Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens, the atheist (or "antitheist" as he called himself) journalist, author of the book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, died Thursday night of pneumonia after an 18-month battle with esophageal cancer.  I wanted to share links to a couple of pieces about Hitchens that are worth reading.  Even if you don't know anything about Hitchens, I think these are beneficial for Christians to read and think about.

• Doug Wilson (whose debates with Hitchens were recorded in the documentary Collision) wrote an obituary for Christianity Today.
• Russell Moore also writes about Hitchens.  Here's how he begins:

Christopher Hitchens, the world’s most famously caustic atheist, is now dead.

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.

We might be wrong.