Gerry may well have called.... They were desperate tobtry anything..
Christopher Hitchens... A lifelong vical atheist... Turned to God when he was about to die... That's, what desperation does to people
Wow. Desperate to try anything, including a barnpot with a plastic box with a housebrick in it, but not desperate enough to try EVRD dogs.
And the Christopher Hitchens story, that he took Pascal's Wager at the bitter end, is utterly refuted by his son:
On the deathbed conversion – I spent my father’s final weeks and days at his bedside and watched him draw his final breath and die, and can assure you that there was no hint of any sort of conversion (as I’m sure you have already guessed). In fact, we barely spoke about religion at all except for joint expressions of frustration at the god botherers who made the rounds in the ICU and other units where dying people could be preyed upon by vulturous Christians.The book that made that scurrilous allegation was written by a fundamentalist, Larry Taunton, who pours scorn on anyone who refutes god; Rushdie, Krauss, Fry, Hitchens' own father. Hitchens himself predicted such assertions:
“It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people whom you don’t know, but who are unbelievers, and say: ‘Now are you going to change your mind?’ … As you know, there’s a long history of fraud about this. People claim that Darwin had a deathbed recantation. They made up lies about Thomas Paine. It goes on all the time. It’s a very nasty little history… They’ve even tried it on me, when I’ve had not the vinegar I’d like to have had, in a hospital bed. ”
