{"id":1336,"date":"2013-06-14T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2013-06-14T11:40:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T16:40:54","slug":"1336","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"ATHEIST ACCURATELY ARTICULATES CHRISTIAN FAITH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"irc_mimg\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=AJAnwIuFYgPP1M&amp;tbnid=sHxRTS8oqENnWM:&amp;ved=0CAUQjRw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fendingfaith.com%2F%3Fpage_id%3D98&amp;ei=Mym6UYaWGYPO8wT9uICYBA&amp;bvm=bv.47883778,d.eWU&amp;psig=AFQjCNH3pL-ojxTDBSM47uO3oWa847_mxw&amp;ust=1371241118765524\" data-ved=\"0CAUQjRw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/endingfaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/God-is-Not-Great.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Unitarian minister, Marilyn Sewell asked renowned atheist, Christopher Hitchens the following question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sewell: The religion you cite in your book [<i>god is not Great<\/i>] is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I\u2019m a liberal Christian, and I don\u2019t take the stories from the scripture literally. I don\u2019t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make any (sic) distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hitchens: I would say that if you don\u2019t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you\u2019re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Posted on Portlandmonthlymag.com, Dec. 17, 2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is fascinating is that Christian scholar, J. Gresham Machen, and Christopher Hitchens agree on this very point.\u00a0 In his brilliant and beautifully written book, <i>Christianity and<\/i> <i>Liberalism<\/i>, Machen said \u201cliberal Christianity\u201d was a contradiction in terms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unitarian minister, Marilyn Sewell asked renowned atheist, Christopher Hitchens the following question: Sewell: The religion you cite in your book [god is not Great] is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I\u2019m a liberal Christian, and I don\u2019t take the stories from the scripture literally. I don\u2019t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}