Thomas Merton Quote relevant to Hitchens/athiesm HT @RogerWolsey via @BeliefNet

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith. via Thomas Merton Quote – Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no lo.

Hitchens and Sullivan on Russert

Christopher Hitchens is saying that Obama’s refusal to condemn Wright was ,  rather than brave,  a copout. Hitchens says that Obama could have and did not identify WHICH of Wright’s statements he disagreed with. For me,  the reasons I have given for Obama’s intentional lack of specificity were that the issues surrounding this (black liberation theology expressed in apocalyptic language) Continue Reading