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Cristopher Hitchens je za Vanity Fair napisao drugi u nizu članaka o svojoj bolesti i o reakcijama ljudi oko njega:

What?s an atheist to think when thousands of believers (including prominent rabbis and priests) are praying for his survival and salvation?while others believe his cancer was divinely inspired, and hope that he burns in hell?

When I described the tumor in my esophagus as a ?blind, emotionless alien,? I suppose that even I couldn?t help awarding it some of the qualities of a living thing. This at least I know to be a mistake: an instance of the ?pathetic fallacy? (angry cloud, proud mountain, presumptuous little Beaujolais) by which we ascribe animate qualities to inanimate phenomena. To exist, a cancer needs a living organism, but it cannot ever become a living organism. Its whole malice?there I go again?lies in the fact that the ?best? it can do is to die with its host. Either that or its host will find the measures with which to extirpate and outlive it.

But, as I knew before I became ill, there are some people for whom this explanation is unsatisfying. To them, a rodent carcinoma really is a dedicated, conscious agent?a slow-acting suicide-murderer?on a consecrated mission from heaven. You haven?t lived, if I can put it like this, until you have read contributions such as this on the Web sites of the faithful:
Who else feels Christopher Hitchens getting terminal throat cancer [sic] was God?s revenge for him using his voice to blaspheme him? Atheists like to ignore FACTS. They like to act like everything is a ?coincidence?. Really? It?s just a ?coincidence? [that] out of any part of his body, Christopher Hitchens got cancer in the one part of his body he used for blasphemy? Yea, keep believing that Atheists. He?s going to writhe in agony and pain and wither away to nothing and then die a horrible agonizing death, and THEN comes the real fun, when he?s sent to HELLFIRE forever to be tortured and set afire.

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Blogerica Irreverent Impiety bloga napisala je zanimljivu analizu Hrvatske danas:

Moram iskreno priznati, drage čitateljice i dragi čitatelji, da sam jako zbunjena.

Nerijetko nas mediji obasipaju svakakvim, često kotradiktornim informacijama, no neke znaju biti radikalna suprotnost.

Naime, iako se na zadnjem popisu stanovništva u Hrvatskoj od 4.437.460 anketiranih njih čak 3.897.332 izjasnilo kako pripada rimokatoličkoj vjeri, kardinal Josip Bozanić je izjavio kako su katolici u Lijepoj našoj ? diskriminirani!

Bozanić nas upozorava na činjenicu da, osim progonstva u drugim zemljama svijeta, katolici bivaju proganjani i šikanirani i u Hrvatskoj, državi koja se ponosno busa u prsa da je predziđe kršćanstva. Veli on da su katolici u RH žrtve prijezira, diskriminacije, netolerancije, omalovažavanja i podcijenjivanja (trnovit je put do svete uloge mučenika ).