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Wednesday, December 21, 2011, 9:00 AM

Hanukkah and Orthodoxy
American Catholic Blog, Nicholas Frankovich

The Gospel according to Hitchens
Washington Post, Gayle Trotter

Kim Jong Il and the danger of deifying leaders
CNN, R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

The 2011 CT Music Awards
Christianity Today

Happy Hanukkah, Marines!
Wall Street Journal, William McGurn

4 Comments

    Ray Ingles
    December 21st, 2011 | 10:18 am

    Hitchens didn’t produce a deathbed conversion, so people are looking for a post-death one, like the Mormons?

    Fred
    December 21st, 2011 | 12:11 pm

    Ray, I think you’re being a bit deliberately obtuse. Trotter is not claiming that Hitchens was a believer when alive or had any kind of pre- or postmortem conversion, only that, despite himself, in his life and writings (at least as they are manifested in Hitch-22), he reminds those of us who _do_ believe what and why it is we believe. Doesn’t seem like a terribly irrational thesis to me.

    Ray Ingles
    December 21st, 2011 | 1:39 pm

    I’m referring to the last paragraph.

    Patrick
    December 21st, 2011 | 11:32 pm

    Well, Ray, if God does exist and we do meet Him for our Judgment after death, then that is where Hitchens is now, face-to-face with his Creator. Not an intellectual conversion, then, but an actual meeting.

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