Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Chris Hitchens "God Is Not Great."

 “Offers the open-minded plenty to think about” (Booklist).
Er ... no! Not exactly. To be a little more precise, it panders to: closed minds, bigots, God-haters, the arrogant, the evil, the terminally stupid and the downright silly. Its greatest appeal will be to those 'who can't be bovvered to investigate thoroughly' and who have a vague idea that 'if they do not try to find God and He does turn out to exist - then as a God of love - they must be okay.' Wrong again!
"Seek and ye WILL find."

Allison Pearson.

  So you can imagine how delighted I was to come across the term “far centre”, which was coined by Prof Jonathan Clark, the leading British ...