Posted on 03/28/2011 1:05:51 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
The last person you might expect Christopher Hitchens, one of the world’s best known atheists, to turn to for help would be an evangelical Christian.
But a highly religious doctor might be the only individual who can help the author and journalist who is suffering from cancer.
Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It will now be thoroughly impossible for him to ever refer to Christians as “stupid” without looking ridiculous.
That’s funny. I’d use my last remaining strength to strangle the murderer to death.
That is pretty bigoted of him, as there isn’t any proof that faith in the supernatural makes a person any less skilled to deal with the technical affairs of earthly existence. Even in the most hotly disputed area — many conventional evolutionary theory nonbelievers can regurgitate the theory with the “best” of them, but beg to disagree with it as a sufficient explanation for why there is life on earth or how it got where it is.
W.C Fields was an atheist... but not forever. Upon his death bed, a close frind walked in and caught WC reading the Bible... “Why” asked his friend... “Looking for loopholes”, was the answer.
LLS
Here in lies the irony, atheists require a God to deny.
Agnosticism troubles itself with neither good nor evil, God or devil.
I believe that many atheists will repent and know the Living God while many traditional church goers will be part of the great falling away. Traditional, meaning, social, not born again.
As for the some on this subject that are lampooning God for sickness in children, creation is full of death, Christ died and was resurrected to end this cycle. Their sarcasm is crueler than the child dying, for they would shut that same child out from the promise of hope in the new creation.
‘Athiests’ like to spout off and be ‘cool’ but when it comes down to the nitty gritty..
I can't recall noticing him since the Clinton years but wish him health.
Too often, atheists refer to lack of heaven on earth as “proof” for their position.
Others don’t believe “temptation” is “fair”.
The hypocrisy is that he talks about how religion is for fools, denies science, and poisons everything...yet when his life is on he line he is going to not just a Christian doctor but an evangelical one.
I understand the point that he chose him for being a doctor and not for being a Christian. The point you and others are missing is that his choice shows his contention that religion is for the uneducated masses is BS. At least when your life is on the line and you are not promoting a book.
Hopefully he will be saved in the way that matters.
Hitchens is an American citizen now.
Hitchens never went back to good old England with it's gummint medicine to find a a new cure for his cancer.
Is the converse also valid?
And I am sure he still believes that.
He was hiring a physician not a Pope.
I have no idea what religion my Cardiologist is, and it wouldn't matter anyway.
Results not religious beliefs is what we are all hiring when we hire a professional.
I see no hypocrisy.
Maybe Hitch has found his foxhole.
Hitchens does.....that's the irony.
It is as plain as day. Hitchens has not been shy about insisting that Christians are anti-science, stupid, anti-reality, etc. Being a good doctor involves application of scientific principles, coping carefully with reality accurately, and applying all of your intellect to the very best of your ability. By trusting in the intellect, skill and scientific knowledge of a professing Christian, Hitchens is guilty of rank hypocrisy. I pray it leads him to confront the contradictions in his life.
Agreed. But if you truly believed your Cardiologist was a fool, and then picked him to save your life. It would make you a liar or a hypocrite.
People who never give God a thought comes to prayer warriors when they run into trouble.
But God isn’t a respecter of persons. If the one who never thought of God comes to Him in repentance and sincerity of heart, God will hear his prayer, too.
so true
Father God, I acknowledge your unwavering love for Christopher Hitchens. As I speak the name 'Christopher', I declare him to be a Christ-bearer. I ask that You reveal Yourself to him in fullness. I pray that he receive the height and depth of Your overpowering love. I ask that Christ invade his heart and soul, and that Your gracious restoration would take place in him. As far as east is from west, You remove us from our transgressions. I declare that Christopher 'Christ-Bearer' Hitchens will be healed, restored, and be a mighty witness for Your Kingdom here on Earth. As it is loosed in heaven, so let it be loosed here on earth. For all things work for good to those who love You and are called according to Your purpose. Lift him up, Lord. Change him, fill him with zeal, and make him a mighty warrior for your Kingdom. In Christ's precious name I pray, amen.
Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.
-Matthew 18:19-
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