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Christoper Hitchens, noted atheist has died.
This should be a cause for reflection of our own mortalities.
When I posted a link to a recent essay by him I did not anticipate his death coming so soon.
There will be many obituaries and much reflection from both an atheistic and theistic point of view.
Look them up.
I’ll link to the Christianity Today obituary by Douglas Wilson, US Christian and calvinist pastor who shared a speaking tour (and resultant friendship) with Hitchens.
It is respectful, measured and insightful.
An excerpt:

Christopher was an heir of the Enlightenment tradition, and would have felt right at home in the 18th-century salons of Paris. He wanted to carry on the grand tradition of doubting what had been inherited from Christendom, and to take great delight in doubting it. This worked well, or appeared to, for a time. But skepticism is a universal solvent, and once applied, it does not stop just because Christendom is gone. “I think, therefore I am. I think.” We pulled out the stopper of faith, and the bathwater of reason appeared undisturbed for a time. But modernism slowly receded and now postmodernism is circling the drain. Our intelligentsia needs to figure out how to do more than sit in an empty tub and reminisce about the days when Voltaire knew how to keep the water hot.
Read the rest here.