Losing Hitch

Words will fail to express what the writing and thinking of Christopher Hitchens has meant to me over the years. He was the first person to introduce me to a love of rigorous reason and fierce antitheism - things both at the center of my life now. He taught me that a firm and grounded ethical and moral code were not simply the provinces of the divine. He demanded a kind of furious logic from those he criticized and also from himself - and while I might've disagreed with him on occasion in areas of foreign policy - it was hard to never see the virtue of his case.

If you haven't read God is not Great you ought to - as an non-believer to pump you up and as a believer to test your faith. If you haven't ever encountered his skill as an essayist do yourself a favor and encounter them now.

As his atoms disperse into the wild wilderness, never to reassemble again, I'll hope to engage one or two of them one day in the false hope of swallowing some of that gritty British charisma of his.

Thankfully, we are left with his words. And they're a legacy unto themselves.