Like Gore Vidal, a very sharp tool, exceptionally so.I think in a way beyond our imagining God will use him, probably has used him all through his Hamlet-like climbing the stairs of his tower.
I did buy his No One Left to Lie To though I guess I didn't mark it because it was jettisoned while other books remained.
I think he straw-manned his anti-God argument. I think he was compelled to fight unreasoned faith with reason.
I think it's as likely he convinced anyone as it was that our Baptist counsellor at age eight convinced us to eschew burning in Hell by knowing Jesus.
The one's goal is to entice you away with high thoughts; the other, to scare you into something with dark fears.
His great gift would be his full kit of surgical sardonicism.
May he find his blissful counterstroke having relaxed his resistance.
Thanks for the comments. I think you’ve said some things that others were thinking here. Nice.
What an awesome, compassionate, and very cogent post.
You remind me of why I care about you, and consider your posts well worth reading.
Chris has always reminded me of the authors and poets of the Catholic Spring in England. A secret believer, who, by nature of the age he lived in, took a contrarian stance.
At the end he said, with Francis Thompson:
“Naked, I await Thy Love’s uplifted stroke.”
~~Hound of Heaven