What does it mean to state with confidence that you know someone’s disposition at death, especially if he is an avowed and public atheist? This question occurs to me because I have recently read The Faith of Christopher Hitchens by Larry Alex Taunton, published in 2016. The title is slightly misleading – Hitchens was not a man of faith in any formal sense – but it is qualified by the subtitle: “The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist". That Hitchens had a “restless soul” is not in doubt when one reads this slim memoir.
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Christopher Hitchens and the longing 'for a higher love'
what does it mean to state with confidence that you know someone’s disposition at death, especially if he is an avowed and public atheist? t...
Francis Phillips
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