Oh HELL No

[jlh]

So I'm sitting here listening to the BBC and they are planning on having a debate on the existence of God. I find those debates to be fairly ridiculous anyway, but the real problem here is the person representing the atheists. Now, I know that he wrote a book about it, and I know that he does these little debates all the time, but still.

CHRISTOPER HITCHENS IS A DRUNKEN HACK

I mean, really, BBC, there are a whole bunch of people who could have represented that side of the debate much better. Why do you encourage him? Yick.

Comments

You forgot "racist."

[a-hollow-year.livejournal.com]

The ways in which his arguments are specious and disingenuous are so numerous that it's hard to know where to begin attacking him. A friend emailed me about a week ago, very excited about a book he'd read; as soon as I realized it was Hitchens' brand-spanking new Wedge of Dumb I kind of got snippy and irritated and told him to read a sociology book instead. We ended up having a decent conversation about it, but the arguments put forth in that book are just stupid.

As an atheist, I look forward to the day when Hitchens is found drowned in a toilet full of his own vomit

Re: You forgot "racist."

[jlh.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA am I the one who can't guess in your awesome little game on your LJ? I was going to comment there and then I realized I would be cluing in someone else to come here if you said yes, so it seemed better to comment here. If so, that was AWESOME.

Here's my Hitchens story: A certain magazine primarily entertains its advertisers on a large boat they own that takes a little cruise around Manhattan, sort of like the Circle Island tour. Hitchens is a friend of someone connected with that magazine, and was therefore at a party that I was also at. I found myself below decks in a room that wasn't, you know, a state room, more like a sitting room, and there were other people in the room. Anyway, he was smashed, and staring at my tits, and I think he was trying to come on to me but I'm not sure because it was hard to understand what he was even saying. Then the boat swayed slightly and he lurched forward on top of me. Note that even his drunken state plus the swing of the boat should not have resulted in his falling on top of me, though I will say that in his drunken state he was unable to cop a feel even though he was on top of me. It was one of the more disgusting things that has ever happened to me.

Re: You forgot "racist."

[a-hollow-year.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, it's totally you. I didn't want to give away the secret by mentioning you by name; I knew you'd recognize my clever impression immediately. XD

Anyway, let me be the first to say: Holy. Lol. That story is probably the most entertaining thing Hitchens has ever been responsible for, and it's still utterly revolting. God, he's such a smarmy waste of human DNA; my condolences.

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

Well. How newsworthy would it be if they had two level-headed, polite, thoughtful and truly knowledgeable individuals doing the debate?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

This is why I hate the Beeb, because they say that they are so hard hitting and neutral but I really feel they do a lot of shit just for effect, just to be provocative in a completely unmeaningful way.

[scrabble.livejournal.com]

It's typical of this to happen on those types of debates. To be fair, a lot of people really like Christopher Hitchens, and his book is a bestseller right now. I didn't like what I read of his book--it seemed like none of it tied together. It was like an LJ entry. But I know a lot of atheists like him, which seems like more of an effort than the standard of what you usually see - Bill O'Reilly and some Christian scholar debating two random twentysomethings who had to buy suits just for the occasion.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

It is totally typical. But there are plenty of other provocative atheists, like that guy at Oxford or whatever, the God Delusion guy. They could have had him. So it isn't that, which I agree is a total given, so much as it's that Hitchens is a vile, disgusting, drunken hack. I mean, Graydon Carter keeps paying his rent, but that's mostly because Hitchens says stupid crap that sells magazines and books and all of that, but none of that changes the fact that he is a vile, disgusting, drunken hack.

But you're totally right.