endless slanders of antiwar 
activists.  As much as I dislike religion, I consider war the ultimate evil.

While religion may believe all people are open to salvation, I don't.  
Hitchens' championing of the Iraq war is inexcusable, and he remains 
irredeemably a vile individual.  I wish him the worst.

Carl

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