Hitch His Wagon to a Star

Mike Potemra of the National Review has quite a scoop (maybe):

Christopher Hitchens Does Believe in God!

Hitchens claimed not to be a reductionist; he said mankind cannot do without the "numinous" and (I think this was his other phrase) the "transcendent." (He located this in, for example, Verdi's "Requiem.") Now the numinous and the transcendent are exactly what we believers mean by God. Hitchens says what he doesn't believe in is the "supernatural" — but that's merely a quibble about words. If you use the word "nature" — as so many people do — as interchangeable with "what is" or "being," then God is not "super-natural" at all, because — as Aquinas, chiefly, reminds us — God is the pure act of Being itself, Ipsum Esse Subsistens.

A clergyman I know predicted ((to his face) Hitchens would die a "Catholic or madman." Potemra argues Hitchens is more the puritan (!) but never mind, at least he's moving in the right direction.