Posted on 05/29/2019 7:29:17 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
May 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Christopher Hitchens would probably be pleased to know that nearly a decade after his death, people have not stopped talking about him. Beyond the endless speculation as to what the Hitch might have had to say about President Donald Trump (back in 2000 he wrote that Trump had “worked out how to cover 90 percent of his skull with 30 percent of his hair”), he was recently the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary “Remembering Christopher Hitchens,” and the filmmaker who followed Hitchens for the 2009 documentary Collision has been releasing short vignettes of behind-the-scenes footage featuring Hitchens’ debates and interactions with Rev. Douglas Wilson of Christchurch, Idaho.
The revealing glimpses of Hitchens having jovial conversations with Wilson, whom Christopher’s brother Peter once referred to as a “purveyor of weapons-grade Calvinism,” reminded me of a 2016 book on a little-known aspect of the resolutely godless intellectual’s life: His close friendships with many evangelical Christians. The Christian author Larry Taunton’s memoir of his friendship with Hitchens, which he told me was a “spiritual biography,” attracted outrage from many Hitchens sycophants before they even made it past the title: The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Famous Atheist. The founder of a Christian apologetics organization specializing in debate, Taunton not only debated Hitchens but actually took several road trips with him — and these experiences make up the body of his fascinating account. They also seem to contradict Hitchens’ public declarations of contempt for all Christians.
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He was very reasonable.
Yes he was.
He wasn’t pushy....................
Even when I disagreed with him about the conclusion I knew he had done his homework. I still pull up a YouTube video of his once in a while. His takedown of the Clinton’s is better than everyone not named Schweizer.
Doubtful.
If Hitchens is taking a dirt nap, he isn't sentient...period.
If he is in hell, he has other matters to worry about.
If he did convert at the last minute, he must feel horribly ashamed of his great anger toward believers and his behavior here on Earth.
That said, if he is in some parallel universe we are thus far unaware of, he might be pleased...but I doubt it.
Atheists often know much more scripture than they would ever admit. In fact percentages show that atheist talked more about about God and Jesus than Christians do.
So this revelation does not surprise me at all. What I was always wondered and questioned is what goes on in the atheist mind as they read scriptures? Do atthists loath and revile these readings, do athesists commit the unpardonable sin of revoking the Holy Spirit?
In some cases, do athesists reach a point of epiphany and convert? With today’s strong anti-christian and satanic influence on young folks in schools and colleges that probably happens less and less as the influence is very strong throughout their formative years to reject God and morality.
“Do not fear” my old cowboy preacher used to say, “because the Lord is in control.”
Maybe this is a winnowing process put into motion before the tares are gathered up placed in a gigantic pile and burned. Which, is my view of the pre-tribulation rapture where it is not the Saints who are caught up but, as Jesus described in Matthew, it is when the tares are gathered up and destroyed.
When you're making the last lap of life things get real.
The possibility of an eternal life had to be on his mind.
I hope he became a believer in Christ.
I think some atheist are very anti-religious and some aren’t. It’s the latter that I have difficulty with because they accept that there may be some form of God, but it’s too unenlightened to say that one religion is any truer than the others. Therefore they are ok if you are a Christian, but don’t accept the divinity of Christ. Many are former believers who tried to resolve their doubts and failed. They claim they are scientific in the sense that they are always searching for truth and self-correcting whereas most religions are beholden to culturally created texts. I.E., they see themselves as truth-seekers and everyone else as dogmatists or Plato’s cave dwellers.
I didn’t always agree with Hitchens, but I always thought he was honest and open.
When the DC Chapter had that major pro-impeachment rally in the 1990s, I attended. I was covering it for Newsmax, and I practically bumped into Matt Drudge as we were both trying to interview Alan Keyes coming off the podium.
Afterwards, there was a lunch, and I happened to wind up at the same table as Hitchens. He was a delightful and fun conversationalist, and we agreed about Clinton, even if we disagreed about many other things.
Didn’t John Wayne do the same?
Agreed.
You either believe that you are nothing more than evolved flesh with a worldly agenda, having emerged from primordial ooze, or you believe you’re flesh infused with the spirit of God, and that spirit is in continuous conflict for control over the worldly pursuits of said flesh.
Theory teaches that everything came from nothing; science teaches me that matter can be neither created, nor destroyed… therefore, matter has always been here. An object at rest tends to remain so unless acted upon by an EXTERNAL FORCE. Even if everything sprang from nothing in a “supposed” big bang, some EXTERNAL FORCE surely must have preceded it, no? PARADOX. Trying to say something popped out of some other dimension… blah, blah… still presupposes that some other EXTERNAL FORCE was at work.
God is omnipresent, and therefore, even a mere whisper from God is about as EXTERNAL of a FORCE as it gets, and for my money, that explanation is so much more logical than all of the other hokum and gibberish spewed by those who advocate the denial of God.
I watched my Dad grapple with this towards the end of his earthly life; my heart hurt for him, and it was at this point that I really began to contemplate and try to put it all together. I have prayed so much since then that I’m bound to have made up for the last 50-years of lost time. For reasons known only to God, he chose to favor our species over all others on this Earth by imbuing us with souls. A tiny fragment of Him occupies our flesh and provides us with reasonable, rational critical thinking abilities above and beyond that originally supplied in the flesh. What we do with it is up to us.
Personally, I don’t want to go through the rest of my life “wondering”… for the most part, I’ve found my answers, and an awful lot of peace-of-mind.
Wayne was never an atheist. He was always a believer, being raised Presbyterian. But all three of his wives Catholic and all of his children were raised in the faith. When he went to church it was with them. On his deathbed he became a Catholic. John Wayne has a grandson whose a priest.
She would jump on the chance to love her enemy --- to love him and love him, and keep on loving him, ready to run right into hell and back for him, begging Jesus on his behalf, her canny mind seizing any possibility that he could be jerked off of his hell-path at the last moment---
I almost laugh out loud thinking of it.
I imagine him getting hit --- whomp! --- and rolling backward from the cliff, sitting up in un-sought-for safety and saying to Jesus: "I feel like I got hit by a four-foot-eleven Arnold Schwarzenegger. Who WAS that??"
And Jesus saying "I could'a done it on my own, you see, but this was a special request from Mother T."
Hitch knew this would happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4cPe_YS8i8
I heard that said of Mark Twain.
Why not both...
By the way, there’s either none, or one, depending on how you count.
Ha Ha - another rascally FReeper posting without reading the article, eh?
If by "God" you mean "the uncreated creator of everything else that is" …. yeah, there can only be one.
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