{"id":6633,"date":"2016-02-29T04:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T04:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/29\/how-far-does-wit-get-you\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T04:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T04:45:53","slug":"how-far-does-wit-get-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/29\/how-far-does-wit-get-you\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Worth of Wit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christopher Hitchens, Mortality<\/em>, Twelve, 2012, p. 91:<\/span><\/p>\n

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If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Witty unto the end.  But in the end, what does wit get you? One last vain flash of brilliance and then extinction — or judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Christopher Hitchens, Mortality, Twelve, 2012, p. 91: If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. Witty unto the end.  But in the end, what does wit get you? One last vain flash of brilliance and then extinction — or judgment. Related articles Where Are the Honest Atheists? Ashes … Continue reading “On the Worth of Wit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-and-theism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}