In a recent interview, Christopher Hitchens, the fervent atheist and author of God Is Not Great, showed he has a much clearer understanding of what it means to be a Christian than the Unitarian minister interviewing him.
Marilyn Sewell: The religion you cite in your book is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I'm a liberal Christian, and I don't take the stories from the scripture literally. I don't believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make a distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion?
Christopher Hitchens: I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
Marilyn Sewell: Let me go someplace else...
Full interview: HERE
3 comments:
Hi Andy
Thanks for drawing our attention to this. An excellent quotation
Unbelievable that a 'Christian' would come away with something like this.
Either the Bible is the infallible, inerrant Word of God or it's not.
Cracker! Hitchens is my kind of atheist.
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