Hitchens’s only conversion

16 thoughts on “Hitchens’s only conversion”

1. IIRC Hitch was a public school boy (EN_GB : in EN_US, that’s “private school boy”), so I’m sure that he’d have spent appreciable rainy Wednesday afternoons on the rugby pitch. Whether his boot was sufficiently aureous to have made many conversions, I don’t know. That’s far more credible than the screeches of the vulture.

2. Exactly…well done.

   1. I’ll second that. Well done indeed!

3. The cartoon is brilliant. Its title is brillianter!

4. There’s a lot on the web about Christopher Hitchens converting, even dating back before he died, and he even fired a preemptive strike against claims like these with this quote:

   “If I convert it’s because it’s better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”

5. “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s most Notorious Atheist” by Larry Alex Taunton,
   ‘an evangelical Christian who knew Hitchens for three years and, he says, had private, unrecorded conversations with him about Christianity.’ Alternate title:
   “How The World’s Most Notorious Atheist May Help Me Become a Best-Selling Author”.

   1. “…he says, had private, unrecorded conversations with him about Christianity…”

      That’s really rather convenient, isn’t it? It’s not like apologists have never invented anecdotes either.

      Oh, wait…

      1. Almost as bad as one of the original Christian documents – the original Mark, with the “everyone went away and told no one” at the end.

   2. Interesting, I had private and unrecorded conversations with Hitchens just before he died and he told me that all of his estate should go to me.

      Ok, Taunton, when you die, I will remind everyone that in your last breath you bequeathed your entire earthly estate to me, knowing full well it’s of no use to you in beanie land.

6. Who was it that said that rumours of a death bed conversion would be at best indication that they’d gotten demented or were suffering from extreme duress?

7. Only a complete and utter jackass would try that one on where Hitchens was concerned.

8. Lyin’ for jesus. It’s justified!

9. @Pliny: the woman here looks so real (and her features striking). I like how you contrasted her with cartoon-looking Jesus.

   1. Charleen. here’s the origin story for JC’s rather 2-D look.

      http://pictoraltheology.blogspot.com/2014/11/its-another-magic-pun-day.html

10. Tasteful conversion:
    http://www.satireandcomment.com/0508conversion.html

11. Clever joke, but poorly written. I had to read it a few times before I realized it meant “made-up” (hyphenated) as an adjective instead of a verb.

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