Since 2001 I’ve had less use for Christopher Hitchens than I used to. But hey, I’ve got even less use for Pope Inquisitor and his attempts to pull the Roman Catholic Church backwards in time.
So if Hitchens wants to get snarky on the practice of indulgences, as he does in the latest Free Inquiry, I’m going to enjoy it without reservation:
A friend of mine once wrote that it is reassuring when things turn out the way they are supposed to. He went on to say that he once met a beautiful woman on the Orient Express who was later arrested for espionage, once saw a huge pig dash squealing across the main hall of an Irish castle, and once interviewed a politician who told him a whopping lie in the first two minutes. In rather the same way, it’s comforting to have a pope who offers inducements in the afterlife in return for commitments in the here and now and doesn’t bother himself with any nonsense about all faiths being equal glimpses of the same truth. It restores one’s sense of the fitness of things.
Yeah, he nailed that one.
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