idiot savant
Prayer for his immortal soul, Ping!
What a tortured soul he was and it showed in his eyes.
Excellent article.. If indeed his pride stopped him from crying out to God..we can hope he repented silently ...
He had heard the gospel many times, to refuse it leads to a harsher judgement ..I hope he called to God
Astonishing that anyone would automatically assign pro-abortion sentiments to atheists and agnostics.
Not having found God or faith but having reverence for the unborn is evidence of hope.
Not having faith and being pro-abortion is evidence of evil.
Tired of so-called conservatives defending this anti-Christian bigot. For a guy who did not believe in God that’s about all he talked & wrote about in the last 10 years.
Hitchens suspected there would be rumors of a deathbed conversion – but even more he feared that he might actually call out to God. Speaking perhaps truer than he knew, he sought to give a preemptive strike against such a possibility, explaining that would not be the real Christopher Hitchens doing such a thing:
Even if my voice goes before I do, I shall continue to write polemics against religious delusions, at least until it’s hello darkness my old friend. In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be “me.” (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.)
So in other words, he knew he was wired to believe in a Creator. Just too stubborn (while “lucid’) to admit it.
Christopher will get to meet Jesus, if only briefly. At that time he will learn how insignificant his opinion was.
Mr. Hitchens - no one in this world is truly "lucid." We are all operating under great limitations - sin, bias, emotion. That is the condition of this world. Now that your conditions have changed, you may see things differently.
For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.1 Corinthians 13:12
I read he was pro-Iraq.
I really hope he truly repented and believed on Jesus the Saviour. Imagine the torture of being hell when heaven was just a simple prayer of confession away. All the hell we should ever experience is right here on the surface of the earth.
What? Hitchens performed abortions? I call BS.
RIP. Had lunch with him once. Fascinating character and an excellent conversationalist who could alternately annoy and amuse.
Requiescat in pace.
Every so often I would say specific prayers for his conversion. I know a great many christians were praying for him. He was so cold I think of Jesus’s line in Revelation. I really believe in faith he had a conversion up to including right before death. He may of pointed out to disregard a notion but it was before the real end of his life. Praise Jesus!
Hitch was who he was, and I’m glad. He was outrageously talented and believed in himself unfailingly. .RIP, dear fellow. Many of us here enjoyed your work over the years whether or not we agreed with you.
Here’s a link to a good NYT essay about him by his friend Ian McEwan that pretty much captures the essence of the man.
I would go into manhattan on sundays just to hear Father George and then David Wilkinson. What great Christians. The humble manner of these two christians were inspiring.
"You have the press," he answered. "Go, make his memory as secure as you know how."
You know, if death *does* end it all, and God and God's advocates have repeatedly insisted that God accepts last-minute deathbed conversions, what's the harm in buying a little fire insurance at the last second? If you're wrong about it, you're *DEAD*. You won't even have any embarrassment to suffer.
A funny thing, pride is...
Cheers!