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Here, for the first time, in his new book The Rage Against God, Peter Hitchens, brother of prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens, chronicles his personal journey through disbelief into a committed Christian faith. With unflinching openness and intellectual honesty, Hitchens describes the personal loss and philosophical curiosity that led him to burn his Bible at prep scho...more

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Published June 1st 2010 by Zondervan (first published October 24th 2009)

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May 15, 2011 Dinochunks01 rated it 3 of 5 stars

Paid twenty five cents at the employee book sale last autumn. I thought it would be a recommendation for my son who is living a faith based life while finding and growing his talents. I ended up reading it myself as my life appears to be undergoing some crises.
I appreciate Mr. Hitchen's background and can relate to his early beliefs and values. I was aspiring to atheism, going only so far as a sincere agnosticism. Everyone knows the joke about Agnostics being too cowardly to be Atheists. I am r...more

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With grace and urgency, Peter Hitchens tells of his journey from atheism to faith in God. The first part chronicles his Bible-burning days in prep school through to his time spent in Soviet Russia, while the second and third parts are more analytical, refuting the three main arguments of atheism, and challenging the notion that Soviet Russia was in fact a religious state. He illustrates through the facts of history as well as his personal experience living in Soviet Russia the results that arise...more

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Apr 03, 2012 D.M. Dutcher rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: bad-nonfiction, biography, christian, nonfiction

Not good at all. It's 50% a lackluster spiritual biography of how Peter Hitchens became Christian, and 50% a combination of very brief arguments against atheism and a lot of talk about the Soviet Union.

The biography part just isn't that good. It's fairly brief, spends time meandering about what a bad 12 year old he was, and doesn't really list any real spiritual influences from people. It's really all about him, and it's dull. It's kind of an aimless circling to faith done really without any mem...more Not good at all. It's 50% a lackluster spiritual biography of how Peter Hitchens became Christian, and 50% a combination of very brief arguments against atheism and a lot of talk about the Soviet Union.

The biography part just isn't that good. It's fairly brief, spends time meandering about what a bad 12 year old he was, and doesn't really list any real spiritual influences from people. It's really all about him, and it's dull. It's kind of an aimless circling to faith done really without any memorable input by others. The few interesting things tend to center around him being a foreign correspondent, but oddly he is much too brief on them.

The atheism part isn't either. I'm not a fan of modern atheism: I can be described as a lapsed Christian and a fellow traveler of that faith. But the latter part talks much more about Communist Russia really than argues against atheism. It felt like someone trying to argue Christianity is bad solely from the Spanish Inquisition, which he then goes on to describe in middling detail. He's no Robert Conquest, sometimes barely giving a page to a facet of his argument. It's sophomoric debate, mostly because modern atheists are really different from them as much as modern fundamentalists are different than Savronola. Both are reactive and committed to upholding truth over political and legislating it. It may seem not, but the media tends really to overblow efforts by both sides when they do react.

He also throws some pointless jibes about Neocons and the Iraq war. They are pointless because they have nothing to do with either atheism or his spiritual formation, but since he is a Eurocon, he has to throw them in. Honestly, I think all the five star reviews here are expressing solidarity over reviewing the quality of the book. For a real book like this, G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy manages to be an excellent spiritual journey, and some devastating arguments against atheism that are fresh and unusual even now. This book simply isn't very good at either of its aims.(less)

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Feb 06, 2012 Mary rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book provides a first-hand, eye-opening perspective on how the elimination of religion from the public sphere, and especially the forcible attempt to remove religion from society altogether has been detrimental, if not devastating, to society. Whereas religious persecution by the Church can be and has been tempered over time by conscience and a calling to account of the fundamental call for love of neighbor, attempts to create an atheistic utopia have proven several times over to be a much...more

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Nov 17, 2011 David rated it 3 of 5 stars

I got this book because of a podcast I listened to where Sheridan Voysey interviewed the author of this book - Peter Hitchens. I wasn't really aware who he or indeed who his famous brother was.

http://downloads.fm1032.com.au/oh/OH_...

