Christopher Hitchens' widow on his death 9-7-2012

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  • @kragoon
    @kragoon 11 лет назад +243

    I'm so glad that RUclips has immortalized him. He's so full of life in all of these videos that I almost forgot that he was dead. Great man... Such a great man.

    • @dannycheesums
      @dannycheesums Год назад +10

      I only heard of him for the first time when it was announced he had died, without RUclips I wouldn’t have subsequently discovered how awesome he is

    • @blackshirt5530
      @blackshirt5530 Год назад +8

      I fall asleep to his wisdom nightly….

    • @stewartdavies929
      @stewartdavies929 Год назад

      Very true, even though I didn’t always agree with him😊

    • @numbat0072
      @numbat0072 Год назад

      @@blackshirt5530 he was a very smart guy but he needed to lighten up occasionally . i never saw him except for po faced seriousness , this demeanour drastically reduced his audience...

    • @erniewild277
      @erniewild277 Год назад +1

      A GREAT MAN. BLESS HIM.

  • @megan92585
    @megan92585 3 года назад +78

    Nearly 10 years have passed and he's still able to open minds; and, we will continue to keep his memory alive. He's still on my mind today, in 2021.
    I feel that he changed the world for the better, by opening minds both near and far. His widow appears to be a wonderful person as well; it would be nice, to hear her speak about similar subjects.

    • @briancoe1792
      @briancoe1792 Год назад +3

      Hitch was simply great .end of

  • @Saucyakld
    @Saucyakld 6 лет назад +40

    From the age of twelve I was a lost cause to my fiercely Roman Catholic family. The interventions, the wasted prayers for me just made me giggle and in Christopher I found my hero. Rest in Peace dear man, I know we won't meet but know that you are well thought of.

    • @donaldcook3112
      @donaldcook3112 3 года назад

      . . . ' R e l i g I o n s ' ... he a n d God (had) have absolutely no time for .
      None whatsoever.

  • @dprague
    @dprague 10 лет назад +364

    Thank you Mrs. Christopher Hitchens. We appreciate your words. Many of us appreciated what Christopher spoke about.

    • @bravonana10
      @bravonana10 6 лет назад +17

      Mrs Christopher Hitchens lmfao

    • @andrewcurley5006
      @andrewcurley5006 6 лет назад +3

      +Avon Barksdale
      I'm not sure what's funny about that. Care to elaborate?

    • @bravonana10
      @bravonana10 6 лет назад +4

      Andrew Curley I was stoned, who knows

    • @SelPeach
      @SelPeach 4 года назад +8

      I mean you did say "Mrs. Christopher Hitchens." And idk her name but if her name isn't Christopher then that's just funny that you said that

    • @vighneshkannan7896
      @vighneshkannan7896 3 года назад +1

      @@andrewcurley5006 wouldn't it just be Mrs. Hitchens?

  • @NxDoyle
    @NxDoyle 8 лет назад +689

    He's always popping up in my feed and I always watch.

  • @MM-yi9zn
    @MM-yi9zn Год назад +36

    Hitch will never be forgotten. In a sense he still “lives”. No one had his brilliant qualities. A totally unique man. We were lucky to even read & listened.

  • @michaelkelly6583
    @michaelkelly6583 6 лет назад +120

    Almost six years have passed and I miss his wit and wisdom more than ever.

    • @teelee6752
      @teelee6752 2 года назад

      Intelligence, yes!
      wisdom, not so much. 😉

    • @tonim5924
      @tonim5924 2 года назад +2

      Me too!

    • @phil6815
      @phil6815 2 года назад

      @@teelee6752 can tell which way you sway

    • @teelee6752
      @teelee6752 2 года назад

      @@phil6815 ???

  • @tbirdboy
    @tbirdboy Год назад +40

    He is the man humanity needs today, more than ever. Miss you kind sir.

    • @recoveringbaptist2023
      @recoveringbaptist2023 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yet he condemned the ONLY Man humanity ever needed, Jesus.

    • @feonor26
      @feonor26 3 месяца назад +1

      @@recoveringbaptist2023 Ohh give us a break

  • @liberte1334
    @liberte1334 5 лет назад +29

    I think about Hitch pretty much every day for one reason or another.. truly inspirational. I miss him.

  • @elenafoleyfoley168
    @elenafoleyfoley168 3 года назад +8

    Christopher Hitchens was a sweetheart, so funny and kind. I spent alot of time around him in the late 80s in Georgetown, Washington DC. Had so many chats and laughs with him. He was brilliant to be around. I was only 17 when I first met Christopher, but knew he was something very special, never did I know how special this brilliant beautiful man was until later in life. Well 33 yrs later I now know how truly blessed I was. What an absolute privalage and honour Christopher to have so many wonderful memories of you. Always will be missed and loved 🙏👼🏼🙏 💚🇮🇪💚

    • @cephalopod7300
      @cephalopod7300 3 года назад

      Very touching to hear. How did you come to know him?

    • @mojo7495
      @mojo7495 Год назад

      Your hypocrisy is showing. You were "blessed"? By whom?

  • @ExternalTooth
    @ExternalTooth 11 лет назад +70

    The fact that someone as devoted and inspirational as Hitchens would be sent to hell by the god of the Bible for simply not believing, while Stalin could go to heaven if simply repented before he died, is infuriating. I've watched Hitchens so much that I almost feel like he was a close friend, because he helped me along on my bumpy road to atheism (from years of Christian indoctrinating) and, ultimately, the happiness and knowledge that I enjoy today. How could a sane person wish that Hitchens -- someone who spoke only of wisdom and free thinking, and never of any kind of violence -- would be immediately sent to eternal torture for his thoughts, while the most despicable and hateful person could have a last-minute change of heart and be on equal standing as all upright Christians? The very idea of a system like that makes me physically cringe. How can someone buy into that bullshit?

