Brilliant! Let us do evil that good may come of it.
Poor Christopher. He seems like a good guy, but he's just asking to fry.
Another example that Christopher Hitchens seems to hate Christianity and Catholicism. Yet a lot of freepers love him because he's pro-Iraq-invasion. But so is Hillary. Favoring the Iraq invasion dosn't make you a conservative, just as opposing it (as I do) doesn't make you a liberal. Indeed, Hitchens is very liberal. He has said despicable things about Reagan, Mother Teresa and other people I, as a conservative, regard as heroes.
Some people will believe anything.
But I have no interest in his religious views. He's not on the right team.
IOW somwone 1500 years ago came up with a cool forgery which was discredited.
Now National Geographic admits they can prove it is real and admits it is prrooooobably a forgery, so we have useful idiots like this buy the fraud a millenia later.
Stuck on Stupid for certain.
Let's bring back Gnosticism and call it Hitchenism.
Isn't it one of the rules of writing that a person should write on topics that he knows something about?
This is a vile anti-Christian smear. East was an occasion for anti-Semitic paranoia up until 1975? I was well into adulthood by 1975, and never heard of such paranoia. Rather, Easter was a time of joy because of Christ's Resurrection. Hitchens is hateful. Interesting, though, that you - Petronski- smear me as a Nazi-lover, simply because I disagree with Hitchens on the Iraq war. You, with your smear tactics (the NEville photo) are in good company, with this hateful person.
Stck to your last, bud. Have you bothered to read this thing?
Like Michael Schiavo then? 'Helping' Jesus to die was his task and we should thank Judas? Alrighty.
Hitchens has come unhitched. I guess for the abortion, love the sinner and his sins, euthanasia, culture of death crowd, this is the perfect answer. A 'new' twist on Christianity to fit their ideas, their culture of death lifestyle.
It isn't a "lost gospel" of anykind. It was written some 300 years after the fact. It's simply a lost piece of fiction written by the same type of person as we find today writing works of fiction like the davinci code.
Well, if you are going to believe a bunch of nonsense you might as well advertise it. I don't think it's personal towards Christians as much as it is hatred of God. He doesn't seem to think much of religious Jews either, so it's the whole God thing that bugs Him. This article is nothing but a shaking fist towards heaven. It's not that he's blind but that he refuses to see. It's a battle between him and God. He thinks he can win. He can't.
Judas was a Muslim.
all we can do is hope & pray that ol' Christopher sees the Light before he checks out.
but Moses invests?
Judas as saint makes sense if that's the worldview you wish to justify. If you choose to adhere to the most authentic and reliable documents, though, Judas is no saint. Funny how there is a continual effort to justify and rationalize the actions of Judas as being a good thing. It was certainly part of the plan, but that doesn't make Judas any more forgiveable. We could claim any crime was ultimately part of some plan to justify that crime.
Hitchens' mastery of the written word, coupled with his stentorial, though often slurred, oratory gives the lie to the cliche, "God-given talent."
One of the basic tenets of Christianity is that Jesus had to go to the cross to atone for our sins. Doesn't that make all of us Christ-killers?
Died he for me? Who caused his pain!
For me? Who him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be
That thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
Charles Wesley, 1739
Oh, puh-leeze. The Gnostic doctrine that the Old Testament "Jehovah" was, at best, a "sorceror's apprentice" demi-god or, at worst, a demon, is as anti-Semetic as the worst elements of orthodox Christendom.