Ex-Mormon Reacts to Christopher Hitchens (Catholic Church Debate)

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  @Liam-pl2nr · 2 years ago

  The absence of Christopher in public discourse is so very strongly felt. An incredibly impressive human being.

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• GR

  @graeker4286 · 2 years ago

  Hitchens is so dearly missed. He would have been such a voice of reason these years.

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• ST

  @StanSwan · 2 years ago

  When asked about Donald Trump Hitchens said, "His greatest accomplishment of his life was to cover 100% of his head with 30% of his hair".

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• JM

  @jmcsquared18 · 1 year ago

  This was the day that Catholicism was murdered, and Hitchens slaughtered it in front of that audience.

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• SF

  @sfkeepay · 1 year ago

  All these years after his death and still Hitchens stands apart. As a reporter he was cunning, subtle, and insistent. As a contrarian he was precise, fearless, and deeply compelling. As a writer and author he enjoyed few peers and no superiors. As an orator he held thousands in electric synchronicity. And in debate, he measured no equal.

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• BO

  @boesvig · 2 years ago

  I’m actually rereading Hitchens’ <i>God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything</i> at the moment. I can’t recommend it enough.

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• UN

  @unusual686 · 2 years ago

  Christopher Hitchens was the strongest orator and debater of his generation.

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• JI

  @jimgore1278 · 2 years ago

  Yes, he does smile.<br>I can&apos;t believe anyone would accept a debate in which the opposition was Fry and Hitchens, regardless of the topic.

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• MI

  @michaelregan5511 · 2 years ago

  Hitchens has a great sense of humor and tells some wonderful jokes. He also said one of the wisest and important things ever. That the solution to poverty is the ‘empowerment of women’. He defines this as give women full access to reproductive health, full access to all levels of education and full control of the family budget. Great words from a great human being.

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• DS

  @ds31579 · 2 years ago

  Mr. Hitchens, was one of the greatest debaters ever!<br>Intellectually none came close to the profound and exquisite way in which he came to orate the points of discourse! In his genius he would beat down his opposition with style, grace and a vocabulary that was as large as the dictionary itself.<br>We truly lost a great British/American Philosopher

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• SU

  @sumdewd · 2 years ago

  Hitchens piece on mother Teresa was lovely, in a brutal sort of way

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• FI

  @firbolg · 2 years ago (edited)

  My father was actually imprisoned at the age of 15 in Portugal because he disrespected a priest by not kneeling before him as he passed in the main street. The political/religious police came to pick him up and take him to the dreadful prison-fort of Peniche. Luckily, my grandfather had some pull in the military and managed to get him extricated from that prison and sent to exile in Paris, France.<br><br>Years later (1985), after the fall of the fascism, when we moved back there, when I was only 7, &nbsp;I was actively discriminated by the town&apos;s priest, barring me from all activities at the village, because I was not baptised. And when once, he picked us up on our way home from what you call highschool, he took all of my friends but refused to take me so I had to walk home alone for a bit less than 5 miles (8km).

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