Oh god, he has lost it completely...
Oct. 15th, 2007 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rozkLong-term readers of this LJ will remember my post on Hitchens here and how sad I was when Hitchens became a cheerleader for the Bush camp and for Bush's war. All of that was bad enough, but one still hoped that he might one day repent, and then one reads this and finds the bloody man more or less advocating Holy War and Genocide in the name of atheist principle.
When I was a Catholic, I was aware of the idea that sometimes you don't say things because they Give Scandal, they make your side - in that case the Church - look bad. You might be very worried about the Future State of the souls of your Protestant friends, but talking about it all the time was Bad Form and quite possibly counter-productive. I don't much care for the passionately religious of any stripe any more much, except when they happen to be people whom I trust not to go mediaeval on my ass, but the idea that we should use them to kill each other off is both wicked and bad in a CYA sort of way. It is wrong, and if Hitchens doesn't see it is wrong, he should see that it Gives Scandal.
He is turning into Anne Coulter as we watch.
When I was a Catholic, I was aware of the idea that sometimes you don't say things because they Give Scandal, they make your side - in that case the Church - look bad. You might be very worried about the Future State of the souls of your Protestant friends, but talking about it all the time was Bad Form and quite possibly counter-productive. I don't much care for the passionately religious of any stripe any more much, except when they happen to be people whom I trust not to go mediaeval on my ass, but the idea that we should use them to kill each other off is both wicked and bad in a CYA sort of way. It is wrong, and if Hitchens doesn't see it is wrong, he should see that it Gives Scandal.
He is turning into Anne Coulter as we watch.
