Christopher Hitchens Dies at 62 why so young?

Just how craSs and unchristian can you get to use a tragic death to make christians look so NASTY?

He died of esophageal cancer from which most die long before that age!

It is tragic that people like yourself lack humanity and shame christians in the way you do!

Hmmn, so by your logic all the children who die at six from leukemia 'turned their backs on God too?'

'Proverbs 3:1-2, "My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee."'

I doubt a six year old abides by those things either.

I think you know deep down how flawed that logic of thinking actually is. It makes your God sound childish and conceited as well. You're not doing him any favors by suggesting he works that way.

If anything, it suggests Hitchens won.

No, it's because he had cancer. You have a really disturbing fantasy, where your supposedly all-merciful god kills people for not worshiping. And one that is demonstrably untrue, Christians can die of cancer at 62 too.

Oh, and 62 is "so young" because of modern medicine, science, and technology, in the age where the church dominated, the life expectancy was much shorter and quality of life much harder. It turns out that when you have sewage treatment plants and vaccines, instead of just praying at the **** in your water and blaming illnesses on demons, people live longer.

And finally, your own Bible contradicts that claim, that your God somehow rewards whom he finds righteous with long life and strikes down the wicked young.

Ecclesiastes, 7:15 "All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness."

A person's ancestry plays a huge role in life expectancy. If his parents and ancestors died young, then the likelihood that he will die young is increased. Other factors include, but are not limited to life style, which may include habits that lead to early deaths (smoking, obesity, etc.).

Proverbs is part of the "writings" of the Jews and some scholars consider them not to be of Hebrew origin.

I am not of the opinion that 62 is a particularly young age for the death of a male.

Additionally, as the first user noted Hitchens admitted to a long history of alcohol abuse.

Would you not find it fallacious, and in miserably poor taste, if anytime an Evangelical were to pass away before he reached the median age of life expectancy non-Evengelicals were to bruit this as signs of the vacuuity of his beliefs.

You can't turn your back on a nonexistent being, so you can't rationally accuse Hitchens of that.

Please allow me to enlighten you: What all sentient beings have in common is that they all eventually DIE. Death has no favorites; there are stillborn deaths and deaths at over 100 years of age. Your god, or any other gods people believe in for that matter, have NOTHING to do with it.

Why do monotheists engage in such willful stupidity? Sheesh..

Many people turn their back on God but they don't all die at 62 and some don't live anything like that length of time.

God will take every individual when He chooses. We should 'live this day as if our last'. Christopher Hitchens chose to reject God knowing that his life would not be a particularly long one. He was one of the more fortunate people. Not everyone knows that they are dieing and, in some ways, miss the opportunity to repent and accept Christ as their Saviour.

C.H. didn't have this excuse and died still in His sins (unless he made a sincere repentance on his death bed) and will be dealt with accordingly on Judgement Day.

No, it is because he smoked for 50 years. He got cancer in his esophagus. If your supposed god was so "anti-Hitchens" why did it take so long to silent him? He has been espousing his anti-religion message since the 1970s

-Christopher Hitchens-

"I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire, who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies."

never lost his sense of humour, rest in peace..

It's called medical science. Man's attempt to keep himself alive. But death will bite each of our behinds eventually.