Posted on 12/15/2011 9:13:27 PM PST by Nachum
May he RIP.
Christ, forgive all that espouse atheism because they can’t understand the wonderful meaning of your sacrifice.
Did he repent?
I pray God’s mercy was on him at the time of his death.
Our kids LOVED the Tripods series, as did I! The older two were able to see the mini-series that came out in the mid to late 80’s. A few years ago, I read they were thinking of making a movie; sure wish they would.
I hope that Christopher Hitchens did in the end convert.
Imagine Blessed Mother Teresa welcoming him into Heaven.
God didn’t say we are to understand it but believe it.
I think Hitch will neither make it to heaven nor be sent to hell. I suspect he and William F Buckley will converse and argue for all time in purgatory. I do not think either one of them wanted hell nor heaven.
Chris was not neutral on God. He was anti-God. He worked against God and tried to destroy Him in the hearts and minds of people. Either the Bible is a lie or I would not want to be him right now.
Or he repented in his final moments, which would be something to celebrate.
I hope he did. :(
Indeed it would. I know there are many people who "don't believe in death-bed confessions", but I believe that everything in the Bible is there for a reason, including the story of the thief on the cross. If that's not an example of a death-bed confession that resulted in salvation, then I don't know what is. We shouldn't be too quick to try and limit the grace of God based on our own opinion of what is just - in the end we all deserve hell.
But for the grace of God, there go I.
haha. he will be missed.
Judging by the comments on this thread, not many of the posters have ever really read Hitchens.
I recall years ago a Freeper (Miss Marples, perhaps) would post some of Hitchens writings criticizing Clinton and the left. I didn't like Hitchens at the time and made some nasty comments about him on FR.
Then, I found some time to read him and became a fan. He was brilliant and probably right about most things. He certainly had the courage of his convictions -- that's a rare quality.
Hitch died much too young. He had so much more to say.
“... especially those in most need of Thy mercy.”
Can we hope?
Last night our RCIA (an instruction class for adults coming into the Catholic Church) had a lesson on “The Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell.” The uncomfortable paradox: that God, who is the Source of the Splendor of Light and the sweet exhilaration of Love, is also the Source of our great but dreadful Liberty: the radical ability to say Yes or No.
God is a genius at pulling people through that Time-Space Wormhole called Death and setting them up, alive (if shaken) on the other side. But it always involves your Yes. It always involves clingng in the dark to Someone you can’t see, but Who’s saying, “I can pull you through. Believe. Trust. Love. Hold on.”
“Hold on!”
Christopher, we hope you said “Yes.” It’s all we can hope for now.
No, I got it from the poem by Shelley, Ozymandias.
I was unaware of this poem, thank you! It’s depiction of the truth, “ALL EMPIRES FALL”, is probably why the name was use by the author of the Tripods series, the character inspires children to rebel against a tyranical alien master race.
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