Posted on 12/18/2011 9:54:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Thanks for posting. My husband and I once had an opportunity to invite Hitchens to our private club. We suspected he would love all the free booze but in the end we chickened out. So sad we did.
“If they think there is not a God and that people who believe in one are a problem, they are an anti-theist.
Hitchens was an anti-theist.”
His wife is Jewish - I don’t think he thought of her as a problem.
"Later, I would invite him to a different event. He responded he wished he could go, but it was a Jewish holiday and he would be in Temple. He added “(I know, I know.)” This was, after all, at the same time his book, God Is Not Great, was on the bestseller list.This might seem like hypocrisy, but it wasn’t. Christopher’s wife, Carol Blue, or just “Blue,” is Jewish, and she wanted him go go with her. Christopher’s family was Jewish, though he didn’t know it growing up. So maybe it also was his way of nodding to his family."
Something new to bludgeon the anti-theists with...thanks!
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