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Peter Hitchens
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Publisher | Continuum Publishing Corporation | ||
ISBN | 978-144110572 | ||
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Vicky
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Synopsis
In a fascinating account, Peter Hitchens describes his autobiographical and spiritual journey from atheism to faith in God through the power of reasoning. Peter Hitchens lost faith in his teenage years. But eventually finding atheism barren, he came by a process of logic and poetry to his current affiliation to an unmodernized belief in Christianity. Hitchens describes how he returned from the far political left- and from Bohemia. Familiar with British left-wing politics, it was traveling in the Communist bloc that first undermined his leftism and then replaced it, a process which was more or less completed when he became a newspaper's resident correspondent in Moscow in 1990, just before the collapse of the Communist Party. He became convinced of certain propositions. That modern western social democratic politics is a form of false religion in which people try to substitute a social conscience for an individual one. That utopianism is actively dangerous. That liberty and law are attainable human objectives which are also the good by-products of Christian faith. Faith is the best antidote to utopianism, dismissing the dangerous idea of earthly perfection, discouraging men and women from acting as if they were God, encouraging men and women to act in the belief that there is a God and an ordered, purposeful universe, governed by an unalterable law.
Review
Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens is a book like no other that I have read - being that it is both his journey from Atheism back into Christianity and also an expose about the true nature of Atheism where he answers his brother Christopher's book 'God Is Not Great'.
As a writer and journalist Peter Hitchens cannot just write about his conversion back to Christianity - he has woven into his story the politics of the country and how it has effected him. He talks about remembering his father being so proud to be in the navy, and then in the next sentence we see the damage that being made redundant had on the family and those around him. A political decision that was observed very closely by the young Peter and was perhaps to guide him into the journalistic career he has now.
I learned about how Christianity declined after the first world war and even more after the second - people had started to become disillusioned with life. What were the politicians doing to the country - and what was Atheism and Theism about and why is it so popular nowadays. Could an Atheist world be Utopia?
I found Rage Against God fascinatng and extremely informative; but Peter has a gift for writing which makes it easier for people to understand the subject matter he is talking about. It is a book that everyone should read because he shows very clearly how our Christian history is tied up with the politics of each era from the 1900s and how damaging loss of our religion has been to society. I found his arguments very persuasive as to the good Christianity can do for this country.
A book that I more than highly recommend - that is easy to read and should be read.
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