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Is the world a little darker today?

Christopher Hitchens succumbed to his cancer this evening. So passes another great man....

http://news.yahoo.com/christopher-hitchens-militan...

Update:

"Only an open conflict of ideas and principles can produce any clarity."

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Very sad, he was due to speak at the global atheist convention here in melbourne in a few months if he was well enough. I had hoped he would make it, but didn't expect him to given the circumstances. I was really looking forward to hearing him speak. But he lives on in our hearts and minds thanks to our browsers and bookshelves. Not for eternity, but close enough...

  • 9 years ago

    A brilliant man and fine writer has left us. We are all the poorer for the loss, but all the richer for having had his words.

  • 6 years ago

    I'm sorry

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Stupid fool dnt u read d bible? Just read d revlations

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  • 9 years ago

    My condolences to his family...

    IMHO

  • He will be missed dearly.

  • R.I.P

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