{"id":14984,"date":"2011-11-20T22:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T03:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14984"},"modified":"2011-11-20T22:10:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T03:10:59","slug":"christopher-hitchens-on-the-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/christopher-hitchens-on-the-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Hitchens: on the way out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because he is dying, Christopher Hitchens doesn\u2019t make many public appearances these days, but he did manage to attend the 2011 Texas Freethought Convention to receive the Freethinker of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>His tenacity to hang on a little longer is overshadowed only by his determination to continue to reject God: by the benighted insights of his overweening ego, to reject God is to embrace freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The closer Hitchens comes to death the more determined he seems to be to revile God\u2019s greatest revelation of himself in Jesus Christ \u2013 an act both profoundly foolish and, from my perspective, terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll miss him; God have mercy on him in spite of his monumental arrogance.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/jwplayer\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"never\" \/><param name=\"controlbar\" value=\"none\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"&amp;backcolor=0xffffff&amp;file=https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/videos\/Hitchens.flv\" \/><embed width=\"600\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/jwplayer\/player.swf\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" controlbar=\"none\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"&amp;backcolor=0xffffff&amp;file=https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/videos\/Hitchens.flv\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because he is dying, Christopher Hitchens doesn\u2019t make many public appearances these days, but he did manage to attend the 2011 Texas Freethought Convention to receive the Freethinker of the Year Award. His tenacity to hang on a little longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/christopher-hitchens-on-the-way-out\/\">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":[35],"tags":[2085],"class_list":["post-14984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-christopher-hitchens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14984","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=14984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}