Christopher Hitchens Dies - National - The Atlantic Wire
Hitchens who died of Cancer was a English- born athiest writer and is being remembered as a critic of "religious hypocrisy". He authored a book "God is not great - how religion poisons everything". He wrote a lot critcising political and religious figures alike. He wrote a lot against faith-based thinking but a lot of Christians believe this man was just on a vitriolic literary mission against God.
"Christ" was in his name but perhaps not in his heart.
The man vowed not to allow his Cancer to force him to repent. However, I doubt if Cancer forces anyone to repent. I believe the conditional transformation of the human heart is a supernatural thing.
If not, one's own reflection upon oneself that breaks one's own will with the assistance of a holy power that we as humans can never understand. The Bible states that it's by a supernatural power (God's spirit) that we're able to come to the revelation of God and not by one's own merits, intelligence or experience. It's the Spirit of God that draws us. However, the Bible also states, that if you hear God's voice harden not your hearts". We must make the willing decision to turn to Christ in order to find salvation.
I pray that this man like any other would have experienced that heart trasnformation and made that commitment to Christ because .... "what does it profit a man if he wins the whole world, yet loses his own soul....Or What would one give in exchange for their soul"? (Mathew 16:26).