    • @BaalBuster
      @BaalBuster 10 лет назад +26

      Childhood indoctrination. Don't know how an otherwise sane person could subscribe to bronze age bs.

    • @wakeupevery1
      @wakeupevery1 7 лет назад +2

      You don't understand the Bible, nor do you understand who a Christian is... hence your rant.

    • @johngodley256
      @johngodley256 9 месяцев назад

      Exactly, the Catholic church almost says you can sin as much as you want, but confess to
      a priest and go out and sin again.

  • @richardavery2894
    @richardavery2894 3 года назад +134

    RIP Hitchens. Few people have made such impacts on my life...

    • @AtheistEdge
      @AtheistEdge 3 года назад +6

      Same here.

    • @juaneato
      @juaneato 3 года назад +2

      What a shame that you feel that way.

    • @BallJuiceOfZeus
      @BallJuiceOfZeus 3 года назад

      Why are you abbreviating Rest In Peace? In a hurry bro?

    • @judgeberry6071
      @judgeberry6071 3 года назад

      Really? Wow! I mean l like to listen to the Hitch but I don't think he's ever made an impact on my life. Good for you.

    • @juaneato
      @juaneato 3 года назад +1

      @@judgeberry6071 I’ve watched him and I’ve listened. For such a “smart” guy, his life claims against a *non-existent* God were drenched in irony. Why talk about God if you claimed He didn’t exist? My guess? He did it for the money and boy, was that money great for him. He was just like the evangelists he railed against; fame seeking, money grabbing. He wasn’t an atheist because he had no proof that God didn’t exist. He knew God existed but was pissed at religion. But instead of being smart and addressing false religion, he does what too many people do. He threw out the baby with the bathwater and in the process, threw out his common sense; and for what? A little money?

  • @italianGOD86
    @italianGOD86 4 года назад +47

    One of the best orators I have ever heard. No one could outwit Christopher, no one.

  • @oogrooq
    @oogrooq 2 года назад +79

    "We don't have bodies, we ARE bodies."
    - Christopher Hitchens
    Still greatly missed.

    • @KosinskiStudio
      @KosinskiStudio 2 года назад +1

      Awareness is contained in a body - it separates from the body, as Hitchens is now fully aware of!

    • @cnault3244
      @cnault3244 2 года назад +7

      @@KosinskiStudio Based on the available evidence, his awareness died with his brain.

    • @matthewmartin1080
      @matthewmartin1080 2 года назад +7

      @@KosinskiStudio I had no awareness before I was born, and have seen no evidence to suggest I will have it after I die. Care to offer any? We have been asking the religious for the evidence for 2,000 years, and yet none has ever been provided.

    • @KosinskiStudio
      @KosinskiStudio 2 года назад +1

      @@matthewmartin1080 That's because you didn't exist before you were conceived! When you die biologically, you will have sufficient evidence with great clarity. Patience!

    • @KosinskiStudio
      @KosinskiStudio 2 года назад +1

      @@cnault3244 There is no available optical evidence to show that the soul is part of the brain! The persistent lingering of awareness beyond biological death will supply you with abundant evidence of that. Be patient.

  • @graywade9225
    @graywade9225 9 лет назад +172

    Shame on all of you haters and your spectacularly ignorant and callous comments about Mr. Hitchens. Religion truly is the last refuge for the weak-minded.

    • @vicachcoup
      @vicachcoup 9 лет назад +6

      Gray Wade
      Funny how his supporters don't like the kind of treatment he used to dish out.

    • @carpejkdiem
      @carpejkdiem 9 лет назад +3

      You seem vulnerable. Jesus is waiting to set you free. - blessings2u

    • @carpejkdiem
      @carpejkdiem 9 лет назад +1

      If you're indoctrinated into the religion of evolution that darwin organizied from platos ideas I'd say that is ironic.

    • @carpejkdiem
      @carpejkdiem 9 лет назад

      Michael Dewey SEO Videography​​​ Soooo wrong! Actually it's the Jesuit Roman Catholic lucifarian church of SATAN that created islam and groomed mahammad from the age of 12 to be a false prophit to help the vatican control the darker races and to instill the seed of hate so the would eventually help fulfil biblical prophecy and slaughter the jews and true Christians for the Jesuit Roman Catholic lucifarian church of satan.
      The same pagan beast system that is behind the religion of evolution and hatheism and the old New Age Movement to help them fulfill the goal of a NEW WORLD ORDER AND ONE WORLD RELIGION TO WORSHIP SATAN.
      The hathiests also are programmed to kill the Christians along with islam only the vatican was smart enough to instill hatred in both the islam to kill all who don't believe the religion and hate in the hathiests so in the end after they all kill off the jews and true Christians they will kill eachother off as well.
      Which is a strategy to bring the population down combined with manufactured natural disasters and planned false flag events and organized chaos to the point that the JESUIT ROMAN CATHOLIC LUCIFARIAN pagan CHURCH OF SATANWORSHIPPERS BEAST SYSTEM can easily enslave the survivors.
      THE SAME people behind the people who created the Eugenics agenda
      ● slow death agenda
      ● Planned parenthood ( murderhood )
      ● hitler and
      ● Stalin
      Both proponents of the eugenics agenda to kill
      95% of the human population and enslave who's left outside of the 13 bloodlines of the elite that put up the Georgia Guidstones and their families.
      Utilizing many other small agendas that make up a vast network of one goal. The TOTAL WORLD TAKEOVER!
      No religion just a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ the redeemer and savior and creator of the world and anything good that goes on in it. - Blessings2u 

    • @vicachcoup
      @vicachcoup 9 лет назад +5

      carpejkdiem
      Sheesh some xians are totally in la la land.

