Europe's epitaph By Arnaud de Borchgrave
"'Is God Dead?' was the famous/infamous Time magazine cover Easter Sunday 1966 that triggered a nationwide firestorm of criticism. Murder threats were commonplace for the self-described 'apocalyptic theologian' Thomas Alrizer, a former Emory Professor of Religion, whose Death of God thesis posited God put himself completely into Jesus' body and died when Jesus was crucified.
More recently, pundit Christopher Hitchins' 'God is Not Great: The case Against Religion' unloaded both starboard and port broadside salvos that garnered more claps than boos from book reviewers. His smorgasbord of faiths — 'Anglican, educated at a Methodist school, converted by marriage to Greek Orthodoxy... and remarried by a rabbi' — is discarded with fire-and-brimstone atheism. 'Papal bull for the nonbeliever,' wrote the Guardian's Mary Riddell."
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