Now this is really a fascinating read: Portland Monthly Magazine / Arts & Entertainment / Home / Detail
Throughout, it is obvious that Unitarian Marilyn Sewell is courting Hitchen's favor. The entertaining part is how he really doesn't want anything to do with her nonsense mixing with his. The whole exchange is quite remarkable...here is just one excerpt:
Throughout, it is obvious that Unitarian Marilyn Sewell is courting Hitchen's favor. The entertaining part is how he really doesn't want anything to do with her nonsense mixing with his. The whole exchange is quite remarkable...here is just one excerpt:
Sewell: The religion you cite in your book is a generally fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I’m a liberal Christian, and I don’t take the stories from the scripture literally. I don’t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make any distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion?
Hitchens: I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.