Don't Question the Atheists' Idol!

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist Saturday, June 18, 2016

It's interesting when atheists do just what they accuse so-called "religious fanatics" (that's you and me) of doing.

The late Christopher Hitchens was one of the world's foremost and most committed atheists. You may remember him for his best-selling, outrageous polemic against monotheism: "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything."

Hitchens, who died of esophageal cancer in 2011, was one of the sharpest public intellectuals in the world. Hitch was master of quips such as "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence," and "Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it." In his rampage against the Christian faith, Hitchens lustily debated some of the world's greatest Christian apologists.

And one of them was my friend Larry Alex Taunton. Larry is on the best-seller lists because of his sensitive and powerfully written new book, The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist. He's also in the news. And that's because the book's depiction of Hitchens as someone who took Christians and the Christian faith seriously is dangerous heresy for many who see the New Atheism as the only acceptable orthodoxy.