Peter Hitchens

The Rage Against God (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Peter Hitchens lost faith as a teenager. But eventually finding atheism barren, he came by a logical process to his current affiliation to an unmodernised belief in Christianity.

Hitchens describes his return from the far political left. Familiar with British left-wing politics, it was travelling in the Communist bloc that first undermined and replaced his leftism, a process virtually completed when he became a newspaper's resident Moscow correspondent 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 people from acting as if they were God, encouraging people to act in the belief that there is a God and an ordered, purposeful universe, governed by an unalterable law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441162854
• Artikelnr.: 38301658

Autorenporträt

Peter Hitchens is a columnist for the Mail on Sunday and a contributor to many other publications. He has published several books, including The Abolition of Britain and The Rage Against God, also published by Bloomsbury Continuum, mainly on aspects of what he regards as a Cultural Revolution which has transformed Britain for the worse in the last half century. He is active on social media, especially Twitter. He has been a journalist for nearly 50 years, has reported from 57 countries and was a resident correspondent in Moscow and Washington. He is a former revolutionary Marxist who now describes himself as a socially conservative Social Democrat.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART 1: A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH ATHEISM 1. The Generation
Who Were Too Clever to Believe 2. A Loss of Confidence 3. The Seeds of
Atheism 4. The Last Battleships 5. Britain's Pseudo-Religion and the Cult
of Winston Churchill 6. Homo Sovieticus 7. A Rediscovery of Lost Faith 8.
The Decline of Christianity PART 2: ADDRESSING ATHEISM: THREE FAILED
ARGUMENTS 9. Are Conflicts fought in the name of religion conflicts about
religion? 10. Is It Possible to Determine What Is Right and What Is Wrong
without God? 11. Are Atheist states not actually Atheist? PART 3: THE
LEAGUE OF THE MILITANT GODLESS 12. Fake Miracles and Grotesque Relics 13.
Provoking a Bloody War with the Church 14. The Great Debate Epilogue Index