Check out, on this page, the main article by Dinesh D'Sousa and the interview with Hitchens and his brother Peter. I have to say that my impression of this man is of a snarling vacuous parody of a man — and an exemplar of evil. He says, "I can't stand anyone who believes in God, who invokes the divinity, or who is a person of faith. I mean that to me is a horrible repulsive thing." I was going to say that it is almost like he's an anti-christ, but that's exactly what he is by his own admission.
The title of his new book is "god is not Great". How utterly blasphemous can you get? He blasphemes twice in one title: Both denying God's greatness and deliberately insulting Him by violating the customary English way of showing respect for Him with capitals. (The subtitle is "How Religion Poisons Everything." I'd argue his last book had a blasphemous title, a book about Blessed Teresa of Calcutta called "The Missionary Position".)
I would never say, no matter how deep my faith, "I can't stand anyone who doesn't believe in God, who refuses to invoke the divinity, or who is a non-believer. I mean that to me is a horrible repulsive thing." Such an attitude is itself horrible and repulsive to me.
I gave up many years ago thinking this was the End Times. But given this, the shockingly blatent violations of the First Amendment they are trying to jam through Congress right now, and all the other issues, I have to admit this morning was I tempted to revisit that question.
Without question we should pray for such people. Even Bernard Nathanson was converted after the prayers of many. Perhaps their bileous bitterness and manifest wickedness will wake people up and prompt them to believe.
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