I read yesterday that Christopher Hitchens has died. I remember seeing him on television being interviewed at times or debating with someone regarding his atheism. I remember he was always mad. At times he even came off as furious. I guess he had alot of passion for his disbelief and became enraged at even the thought of anyone believing in a god much less the Almighty God that Christians based their belief system in. As a Christian myself, I believe God exists, I believe He send His son Jesus to die for us on the cross and that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. I believe there is a heaven and a hell and that satan exists also. I believe by faith. Hitchens couldnt believe because he couldnt reason faith out. But faith and reason are two realms that will never meet. Just like in math class, learning the definition of parallel lines - two lines that will never intersect. That's how I see faith and reason. But does that make someone who believes unreasonable? Most atheists think so and therefore cannot allow themselves to believe in something they cannot see. It would be so easy for God to show up physically on a daily basis and then everyone could believe because we would have the evidence of Him right before our eyes. But He chose that we believe in Him by faith, by not being able to see with physical eyes.
I wonder what Hitchens is thinking now. I ponder on the moment when truth came to him and the blinders were removed and he saw for the first time, that he was wrong. I believe it had to be an almost violent experience. To now be in a hell that God never created for humans and to be there for an eternity, what must he be thinking? I dont rejoice in the fact he's there. I never liked Hitchens because of what he said about Christianity and his book - God is Not Great. But it gives me no pleasure when any human is cast into a God-less eternity.
We're given so much free will in this life and it seems almost to our detriment. Sometimes for our own sakes, I wish God would take some of the free will away so we could stop being so rebellious and disobedient and trust in a God who loves us so much and who died for us. But I'm not God and my ways are not His ways. If this even grieves me, how much more a loving God who, despite Hitchen's hatred, still loved him.