  • @thomastaylor6102
    @thomastaylor6102 3 года назад +26

    Thank you Mrs Hitchens. I found Mortality sad and difficult to start reading. I held it to my heart and kissed it before I opened it and began reading. The reason I found it sad and difficult to start reading was because I knew it was the last book the finest composer of a sentence would ever write. Needless to say once I started reading I couldn’t stop till there were no more pages to turn. It was inspiring, empowering and written the only way Christopher new how to write, absolutely brilliantly. One of the most accurate reviews I’ve read about Christopher, I’m not sure who it was and I’m paraphrasing here but it was something like, “ you’re better off having the blade of a sword at you’re throat than to have Christopher Hitchens raise his pen against you”. No sword could match a pen wielded by that brilliant man.

    • @boorhaave5880
      @boorhaave5880 2 года назад +1

      You kissed the book before opening it? That's just weird

    • @jillianbowen7265
      @jillianbowen7265 2 года назад +3

      @@boorhaave5880 Maybe as a gesture of respect and love for the person Christopher was as this was his last book. A kiss goodbye, perhaps? His words were his life and he's sorely missed. I don't think it's weird at all.

  • @rickymyers3103
    @rickymyers3103 7 лет назад +11

    I found a hero in Christopher Hitchens and it saddens me to know he's passed , I found so much truth and love in his words it has forever changed my life, I was already on this path , that's how I found him , birds of a feather , the only way I know to thank him is living my beliefs (our) beliefs the best I can and spread the knowledge

  • @richardhedd3080
    @richardhedd3080 5 лет назад +15

    I miss the mans strength of character, but most of all I miss the way he could communicate his ideas. I will always watch, read or listen to the Hitch. RIP

  • @dc5827
    @dc5827 9 лет назад +164

    RIP brother.
    You've opened my eyes to see things for what they truly are.
    Thank you for that.

    • @IFoundGodInEminem
      @IFoundGodInEminem 8 лет назад +3

      +DC It's your duty now to open another pair of eyes that have been forced shut. To lead another mind to the path of reason and rational and scientific magnificence. To make another's life beautiful, like yours has been made so.

    • @pbaylis1
      @pbaylis1 8 лет назад

      +Aditya Nayak Think I'm gonna vomit

    • @dc5827
      @dc5827 8 лет назад +9

      +pbaylis1
      Go ahead. no one is stopping you.
      Do you have a tummy ache?
      If you do, you can get some medicine at the drug store that will make it feel much better.
      I have to warn you though, the medicine was created through scientific means and not through a fictitious deity that you were raised in believing.
      Sorry, I hope you get better...
      Try praying and see if it goes away...

    • @AMack-um3vr
      @AMack-um3vr 7 лет назад +3

      pbaylis1 Indeed. You are puke

    • @Bennysnamehere
      @Bennysnamehere 7 лет назад

      dont comment here, you fucking trash. brainless idiot.

  • @thecasualcitizen492
    @thecasualcitizen492 8 лет назад +105

    Christopher Hitchens My all time favorite. It was always a joy to listen to him. His command of the English language was second to none. Even the sound of his voice was enthralling. Yes I am still a Hitch fan. I'm very thankful for all the videos of him in action. To hear him speak adds another dimension to his words and ideas. He is sorely missed.

    • @Cryuff4
      @Cryuff4 8 лет назад +4

      Love this comment. I look at the world, the news daily and try to think through it as Christopher might; not even close or up to the contest, but I try. Miss you Hitch.

    • @thedr.feelgood
      @thedr.feelgood 6 лет назад +2

      Well put, Sir ....... He was something else - I watch or listen to something from him every week..... How could one not ?

    • @TomTom-df9ph
      @TomTom-df9ph 3 года назад

      @@thedr.feelgood I do so agree. The stupid comments some people seem to enjoy giving them space. I don’t altogether care if Hitchens was correct or not in his beliefs. however what a fabulous orator, equaled only by Churchill.

  • @clayt2k
    @clayt2k 10 лет назад +136

    Hitchens is the fuckin man!!! A true legend

    • @LudwigSC93
      @LudwigSC93 9 лет назад +3

      clayt2k ....in his own mind

    • @Zinner222
      @Zinner222 7 лет назад

      SippinonMickeys And millions who think not.

    • @MaltherobloxQuin
      @MaltherobloxQuin 3 года назад

      The only legend he left is that he shook his fist at God until the very end.

    • @god_is_gay_for_satan
      @god_is_gay_for_satan 3 года назад +1

      @@MaltherobloxQuin Which god?

    • @brassholio
      @brassholio 3 года назад

      @@god_is_gay_for_satan Exactly. All of them.

  • @clifover
    @clifover 2 года назад +7

    That he did not experience a "death bed conversion", which I have personally witnessed in others, speaks volumes to his integrity and the honesty of his, dare I say, convictions. I am honored to have merely heard his words through the internet.

  • @petyrkowalski9887
    @petyrkowalski9887 7 лет назад +154

    What a wonderfully dignified lady.

    • @jaymeanderson5121
      @jaymeanderson5121 4 года назад +14

      Right! I'd never seen her before but I didn't expect anything less.

    • @eddieheron1939
      @eddieheron1939 3 года назад +11

      We’re in the 10th year since his death and this is the first time I’ve seen her. I just noticed the link on my RUclips Home Screen.

    • @NavOps33
      @NavOps33 2 года назад

      Get a guide dog because that’s no female up there.

  • @christophermcnally8782
    @christophermcnally8782 11 лет назад +127

    His command of the spoken word is so awe inspiring.

    • @leemartin2978
      @leemartin2978 5 лет назад +2

      Christopher Mcnally I can’t think of anyone equal to him.

    • @dorianphilotheates3769
      @dorianphilotheates3769 3 года назад

      Christopher Mcnally - Yes, the English do say the cleverest when speaking English.

