re: #84 Charles Johnson

Erick Erickson “takes comfort” in the fantasy that the people he hates will burn forever in hellfire. https://t.co/4UuEH7wE99 Lovely.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 19, 2013

He’s just taking a page from St. Thomas Aquinas:

Wherefore in order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned.

I disagree with Hitchens’ claim that “religion poisons everything”, but here’s pretty good evidence that it poisons some things.