Thank Hitch

The Thank Hitchens Project

Thank you to everyone that submitted videos and helped on the project. The video has been put together and is being sent to Hitchens.

Christopher Hitchens via Reason.com

We all know Christopher Hitchens. Most of use have at least one copy of his his books sitting on the book shelf right now. Looking dog eared and ragged, they’ve been read and reread many times.

(via Wikipedia)

Christopher Eric Hitchens (born 13 April 1949) is an English-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He is a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 he was voted the world’s fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll.

Identified as a champion of the “new atheism“ movement, Hitchens describes himself as an anti-theist and believer in the philosophical values of the Enlightenment. Hitchens says that a person “could be an atheist and wish that belief in god were correct,” but that “An antitheist, a term I’m trying to get into circulation, is someone who is relieved that there’s no evidence for such an assertion.” He argues that the concept of God or a supreme being is a totalitarian belief that destroys individual freedom, and that free expression and scientific discovery should replace religion as a means of teaching ethics and defining human civilization. He wrote at length on atheism and the nature of religion in his 2007 book God Is Not Great.

Though Hitchens retained his British citizenship, he became a United States citizen on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial, on 13 April 2007, his 58th birthday. His latest book, Hitch-22: A Memoir, was published in June 2010.

In case you didn’t know, he’s dealing with a very rough disease right now. You see, Hitch has Esophageal Cancer. It is currently in Stage 4 and has metastasized to his lymph nodes. He talks about it in his Vanity Fair column and in this interview with c-span.

So What Did We Do?

In one of his latest interview he stated how he loves receiving correspondence. Well short of starting a letter writing campaign and since my handwriting is terrible, we decided to do the next best thing. Michigan Skeptics started the Thank Hitch Project. The goal of this project was to send a thank you video. This video was made up of clips of each and every one of us saying thank you for all he’s done.