{"id":112,"date":"2007-05-10T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=112"},"modified":"2007-05-10T09:33:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T13:33:16","slug":"wilson-vs-hitchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Wilson vs. Hitchens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have not heard&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Doug Wilson and Christopher Hitchens will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2007\/mayweb-only\/119-12.0.html\" title=\"Is Christianity Good for the World?\" target=\"_blank\">debating their views<\/a> against each other over at Christianity Today! The Debate is over &#8220;<em>Is Christianity Good for the World?<\/em>&#8221; This is going to be a great and lively debate between a great Christian pastor and a popular atheist.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the hilarious jest that Wilson made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougwils.com\/index.asp?Action=Anchor&amp;CategoryID=1&amp;BlogID=3882\" title=\"More on the Atheism Front\" target=\"_blank\">over at his blog<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0446579807\/christianitytoda\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/idotf\/pictures\/HitchWil.jpg\" title=\"Chris Hitchens' Book\" alt=\"Chris Hitchens' Book\" height=\"395\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0915815664\/christianitytoda\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/idotf\/pictures\/WilHitch.jpg\" title=\"Douglas Wilson's Book Cover Making Fun of Hitchens\" alt=\"Douglas Wilson's Book Cover Making Fun of Hitchens\" height=\"395\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know. Doug Wilson has written many wonderful books on the family and Christian education. The title of Wilson&#8217;s book above is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpress.org\/shop\/item.asp?itemid=953\" title=\"Case for Classical Christian Education\" target=\"_blank\">a real book he&#8217;s written<\/a>. It&#8217;s just hilarious that he dressed up like Hitchens and made a book cover!<\/p>\n<p>I could hardly stop laughing.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>For more on Wilson&#8217;s view of satire and Trinitarian skylarking, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpress.org\/shop\/item.asp?itemid=413&amp;catid=\" title=\"A Serrated Edge\" target=\"_blank\">A <\/a><span class=\"itemname\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpress.org\/shop\/item.asp?itemid=413&amp;catid=\" title=\"A Serrated Edge\" target=\"_blank\">Serrated Edge<\/a>. I&#8217;ve read this book and it is awesome!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Christ and In Defense of the Faith,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have not heard&#8230; Doug Wilson and Christopher Hitchens will be debating their views against each other over at Christianity Today! The Debate is over &#8220;Is Christianity Good for the World?&#8221; This is going to be a great and lively debate between a great Christian pastor and a popular atheist. Here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wilson vs. Hitchens<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,27,20,19,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-atheism","category-books","category-debate","category-evangelism","category-promotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}