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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS IN THE AFTERLIFE

Posted by ApolloSpeaks on Friday, December 16, 2011 11:24:44 AM

 
 
         1949 - 2011
                
                 RIP

How I wish I was there in the spiritual realm to see Chris Hitchens' astonishment that his mind had survived his untimely death; that he is very much alive in the spiritual state that he'd mocked all his life as a primitive fiction of "evil religion;" that there's more to existence than flesh. Is he disappointed to know that he was wrong for so long, that his crude, inexorable materialism was a hoax? Does he unhappily feel cheated that he wasn't obliterated, dissolved into nothingness like he rigidly thought? Is he saddened to know that religion was right, that he's an undying, immortal, imperishable soul? Is he cursing his state craving nihilism instead which he believed was his fate in the end? How's he handling the truth that God exists, and that he owes his great mind and existence to Him? Hitchens' soul must be in intellectual turmoil as his life of militant unbelief ill-prepared him for death (the afterlife experience). And so must it be for all atheistic materialists who'll have the truth thrust upon them in the end.
 
 
 
 
I posted the above piece as a comment on Frontpage and got the following replies:
 
Fray222: 

If Horowitz is reading any of these comments, I can imagine how dispirited he must be at the caliber of his fan base. Gloating about how Hitchens is being proven wrong in some etherial realm, is this how you respond to the death of one of the great speakers and writers of our generation?
 
ApolloSpeaks:
 
Great speaker and writer yes. But a militant anti-religious extremist who is not above criticism, and is being cured, I believe, of his intellectual errors as I write.
 
StephenD:
 
"Gloating about how Hitchens..."

What I said was:

" I wouldn't wish that on anyone."

If that is gloating to you...you have a problem.

I'm sorry for David's experience of loss. He has a chance. I hope, as another post said, that his friend made his peace with G_d before he breathed his last. I hope the same for you.
 
Fray222:

I was responding to the unpleasantness that Apollo just subjected us to.
You were a bit better about it, but so what? Any God that would send a man like Hitchens to hell, isn't one worthy of worship or praise. Read Apollo's comment again, I know he doesn't speak for all Christians, but he does speak to something ugly and sinister within the Christian religion. Until you start cleaning house Christianity is not something I wish to be a part of.
 
ApolloSpeaks:
 
Where do I say that Hitchens is in hell? If Hitchens has an immortal soul (a belief common to many religions and spiritual philosophies which Hitchens denied in life) then he is realizing that truth in death, and it's refuting and shattering his atheistic materialism. At worse he's in a state of temporary confusion and mental turmoil which will pass once he adjusts to his new incorporeal existence and accepts the great truths being thrust upon him

Advocatus:
 
Your benighted self-righteousness is sickening no offence meant. The same fate awaits you as does the rest of us after death; namely, oblivion. Now, try to deal with it.
 
ApolloSpeaks:
 
Self-righteousness? My belief in the soul's immortality and Hitchens' temporary torment in the afterlife (what Catholics call Purgatory) is based on self-reflection and meditation.
 
 
Postscript II: Debate On Jihad Watch

Also follow my debate about Hitchens' afterlife fate with atheists at Jihad Watch here. I will be posting this here in full when it is over.
 
 
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