Believe Me, It’s Torture
His death was announced by Vanity Fair.
Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England in 1949. Rightardia considers Hitchens to be an intellectual giant. He was one of the few writer journalists who took on Christian Evangelical and fundamentalists. Hitchens said:
Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals.
It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.
Hitchens put his money where his mouth was. While other journalsits debated waterboarding and whether it was torture or not, Hitchens volunteered to be waterboarded. Hitchens said this about waterboarding:
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter said this about Mr. Hitchens:
There will never be another like Christopher. A man of ferocious intellect, who was as vibrant on the page as he was at the bar.
Those who read him felt they knew him, and those who knew him were profoundly fortunate souls.
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