As you may have heard Christopher Hitchens, atheist and author, is dead. It’s worth reading the post by Justin Taylor and the obituary by Douglas Wilson. For most of his life Hitchens argues that those who believed in God were deluded. One way or the other there are no delusions now for Christopher Hitchens. Either he knows nothing because ‘he’ no longer is, he is gone, shuffled off this mortal coil and that’s it, his body to be burned or eaten by worms. Or, now he sees God, yesterday he knew in part and today he knows in full and that knowledge will be awful and terrible, to be before the one he had rejected so forcefully and passionately and then have no where else to turn.

Either of those options are possible, neither hold any appeal to me. To cease to be, when life is so wonderful is not an appealing idea. Yet to be in front of the King of universe, small, condemned by my sin and choices would be worse.

Now he knows, now he knows.