This is sad.I always enjoyed Hitchen’s intellect.He will be greatly missed,
Hitchens is Dead - YHWH
Hitchens did not hide behind intellectual scorn..”
This makes one question whether Mohler has a reading comprehension problem. With respect to Christianity, Hitchens’ method of argument was the drive-by cheapshot and sneer.
Hitchens was a dishonest, supremely arrogant, nasty man. There is absolutely no reason to whitewash his life and persona. Eveidently, Mohler can’t overcome his “evangelical niceness”, which, if Mohler’s account of the origins of Hitchen’s disdain for Christianity is to be believed, is precisely the sort of thing that drove Hitchens away from Christ.
That, however, is probably a naive rendering of Hitchens’ motives. Like sodomites everywhere, Hitchens was almost certainly much more inclined to deny Christ because of Hitchens’ sexual perversions and appetites than the weak version of Christianity he encountered. That diluted Christianity in all likelihood just made it easier for him to do what he wanted to do in the first place.
There is nothing to celebrate in the life of Hitchens. A good electrician does more every day to improve the lives of others than a bus load of dilletantes with acid pens...and that is all that Hitchens was.
C.S. Lewis had a very similar experience (though I think he probably had much higher intellectual horsepower than Hitchens).
But he wound up ditching atheism, largely due to the influence of brilliant friends like Tolkien and Owen Barfield and Charles Williams.
I find it hard to admire anything about a man who sneers at 90 year old women who have dedicated their lives to helping the needy.
I don't think there is anything disreputable in refusing to have the same dreary arguments over and over with people with whom you can't even establish a starting point. It's an exhausting and pointless exercise, and Dawkins is wise to forego it. Hitchens enjoyed that tussle. Not everyone does.
Who lost here?
Hitchens is dead, believing, and burning.
God is still Holy and Rightous.
I’m sorry. I cannot see why Dr. Mohler wasted all that time, bandwidth and virtual ink on that one particular God-hater. The loss of any eternal, never-dying soul is tragic. Once Hitchens assumed room temperature and was beyond redemption, HE was no more a tragedy than an unsaved wino who died on skid row. IMHO
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Good article. It is worthy of note that on the day Christopher Hitchens died, he became a believer in God.
Joel Osteen, anyone?
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
And this YT vid, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.
Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
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"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:8,9)
God responds to our faith with his gracious gift of salvation. God has given to every man the measure of faith. It's left to him (man) to direct it towards God (repentance from dead works and faith toward God--Hebrews 6:1). God chose in eternity past to save those who believe on him. And that is the Gospel.
Christopher Hitchens is in heaven now.