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Can civilization survive without God? A conversation with Christopher and Peter Hitchens

By Alliance Alert

Pew Forum: "Christopher Hitchens: 'There used to be a word which could be used unironically, and it was used, really, until not much more than a century, a century-and-a-half ago. People could say, and mean what they said when they said the word, Christendom. There was a Christian world. It had been partly evolved, partly carved out by the sword, partly defended by the sword, at some points giving way, at other times expanding. But it was a meaningful name for a community of belief and value that endured for many, many centuries ? and has many splendors to its name. And it?s all gone . . . It destroyed itself, Christendom, and it destroyed itself by the tremendous criminal act of urging its members to kill each other in the outbreak of the great war ? as it was then known, but it wasn?t known that it would lead to a huge and even worse part two ? in 1914, where the king-emperor of the British empire, who was also the head of the Church of England, and the Russian czar, who was also the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and you follow the road . . .'" A follow-up comment from Peter Hitchens is here.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on November 03, 2010 (boomark / email).