[aruanan]

I have the impression that some on this thread, were they to discover that he had a death bed conversion, would be as pissed-off as

1. the older son in the parable of the prodigal son: It's not fair that someone should live his life being a total a-hole toward God and then get in at the last minute!

2. the workers in the vineyard who agreed to a wage for a whole day's work and then bitched about the ones hired an hour before quitting time for the same wage: It's not fair that we should have to work all day long and then this guy who worked a few minutes got as much as we did!

Of course, if you're a five petal Calvinist, none of this had anything to do with Hitchens either way--Hitchens dying an unrepentant atheist or Hitchens getting converted at the last moment--but was entirely the will of God.

[grey_whiskers]

That's odd: #2 is the first thing that came to mind when considering death-bed conversions, or vice versa; although a close second would be late 20-th Century North American Christians like me being allowed in (at least I *hope* I will be...) compared to martyrs such as Antipas.

And then there's always the thief on the cross, as mentioned earlier.

He died to save us, why should He be picky about *when* people repent?

Cheers!