Granted, while "World" is a Christian magazine and is thus biased (who isn't?), it still reports the news itself accurately. So I was both pleased and depressed to open an issue of it today and read this:
Author Christopher Hitchens, who wrote the best-selling God Is Not Great, was a bit startled during a Feb. 28 panel discussion he moderated in New York for the opening of Brett Morgen's documentary film Chicago 10. Among notable journalists who gathered to discuss the Vietnam-era film, Suchin Pak (MTV news) observed that young people are not as passionately anti-war now as their counterparts were over Vietnam. Key cultural difference between 1968 and 2008: "Our audience is more religious and conservative than we assume," she said. "I really hate to hear that the young are becoming more Christian," a startled Hitchens replied. "If that's true, that's the worst news of the night!"
Now, opposed to Hitchens, I'm extremely pleased at any hint that today's youth is becoming more Christian... But I'm always deeply saddened to hear about people like this, who hate religion so much. It's one thing to disagree with the teachings of Christ... It's quite another to wage war on God. My heart goes out for Christopher Hitchens, but this, of course, makes him another potential adversary for me in the literary world (provided things go as planned on my end).
Interestingly, it looks like his own brother, Peter Hitchens, is a believer, and also something of a public figure. Christopher said, "The real difference between Peter and myself is the belief in the supernatural. I'm a materialist and he attributes his presence here to a divine plan. I can't stand anyone who believes in God, who invokes the divinity or who is a person of faith."
So he can't stand his own relatives... Shame...
Sunday, March 30, 2008
The Enemy Does Not Sleep
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The real depressing thing is that we are not as anti-war as we were back then. We seem to not care that their are marines fighting for their lives over there because we are not being drafted. If we were being drafted we would all be anti-war. And Christopher Hitchens is a man who sees that this belief in things we cannot see like religion will kill us and it has already started with Islamofacism. But I digress. I am an atheist but I would not stop talking to my family members because of it. Its funny as that the country becomes more religious we care less about being anti-war. You would think it was the other way around. Interesting.
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