I was wondering if anyone had read Christopher Hitchins' new book God Is Not Great:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article1860734.ece
If so is it a good read and on a par with Richard Dawkins' excellent book The God Delusion?
2007-06-03 05:17:42 · 9 answers · asked by pagreen1966 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Greetings in the precious name of Jesus Christ: I am glad that we serve a God who is not willing for any to perish. The goodness of God leads to repentance. When we turn away from sins and are washed in the blood of the LAMB, then we live holy lives as we let the Spirit of God do the work in us. Nothing we can do to save us from eternal damnation, except to accept what Christ did for us on the cross, God's free gift to us. It was on that old rugged cross that the price of salvation was paid. Yes! We are bought with a price. Not with silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ. Alleluia! Praise God!
2007-06-03 07:09:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Two different types of book. But not unsurprisingly some overlap. Hitchins less strident than Dawkins, I think and has a lot more anecdotal human contact as opposed to the relentless argumentation of Dawkins. I thought it was very good, though how on earth someone of faith could read it and be open to changing their minds is beyond me. How do you disabuse people of centuries of oppressive thought control? I regret also that Buddhism doesn't get as detailed discussion as the three monotheistic religions.
2007-06-04 02:17:05 · answer #2 · answered by Yogini 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is not great ?
C. Hitchins
An excerpt:
The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. Still less can they hope to tell us the “meaning” of later discoveries and developments that were, when they began, either obstructed by their religions or denounced by them. And yet – the believers still claim to know! Not just to know, but to know everything. Not just to know that god exists, and that he created and supervised the whole enterprise, but also to know what “he” demands of us – from our diet to our observances to our sexual morality. In other words, in a vast and complicated discussion where we know more and more about less and less, yet can still hope for some enlightenment as we proceed, one faction – itself composed of mutually warring factions – has the sheer arrogance to tell us that we already have all the essential information we need. Such stupidity, combined with such pride, should be enough on its own to exclude “belief” from the debate. The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. It may be a long farewell, but it has begun and, like all farewells, should not be protracted.
Thanks, have a pleasant day.
2007-06-03 09:02:03 · answer #3 · answered by zurioluchi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is outstanding and he's familiar with it. he's rather humble nevertheless, and merciful, for not destroying all individuals sinners the instant he created Adam and Eve. He knew we've been going to be sinful, yet he did not wipe us positioned and create a sparkling, suited human beings. There could be no "us", purely hundreds of senseless, 'soulless' robots. He needs us to love him, even nevertheless he loves us wayyy extra. think of you have a domestic dog. Your domestic dog eats up your cellular telephone, and you get incredibly offended. Are you going to deliver him off to be slaughtered? of course not! you're merciful, and punish him, yet its self-discipline, an act of kindness. you apart from could do not want your canines to hate you! you want him to love you, and think of that your the proper concern interior the international, so the affection would be on the fringe of mutual. you enjoyed your domestic dog interior the 1st place, you purely want to work out, if with its very own will, it is going to love you back, and think of your super.
2016-12-18 12:37:44 · answer #4 · answered by chaplean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not as well written as Dawkins' book, but still worth a read.
2007-06-03 05:44:14 · answer #5 · answered by G C 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Peter, his brother wrote a great article about him in today's Mail on Sunday, read it.
Both books are WAY off beam...sad really.
2007-06-03 07:30:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
god is non sense god does not exists.
2007-06-03 09:52:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Im with sarah totally. Keep it up girl!
2007-06-03 08:45:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
If God is bad then Satan must be good. Which means that goodness is evil and evil is good. Hmm...interesting.
2007-06-03 05:28:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