{"id":226,"date":"2010-08-09T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/08\/no-atheists-in-foxholes-christopher-hitchens-proves-otherwise.html"},"modified":"2010-08-09T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T12:20:00","slug":"no-atheists-in-foxholes-christopher-hitchens-proves-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/08\/no-atheists-in-foxholes-christopher-hitchens-proves-otherwise.html","title":{"rendered":"No Atheists in Foxholes? Christopher Hitchens Proves Otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vocal atheist (among other things) Christopher Hitchens is gravely ill, with esophageal cancer. After his diagnosis became public two months ago, people, particularly Christians,&nbsp;wondered whether it would be appropriate to pray for the author of <em>God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hitchens says<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/hitchens.certain.he.wont.turn.to.god\/26460.htm\"> he doesn&#8217;t mind<\/a>, but remains an avowed atheist. In fact, he recently told CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper&nbsp;that<a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/08\/07\/god-and-christopher-hitchens-the-plot-thickens\/\"> turning to God now would be &#8220;pathetic.&#8221; <\/a>(CNN blogger and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/nicole-neroulias\/stephen-prothero-intervie_b_630606.html\">atheist-baiter Stephen Prothero<\/a>, author of&nbsp;<em>God Is Not One<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/08\/05\/facing-down-hitchens-facing-down-cancer\/\">plans to debate him on Nov. 4,<\/a> but I&#8217;m betting Hitchens won&#8217;t change his mind!)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitte<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vocal atheist (among other things) Christopher Hitchens is gravely ill, with esophageal cancer. After his diagnosis became public two months ago, people, particularly Christians,&nbsp;wondered whether it would be appropriate to pray for the author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Hitchens says he doesn&#8217;t mind, but remains an avowed atheist. In fact,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No Atheists in Foxholes? 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