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Friday, December 16, 2011

Zecher Kofer Livrachah

A great man of reason and integrity has unfortunately succumbed to cancer at age 62. We will sorely miss him for his candid, witty and outspoken remarks against religion. A sadness crept into me that has accompanied the whole day already.

What made Hitchens unique was that he spoke with his heart what was on his mind. He was candid, honest enough to commend his adversaries in debates (unless they really didn't want to listen). A fellow kofer as well-read, eloquent and charming will be hard to find.

Below, I linked a video that gives you an impression of his astuteness, wit, eloquence and passion:



We'll miss you, Hitch.
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30 comments:

  1. EliDecember 16, 2011 at 3:39 PM

    Boruch Dayan HaEmes

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  2. AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 at 4:30 PM

    13:35 is really the best clip.

    ksil

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  3. jewish philosopherDecember 16, 2011 at 8:29 PM

    Christopher Hitchens was certainly the perfect example of an atheist.

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  4. TovaDecember 16, 2011 at 9:58 PM

    JP posted the same thing on my blog.

    I did not agree with Hitchens on many, many things. Whatever he said, however, was expressed brilliantly, and I am proud of the post I wrote in dedication to him.

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  5. jewish philosopherDecember 18, 2011 at 12:05 AM

    It's no surprise that atheists admire a worthless scumbag similar to themselves.

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  6. SkepticalYidDecember 18, 2011 at 1:28 AM

    JP posts the same crap based on his own weak, delusional reasoning everywhere he's not yet banned

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  7. jewish philosopherDecember 18, 2011 at 1:36 AM

    it interesting how many skeptics can't bear to hear the truth. unpious.com carefully shields it's brsinwashed readers from hearing any facts.

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  8. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 1:41 AM

    Tell us the truth about your divorce from your first wife JP. You alway claim atheists are prone to divorce. Please, don't shield us from your sordid past.

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  9. jewish philosopherDecember 18, 2011 at 1:47 AM

    What's sordid? She converted to judaism then dropped out.

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  10. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 2:37 AM

    Should we examine all orthodox rabbi behavior too? Lets examine his arguments, none of this ad hominem

    Ksil

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  11. jewish philosopherDecember 18, 2011 at 1:11 PM

    What I think is interesting is the way Hitchens, in this article

    http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/10/hitchens200710

    has such a stupid attitude regarding his lifestyle:

    "I’d noticed a touch of decline here and there, but one puts these things down to Anno Domini and the acquirement of seniority. A bit of a stomach gives a chap a position in society. A glass of refreshment, in my view, never hurt anybody. This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for? Smoking is a vice, I will admit, but one has to have a hobby."

    Now as an atheist, I assume Hitchens had the highest regard for science. And any expert physician would have told him that he was clearly killing himself. As we know now, he would be dead a little over four years after writing these words. Yet he simply jokes, chuckles and giggles about it all. That's what atheism is really all about. Addiction. Denying reality. Jokes. LOL.

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  12. SkepticalYidDecember 18, 2011 at 2:29 PM

    Stein we just have to read the letter your mother wrote about you in order to judge your acumen and veracity- or the lack thereof:

    http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=21375

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  13. jewish philosopherDecember 18, 2011 at 3:47 PM

    Skeptic Yid, if a rabbi, accused of child abuse, would deny it all as being a pack of lies, would you automatically take his side as well? This isn't any different.

    I don't mean to shatter your naiveté, however OF COURSE criminals always vehemently deny any wrong doing, unless pleading guilty is the only way to get a lighter sentence.

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  14. jewish philosopherDecember 18, 2011 at 3:50 PM

    Ask the Epples about their other adopted son, Douglas Epple, two years younger than myself. Why was he repeatedly admitted to psychiatric hospitals shortly after I left? Why has he never been employed?

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  15. SkepticalYidDecember 18, 2011 at 4:52 PM

    So it's their fault he's unemployed and it's the fault of a woman you harassed as well as Boces that you're unemployed. I see. You say in your interview that there's no work for IT people. Funny thing is, the classified ads and help wanted websites list a diverse range of IT positions that need to be filled. It seems that your statement applies to you as well:

    "criminals always vehemently deny any wrong doing"

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  16. jewish philosopherDecember 18, 2011 at 4:54 PM

    I'm employed.

