Posted on 12/17/2011 1:46:09 PM PST by NYer
idiot savant
Prayer for his immortal soul, Ping!
Regardless, the Lord being both all just and all merciful every soul ends up exactly where it belongs.
What a tortured soul he was and it showed in his eyes.
You are right, his eyes look dead.
That’s the gin.
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.
No... that’s the thing that LEADS to the gin.
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.
Even an atheist can understand the logic of life beginning at conception.....if not, when is that “magic moment” when it becomes a life? What about one millisecond before that? Where is that line drawn? So if we cannot determine that, error on the side of caution, I say....even an atheist could understand that.
Christopher will get to meet Jesus, if only briefly. At that time he will learn how insignificant his opinion was.
God assigns a conscience to all men - whether or not they acknowledge His existence. So I never posit ‘even atheists’ are decent, human beings.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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
Hitchens never showed any respect for Christians, or their religion. He went way beyond questioning the Christian religion; and his thought devolved into nothing but obsessive hate.
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.
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