Atheist Christopher Hitchens Contemplated Conversion to Christianity
Larry Alex Taunton, the founder and executive director of The Fixed Point Foundation, says in his newly released book that the late notorious atheist Christopher Hitchens was contemplating conversion to evangelical Christianity before his death. Though still recovering from a near fatal accident, Taunton is talking about The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, released on April 12.
Hitchens, who died in 2011, became a close friend of Taunton, and they went on two long road trips together, "with Hitchens reading aloud from the Gospel of John on one of them," the news website says, adding that the Christian author is also friends with British atheist Richard Dawkins.
"For the first time in his life, he [Hitchens] was engaging evangelical Christians," Taunton was quoted as saying. "He found them to be different from the veneer of Christianity in Britain. When he began debating these evangelicals, he...
