Posted on 04/02/2011 7:20:05 PM PDT by ellenbrewster
With Christopher Hitchens teetering on the brink of eternity, revisit this query from 2007:
Do we have any prayer volunteers for Christopher Hitchens? He’s the self -proclaimed “atheist/anti-theist,” and stunningly clever wordsmith. He leapfrogged puzzled agnosticism to a pledged rebellion against God.
He’ll be a tough turn-around, so thick is his iron-clad ignorance of the divine.
In a recent Newsweek he cynically dissects Mother Teresa’s dark theological struggles, a postscript to his derisive 1995 book, “The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice.” A week ago he was a featured speaker for an Atheist Alliance conference in Washington DC.
Hitchens’ latest book, “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” maligns the devoted, be their god Creator or counterfeit. “Holy books,” including the Bible, are “mythological morality tales” and he suggests any religious training is child-abuse.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Poor Chris. I do hope he turns around before this earthly life ends for him.. He’s not going to like what his life of psuedo-intellectualism has brought him.
Because God instilled within us a will to live. If He had not done that, all we Christians would be offing ourselves to go be with Him. Our time will come, but in the meantime, He has things He wants us to accomplish.
As an adopted child, I thank you for the grace you extended toward your son.
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