Christopher Hitchens is a well known atheist, kind of a right hand man to the venomous Richard Dawkins.

Christopher and Peter have had a public outing of their differing views on the existence of God. So I was hoping for some more background on the excellent podcast...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Jesse Broussard rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: excellent, non-fiction

Peter Hitchens can write. His prose in this autobiographical journey from atheism to faith is at times elegant, precise, poignant, poetic, mystical and melancholy, and is almost universally exquisite. This book was like candy. Yes, "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly," but it's so refreshing to encounter someone that does it well. Here are a few samples of what I mean.

"It is my belief that passions as strong as his are more likely to be countered by the unexpected force of poetry, which c...more Peter Hitchens can write. His prose in this autobiographical journey from atheism to faith is at times elegant, precise, poignant, poetic, mystical and melancholy, and is almost universally exquisite. This book was like candy. Yes, "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly," but it's so refreshing to encounter someone that does it well. Here are a few samples of what I mean.

"It is my belief that passions as strong as his are more likely to be countered by the unexpected force of poetry, which can ambush the human heart at any time."

"It was illustrated with soppy pictures of Christ looking--in C. S. Lewis's potent sneer at stained-glass sentimentality--"like a consumptive girl."

"Unlike Christians, atheists have a high opinion of their own virtue."

"There were other things too. During a short spell at a cathedral choir school (not as a choirboy, since I sing like a donkey) I had experienced the intense beauty of the ancient Anglican chants, spiraling up into chilly stone vaults at Evensong... The prehistoric, mysterious poetry of the Magnificat and the Nunc Dimittis, perhaps a melancholy evening hymn, and the cold, ancient laments and curses of the Psalms, as the unique slow dusk of England gathers outside and inside the echoing, haunted, impossibly old building are extraordinarily potent. If you welcome them, they have an astonishing power to reassure and comfort. If you suspect or mistrust them, they will alarm and repel you like a strong and unwanted magic, something to flee from before it takes hold."

"My own confirmation, by contrast, was a miserable modern-language affair with all the poetic force of a driving test..."

"Utopia can only ever be reached across a sea of blood."

"The delusion of revolutionary progress, and the ruthlessness it justifies, survives any amount of experience."

So yeah, I was fond of this book. But more than just his voice when writing, his organization and progression through his experience and his understanding of the surrounding events is clear and extremely insightful. It is, in a word, a delightful book: it is not often that a book on this type of topic this feels more like a reward than a duty, but this is that rare one, and I highly recommend it. (less)

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Jul 20, 2011 Rod rated it 4 of 5 stars

Thank you Peter for writing a book like this. I doubt it will open many peoples eyes to the danger of a society without the morality and love of Jesus. But maybe a few will stop and think for a moment.

I think this book will be confusing for many people who lump all of religion as a goodness on humanity. Sorry, but all religions are not the same. All sects of Christianity are not the same. Even Christians who go to the same church and listen to the same Bible and Pastor are not the same. Here's w...more

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Jul 05, 2011 Kevin Greenlee rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: theology

Peter Hitchens, the brother of famed atheist polemicist Christopher Hitchens, tells the story of his personal journey to faith in the pages of The Rage Against God: How atheism led me to faith. This story is a fascinating and brilliantly written one, and well worth reading.

That is not to say it is a perfect book. Far from it. It strikes me that Peter is definitely of the same seed as his brother, and at times The Rage Against God can certainly descend into polemic mirroring his brothers, though...more Peter Hitchens, the brother of famed atheist polemicist Christopher Hitchens, tells the story of his personal journey to faith in the pages of The Rage Against God: How atheism led me to faith. This story is a fascinating and brilliantly written one, and well worth reading.

