“Thanks for coming to take on the theocrats”
by Transmontanus, 17 August 2007
Here’s Hitchens’ book-tour diary.
My favorite part comes near the end. Back home, after weeks on the road, he’s out at a restaurant with the missus and the daughter and who does he find himself seated right beside but the Archbishop of Dang Canterbury: I lean over. “My Lord Archbishop? It’s Christopher Hitchens.” “Good gracious,” he responds, gesturing at his guest—”we were just discussing your book.”
Also, a five-part debate in Christianity Today magazine between Hitchens and Theologiameister Douglas Wilson on the question: “Is Christianity Good For the World?” Discuss.





Friday 17 August 2007 at 8:54
“The Christianity Today Web site, which has hosted me in an online debate with its champion Douglas Wilson for the past two months, writes to say that Mr. Wilson wants to send me a wheel of Washington State cheese, as a token of appreciation. A nice surprise. Blessed are the cheese-makers. ”
[Wipes spit of screen]