{"id":1542,"date":"2006-06-02T13:37:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T13:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/et-tu-hitch.html"},"modified":"2006-06-02T13:37:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T13:37:13","slug":"et-tu-hitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/et-tu-hitch.html","title":{"rendered":"Et tu, Hitch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher Hitchens is interviewed by WORLD magazine:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Challenged On professing Bible knowledge while eschewing biblical faith, Mr. Hitchens said, "I don’t have the nostalgia for the lost period of faith. I’m glad it’s over and my children won’t have to know about it. Except from me." <\/p>\n

WORLD:<\/strong> From you? <\/p>\n

HITCHENS:<\/strong> I teach them this stuff and they don’t know what I think. <\/p>\n

WORLD:<\/strong> How do you teach them without them knowing what you think? <\/p>\n

HITCHENS:<\/strong> You are not educated if you don’t know the Bible. You can’t read Shakespeare or Milton without it, even if there was nothing else of it. And with the schools now, that’s what I hate about secular relativism. They’re afraid of insurance liability. They don’t even teach it as a document. They stay out of the whole thing to avoid controversy. So kids can’t quote the King James Bible. That’s terrible. And I quite understand Christian parents who want to protect their children from a nihilistic solution where there’s no way of knowing what’s been discussed. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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