John Lennon’s atheist anthem “Imagine” has gotten so much airplay by the New Atheists.1 Thus, it seems apropos to mention Bob Dylan’s song “Gotta Serve Somebody” in which he sings:
You’re gonna have to serve some body,Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody.
My title makes reference to totalitarian, dictatorial and tyrannical due to the fact that Christopher Hitchens has employed each of these terms in referring to his view of what Judeo-Christian theology proposes.
Christopher Hitchens is an adherent of the sect of atheism that does not positively affirm God’s non-existence. Yet, he describes himself as an “anti-theist.” He has purposefully set himself up as an opponent to God.
If God is totalitarian, dictatorial and tyrannical why reject Him and Him alone for being so? After all, let us assume that God does not exist and we live in a strictly materialistic universe. Christopher Hitchens is now subject to the totalitarian, dictatorial and tyrannical rule of entropy, hunger and thirst, evolution, death, gravity, genetics and countless other things which demand upon him.
I did not ask to be born and do not ask to be annihilated at death. Christopher Hitchens appears to be particularly taken with smoking, consuming adult beverages and copulation.
But why reject God alone for a presumed totalitarian/dictatorial/tyranny?
This is the heart of anti-theism.
This is man in rebellion.
This is God in the hands of an angry sinner.
God stated, “You shall have no other gods before me,” the atheist states, “I shall have not other gods before me.”
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Tomorrow we will consider the life of our thoughts.
John Piper (here) and Frank Turek (here) have also considered Christopher Hitchens comments on totalitarian-dictatorial-tyranny.
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