That is not to say it is a perfect book. Far from it. It strikes me that Peter is definitely of the same seed as his brother, and at times The Rage Against God can certainly descend into polemic mirroring his brothers, though always filled with more charity. I do not think this book is the sort that would persuade anyone to faith, nor, in fact, does Peter. This is his story, and when it focuses on that it is at its strongest. As such, the beginning section where Peter tells his own story, and the final section where he reflects closely on the case of Soviet Russia (a world he lived in for quite some time as a reporter) are the best parts of the book. In the middle, Peter goes through a rapid-fire examination of some of the more famous arguments of the "New Atheists," and while it is interesting I doubt it could change anyone's mind.

The personality that comes across in the book also varies. At times, Peter seems the compassionate prophet, concerned deeply with the decay he has seen progress in his society during his lifetime, targeting genuine problems and weeping for his nation. At other times, Peter can come across as an old cranky man complaining about this new-fangled modern art.

But in the end, reading this book, I find myself quite likely Peter, and his command of prose is to be envied. I also share with Peter his largest concern, the fear over the totalitarian nature of the New Atheist rhetoric. On my good days, I like to think the best of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and their ilk. I don't believe they have any desire to harm the religious, though they certainly seem to fear us. Yet, their language carries with it the seeds of just such injustice. The world is broken, they rightly say, and it could be made better if only religion were gone. Of course, religion is not something that stands on its own, religion is only there because of the religious, and so they are the ones in the way of utopia. That is, as Peter points out, always the language of bloody revolutions, "the world would be perfect if only these people were gone." Again, I do not think Dawkins or the elder Hitchens want this, nor do I think Peter believes they do, but it's only a matter of time until the language they use inspires someone to think in just such a way.

So, pick up this book if your interested in the heart and journey of a man so close to one of the vanguards of the New Atheist movement. In many ways, Peter is man Christopher might have been had he taken a different road. Don't expect to be persuaded one way or another on the questions he addresses, but enjoy the exploration of the man's heart and his skill with words.(less)

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May 16, 2011 Aeisele rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: religion

This is a strange book. I liked it in some ways, but in other ways it's not very good.

First, the good things: he puts the secularization of Europe in a very good context. He basically argues that the melding of religion and the state in Britain, the cult of leaders like Churchill, and the disillusionment of Europeans after the two world wars are the reasons why Christianity has been in such decline. The fact that numerous church leaders pushed England, France, and Germany into WWI, and the horro...more This is a strange book. I liked it in some ways, but in other ways it's not very good.

First, the good things: he puts the secularization of Europe in a very good context. He basically argues that the melding of religion and the state in Britain, the cult of leaders like Churchill, and the disillusionment of Europeans after the two world wars are the reasons why Christianity has been in such decline. The fact that numerous church leaders pushed England, France, and Germany into WWI, and the horrors experienced there, did tremendous damage. Then, of course, the fact that the allies perpetrated mass murder themselves (of course, the Axis were much more culpable) altered the possibility of people's trust in authorities. Since "religion" and the "establishment" seemed to go hand in hand, it was inevitable that religion would decline so much.

But I'm not as convinced about the axes Hitchens has to grind. His arguments with his brother Christopher hinged mostly on the socialism that the young (atheist) Peter held, seemed to end up being his laments about the descent into barbarism of the Sovient Union, and his laments over the fact that a similar thing could happen to Europe without the restraint of religion.

And of course it is true that religion is a restraining force. But that doesn't mean it's good. Nor has Christendom's restraints always been good (in fact, they've often been downright evil). But Hitchens is right there is a difference between asking for God on your side, and acting like you are God (as Stalin, Mao, and Kim-Jong Il have) - not as much as he thinks, but a difference nonetheless. His main attack seems to be that atheism in its political forms has been utopianism, and utopianism, in his view, leads to the belief that you are absolutely right, because your vision is so good.

The logic of this is not quite ironclad. I mean, the great exponent of utopia in the 20th century, Ernst Bloch, specifically cast it in terms of an unreachable goal that can criticize the present. And of course the Book of Revelation has serious utopian elements. He is right though that the idea that we can BRING about utopia on earth is a problem, because it leads self-deification.

