Dec 15 2011
Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. – Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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2 comments
bookreviewed
December 15, 2011 at 9:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Thank for this poignant, fitting quote. It’s perfect. I hope the world can now rid themselves of the silly atheists in foxholes adage. He was THE atheist in a foxhole. RIP Hitch. A sad day
Dean J. Smith
December 17, 2011 at 10:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
One of the two greats and I wish he could have been with us longer.