{"id":12320,"date":"2011-03-20T23:10:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T03:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12320"},"modified":"2011-03-20T23:10:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T03:10:52","slug":"changing-christopher-hitchens-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/changing-christopher-hitchens-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Christopher Hitchens&#039; mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Try as I might, I can\u2019t dislike Christopher Hitchens as much as I think I should.<\/p>\n<p>At the very end of the following interview, when asked whether any evidence could change his mind about God\u2019s existence, he concedes that, although none has yet, it is not impossible that some could appear that would.<\/p>\n<p>This admission is refreshingly honest and brings him closer to agnosticism than atheism; perhaps we are seeing a mind concentrated by its imminent demise.<br \/>\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" scale=\"noscale\" salign=\"lt\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" background=\"#333333\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" FlashVars=\"si=254&#038;uvpc=http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/uvp_cbsnews.xml&#038;contentType=videoId&#038;contentValue=50101255&#038;ccEnabled=false&amp;hdEnabled=false&#038;fsEnabled=true&#038;shareEnabled=false&#038;dlEnabled=false&#038;subEnabled=false&#038;playlistDisplay=none&#038;playlistType=none&#038;playerWidth=425&#038;playerHeight=239&#038;vidWidth=425&#038;vidHeight=239&#038;autoplay=false&#038;bbuttonDisplay=none&#038;playOverlayText=PLAY%20CBS%20NEWS%20VIDEO&#038;refreshMpuEnabled=true&#038;shareUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=7358646n&#038;tag=contentMain;contentBody&#038;adEngine=dart&#038;adPreroll=true&#038;adPrerollType=PreContent&#038;adPrerollValue=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try as I might, I can\u2019t dislike Christopher Hitchens as much as I think I should. At the very end of the following interview, when asked whether any evidence could change his mind about God\u2019s existence, he concedes that, although &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/changing-christopher-hitchens-mind\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[2085],"class_list":["post-12320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christopher-hitchens","tag-christopher-hitchens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}