In any case, this is a rambling review, but I think Hitchens' book looses some serious steam, especially when he starts talking about the Soviet Union. These are really not arguments for religion, but against self-glorification. You can be an atheist who does not self-glorify.(less)

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Nov 03, 2010 Phil rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: other

I found so much to like about this book. Hitchens certainly knows how to craft a sentence, and he organizes his thoughts well. So much resonated in me, the difference in age, religion, and national background notwithstanding.

Is there not an old saw about today's heresies being tomorrow's orthodoxies? Yesterday's radical nihilists somehow with age become today's proclaimers of All Things Bright and Beautiful.

But I wonder if someone, say, in her/his 30s reading this book today can fully grasp the...more

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Jun 20, 2012 Mike Smith rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

Peter Hitchens, younger brother to the late well-known atheist Christopher Hitchens, comes across as an angry, bitter man. Like his brother and many other teens, Peter rebelled against and rejected his parents' religion, politics, and values. Unlike his brother, he found his way back to Christianity in his 30s. This somewhat rambling and unstructured but stylish and literate book is Peter's response to his brother's attention-getting attacks against religion.

Hitchens, born in England in 1951, wa...more Peter Hitchens, younger brother to the late well-known atheist Christopher Hitchens, comes across as an angry, bitter man. Like his brother and many other teens, Peter rebelled against and rejected his parents' religion, politics, and values. Unlike his brother, he found his way back to Christianity in his 30s. This somewhat rambling and unstructured but stylish and literate book is Peter's response to his brother's attention-getting attacks against religion.

Hitchens, born in England in 1951, was raised with a great reverence for his country and his God. But post-war economic and political troubles left him disillusioned and adrift. He apparently did some bad things as a teenager and young adult, things he doesn't detail, but about which he still feels much guilt and remorse. Fear of eternal judgement for these acts, combined with new parenthood, seems to be what brought him back to the church. But the church he came back to was not the one he left. He spends the middle section of the book complaining about how church texts, rituals, and even doctrines have been modernized and watered down. Hitchens seems to have very conservative views and feels religion is supposed to be fearsome and difficult. He misses what he believes were the poetry and nobility of bygone days.

The final third of the book is a rant against the Godlessness of Soviet Communism. It is not clear why this section is there. He may believe all atheists are Communists and so attacking one is a way of attacking the other.

Hitchens's arguments are weak at best and lacking foundation or support. He makes claims without attempting to justify them, such as stating that it's self-evident that only God can define right and wrong. He admits he is not a historian, philosopher, or Bible scholar. He's a Christian journalist with his own views on why religion, Christianity specifically (although medieval Christianity was better than the modern variety), matters. He is, however, a very stylish writer who can turn a phrase with elegance.

Ultimately, this book will not, I think, convince any atheist to return to faith. It is more memoir than instruction and really applies only to Christopher Hitchens.(less)

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Mar 28, 2013 Michael Hicks rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013

Cicero wrote that to remain unaware of what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child. The challenge with the New Atheism is that it's just like the old atheism- doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. "Must we discover this all over again?" Peter Hitchens asks. "I fear so." Our deep seated prejudices, our scars from church folk doing us wrong...we give these ugly things the window dressing of reason, but we know better, and our shame makes us angry,...more

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Mar 31, 2010 Steve rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Peter Hitchens: The Rage Against God
Part response to his brother, Christopher Hitchens, atheism book, this is also Hitchens testimony, an spiritual autobiography, if you like.
Hitchens meshes his own story from childhood "christian" formality, through atheism and Trotskyism, to his regained faith and return to Christianity, to a social commentary on the spiritual decline of Britain. Numerous insights on the spiritual degradation of our nation and culture abound, as well as apt commentary on our p...more

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Apr 20, 2012 Jeremy Yoder rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: christianity, religion

Overshadowing Peter Hitchen's defense of Christianity is the fact that his older brother was the late Christopher Hitchens, one of the chief advocates of New Atheism. While the Rage Against God begins as a spiritual autobiography through Hitchens' journey through atheism in post-war Britain, the book is also a rebuttal against Christopher's harsh and over-the-top critique against Christian faith. This dynamic shapes the book in a way that detracts from it – Peter Hitchens' spiritual journey is m...more

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Jun 08, 2010 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

I recommend Peter's book, along with his brother's "god is not Great" to generate more personal thought than the general psycho-social that Christopher seems focused on. Personally, I liked both men's styles. Basically, I liked Christopher's over Peter's but not because of flaws in his style. All this comes down to is personal preferences.

