{"id":9472,"date":"2010-08-09T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T15:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9472"},"modified":"2010-08-09T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T15:16:05","slug":"christopher-hitchens-ponders-his-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/christopher-hitchens-ponders-his-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Hitchens ponders his mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of interviews with Christopher Hitchens:<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"ep\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"416\" height=\"374\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=bestoftv\/2010\/08\/06\/ac.hitchens.intv.ext.cnn\" \/><embed id=\"ep\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"416\" height=\"374\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=bestoftv\/2010\/08\/06\/ac.hitchens.intv.ext.cnn\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=309209427001&amp;playerID=30183073001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/30183073001?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=309209427001&amp;playerID=30183073001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/30183073001?isVid=1\" name=\"flashObj\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" flashvars=\"videoId=309209427001&amp;playerID=30183073001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>One of the interestingly wrong points that Hitchens makes is that if he does end up making a deathbed confession of faith, we should not take it seriously since it would be the product of delirium, pain, panic or chemically altered brain functions: in other words, it wouldn\u2019t be the \u201creal\u201d Hitchens. For an atheist, though, where the material is the only reality, it would <em>still <\/em>be the \u201creal\u201d Hitchens, since the version of this over-inflated ego that exists in any moment in time is the only real one there is. For Christians a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk\/14.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Lord Marchmain<\/a> style deathbed conversion would be an occasion of rejoicing; for atheists one of lament &#8211; but atheists would not be able to wriggle out of it being a real statement of faith by a real Hitchens.<\/p>\n<p>Watching these, it would take a hard hearted person not to feel sorry for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of interviews with Christopher Hitchens: One of the interestingly wrong points that Hitchens makes is that if he does end up making a deathbed confession of faith, we should not take it seriously since it would be the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/christopher-hitchens-ponders-his-mortality\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[2049,2085],"class_list":["post-9472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christopher-hitchens","tag-atheism","tag-christopher-hitchens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472","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=9472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}