  • @gtrman9706
    @gtrman9706 8 лет назад +276

    I'd say "God Bless him", but I think he'd laugh.

    • @MirrorMMO
      @MirrorMMO 7 лет назад +1

      justified by faith Nothing you have said is in love or about it. You threaten others of a place you have no evidence for and say you will be sent there for all eternity. Fire and anguish supposedly the only thing there as well. Nice pascals wager though.

    • @erikagehr8273
      @erikagehr8273 6 лет назад +8

      singedlol Chill, he was making a joke and isn't necessarily religious, "God bless him" is just an expression, an ironic one in this case.

    • @juliebyrne9131
      @juliebyrne9131 6 лет назад +1

      i dont think hes laughing now considering where his soul went! ppl can be educated but it does not make them smart!

    • @juliebyrne9131
      @juliebyrne9131 6 лет назад +1

      you have no evidence that god or hell doesnt exist either so whats your point?

    • @erikagehr8273
      @erikagehr8273 6 лет назад +1

      julie byrne Saying that education does not equal intelligence right after expressing your outdated belief in the "soul" pretty much just shows everyone that you're either incredibly stupid or a troll. Good day, sad person with nothing better to do in life.

  • @go1godfurther
    @go1godfurther 10 лет назад +67

    I notice that CBS write 'Remembering Chris Hitchens' - they clearly didn't know much about him. He was NEVER 'Chris'.
    The world is much poorer for his death. Great minds come along far too infrequently, but when a great mind is coupled with such unwavering strength and courage... that is something truly rare.

    • @Barzins1
      @Barzins1 9 лет назад +2

      I only wish I would have known him before his death.

    • @elenafoleyfoley168
      @elenafoleyfoley168 3 года назад

      Very well said 💯🙏🇮🇪

    • @zacklamotte6067
      @zacklamotte6067 3 года назад

      Charlie definitely would have known he didn’t like to be called Chris…I bet they had to shorten it in order to fit properly on the screen

    • @marilyngrace6162
      @marilyngrace6162 Год назад +1

      He was Hitch.

  • @ryanodonnell6748
    @ryanodonnell6748 3 года назад +2

    I never had the pleasure of meeting Hitch but i now own all his Books, You know it almost feels like a member of my family or someone I new dearly passed the day Christopher Hitchens passed away. GBNF x

  • @redog819
    @redog819 11 лет назад +4

    im reading one of his books and I can here his voice in my head almost like he's reading it to me . long live the hitchslap

  • @KaustavChakravarthy
    @KaustavChakravarthy 11 лет назад +27

    People who appreciated his contribution, miss him. Its a human thing.

  • @NothingIsKnown00
    @NothingIsKnown00 11 лет назад +3

    Christopher Hitchens is the kind of person I admire the most. I often get the impression that he wasn't a very friendly, or humble person.
    But he was a adamant defender of the most vulnerable among us. He would not soften his language among people who disagreed with him. When he saw murder, he called it murder. When he saw torture, he called it rape. And he did it regardless of how much power the perpetrator had. Henry Kissinger, Mother Theresa, Billy Graham, no one was too big or too holy.

  • @rafaelbenjamindebelen9697
    @rafaelbenjamindebelen9697 9 лет назад +613

    Rest in peace The warrior of reason :)

    • @pbaylis1
      @pbaylis1 8 лет назад +9

      +Rafael de Belen I don't think he deserves the term "warrior of reason". Hitchens' brand of strong proactive atheism is without reason. It is emotional and silly. If you want "reason" look to people with completely open minds about the possibility of the supernatural - like the ancient philosophers who didn't have the anti-religion agendas etc of today. Look at people like Anthony Flew and other converted scientists who had the guts to go against their entrenched colleagues and follow the evidence where it led. Hitchens' atheism is without reason because it has already concluded that God does not exist. We don't even know what is at the edge of the universe or in the deepest oceans. We can't yet explain how humans evolved from gases and bacteria, yet HE knows God doesn't exist. Apparently some animals can discern the presence of disembodied spirits, but HE knows God doesn't exist. Thousands of people have experienced religious NDEs. Yet HE JUST KNOWS God doesn't exist. ZERO reason, ZERO logic.

    • @sendmebeats5769
      @sendmebeats5769 8 лет назад +12

      +pbaylis1 He has said in multiple interviews that the existence of a god can not be disproven, but the chances of there actually being a god are very, very slim.
      What you are saying isn't really backed up. Care to ellaborate?

    • @rafaelbenjamindebelen9697
      @rafaelbenjamindebelen9697 8 лет назад +10

      pbaylis1
      Which god are you referring to? There are many gods that we can talk about :)
      I am curious if you have seen this god :)

    • @pbaylis1
      @pbaylis1 8 лет назад

      Rafael de Belen
      Pull out a list of logical fallacies and realise how many of those your statements contravene.

    • @pbaylis1
      @pbaylis1 8 лет назад +1

      Ronald Bloemhoff
      Well, obviously he's covering his ass because he realises he would be publically ridiculed if he verbalised the proven nature of God's non-existence. He can't say that, but he CAN say the next best available thing.."very, very slim chance". We can't read his mind, but that comes across as an inner belief that God does not exist.

  • @teufeldritch
    @teufeldritch 11 лет назад +16

    I miss him dearly. The world is so much less without him.

  • @gm6065
    @gm6065 8 лет назад +17

    Thank you Mr. Hitchens. You were instrumental in leading me out of ignorance.

  • @jangyman
    @jangyman 9 лет назад +96

    Lovely lady left by an extraordinary man.

  • @elaineclift2227
    @elaineclift2227 Год назад +7

    RUclips has immortalised him in a way as his debates and lectures and so on are now available to so many people....he continues to educate and thrill us!

  • @danny22tree
    @danny22tree 10 лет назад +137

    I am greatful to this man. He was the real truth and light for me.

