Requiescat in pace.
On Dec 16, 2011, at 5:22 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Angelus Novus <
> fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Looking at the tribute threads at places like Reddit, it's strange to
>> realize that there are a whole generation of younger people for whom
>> Hitchens is a hero primarily because he wrote that book on his
>> atheism.
>> That's basically what he's going to be remembered for, as being
>> part of the
>> group that includes Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett.
>>
>
> I tend to assume that, much to Hitchens' misfortune, his
> cheerleading for
> multiple wars towards the end of his life will be remembered longer
> than
> that. Those things had real consequences. New Atheism has been a fun
> little
> intellectual diversion, like the Death of God theologians of the
> 1960s but
> without the substance. (And in fairness to the departed, he was the
> best of
> the bunch. Unlike those other two, he wrote rollicking good polemics,
> rather than droning bad arguments.)
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure
> mægen
> lytlað."
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