Going a step further than Bob Bennett’s portrayal of Christopher Hitchens, controversial right-wing radio host Bryan Fischer thought the focus should be on where the late author’s afterlife will be spent.
“If Christopher Hitchens is in fact in hell, he’s there because God loves him,” Fischer said. “Not because God hates him, but because God loves him.”
He added: “To me, it would not be a loving thing to compel someone like Christopher Hitchens to spend the rest of eternity in a place that he hated. A place that he does not want to be.”
Via Raw Story.
It's to be expected that people will use the death of a prominent, outspoken atheist to try and make some point about the afterlife and how Christopher Hitchens certainly knows now--but it takes a very special kind of cretin to not only suppose that a person who had done nothing more* than deny the likelihood of a God (and of course, repudiated religion because of precisely the kind of jumped-up, pious, hateful asshole Fischer is)would be eternally damned....but also that this was because God loves him.
(Not to say this is all Hitchens ever did, but that for the purpose of damnation, that's quite enough.)
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