Posted on 09/24/2007 5:19:12 PM PDT by Diago
>> Actually, I think the “hole in a sheet” reference was a reference to the legend that certain Orthodox Jews have sex through a hole in a sheet. <<
Yes, it is. The legend comes from ignorant anti-semites who’d see the shirt on a clothing line, not recognize the form it takes when it is worn, mistake it for a sheet, and presume wierdness.
Hitchens is a very troubled man. I couldn’t read all of the article, just the first few paragraphs.
YES!! It's people like Hitchens who have the capability of becoming great saints. Saint Paul, pray for Christopher!
He hates Mother Theresa too. The harder they come, the harder they fall. Sometimes. Hopefully it's not too late for this lost soul.
Thanks for correcting that piece of erroneous information. It's not surprising that a man who hates the Truth would obscure the truth.
Mr. Hitchens needs prayers that he will see the holy light of God and come to faith in Christ.
Considering that this IMO is when things really started getting hot, it sounds like the priest hit a nerve.
Hitchens is a blithering idiotic nasty drunk.
Why does anyone give him the time of day?
Hitchens is a blithering idiotic nasty drunk.
Why does anyone give him the time of day?
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He has a brilliant mind, which could be put to good use, once he sees the light. I will pray for him. Anyone who brays as loudly as he does against God is struggling with the truth. And I am confident that he will eventually open his heart to the Lord.
Hitchens is bitter against God because when he was still a boy, his mother committed suicide...his younger brother Peter, who was much younger and didn’t remember his mother, is not as bitter.
My oldest (adopted) son had a similar deep set rage because his mother died, and although he continued to believe in God directed this rage against me and others in terrible outbursts .
So pray that Hitchens finds the love of God. Unlike other “anti God” professionals, Hitchens doesn’t hate God out of pride but out of sorrow.
Whenever I read about him in the press, I always say a quick prayer to Mother Teresa (who he maligned) to pray to God for his soul. She always had a soft spot for the “poorest of the poor” and indeed Hitchens is one of these.
If Hitchens likes drama so much, his conversion will be equally dramatic.
He will be on his hands and knees someday, and not in a drunken stupor either. Either this life, or the next, Chris! Make your choice while you have the chance.
I agree. And Hitchens is so frothingly angry at God that I can't help but think the Holy Spirit is after him.
Absolutely so, which he has now so many years later conveniently disguised -- buried in the dirt, so to speak -- as a lark against a teacher who merely suggested certain botanical features were of God's making.
"So pray that Hitchens finds the love of God. Unlike other "anti God" professionals, Hitchens doesn’t hate God out of pride but out of sorrow."
On the contrary, I find that he does so as he has found the much baser but far more common sin of pride extremely self-rewarding. atheists thrive on the notoriety it brings, and for Hitchens, some rare lucre.
If memory serves, Hitchens addressed an atheist convention in Virginia earlier this month, no doubt for his 30 pieces of silver. Yet it takes nothing more to expose Hitchens as a "bright" fraud than to review his passion for grounding the Hitchen children in religious instruction ...
New York Magazine: "And what if one of your children found God? Would that be a problem?"Hitchens: "Not at all. My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. The schools won’t do it anymore. And I even insist, though my wife [who is Jewish] isn’t that thrilled, on having for our daughter a little version of the Seder."
Almost all of Hitchen's major debates/monologues are on Youtube. I highly suggest everyone watch as many of them as they find tolerable. I find him pedantic on the topic of religion -- hypocritical (see above); strident; fearful; loaded with strawmen and appeal to emotion; and totally ignorant of the destruction and genocide that was wrought in the name of atheism in the 20th Century.
Chris is playing Richard Burton playing Richard Burton.
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