By not whole heartedly agreeing with either, I am revealing my take on both works. Peter puts forward, not as precisely as I would like, how convoluted Christ...more

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Jun 08, 2012 Brad Kittle rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: apologetical

This was a really good book, well written and informative. I learned a great deal about the effects of Atheism on the Soviet nation and people and had my eyes opened to the real perils of the New Atheism. Peter points out the amazing agenda of the New Atheist and how they seek to drive the knowledge of God from society, by force, if necessary. Funny how in the name of open-mindedness and truth you need to force people to stop teaching what they believe , in order to enforce your beliefs on them...more

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Sep 26, 2012 Bonnie Gorshe rated it 3 of 5 stars

I felt a bit duped when the jacket said "how atheism led me to faith," but it was about something else entirely. About halfway through the book he says something like "I'm not going to tell you how I came to believe because it's personal." Well then, perhaps you may wish to get in better synch with your publishers. They liked your name (he's the brother of the famous atheist Christopher Hitchens) and they appear to have wanted the book to be about how he was led to faith, but this was about how...more

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Dec 06, 2012 Malin Friess rated it 2 of 5 stars

Two Brothers who set fire to their Bibles in Parochial School (Peter and Christopher Hitchens)...Christopher the Prominent Antitheist (He doesn't just disbelieve in God (Atheism)..he believes (Antitheism) any Religion destroys human freedom, creates wars, and all religion should be replaced with science. Christopher is the author of best seller God is not Great.

Both attended private Christian Schools as children in England together. Both abandoned their faith.

Peter returned to his faith strangl...more

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May 18, 2012 John rated it 4 of 5 stars

A great addition to the current debate between Christianity and atheism, written by the brother of the most notorious atheist of our times. The first chapter of THE RAGE AGAINST GOD is excellent, but then Peter Hitchens seemingly meanders about for 100 pages before finally returning to the meat of the topic. The last 100 pages are an intellectual gold mine that lay to waste some of Christopher Hitchens' better-known attempts at discrediting the Christian faith. Many of this book's detractors wil...more

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Jan 14, 2011 Sarah rated it 5 of 5 stars

I had a chance to hear Peter Hitchens on the radio a few months back and finally picked up the book.

I appreciated how deeply personal it was. I wasn't interested in reading something about how to discuss anti-theism with your anti-theist family/friends. And I liked that P.H. didn't presume to speak for all anti-theists. He speaks for himself, clearly outlining the changes in post-WWII Europe society that he felt influenced his development.

The last portion of the book is a bit less personal in n...more

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Feb 28, 2011 Greg Perciak rated it 5 of 5 stars

Hitchens has an impressive command of the English language. With economy of words, he can convey effortlessly a sense of place and time. There are times when I had to put the book down to savor a passage I'd just read, then pick it up and re-read it. The author grounds his argument in history, which is unapologetically English and Protestant. After delivering a compelling anti-war essay, he addresses some of his brother Christopher's (non)beliefs, then spends some time documenting Soviet Communi...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Dennis Henn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Hitchens considers the arguments of popular atheists like his brother Christopher Hitchens and tests them against 20th century totalitarian regimes, most notably the Soviet Union. Once a fan of Trotsky, Hitchens became disillusioned with the lies and moral bankruptcy practiced in Russia. He came to realize that only a faith in the God beyond our systems provides the foundation of morals and human growth. Inside the system, anything based on human capacity, is destined to fail because it is corru...more

