After speculating that it was possible that Hitchens secretly spoke with Jesus Christ and became a Christian before his death, Fischer said that if Hitchens "died as an unrepentant atheist," he is in a dark place where there is eternal suffering, "weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth" because God loves him.

"If Christopher Hitchens is in fact in hell, he's there because God loves him, not because God hates him, but because God loves him," Fischer declared.

"What I mean by that is that God loves us enough to, at the end, give us what we insist on having," Fischer explained to his Focal Point audience on the American Family Association's radio talk station. "If we are determined to have our own way, then God, in the end, is going to give us what we insist on having because that's what you do for people you love. Any parent that has adult children, you know this. You've raised them. You've instilled values in them. You counsel them. You urge them. You appeal to them. You pray for them. But they don't always make life-affirming decisions and you can see them heading down a path that you know can be terribly destructive for them. It breaks your heart to see it, but you realize that they have a free will of their own. "

Fischer went on to say that Hitchens wanted to spend eternity in hell. "Now if you think about it — to me it would not be a loving thing for God to say to Christopher Hitchens, 'You've spent your entire life — you're still defying me. You died in defiance. You still are in defiance. You stand before me. You don't want anything to do with me. You don't want anything to do with my Son. You don't want anything to do with my gospel. You don't want anything to do with the word of God. You don't want anything to do with other people who are followers of me.' It would not be a loving thing to compel people like Christopher Hitchens to spend the rest of eternity in a place that he hated, a place that he does not want to be, a place that he has no desire to be, a place that he has spent all of his life resisting, condemning, avoiding, refusing to embrace. To me, that is not love. That would be a form of cruelty."

According to Fischer, Hitchens' friends can find some release in knowing that God loved Christopher Hitchens enough to respect his right to reject him. Fischer believes that Hitchens would not change his mind and would continue to chose hell, even if he had "seen the light."