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Just curious.....you believe this, WHY?....what do you base this on?....just asking

I believe this as well. I believe it because of a wonderful film that adequately captures the love of God. The movie is called "The Perfect Stranger" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466923/) in which a modern-day woman is invited for dinner with Jesus, who shows up looking modern, in a suit. Once she finally accepts who He really is, she mentions that Hitler wouldn't be loved by God. Jesus refutes her, saying, "Hitler is VERY loved by God." When she expresses her incredulity, Jesus takes a salt and a pepper shaker, and puts them table-length apart. He points along the axis, and says, "This is Godliness and Holiness. You are the pepper shaker, and Hitler is the salt shaker. Obviously, you are much more Godly and Holy than Hitler, as we see by the arrangement of the shakers on the table. Do you know where God is on this scale?

She looks at Him.

"Jupiter," Jesus says. "His level is out to Jupiter. He barely can notice the difference between the two of you. He loves you both."

I was thunderstruck. It makes intuitive sense to me. God is made out of love, He can do nothing other than Love.

Laz, no offense, truly no offense....and all due respect...

..but have you read much of the Bible...both Old and New Testaments?

We can't pick and choose what kind of God we want....

He IS.

He is God of wrath as well as God of love.

Far too many "pious" people here who maybe need to spend a little more time with their Bible.

". . . for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." Matthew 5:45

God loves every single soul equally well. It is out of love that he allows us our freedom to reject him and he doesn't love us any less if we do.

I wonder at anyone who believes that God doesn't love every soul condemned to Hell as much as every soul who goes to live with Him in Heaven.

Christ as well.

Did not Christ intercede with His Father to forgive those who had persecuted him? Luke 23:34--"Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots."

Christopher Hitchens didn't believe as I believe, or as God would have him believe, but it is not up to me to judge him for that non-belief. All I can know is that those who knew him, yet disagreed with him still loved and respected him.

A man is known by the company he keeps and very clearly Hitchens was a man who attracted and kept good company.