    • @TheGiantKiller8
      @TheGiantKiller8 10 лет назад

      How is that he is a cynical arrogant heap of crap.

    • @deutsch2k5
      @deutsch2k5 10 лет назад +17

      TheGiantKiller8
      and why would you make that statement? It stinks of ignorance.

    • @johnosman3550
      @johnosman3550 10 лет назад +5

      TheGiantKiller8 *You* should try to work your way up to being a cynical arrogant heap of crap.

    • @brianfowler2831
      @brianfowler2831 10 лет назад +1

      TheGiantKiller8 he was arrogant, you were right on the money. People are following this guy because he cleverly demeans god due to his fkn mommyand daddy issues.

    • @TheGiantKiller8
      @TheGiantKiller8 10 лет назад +1

      Brian Fowler Yes Hitchens was funny but clowns are funny also. His positions are terrible his advice is worse and he is Athesit evangelist version of pat robertson although MUCH funnier I'll admit

  • @1642823
    @1642823 11 лет назад +31

    Be grateful that you lived at the same time as the man who effectively began the slow process of educating the world to the indescribable pain that religion/faith, call it what you will, imposes on this world. long live Chris Hitchens

    • @chelseaultra9348
      @chelseaultra9348 2 года назад +3

      Christopher , he hated being called chris he corrected everyone whoever called him Chris as he said his parents named him Christopher 👍

  • @nightrider1647
    @nightrider1647 8 лет назад +258

    Thank you Mrs Hitchens for sharing him with the world

    • @surquhart64
      @surquhart64 8 лет назад +7

      A. Fellow Jamaican perhaps... And atheist perhaps... As you may well know we are a rare 'breed' in Jamaica.

    • @nightrider1647
      @nightrider1647 8 лет назад +6

      +Susan Urquhart wow Susan. We are indeed minorities indeed haha

    • @ReasonableVoice
      @ReasonableVoice 8 лет назад

      My ex-gf was an atheist of Jamaican heritage (born in the UK though). I always used to hear from her that Jamaica has the highest concentration of churches per capita in the world, although I've never seen any data to back that up.

    • @Zinner222
      @Zinner222 7 лет назад

      Mrs Hitchens should have kept him to herself. He was a fool that was full of praise for himself and his followers stroked his ego .

    • @jackmurphy5415
      @jackmurphy5415 6 лет назад +11

      THOMAS GRAHAM you could only wish to have his amount of knowledge

  • @paulmcgrath5259
    @paulmcgrath5259 9 лет назад +109

    a truly amazing man hugely missed

  • @joshuaaurien3514
    @joshuaaurien3514 7 лет назад +3

    One of the most insightful, honest and eloquent man of letters in the modern era. He'll take his place with the greats he was inspired by and perhaps we'll be discussing his work decades from now when the world has had time to catch up to him.

  • @cerellmorrison7223
    @cerellmorrison7223 9 лет назад +50

    At least Hitchens did not just refute Christianity but other religions as well. He was no coward. Many people criticize Christianity because they are just too afraid of saying anything negative about the other religions.

    • @Hyperpandas
      @Hyperpandas 9 лет назад +1

      +Cerell Morrison Like who?

    • @jeschinstad
      @jeschinstad 8 лет назад +3

      +Cerell Morrison: I don't think it's that simple. In my own case, I know much more about Christianity and their hypocrisy than I know of Islam and their issues. It's not that I'm afraid to criticize Islam, it's that I want to be well informed when I do so. It's also the issue that the debate against Islam is quite polarized, so you need a sort of balance. Hitchens had great credibility so he could never have been abused by racists and right wing extremists to fuel pure hatred. I'm accused of being afraid of Islam all the time, but it has nothing to do with reality and it's quite destructive.

    • @Rowe_Ti
      @Rowe_Ti 6 лет назад

      Josip Čondić Jurkić I am an Indian atheist, who was raised a Hindu, and i totally agree with you

    • @Zinner222
      @Zinner222 5 лет назад +2

      @@jeschinstad Your kind are the biggest hypocrites in the world. You claim to be so Enlighttened and better than everyone else. Look at what your kind are. Hitler ,Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Zedong and Castro. That is just to name a few. Your kind promised a world of peace ,justice and plenty for all. What did they give. Berlin wall, iron curtain, bamboo curtain labour camps ,death squads, death of innocence and brutalising anyone you do not agree with.
      If atheism is the way to go, move to Nth Korea. You will not have to put up with believers there. They are in Labour camps or been driven underground. Then show how wonderful it is there. Criticize Kim Jung Un publicly and see what happens.
      Easy to see you were brainwashed by HITCHENS AND HIS COHORTS OF IDIOT FOLLOWERS.

    • @KainiaKaria
      @KainiaKaria 5 лет назад

      ​@@Zinner222 How can you be an atheist if you demand others worship you as a god? I thought that atheism was the disbelief in gods. Truth is that Hitler was Catholic. Although the Soviet Union of Russia marketed atheism for the masses they dabbled in the occult and the elite was very interested in it mainly because of its useful application in regards to the propaganda machine. That does not sound atheistic.

  • @lowesonia8551
    @lowesonia8551 5 лет назад +2

    First view of Christopher's wife Superb woman . Lucky to have found each other.

  • @rago6002
    @rago6002 7 лет назад +12

    Christopher Hitchens has single handedly made me content with death. I'm no longer scared of passing thanks to this man. I know that death will only bring complete peace, kind of like when we sleep. Thanks to Hitchens, I can truly live my life to the fullest knowing that the looming threat of death isn't really that threatening. I can focus on my time here, other than when I die. Thank you Hitch for putting life into perspective for me. You will never be forgotten, and I no longer fear the day that I get to embrace everlasting content with you in the heavenless abyss of reality.

