{"id":54368,"date":"2016-05-14T20:10:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_beliefs_christopher_hitchens_was_shaky_in_his_atheism_new_book_suggests\/"},"modified":"2016-05-14T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T20:10:09","slug":"nyt_beliefs_christopher_hitchens_was_shaky_in_his_atheism_new_book_suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54368","title":{"rendered":"(NYT Beliefs) Christopher Hitchens Was Shaky in His Atheism, New Book Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in an article by the Religion News Service last month, friends of Mr. Hitchens took exception with the book\u2019s conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Wasserman, a literary agent and editor, and an executor of Mr. Hitchens\u2019s estate, described the book as \u201ca shabby business\u201d\u009d in which \u201cunverifiable conversations\u201d\u009d are made to \u201ccontradict everything Christopher Hitchens ever said or stood for.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Having evangelical friends is a testament to Mr. Hitchens\u2019s \u201cintellectual tolerance and largeness of heart, not to any covert religiosity,\u201d\u009d Benjamin Schwarz, his former editor at The Atlantic, was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Mr. Taunton said that his rather modest claims were being misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/14\/us\/christopher-hitchens-was-shaky-in-his-atheism-new-book-suggests.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in an article by the Religion News Service last month, friends of Mr. Hitchens took exception with the book\u2019s conclusions. Steve Wasserman, a literary agent and editor, and an executor of Mr. Hitchens\u2019s estate, described the book as \u201ca shabby<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54368\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,425,92,419,154,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-books","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}