A couple of quotes regarding the death of a famous atheist –
Journalist Christopher Hitchens dies, aged 62, after battle with cancer.
In a debate with Tony Blair last year over religion he likened God to a 'celestial dictatorship, a kind of divine North Korea'. The British-born journalist and strident atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the U.S. his home, has died at the age of 62. Hitchens, whose 2007 book God Is Not Great made him a major celebrity in his adopted homeland, died yesterday in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of cancer of the oesophagus. In God Is Not Great, he argued that religion was the source of all tyranny and that many of the world's evils have been done in the name of religion. It was a belief he never lost.
For reference info. and balance of the article - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074866/Christopher-Hitchens-dead-Writer-dies-aged-62.html#ixzz1gyrphs7e
Just a few days later the self professed "god" and supreme dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong Il is dead as well.
Hitchen's concept of god, the one he rejected, was patterned after Kim Jong Il: evil, harsh and surely the followers of such a god were responsible for the evil in the world. He was right in a sense. It is those who claim to be god outright (Kim Jong Il) and those who claim god-like status by declaring there could not be anything greater/above them in the universe (Christopher Hitchens) and those who sinfully follow such "gods" that are responsible for the evil in the world (all of us). This has been the case ever since Adam and Eve believed the Devil's lie that by sinning against God they could become gods themselves. Since then, all mankind has been suffering the consequences of our rebellion against the one true God - an evil/sinful world and death!
The atheist who was confident God did not exist and the dictator who believed he was god, are now both dead!
However, Jesus is alive!
Jesus is God come to earth to suffer, die and rise from the dead to rescue mankind from the evil/death we all chose when we rejected Him. He is willing to be our pardon, if we will believe upon His work on the cross and give Him the worship He is due!
Does God dictate/demand our worship - Yes, but it is by worshipping Him, the true God, that we can have life now and eternally! God is not evil! Jesus is not dead! He lives to provide the only solution to the evil and death which Hitchens, Il and all of us deserve!
Believe upon Him and have life!
Great song demonstrating this reality -
One this is certain; both Hitchens and Il know who Christ is now...
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