Christopher Hitchens and the Christian conversion that wasn’t

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2. Maybe it's a reflexive appropriation, to convince themselves of their own importance.

The Evangelicals in the US did try just that with Donald Trump:
He's no Christian in any way and the Evangelicals were kicked out of the republican power-play after decades of being catered to. They didn't want to believe that the candidate they support is not one of them and doesn't need them. So they tried to convince themselves that Trump were actualy a pious Christian.



Maybe it's similar with Hitchens here. Christinaity is receding in western societies, but not out of hostility. Christians don't turn into atheists. If they did, they would engage Christians in arguments, they would keep caring about religious questions.

But they don't turn into atheists. They become non-religious. They simply stop caring. And you know you have hit rock-bottom when even your worst nemesis, the non-believer, doesn't bother fighting you anymore.