More on Christopher Hitchens

by Little Miss Attila on July 21, 2010

I missed this a week ago; it’s an AllahPundit set of quotes regarding the issue of praying for Christopher Hitchens, who seems to be gratified that we are doing it. Incredibly, some “people of faith” have told him that he deserves to have developed cancer, which should not amaze me—but does. As if bad things don’t happen to good people every single day.

Hitch is no enemy of mine: he’s a stubborn man with a delicious intellect who’s brought tremendous force and clarity to the war on terror, and has relentlessly presented the leftist case for modernity.

We need his voice; I don’t want the world to lose it. So, in a sense, my prayers that his life will be spared, that the chemo will work, are fundamentally selfish. And I’m comfortable with that.

And then there is the issue of why we so desperately need athiests to continue to be part of the dialogue. I’d state it verbally: that without sharp opponents, we become intellectually lazy. Grim has a lovely mini-essay that gives us the logic behind it.

So, we need athiests as part of the public dialogue. Do I hope that every single one of them experiences a deathbed conversion? Yes. Yes, I do.

In fact, I pray for it.

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