/lit/ - Literature

>"And I'll say it again for those in the back: Fuck Christianity. Fuck this oppressive religion that has insisted on pushing its irrational, oppressive philosophy onto everyone in the world for two thousand years."
He's right, you know.

In the early 2000s it was one of the biggest philosophical movements out there and now there isn't anything like that.

>>9876005
yes

>>7520774
NORTH

>>6996333
>Why do you think he was a nationalist?

Here is one source of a few where he makes it clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7muS0qFor6g
>"[After 9/11], the United States was subject to a fantastic amount of slander. I began to feel really protective of the United States. It's my country you're talking about."
>"And then I thought because we're going to have to talk about war, and fighting back. If I'm going to be saying we ought to send our armed forces over seas, I'd better be [in a position to be drafted]."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-cQZNcaujs&t=290
>"There's hardly a country in the world that wouldn't benefit from adopting [American] principles."
>"It certainly makes me very proud to be a citizen of it."

So, he talked like a Fox News anchor, but still tried to be "on the left..." and the left got pissed.

Here is one hatchet job, among many, run on him by the left after his death that called him, yes, a nationalist imperialist:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/12/christopher-hitchens-a-nationalist-imperialist-bully/

>>6915930
That ending was entirely out of character for Rust.

With how zealously nihilistic he was, it would have been the appropriate and most natural thing in the world for him to dismiss his NDE with one of the standard atheist explanations.

But... he had a deathbed conversion. What shit.

A cowardly slap in the fact to atheists everywhere. Pretty much a middle finger, actually, as it's a hot-button point for them.

>"God is not real!"
>audience applauds rapturously
>"God.....IS NOT REAL!"
>audience gives standing ovations, several members of the crowd high five one another
>"GOD....IS...NOT....REAL!"
>applause gets even louder somehow, audience starts stomping their feet, several members of the audience start having seizure, shit begins being flung around the auditorium, Hitchens begins crowd surfing