    • @loulew07
      @loulew07 Год назад

      Fear does not change the fact we die, it changes how we live. Those who believe in another life take away from this 1 life we all know we have.

    • @ScottRoberts-el2jn
      @ScottRoberts-el2jn Год назад +1

      Beautifully said.

    • @smoly37
      @smoly37 11 месяцев назад

      Very beautifully said indeed.

  • @prwexler
    @prwexler 11 лет назад +76

    Christopher Hitchens was an eloquent speaker.

    • @leemartin2978
      @leemartin2978 5 лет назад +8

      Without an equal. Many will try, but none will reach the level he did

  • @mikepen3477
    @mikepen3477 8 лет назад +3

    There will never be another Christopher Hitchens, but we are lucky to have had him.

  • @johnmcntsh
    @johnmcntsh 9 лет назад +52

    A great man who I respected deeply

  • @TucoBenedicto
    @TucoBenedicto 5 лет назад +4

    This is so bizarre. I watched Hitchens debate for years when he was still alive, witnessed his last months where he looked worse and worse (health-wise) at each public apparition and kept going back to watch a lot of his videos for years at this point.. And this is the first time I'm realizing he had a wife and seeing this specific video.
    She seems a lovely lady as well, and by the way she speaks of him they sounded like a happy couple in a solid relationship.

  • @joshuatraffanstedt2695
    @joshuatraffanstedt2695 7 лет назад +1

    I'm glad Mr. Hitchens left us with so many debates, conversations, and articles and books. Never a dull moment when this man is involved. Even up to the end, he still made sure to leave his mark.

  • @michaelwalker2676
    @michaelwalker2676 6 лет назад +4

    I will never forget reading 'Mortality', a restrained book considering what he was facing. Hitchens was a courageous man. He coined the word 'Tumortown' to describe cancer. Carol Blue paints an accurate portrait of her late husband.

  • @_-4232
    @_-4232 3 года назад +17

    Perhaps the most underrated man in modern times, his speaking and writing style should be taught to English students and his atheist arguments should be taught in religious studies. In my opinion he is one of the greatest men to have ever lived. The greatest role model a young man can have I think. Even in death he remained noble and philosophical, I think he enjoyed every second he spent on earth and I value every moment I see Mr Hitchens on my screen. It was a true honour to hear Christopher and I will talk to my children about him with a smile on my face and a tear in my eye.

    • @budd2nd
      @budd2nd 3 года назад

      He has made me hope that there is a heaven, because Christopher Hitchens will have replaced God by the time we get there. At the very least God will be sitting in the corner with a dunce hat nailed on!!!! 😂

    • @rossleeson8626
      @rossleeson8626 3 года назад

      Lol he was epicly wrong about his biggest belief though. His religious hate just made Americans feel superior to Muslims which made Afghanistan and Iraq easier to have a conscious about. He also lost his last debate to Michael Parenti and cheapened debate.

    • @James-gk8ip
      @James-gk8ip Год назад

      @@rossleeson8626 interesting fantasy

    • @XDKnoori
      @XDKnoori Год назад

      ​@@rossleeson8626.

    • @johngodley256
      @johngodley256 9 месяцев назад

      Christopher was to philosophy what Shakespeare was to literature, both unequalled in
      their fields. He definitely confirmed all of my suspicions about religion, he knew more
      about the Bible than those that preach it.

  • @f3aok
    @f3aok 6 лет назад +2

    Greatly missed needed today more than ever.

  • @nexussix7933
    @nexussix7933 7 лет назад +48

    I truly miss this man.

  • @jareddoyle977
    @jareddoyle977 9 лет назад +13

    Hitchens did something that many men throughout history and in the present seldom dare to do; and that is to speak the truth.
    He had an obsession with knowledge, with understanding, with discovery. He was what we should all strive to be, curious beyond measure.
    We should never stop asking the intelligent questions, or instead make up the answers for them, like religion claims to.
    Hitchens knew that well enough, he exposed hypocritical preachers, he slandered unworthy archbishops and priests, he educated the uncultured masses, he corrected news anchors, and led some of the most interesting debates about some of the most interesting topics (ranging from current affairs and war to religion) with some of the most interesting people.
    All i can say, is thank you, for everything.

  • @CD-pq1yv
    @CD-pq1yv 3 года назад +4

    A brilliant man and quite an exceptional woman. We need more like them - but sadly such clarity of thought and honesty is extremely rare. The world is much poorer for his passing.

  • @rmcduarte
    @rmcduarte 3 года назад +11

    No doubt he survived, we are still talking about the man to this day!!!!

  • @nicksenkovs6558
    @nicksenkovs6558 3 года назад +11

    I miss this man so very much.

  • @rubbaevs
    @rubbaevs 11 лет назад +1

    i really like reading the youtube comments about hitchens... its shows how his words have inspired people and educated them also...

  • @furyianchild
    @furyianchild 11 лет назад +4

    chris, you will be miss, but your legacy WILL live on

  • @darrelllogan1274
    @darrelllogan1274 5 лет назад +11

    Rest in peace, wise one.

  • @DaytakTV
    @DaytakTV 9 лет назад +1

    I cry every time I think about never seeing Hitch speak for the rest of my life. I am grateful for the video archive we do have of him. It never gets old.

  • @maulporphy4399
    @maulporphy4399 10 лет назад +51

    He is much missed---I think about him at least once a week, and thank him for the liberating effect of his efforts.

  • @contemplativepursuits
    @contemplativepursuits 4 года назад +12

    Love and miss him. Salute to his life and courage.

  • @WoopsAdaisyMSA
    @WoopsAdaisyMSA 7 лет назад

    Christopher Hitchens lives on, "discovered" him on youtube a few years back. Thank you.

