Posted on 05/04/2006 10:20:30 AM PDT by churchillbuff
Brilliant! Let us do evil that good may come of it.
Poor Christopher. He seems like a good guy, but he's just asking to fry.
Another example that Christopher Hitchens seems to hate Christianity and Catholicism. Yet a lot of freepers love him because he's pro-Iraq-invasion. But so is Hillary. Favoring the Iraq invasion dosn't make you a conservative, just as opposing it (as I do) doesn't make you a liberal. Indeed, Hitchens is very liberal. He has said despicable things about Reagan, Mother Teresa and other people I, as a conservative, regard as heroes.
Some people will believe anything.
But I have no interest in his religious views. He's not on the right team.
IOW somwone 1500 years ago came up with a cool forgery which was discredited.
Now National Geographic admits they can prove it is real and admits it is prrooooobably a forgery, so we have useful idiots like this buy the fraud a millenia later.
Stuck on Stupid for certain.
Let's bring back Gnosticism and call it Hitchenism.
Isn't it one of the rules of writing that a person should write on topics that he knows something about?
"Isn't it one of the rules of writing that a person should write on topics that he knows something about?"
Not on Free Republic. [grin]
This is a vile anti-Christian smear. East was an occasion for anti-Semitic paranoia up until 1975? I was well into adulthood by 1975, and never heard of such paranoia. Rather, Easter was a time of joy because of Christ's Resurrection. Hitchens is hateful. Interesting, though, that you - Petronski- smear me as a Nazi-lover, simply because I disagree with Hitchens on the Iraq war. You, with your smear tactics (the NEville photo) are in good company, with this hateful person.
I compare Hitchens to Stalin. Stalin wanted to destroy Hitler. Whatever Stalin's motives for wanting that, the result was an absolute good. In all other respects, Stalin was an evil being.
Hitchens supported the Iraq operation? Great. He's still an evil person in many other respects.
Stck to your last, bud. Have you bothered to read this thing?
This is a vile smear. Easter was an occasion for anti-Semitic paranoia up until 1975? I was well into adulthood by 1975, and never heard of such paranoia. Rather, Easter was and is a time of joy because of Christ's Resurrection. Hitchens is hateful. Interesting, though, that you - Petronski- smear me as a Nazi-lover (that NEvill photo you invariably trot out), simply because I disagree with you and Hitchens on the Iraq war. You, with your smear tactics are in good company with this hateful Hitchens.
If I'm not mistaken Hitchens is an athiest.
Of course, Hitchens IS a Stalinist, so the comparison is all the more apt.
Like Michael Schiavo then? 'Helping' Jesus to die was his task and we should thank Judas? Alrighty.
Hitchens has come unhitched. I guess for the abortion, love the sinner and his sins, euthanasia, culture of death crowd, this is the perfect answer. A 'new' twist on Christianity to fit their ideas, their culture of death lifestyle.
I like Hitchens, but you have a point. Yes, he's a liberal, but I think he tries to think through things and not blindly drink his kool-aid. I respect that. And he's a patriot. He's a good thinker and I can read him even when I disagree because he does think. But he has a hatred which gives him a very blind side--Christianity. So while I may scan what he has to say about it, it's the one area that I don't try to read and consider his thoughts.
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