Posted on 10/11/2011 1:30:41 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Just as it’s true that there are no aethists in foxholes, ain’t too many in a hospice either.’’
Chris, like the billboard says, “GET RIGHT WITH GOD.”
It's pure hate foaming from their mouths like they were pawns of Satan.
I love a lot of the stuff Penn & Teller do. But don't get them started on religion and god...they go berserk.
I will pray for Hitch ONCE as it is the Christian thing to do. Although I am a Christian who hates liberals and will never pray for them..I will give one prayer for Hitch. Honestly, I do enjoy his rants for the past 2 years.
I don’t know why but this thread reminded me of an old joke. It goes like this:
Northern Baptists say, “There aint’t no Hell.”
Southern Baptists say, “The Hell there ain’t.”
A little levity for a very serious discussion.
I have prayed for Hitchens.
My father died before accepting Christ as his savior. I know how hard it is for the loved ones of unbelievers to carry on after they have died.
My hope is that Hitchens will have a moment of clarity where he reaches for the gift of salvation. There is still hope.
I dont get the anger re Hitchens and Mother Teresa.
He had researched her for years and came to the conclusion that she was a charlatan and publicity whore. She made herself a public figure and courted publicity, so fairs fair if someone stands up and says soemthing that isnt fawning praise.
He isnt a filthy, angry person.
He is a cynic. The world needs a few of those you know. And he attacked Mother Teresa, so what?. I dont remember getting the memo that she was free from any criticism.
Hume was a philosophical giant and a genius.
1—As a Scot, and a lover of philosophy, thank you for your understanding of Hume.
2-The good enough for Jesus story is also ascribed to a Tennessee congressman in the 1920’s who opposed Bibles written in Latin in the state and allegedly said ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, its good enough for us’.
No need to be so callous.
Hitchens is pro-American, despite being liberal.
Well done my FRiend.
Hitchens discovered his profound love for America after 9-11.
It was always there, he wrote, but he just hadn’t acknowledged its depth and power.
Maybe he will discover a reverence for God before his personal midnight of the soul.
He has a remarkable mind and is a patriot. I’ll continue to pray for him.
I had the sensation of falling through black, opaque, featureless space in perfect indifference.
I could sometimes make out other people falling, too, and their fate,too, I viewed with indifference. This went on a long time, timelessly, or beyond time.
Then I saw my father, my own father, falling through space. I finally felt something: desperate indignation. I thought, "I don't want him to just sink down into nothingness. I want his life to have meant something. It is wrong, just wrong, for everything to be just utter futility, and absurdity, and blackness and loss, for him".
But I couldn't save him. I was falling, myself, and there was nothing to hold onto, no foothold, no conceivable help. And then it seemed to me that Christ (I don't claim this was a mystical experience, but it wasn't what I'd call a hallucination, either; nor was it a vision before my eyes. I'll have to call it interior seeing, and leave it at that) --- Christ, I saw or knew, was reaching out His hand to me, and I knew that if I grasped His hand, I could grab my father.
That's all.
It's all I would hope for, for anyone.
Very much of interest, and of solace too.
Thank you.
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