{"id":1291,"date":"2011-12-16T07:27:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2011-12-17T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T22:26:33","slug":"rip-christopher-hitchens-in-heaven-hell-or-nowhere-in-particular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/12\/rip-christopher-hitchens-in-heaven-hell-or-nowhere-in-particular.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP Christopher Hitchens: In Heaven, Hell, In Between or Nowhere in Particular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific writer and ascerbic atheist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/daily\/2011\/12\/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Hitchens died yesterday<\/a>, more than a year into\u00a0his public battle with esophageal cancer. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/fun-friday-atheist-christopher-hitchens-still-alive-kicking-and-blaspheming.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kicking, screaming and &#8216;blaspheming&#8217; <\/a>until the end, surrounded by friends and prayed for (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/obamas-attend-church-hitchens-ignors-prayers-muslims-meet-in-nyc.html\" target=\"_blank\">despite his indifference<\/a>) by supporters? It&#8217;s a comforting thought, in its own way.<\/p>\n<p>Some religion news links &#8212; and please share your own recommendations in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2011\/12\/16\/polemical-atheist-journalist-christopher-hitchens-dead-at-62\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polemical atheist journalist Christopher Hitchens dead at 62 <\/a>(Reuters FaithWorld)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2011\/12\/16\/3090781\/hitchens-contrarian-who-embraced-and-battled-judaism-dead-at-62#When:05:43:00Z\" target=\"_blank\">Hitchens, contrarian who embraced and battled Judaism, dead at 62 <\/a>(JTA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/old.news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20111216\/ts_nm\/us_christopherhitchens\" target=\"_blank\">Atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens dead at 62 <\/a>(Yahoo News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/wp-admin\/void(0);\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/wp-admin\/void(0);\">click here to\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/wp-admin\/void(0);\">follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific writer and ascerbic atheist Christopher Hitchens died yesterday, more than a year into\u00a0his public battle with esophageal cancer. Kicking, screaming and &#8216;blaspheming&#8217; until the end, surrounded by friends and prayed for (despite his indifference) by supporters? It&#8217;s a comforting thought, in its own way. Some religion news links &#8212; and please share your own&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[389,570,304,14,568,28,569],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news","tag-agnostic","tag-antitheist","tag-atheists","tag-christianity","tag-christopher-hitchens","tag-judaism","tag-rip-christopher-hitchens"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RIP Christopher Hitchens: In Heaven, Hell, In Between or Nowhere in Particular - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/12\/rip-christopher-hitchens-in-heaven-hell-or-nowhere-in-particular.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RIP Christopher Hitchens: In Heaven, Hell, In Between or Nowhere in Particular - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prolific writer and ascerbic atheist Christopher Hitchens died yesterday, more than a year into\u00a0his public battle with esophageal cancer. 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