Atheists & Agnostics

My mom, for one. She used to be a protestant when she was young, but she got better. One might say she's also an agnostic, but without active belief in god or god(s), she's an atheist as well.

Hitchens was actively sexist. Promulgated it. Perhaps his intent was to rankle and challenge women to exercise their voices, but that's a charitable hope on my part with little evidence to support it. So, on that issue, I found his behavior, and his claims to be deplorable. Much like his position on the Iraq war, and the war drums he beat on the road to it. But he's dead now, and I am free, as I always was, to take what I deem his good ideas and run with those, and simultaneously discard his mistakes, or, even learn from them so they are not repeated.