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  17. jewish philosopherDecember 18, 2011 at 5:09 PM

    since someone brought it up, I think this does give some insight into America's current atheistic fascism.

    http://bocesjustice.blogspot.com/

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  18. SkepticalYidDecember 18, 2011 at 5:17 PM

    Boces isn't an atheist organization. As you indicated, BOCES does not expel pro-Life students. Only those who advocate mass murder such as yourself. You lied during your interview when you stated there aren't IT jobs available. Your own letter to your parents when you left home does not indicate any abuse or anti-semitism on their part whatsoever. If anything, it indicates a close relationship that you severed in the typical fashion of a child being indoctrinated into a cult. The evidence points in favor of your mother.

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  19. jewish philosopherDecember 18, 2011 at 5:59 PM

    "Only those who advocate mass murder such as yourself."

    A death penalty for sodomy isn't murder or massive. 

    There is a Federal law that sentences some drug dealers to death (18 U.S.C. 3591(b))

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_18_00003591----000-.html

    I haven't heard that it's mass murder.

    BOCES is a publicly funded vocational school which expelled a student for expressing an unpopular political opinion. I would call it pro-atheist fascism.

    "You lied during your interview when you stated there aren't IT jobs available."

    Know any COBOL recently hired anywhere? Or any programmers for that matter?

    "Your own letter to your parents when you left home does not indicate any abuse or anti-semitism on their part whatsoever."

    So any child who only years later claims abuse is lying. OK, remember that the next time some rabbi is accused.

    You're babbling about things you know nothing about. Like all atheists.

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  20. C. LaundryDecember 20, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    And back on topic . . .
    I think Anthony Bourdain tweeted it best:
    "Christopher Hitchens RIP. The world just got a helluva a lot dumber."

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  21. jewish philosopherDecember 20, 2011 at 2:38 PM

    Maybe say the same for Kim Jong Il. Also an atheist and Marxist with a unhealthy lifestyle.

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  22. ah-pee-chorusDecember 20, 2011 at 8:26 PM

    no, JP. kim jong il LIMITED peoples rights and freedoms while commanding them to accept his greatness dogmatically. hitchens fought to EXPAND peoples rights while rejecting all dogma. of course as a deluded religious fundie you more closely resemble the former as you embrace dogmatic nonsense absent evidence and desire to limit human rights up to and including killing people for the 'sin' of wanting to put their penis in a different place than you do. you and kim yong il are two peas in the same pod. and hitchens despised you both.

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  23. jewish philosopherDecember 20, 2011 at 8:54 PM

    "hitchens fought to EXPAND peoples rights"

    Hitchens praised Lenin quite recently.

    http://www.pbs.org/heavenonearth/interviews_hitchens.html

    Lenin was a brutal dictator who would definitely have felt comfortable with Kim Jong Il.

    Lenin delineated action against defiers of the decreed Bolshevik removal of Orthodox Church valuables: "We must... put down all resistance with such brutality that they will not forget it for several decades... The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing... the better." As a result of this letter, historian Orlando Figes estimates that perhaps 8,000 priests and laymen were executed.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin#Red_Terror

    According to Hitchens we had every right to listen to him or be shot. 

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  24. ah-pee-chorusDecember 20, 2011 at 11:23 PM

    i'm glad you didnt dispute that you

    1.are a deluded religious fundie
    2.embrace dogmatic nonsense absent evidence
    3.desire to limit human rights up to and including killing people...

    but instead chose to respond by offering the equivalent of 'yeah but hitchens praised lenin'... how telling.

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  25. jewish philosopherDecember 20, 2011 at 11:39 PM

    I didn't need to bother with all that after I demonstrated what a complete moron you are.

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  26. jewish philosopherDecember 20, 2011 at 11:45 PM

    I seriously see little distinction between Hitchens and Kim Jong Il, other than the fact that Kim Jong Il had the good luck to inherit a small country plus he apparently didn't smoke, therefore lived almost a decade longer. Both were equally fanatic and evil.

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  27. ah-pee-chorusDecember 20, 2011 at 11:56 PM

    youre very amusing in a laughing AT you , not WITH you kind of way. i cant imagine how you would rub anyone the wrong way. LOL

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  28. jewish philosopherDecember 21, 2011 at 1:27 AM

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  29. C. LaundryJanuary 2, 2012 at 4:48 AM

    Hi UK,
    On the topic of inspirations . . .I was trying to find an e-mail address but could not, so I hope you don't mind me posting this here. Your blog was one of the inspirations for the post I just wrote. Please check it out if you are able to. http://coinlaundryblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/dh-to-my-tms-what-got-me-blogging.html
    CL

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  30. AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM

    made decent points...but seemed an unhappy and depressed being...

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