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Found this little jem, Ingraham and Hitchens in 2008 (Original Post) Eko Mar 2013 OP
Did she learn her technique of interrupting interviewee from matthews, or vice versa??? elleng Mar 2013 #1
I have such a love/hate relationship with Hitchens. Gravitycollapse Mar 2013 #2
How can someone so smart (CH), turn out to be so wrong? leveymg Mar 2013 #3
Hitchens was sick and probably very drunk olddots Mar 2013 #4

leveymg

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3. How can someone so smart (CH), turn out to be so wrong?
Sat Mar 23, 2013, 02:33 AM
Mar 2013

Did Chris Hitchens have a reverse epiphany -- did the light bulb burn out -- when he reached 50, or was he just another mid-career sell out?

Found this at a clerical blog, and the concept of "Ichabod" seems somehow to fit in this case:

There seems to be a mystery here. God is omnipresent, yet somehow the concept of "Ichabod" (the glory has departed) can also (simultaneously) be true.

She had named the boy Ichabod, saying, "Glory has departed from Israel," because the Ark of God had been captured and because her father-in-law and husband were dead. (1 Samuel 4:21)

Have you ever been to a church service, or listened to a teaching, or even read something that you yourself had written and thought: "God just isn't in this"? It's a reverse epiphany -- a realization that what I have presumed to be blessed by God, seems to be void of his blessing. Is that completely crazy? Am I nuts? Or is there some truth in this?
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