Over at Venn Theology, Nathan Campbell offers commentary on an interview with celebrity atheist Christopher Hitchens conducted by a liberal unitarian ‘Christian’ cleric.
Nathan’s piece is insightful, but for me the real pay-off was reading atheist Hitchens completely school the liberal unitarian in this exchange:
Interviewer:
The religion you cite in your book [‘God is not great’] is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I’m a liberal Christian, and I don’t take the stories from the scripture literally. I don’t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make and distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion?
Hitchens:
I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
Interviewer:
Let me go someplace else…
Read the original interview here.
Read Nathan’s opinion piece at Venn Theology.
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