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Entry: Hitchens' Hubris Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_hubris#2662 Post contents: To me the most objectionable thing about Hitchens isn't his atheism, but his addiction to publicity for its own sake, in which his readers are enablers. Why in God's name does anyone take this pathetic wreck of a man seriously? With all due respect to Mr Ferkul who said a converted Hitchens would be a "useful force to combat the forces of darkness", I disagree - because Hitchens is a media creation whose talent is wafer-thin. Some truly intelligent "atheists" such as Albert Camus have done more to combat ignorance and darkness than many nominal Christians have done. Camus' "atheism" was paradoxically very Christian in spirit (because Camus placed Man at the centre of Man's universe, which comes very close to Christ's way of placing Man at the centre of God's universe), in contrast to Hitchens and other such atheists whose ultimate message is cynicism and despair. Not all atheists are alike (and is there really any such thing as a total "atheist"?), and those self-ascribed atheists such as Camus who struggle to affirm some kind of transcendent Spirit of Man, are entirely different from those who regard Man as a mere thing among things. The problem with Hitchens isn't his theoretical "atheism", but his anti-Humanism, his sullen denial of ANY kind of transcendent Spirit of Man. Atheists are not necessarily enemies of Christ, but all anti-Humanists are, all those who regard Man as just a thing among things. Sent at: 2008 07 24