An Atheist and an Unitarian

When the famous atheist Christopher Hitchens has a better understanding of what it means to be a Christian than you do, it may be time to reexamine your relationship and belief in Jesus Christ.

This is from a recent interview Hitchens had with a Unitarian Minister:

Maryiln Sewell: The religion you cite in your book is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I’m a liberal Christian, and I don’t take the stories from the scripture literally. I don’t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make and [sic] distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion?

Christopher Hitchens: I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.