"Hitchens clearly hates God." So says James White, a Christian preacher we've featured before on a Sunday evening at Hitchens Watch. James has been stirred up by Hitch's misrepresentation of Christianity and he's been singularly unimpressed by some of the Christians who have gone one-to-one with the Antichrister in the recent string of debates.
While I personally am happy to accept the precepts of Darwinian evolution by natural selection, a 4.6 billion year-old earth and the development of human biological and cultural evolution over hundreds of thousands of years, and I find the idea of the Christian God implausible to say the least, I also find the Hitchensian materialistic cosmos un-filipping-believable. But leaving incredulity to one side, I admire White's tenacity in going for the red meat in his condemnation of Hitch's rebellion, and I love the attempt at analyzing motive and psychology. According to White, what Hitch really hates is that he knows he is a creature of God and that God has a right to do with Hitch whatever he wants. White also says that the only difference between people like White and people like Hitch is a five-letter word called "grace", which is an amazing statement when you come to think of it. This is much more stimulating than anything De Souza has managed to turn out.
Incidentally, for those of you who are mesmerized by the popinjay's amazing grasp of science and history, can you spot the error in the outline of Chinese civilization at the time of Christ that he gives in the early part of this video?
You can have a great intellect, but a great intellect in a blackened room will still run into the wall. There must be guidance. There must be light. But when a person suppresses the knowledge of God, they walk in darkness. Their intellect will be guided to error because of their own self-interest in maintaining their rebellion against God. So don't get the idea that the Bible says that the person who suppresses the knowledge of God cannot have an incredibly high IQ or speak very well like Christopher Hitchens can. But the reality is that there is another element to human predication. It's not just one's IQ. There's many an old lady that has much more wisdom than many a scholar. It is the combination of these two things that is most important.
"Professing to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man, and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." In other words, man engages in idolatry. When you don't worship the one true God, you begin to worship the creation around us; you being to attribute to the creation things that should only be attributed to the one true God. That is the very nature of idolatry. It can be very religious, or it can be like Christopher Hitchens's idolatry. Never ever forget Christopher Hitchens is a very religious man. He's on a crusade. He's on a quest. He is serving his God. He has his ultimate authorities. He may be his ultimate authority—his lusts, his desires, his agenda. But he has his ultimate authority. He is a religious man. He has priorities that order his life. Don't ever forget that.
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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