A collaboration between Bruce Almighty and Microsoft CoPilot AI.
Here’s a song praising the late Christopher Hitchens, set to the tune of “Blessed Assurance.”
Verse 1:
Blessed with reason, Hitchens we praise,
Voice of the skeptic, lighting our ways.
Champion of truth, with courage so bright,
In the face of dogma, you stood for the light.
Chorus:
Hitchens, Hitchens, bold and free,
Your words inspire, your mind a sea.
In the quest for knowledge, you led the way,
Guiding us through night to the break of day.
Verse 2:
Critic of falsehoods, fearless and strong,
In debates and writings, you righted the wrong.
With wit and wisdom, you challenged the lies,
In your legacy, the truth never dies.
Chorus:
Hitchens, Hitchens, bold and free,
Your words inspire, your mind a sea.
In the quest for knowledge, you led the way,
Guiding us through night to the break of day.
Bridge:
In your prose, we find the spark,
Of a mind that left its mark.
Though you’re gone, your voice remains,
In our hearts, your spirit reigns.
Chorus:
Hitchens, Hitchens, bold and free,
Your words inspire, your mind a sea.
In the quest for knowledge, you led the way,
Guiding us through night to the break of day.
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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Christopher Hitchens is no longer an atheist….. 😭
Of course not, he’s dead. Labels such as Christian and atheist are for the living, not the dead.
BTW, I know you are Revival Fires.
The red-headed fellow in the cartoon seems to be producing thought waves. A couple of those thought waves look a like outlines of penises. Well, religious and physical ecstasy have often been noted to be similar. I read one critic who said that people speaking in tongues were doing “mild parodies of orgasms.”
I love ChatGPT. Here is a song it wrote for me:
The First No-Hell
(To the tune of “The First Noel”)
Verse 1:
The first no-hell, the children did fear,
Of fires below, and torment severe.
They whispered in dread, of brimstone and flame,
Told they were sinners, so heavy with shame.
But light did shine, and truth set them free,
From fear of the dark, they could now clearly see.
Chorus:
No more fear of the fires below,
No more tears for the lies we know.
The first no-hell, and the peace we found,
As love’s sweet light did come around.
Verse 2:
They once were told, they’d burn if they stray,
That judgment would come on that fateful day.
But their hearts found hope, and their minds found grace,
As they looked ahead to a kinder place.
No more chains to bind their souls,
In the warmth of love, they found their goals.
Chorus:
No more fear of the fires below,
No more tears for the lies we know.
The first no-hell, and the peace we found,
As love’s sweet light did come around.
Verse 3:
Now free to dream, their spirits could soar,
No longer bound by that old folklore.
They laughed and they lived, with hearts full of song,
For now they knew they’d done no wrong.
The first no-hell brought freedom at last,
No more shadows from the past.
Chorus:
No more fear of the fires below,
No more tears for the lies we know.
The first no-hell, and the peace we found,
As love’s sweet light did come around.
Tag:
The first no-hell, the truth we see,
In the warmth of love, we’re finally free.
In a later version it changed the chorus to:
No hell! No hell! No hell! No hell!
The truth has come and all is well.
No hell! No hell! No hell! No hell!
In love we stand, in peace we dwell.
So James, suppose you have it wrong and only atheists go to heaven? I guarantee you have no way of proving I’m wrong.
Ironically, “Christopher” means “Christ Bearer”