  • @jack_rabbit
    @jack_rabbit 3 года назад +3

    he was a powerful voice for truth and accountability in a world woefully short on such champions. the world needs more people like him, and we need them now.

  • @mitchtavares1767
    @mitchtavares1767 9 лет назад +7

    It makes me very sad to know that he died so horribly he was a great man and a great thinker one of my idols

  • @brucenator
    @brucenator 3 года назад +1

    I don't know whether that laugh at the end was laughter of joy or tears. Those words, her words read back to her, brought me to tears. "I hear him and he has the last word." He is sorely missed.

  • @TENNESSEETRACKHAWK
    @TENNESSEETRACKHAWK 7 лет назад +8

    Im feel fortunate to have been someone to hear him speak in person. I got to see and hear a once living legend..... RIP

  • @WKaliberr
    @WKaliberr 8 лет назад +69

    Hitch was a God of Words

    • @cole3835
      @cole3835 8 лет назад +9

      WKaliberr and thoughts

    • @Sanctus_Manifesto
      @Sanctus_Manifesto 7 лет назад

      Cole Batis Homosexual, why are you a believer in COINCIDENCE?

    • @freshair3451
      @freshair3451 6 лет назад

      Hitchens also spoke the words of the God that I believe in.

  • @iansorbello9693
    @iansorbello9693 3 года назад +6

    A brilliant orator, and one of my greatest heroes.

  • @nakorsa
    @nakorsa 8 лет назад +41

    Dammit. Cancer set him up, and pneumonia took him out. A true titan. Wished he were my uncle. He went much too soon.

    • @cole3835
      @cole3835 8 лет назад +6

      nakorsa i wish he was my father

  • @janebishop5885
    @janebishop5885 Год назад +1

    Hitchens and Vidal.... independent minds and spirits.... Never to be forgotten.

  • @jackk7116
    @jackk7116 9 лет назад +253

    For those that have come her to preach about their belief in god, I have a question. Which of the roughly 4000 currently practiced religions did your god tell you was the true one?

    • @tapasyatyaga4041
      @tapasyatyaga4041 9 лет назад +9

      One business..... many franchises. What's the contradiction?

    • @tapasyatyaga4041
      @tapasyatyaga4041 9 лет назад +5

      Michael Dewey SEO Videography
      Not really. Religions teach us humans have the capacity for wickedness. Consider a knife. Is it good or bad? It can be used in the hands of a skilled surgeon to save lives. It can be used in the hands if a psychopath to kill people.
      Why are you befuddled or surprise that people misuse religion? Religion is also why Catholic nuns, as one example of thousands, dedicate their lives to ministering to the poor and terminally ill in hospices.
      People are usually at war for geopolitical reasons, economic reasons, racial reasons and religion is thrown into the mix.

    • @tapasyatyaga4041
      @tapasyatyaga4041 9 лет назад

      *****
      The only logical result is in the existence of God as Rene Descartes amply demonstrated

    • @tapasyatyaga4041
      @tapasyatyaga4041 9 лет назад +1

      *****
      Your epistemology is radical empiricism. If you can't hear it, taste it, see it, touch it, smell it, or f#ck it, it doesn't exist.

    • @tapasyatyaga4041
      @tapasyatyaga4041 9 лет назад

      *****
      You seem like an intelligent guy.
      If I provided you a logical proof for the existence of God would you read it and think about it and, if warranted, expose it's logical flaw ?

  • @harryrenner4016
    @harryrenner4016 3 года назад +3

    He will be very much be missed, he left us far too soon. but he left all of his writings, lectures, debates, and other appearences. for us to concider and use and learn from. to make ourselves better atheists and more worldly people. we all have to thank Christopher Hitchens for all that he has given us. I say thanks Hitch.
    R. I. P.
    Christopher Hitchens

  • @Mashupsist
    @Mashupsist 10 лет назад +2

    Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

  • @christastempel5577
    @christastempel5577 9 лет назад +142

    A great man, greatly missed.

    • @JazzKeyboardist1
      @JazzKeyboardist1 9 лет назад +1

      ironic that he is now your imaginary friend?

    • @JazzKeyboardist1
      @JazzKeyboardist1 9 лет назад

      Morgan Fisher,,hey, sorry ,, the funny thing is that buddy Christ was supposed to be imaginary but now mister hitchens is dead and just imaginary like my other hero spock LOL most prophets like jesus and hitchens did walk the earth? sorry you did not get the joke

    • @cahillgreg
      @cahillgreg 9 лет назад +4

      JazzKeyboardist1 Nobody got it

    • @christastempel5577
      @christastempel5577 9 лет назад +2

      cahillgreg agreed.

    • @JazzKeyboardist1
      @JazzKeyboardist1 9 лет назад

      cahillgreg,,yes, Chris Hitchens groupies think they are smart, But they are very stupid and have no sense of humor

  • @stevieh9860
    @stevieh9860 3 года назад +6

    I would imagine that in many ways he was difficult to know and not particularly easy to like. Anyone who felt that certain about..... well, anything, and had the erudition and education to articulate that must have been hard to deal with at times. He did have quite an ego, but he was so able to back it up.
    His “God is not great” is a devastating work, from which there is no coming back. Anyone of any faith should surely have turned away if they had truly read it. I can honestly say his arguments truly opened my mind, and put into words exactly what I thought, only so much more skilfully.

  • @brianbriggs6479
    @brianbriggs6479 6 лет назад +2

    Wow how deep I'd never had those kind of thoughts until I was 9 years old!

  • @socman3988
    @socman3988 7 лет назад +6

    Oooh Mr. Hitchens ! We lost you too soon. 😢
    Thank you for what you left behind and in this world of madness and stupidity you were the voice of intellect and reason!!
    When will this world going to wake up?

