Say It Ain't So, Karl Rove

TPM quotes Christopher Hitchens as claiming that Karl Rove is an atheist. Here's Hitchens:

Well, I don’t talk that much to them — maybe people think I do. I know something which is known to few but is not a secret. Karl Rove is not a believer, and he doesn’t shout it from the rooftops, but when asked, he answers quite honestly. I think the way he puts it is, "I’m not fortunate enough to be a person of faith."

There's nothing more calculated to cause a crisis in my own faithlessness than to know that someone as vicious and unprincipled as Karl Rove would also be an atheist.

Hopefully, Rove will have a denial out by five this afternoon and be very visible when he attends the church of his choice on Sunday.

And all will be right with the world.