Much predictable smug offering of prayers for Christopher Hitchens on the announcement that he's about to undergo chemotherapy treatment, but this, from George Berkin, (via Pharyngula) plumbs new depths:
It seems against common sense to say this, but might I suggest that this turn of events shows that God is kind even to those who spend their lives fighting against him. […]
It would be a huge blow to Hitchens’ ego (as it is to any ego) to admit that he’s been wrong these many years. But Hitchens’ rebellion against God has been so public that God may require a very public humbling.
But maybe God is doing it this way because he desires that Hitchens give up his “god,” that is, Hitchens’ pride in being different from the run-of-the-mill mortal. Maybe God is doing it this way so that Hitchens can encounter the God he has been denying for so long, before eternity sets in.
How despicable.
Mick Hartley 
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