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Apr 04, 2011 David Shane rated it 5 of 5 stars

Excellent book. Rather hard to summarize, especially because some of his best comments are made parenthetically. So I won't really try, but I will say that two excerpts from this book are available online, published by the Daily Mail. If you like these excerpts, you will probably like the book. They are:

"How I found God and peace with my atheist brother"

"In the Soviet suburbs of Hell and the blasted avenues of Mogadishu, I saw what our society could become"

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May 28, 2012 Devin Thorpe rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: politics

It still strikes me as odd, having been born at a time when atheism seemed scandalous that we now find ourselves living in a world where religion and religious practice are becoming controversial.

This Hitchens, brother to his more famous, atheist brother, Christopher Hitchens, weaves an interesting narrative covering his life in the context of Western history, including the demise of religion in his native UK and in the U.S.

This book is well worth the read, though I will confess to having enjoy...more

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Oct 30, 2011 Brian rated it 4 of 5 stars

One of the best books I've read in a long time. It made reading three whiny atheist books worth it. In a sentence, it is Christopher Hitchens style with the content of a C.S. Lewis. Peter Hitchens often has the same melancholy style of looking at the world's troubles, but he sees what those are with intense clarity and insight. I felt, after I read him, that I had not only heard arguments that hit the heart of atheism, but also like I now knew Britain's history since World War II. It makes me sa...more

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Nov 22, 2010 Tony rated it 3 of 5 stars

Some reasonably original arguments against his brother Christopher's position, namely debunking the notion that most "religious" wars are in fact about religion, and pinning the millions of deaths under communist regimes on a militant atheism seeking to create heaven on earth. Offers an interesting critique as well of the Cult of Churchill in Britain, and connects this to the willingness of too many Christians to blindly support a war-seeking president in the U.S. simply because he claims the ev...more

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Dec 16, 2011 Trevor rated it 1 of 5 stars

I wish I hadn't wasted my money on this nasty little right wing polemic. Hitching his wagon to his glitzier brother's star Hitchens describes his reactionary journey back to prayer book Anglicanism. He looks at the failures of Marxist regimes as evidence that we need God, and if we are British what we need is some return to the mea culpa of Cranmer's style of prayers. Arrogant, homophobic, dishonest and strangely bereft of spirituality it would not convert me to anything least of all to becoming...more

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Wayne I guess many people are impressed, feel reassurance or confidence in someone or some organisation which speaks with Authority.Another thing people go...more
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Jsl I have about given up on these petty one star reviews. They are all the same. This got a one star review from Trevor, and why? Apparently not because...more
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Dec 29, 2010 Chris Davis rated it 2 of 5 stars

Peter is riding his brother's coat tails and not very well at that. I wanted to like it but it was a bit droll. I was entertained but not enough to like it much. He never made any logical augments to support his position. I know this is the point since his is a position of faith not logic but I was just expecting more. Christopher Hitchens' opponent, Douglas Wilson, in Collision was much more engaging (great movie). Wilson made very good augments and I can see why people would take this position...more

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Aug 20, 2011 Doug rated it 2 of 5 stars

From the title (and author), I expected this book to be based around some sort of life-changing insight which gets to the very heart of the argument between atheists and Christians. Instead, it is a strange mixture of personal memories and philosophical/historical arguments. He dwells very much on the social value of Christianity, and this tends to obscure the clarity of the Gospel. I was disappointed that he spent virtually no time discussing the importance and controversial nature of Christ hi...more

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Jun 01, 2011 Mark rated it 3 of 5 stars

A personal journey from atheism to faith in Christ by the brother of one of the most noted "New Atheists" - a very British take on politics, world affairs & life, strongly influenced by his years as a news correspondent in the U.S.S.R./Russia.

Lots of thoughtful things here, but doesn't add up to a completely satisfying read. The sections on Russia & the Communist destruction of religion are fascinating, though.

Finally, this is not a "bash my brother" book - he deals with some key atheist...more

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