  • @mucusmayhem1118
    @mucusmayhem1118 6 лет назад +9

    Absolutely brilliant of mind and what a character right up until the end. He has now gone back to where he once came from, and that is Cosmic Dust or Stardust. RIP Christopher Hitchens. 👏👏👏

  • @frank1847
    @frank1847 8 лет назад +1

    I will always think of him and his words ..... He entertained and made me think deeply . I miss and will always miss his wisdom .

  • @AHAB-ye4sz
    @AHAB-ye4sz 3 года назад +27

    One of history's greatest he will always be a inspiration to me !!

    • @mojo7495
      @mojo7495 Год назад

      I prefer Jesus Christ over C.H.
      Good day.

    • @AHAB-ye4sz
      @AHAB-ye4sz Год назад

      @@mojo7495 is it the rape torture cannibalism genocide slavery or pedophilia you like best in the bible ?

    • @James-gk8ip
      @James-gk8ip Год назад

      @@mojo7495 That is so unethical.

  • @Athril
    @Athril 7 лет назад +6

    To think that such a passionate genius would receive so much hatred from people who deem themselves and what they stand for as 'good'.

  • @NickInDetroit
    @NickInDetroit 11 лет назад +2

    First I ever saw Hitch's wife. She seems to have been his soul mate. I miss Hitch and am intrigued to hear his widow speak

  • @best7best711
    @best7best711 3 года назад +4

    A razor whit...super intelligent...funny...curious.. above all open and honest, a brilliant man.

  • @almo318
    @almo318 9 лет назад +9

    Thank you Hitch, you were the greatest, we really miss you.

  • @prabhakarrao4922
    @prabhakarrao4922 6 лет назад +7

    A truly amazing man. This world would be hard pressed to ever find an equal.

  • @rabidbigdog
    @rabidbigdog 7 лет назад +2

    An interview where Charlie Rose doesn't continuously interrupt his subject. Remarkble. Was expecting the worst when I clicked.

  • @paulj6662
    @paulj6662 11 лет назад +3

    He freed us all from the nonsense, and he left us the keys, this man was a saint! He was, is, and will continue to be loved, by a vast army of free thinkers and lovers of the English language.We Owe him so much,and will continue what he boosted, to the best of our abilities. No one can replace a gem like him. He is a joy to listen to.
    Any remarks to the contrary, can be taken as compliments from the people who could not keep up with him.

    • @nealgrimes4382
      @nealgrimes4382 Год назад

      Calling him a saint is perhaps a poor choice of words.

  • @waynekelash4536
    @waynekelash4536 10 лет назад +138

    The man was a genius, never lost a debate, and that's a fact!

    • @seanpatrick7827
      @seanpatrick7827 10 лет назад +9

      Oh I think he has lost at least one debate..the one to Jesus Christ the Almighty....and that is like going 18-0 in the NFL regular season and being beat 45-3 in the superbowl. Game..set...Match

    • @seanpatrick7827
      @seanpatrick7827 10 лет назад +2

      Typical Atheist response..please get some new material.

    • @MrRichallen1984
      @MrRichallen1984 10 лет назад +3

      Fuck yeah! Hitchens is a legend!

    • @atlasshrugged2u
      @atlasshrugged2u 10 лет назад +1

      hisxmark I knew you couldn't be...you know them (Christians) to well lol!

    • @jimwilson5093
      @jimwilson5093 10 лет назад +12

      Sean Patrick
      Talk about typical..you really want to dumb down it all down to a friggin football game? Interesting we have videos and the actual writings of Christopher Hitchens yet we have nothing from Jesus other than what other people said he said. If he so called son of god couldn't even get it together to write something down then I would say if you want to talk about a debate between Hitchens and Jesus then Jesus was a no show. So it was a forfeit. Hitch 1 Jesus 0

  • @fuzzehCANTdance
    @fuzzehCANTdance 11 лет назад +1

    There's genuinely a place in my heart that can never be filled again since Hitchens died. The same sort of feeling I have for Lennon.

  • @mattshelton4665
    @mattshelton4665 7 лет назад +6

    What a brilliant man. I only wish that I had heard of him sooner. RIP

  • @Ziggyziggy1
    @Ziggyziggy1 5 лет назад +3

    It feels like besides fighting his illness for himself,
    He also wanted to be around longer,so he can educate and make us aware of what goes on in the world..R.I.P Hitchens

  • @steveadams9289
    @steveadams9289 2 года назад +3

    He was a great man
    The beautiful way he spoke
    He could quote passages from
    So many people
    Listening to him
    Was an experience
    His eloquence
    His depth of knowledge
    His sense of humor
    RIP
    You are dearly missed

  • @valvlad09
    @valvlad09 3 года назад +5

    "Power of Facing" and "Dying Livingly"
    Orwell and Hitchens existed; thus, I am not afraid of anything.

  • @CheapGodiva
    @CheapGodiva 6 лет назад +1

    The saddest part of all of this is that you have known as much as he knew have believed so strongly in disbelief key in Jess now knows he was wrong and I find that to be a terrifying fact.

  • @Greyskymorning395
    @Greyskymorning395 11 лет назад +6

    I miss him so much, it's weird but it feels like I've lost one of my family members.

  • @mjason11
    @mjason11 7 лет назад +3

    still miss him one of the best

  • @4everu984
    @4everu984 5 лет назад

    What a beautiful and brilliant woman, such elegance. Christopher helps me feel sane in a crazy world. When he talks and an explosion of spontaneous applause happens I know I have a place in a powerful tribe in this lonely world. Thank you Charlie for the thoughtful interview.

  • @cjxked12
    @cjxked12 11 лет назад +4

    He was quite simply, my hero.

  • @patcomerford5596
    @patcomerford5596 Год назад +4

    As a young man, 50+years ago, I evicted god from my life. Hitchens' books provided a clear rationale for this eviction. For that I shall always be grateful.