![]() ![]() It begins:īelief in the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth and belief in the virtue of his teachings are not at all the same thing. ![]() Readers who admire Hitchens, as I do, will find of interest his New York Times review of Philip Pullman’s The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (requires registration). Among the realities these respondents missed is the fact that a Christian might be drawn to pray for Hitchens not because he’s a prominent atheist but because he is a certain kind of atheist. A few readers of my Prayers for Christopher Hitchens made the astounding charges that praying for him, and for his conversion as well as his deliverance from cancer which are both forms of healing is uncharitable or presumptuous. ![]()
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