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Originally Posted by peter12
I just found this out and it's rather interesting, but the most vehement opponents of Hitchens (ie. those now wishing for his slow and painful death) aren't religious types, but his old comrades on the Left who see his success in the last few years, his support for the Iraq War etc... to be a sellout.
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Peter, if you haven't already, you might check out Terry Eagleton's "Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debates." I'm reading it now, and it's fantastic. Eagleton might be considered an "old comrade on the left," though he's successful in his own right as perhaps the foremost Marxist literary critic on the planet.
But he's also a person of faith, and his criticism of Dawkins and Hitchens is absolutely scathing, not to mention hilariously witty. Interspersed with that is a complex and wonderful reading of Christian theology and how it has profoundly informed his political and personal life.
I highly recommend it--it's fantastic so far.