I really believe that this liberal man did all he could to banish Christianity from the earth, but he ultimately went the way of all flesh, as it warns us in Scripture.
I'm reminded of what National Review said (paraphrasing) upon learning of the death of Bella Abzug: "she wupported every left-wing, procommunist and anti-American cause she could find. She will not be missed." As true in this instance as it was then. 'Nuff said.
I suffered this clown's anti-Christian, socialist sanctimony when I was an undergraduate at Yale. He was then, in my humble opinion, a secular humanist, that is, an atheist. May God have mercy on his soul!
RIP. He was an arrogant and misguided man who did much evil--but then, so for a time did Saul of Tarsis. Perhaps Coffin came to the cross on his death bed. I sincerely hope so.