Hitchens: Don't Trouble 'Deaf Heaven' With Prayers for Me

With less than two weeks before “Everybody Pray for Hitchens Day,” cancer-stricken Christopher Hitchens is encouraging believers to hold off on praying for him.

“I don’t mean to be churlish about any kind intentions, but when September 20 comes, please do not trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries,” the atheist author wrote in a first-person article for Vanity Fair’s October 2010 issue.

“Unless, of course, it makes you feel better,” he added, echoing a past comment.

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Oh let us pray for this spiritually blind man.

Father I pray for this man for your glory alone. Lord perhaps he could be another C.S.Lewis. We pray together for his blindness, for the scales to fall from his ayes and we do it in the wonderful name of the Lord Jesus!