For me?\u00a0 I was sad when he died.\u00a0 We prayed for him when he died and when I learned that he had cancer.\u00a0 I had prayed for him before and encouraged my sons to do likewise.\u00a0 I sometimes enjoyed listening to him.\u00a0 But I leave it there.\u00a0 I think sometimes we recognize past hate through the clear lens of history better than present hatred through the cloudy mirror of the present.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Was Christopher Hitchens passionate?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Did he have a sense of Justice?\u00a0 Seems to have had a sense of justice for someone.\u00a0 Was he an interesting person?\u00a0 Yeah, anyone with a British accent scores 10 bonus points on the interesting scale to an American.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
But he was part of a movement that increasingly took the same hate and rage and contempt that we so easily condemn in others \u2013 Nazis, puritans, witch trials, whatever \u2013 and applied it to a new round of folks today.\u00a0 Just because someone is hating on the latest, hippest, doesn\u2019t mean we should shrug our shoulders and say \u2018oh well\u2019.\u00a0 Just because Hermann\u00a0G\u00f6ring<\/span> loved model railroads and making model ships, doesn\u2019t mean we overlook the other parts of his life.\u00a0 <\/p>\n I get what Fr. Barron is saying, and in some ways agree.\u00a0 But I was also a little hesitant to join the \u2018we love Hitchens \u2013 what a great guy!\u2019 bandwagon that followed his death.\u00a0 In that we are called to love our enemies, I can say I tried to love Hitchens.\u00a0 But no matter how well he wrote, how witty he was, how interesting he appeared, I never, ever forgot that I was trying to love an enemy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For me?\u00a0 I was sad when he died.\u00a0 We prayed for him when he died and when I learned that he had cancer.\u00a0 I had prayed for him before and encouraged my sons to do likewise.\u00a0 I sometimes enjoyed listening to him.\u00a0 But I leave it there.\u00a0 I think sometimes we recognize past hate through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n