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Christopher Hitchens Quotes (Author of God Is Not Great)
D'Souza Explains Debating Heaven & Hell With Christopher Hitchens
We do not know whether Peter Hitchens was aware of his brother Christopher's illness when he wrote The Rage against God, but the revelation.
The day that Peter Hitchens glimpsed hell
Hitchens expected this moment, of course, but he anticipated, wrongly, a blackness, a going out of consciousness forever. Many Christians today are sadly remarking on what it is like for Christopher Hitchens to be now opening his eyes in hell. The Christian impulse here is exactly right. After all, Jesus and his apostles assured us that there is no salvation apart from union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection, a union entered into by faith. And Hitchens not only rejected that gospel, he ridiculed it, along with the very notion of anything beyond the natural order. The Christian Scriptures are clear: there is a narrow window in which we must be saved, the time of this present life, and after this there is only judgment 2 Cor.
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Put away your childhood images of a pale-skin, weak-wrist Jesus. He is as scary as Hell. Christopher Hitchens seems to get this. He seems to be appropriately appalled at the New Testament. This is clear just in the titles of chapters seven and eight in his book God is Not Great :. Chapter 7: Revelation — the Nightmare of the Old Testament.
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Peter Hitchens, the younger by two years, is a committed Anglican and defender of conservative but not Conservative England. - Christopher Eric Hitchens 13 April — 15 December was an English-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, journalist, and social critic.
What happens in the afterlife to an atheist? Only God knows—literally. And I do. I certainly didn't agree with him on many things on almost anything, frankly; and I was particularly annoyed at his treatment of Mother Teresa , but I always hoped that somehow he would experience an invitation from God in his earthly life; and I hope that he may now come to know God. Of course the famous atheist would surely dislike hearing that, as he objected to people praying for him in his final illness. But Christians believe in a forgiving God, and this is the God that Jesus spoke about many times, most clearly in the parable of the Prodigal Son Luke
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