Topic: Christopher Hitchens

India's Missionaries of Charity order said it would pray for British writer Christopher Hitchens' soul, despite his aggressive campaign against its Nobel prize-winning founder, Mother Teresa."We will pray for him and for his family," spokeswoman Sister Christie told AFP on Friday, upon ...
I want to go back to something I mentioned in the last post, which is the degree to which Buddhism might be held responsible for the actions of its most deluded members. I gather from other sources that Faqing decided he was ...
I finally had the opportunity to watch the debate between Christopher Hitchens and William Lane Craig which took place this past April at Biola University where Craig teaches. I would like to talk a little about the audience, familiar tactics employed by ...
With numerous preconceptions and reservations, I recently sat down to browse through Christopher Hitchens?s book: Much as did Ayn Rand, he seems to maintain that the questions asked by theologians and philosophers can be more essentially answered by science.Were it not for ...

Hitchens and Blair to debate

This should be interesting, to say the least: One is a prominent atheist, the other a devout Roman Catholic. Renowned author and journalist Christopher Hitchens and former British prime minister Tony Blair will share a stage for the sixth semi-annual Munk Debates ...
Battling cancer, atheist author Christopher Hitchens skipping prayer day in his honorStricken with cancer and fragile from chemotherapy, author and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens sits in an armchair before an audience and waits for the only question that can come first at ...

The French Anti-Burqa Jihad

Although these restrictions were nothing compared to what girls in strict Muslim households faced, they were enough to send my budding feminist consciousness into paroxysms of rage. France has certainly experienced its share of troubles with Muslims, including most recently the 2005 ...
What part of "love your enemies, pray for your persecutors" isn't clear? I don't share Hitchens's worldview, whose central tenet is captured in the subtitle of his 2007 best-seller, God is Not Great: "Shepherds", he informed Canadians during a lecture tour, "don't ...

Now I See

This time Christopher Hitchens got it exactly right.. During a recent trip to Portland, Oregon, noted atheist Christopher Hitchens laid down some seriously good theology. Not long ago Hitchens debated conservative Christian author and speaker Douglas Wilson on the theme Is Christianity ...
The Vatican response to the clergy sex abuse scandal has gone into damage-control overdrive this week, the Associated Press reports, as church officials try to improve public sentiment before Pope Benedict visits Malta, Cyprus and other parts of the world.. Although some ...
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