Posted on 12/15/2011 9:12:53 PM PST by Arthurio
R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens
December 15, 2011 11:51 P.M. By Daniel Foster Vanity Fair reports that Christopher Hitchens has passed away. Often frustrating, usually provocative, always brilliant. He added to the culture, and the conversation.
I’m sure I join many in hoping he is in for a glorious, glorious surprise.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Hitchens was an atheist. They don’t get into Heaven.
How do you know he didn’t repent? Maybe he accepted Christ before he died.
I’m with you. Wish that it weren’t so, but I seriously doubt there was a deathbed conversion.
RIP
Those that trash the recently deceased(unless they were truly evil people) are below whale shit, IMO.
I, too, hope he found a glorious, glorious surprise. Heard an interview with him last Winter, adamantly holding to his atheistic views. He was a very complex person, gifted in so many ways. May his family find comfort in his passing.
I have never spoke here about this before. My grandfather was an atheist. He lived til the age of 100 and on his deathbed, the day of his passing, he found Christ.
You don't really know what Hitchens had in his heart at the end. But that does not matter. Your comment stinks anyway. Classless.
Very well said.
A classless comment.
Uh...it is nice of you to hope he might have done so. But Hitchens didn’t seem the type for a deathbed conversion.
I direct your attention to Mrs. Obama's 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community." To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be "read" at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language. Anyway, at quite an early stage in the text, Michelle Obama announces that she's much influenced by the definition of black "separationism" offered by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton in their 1967 screed Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. I remember poor Stokely Carmichael quite well. After a hideous series of political and personal fiascos, he fled to Africa, renamed himself Kwame Toure after two of West Africa's most repellently failed dictators, and then came briefly back to the United States before electing to die in exile. I last saw him as the warm-up speaker for Louis Farrakhan in Madison Square Garden in 1985, on the evening when Farrakhan made himself famous by warning Jews, "You can't say 'Never Again' to God, because when he puts you in the ovens, you're there forever."I have the distinct feeling that the Obama campaign can't go on much longer without an answer to the question: "Are we getting two for one?" And don't be giving me any grief about asking this. Black Americans used to think that the Clinton twosome was their best friend, too. This time we should find out before it's too late to ask.
“Hitchens was an atheist. They don’t get into Heaven. “
CS Lewis said that he felt that atheists maybe closer to God than many others who never take a position either way. Atheists at least adhere to reason and reason is a step in God’s direction.
Maybe, like Ivan Ilych, he turned to the Lord in the last days or hours.
“So, he will be thrown into the pit of fire that is the final death.”
>“To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.”<
Truer words were never written.
Oh, come now; did either of you read much of Hitchens’ writings, or see him in interviews?
He probably would have found my comment snarky and amusing.
Uh...it is nice of you to hope he might have done so. But Hitchens didn’t seem the type for a deathbed conversion.
I hope he did. Don’t you???
If he found the Lord on his deathbed as a lot of people do, he's not going to Hell either.
Why not?
I believe all are welcome.
The atheists say, “Gentlemen....I was wrong”.
He may have asked for God's forgiveness on his deathbed. How can you be so presumptuous. I hope the guy is sitting at the right hand of the Father. How people can be so cruel to people is beyond me. I pray that he has a front row seat in Heaven. I refuse to be like those imbeciles who yelled “He is guilty” and caused Jesus to be hung from the cross. If you feel you are an expert as to who is going to Heaven and who doesn't, then perhaps YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!!!!!
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