{"id":5158,"date":"2011-12-18T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2011-12-18T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T22:08:07","slug":"hitch-comes-face-to-face-with-the-old-man-with-a-long-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/12\/hitch-comes-face-to-face-with-the-old-man-with-a-long-beard.html","title":{"rendered":"Hitch Comes Face to Face with the Old Man with a Long Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedpastor.com\/2011\/12\/18\/older-cartoon-hitchens-is-dying\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I\u2019ve seen several of these cartoons before<\/a>, but since these all popped up in my feed reader today, I thought I would collect them all and share them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/About\/General\/2011\/12\/16\/1324079058081\/Martin-Rowson-cartoon-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"463\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2011\/12\/18\/i-suppose-this-beats-the-alternatives\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">HT Hemant Mehta<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/unreasonablefaith\/files\/2011\/12\/sorry-mr-hitchens.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unreasonablefaith\/2011\/12\/sorry-mr-hitchens-but\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">HT Daniel Florien<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-oQT5KvxTb10\/Tu4n4Hz1omI\/AAAAAAAAAlM\/8JrU2WtGRx8\/s400\/hitch4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"228\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sneerreview.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/christopher-hitchens.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">From Sneer Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve seen several of these cartoons before, but since these all popped up in my feed reader today, I thought I would collect them all and share them. 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