Prayer Request

I just found out on a radio program (it was a Christian radio station, discussing the New Atheism) that loveable socialist drunk Christopher Hitchens has been hospitalized with cancer.

The radio program, (I think it was Janet Parshall’s IN THE MARKET, but I am not sure. Perhaps this edition? http://www.moodyradio.org/brd_ProgramDetail.aspx?id=53067) ended by asking all listeners to pray for Mr. Hitchens, that he make a speedy and whole recovery.

I thought it no less than simple decency to pass along this prayer request.

Mr. Hitchens is an eccentric and interesting fellow, seemingly infatuated with the most idiotic evils, delighted with socialism, totalitarianism, and vicious totalitarian thugs, but at the same time he can step forth as a champion of freedom and a foe of oppression and thuggery, as witness his unswerving support for Salmon Rushdie.

But no matter his beliefs, this poor confused, angry, witty man is a child of God, stricken by a hellish disease.

I would be grateful if my Christian brethren would bow the head and say a prayer for a fellow sufferer. Being in this world is like being the chained slave in the cave of Socrates, where only shadowy images cast upon the wall adumbrate the truth. A man who cannot see that there is a path up to the sunlight, to the real world, and who is therefore starved of the hope that is his birthright, he is not an enemy. He is but the victim of our great Enemy, who is the foe of man and God alike.