The Rage Against God

Peter Hitchens (Author)

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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.

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

Product details

Published	07 Feb 2019
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	184
ISBN	9781472970534
Imprint	Bloomsbury Continuum
Dimensions	216 x 138 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens is a columnist for the Mail on Sund…

The book will be especially satisfying for those who share the author's feelings without being able to express them with such deftness, vigour and occasional epigram. Even those unconvinced or... only almost persuaded will never find it dull.

Contemporary Review
[The Rage Against God] offers insights on the current secular disregard for freedom of belief of expression.

Jersey Evening Post
The Rage Against God is eminently readable book that not only delivers the case against atheism, but delivers it with style

Christianity
The two best-written books were Christopher Hitchens's memoirs Hitch 22 and his brother Peter's The Rage Against God. Even though the authors set the benchmark for sibling rivalry, their books prove there is something special about them. Both are restless romantics, enemies of cosy consensus, original minds - and products of an education system that wanted all children to be cultured and questioning. Peter's book reads as if Cardinal Newman were reflecting on life after battle-scarred years as a foreign correspondent, while Christopher's book, if it were a thoroughbred horse, would be by George Orwell out of Kingsley Amis. I can think of no better pair of books for Christmas reflection.

Michael Gove, Mail on Sunday
Hitchens [..] blames the rampant liberalism of his generation; he was a teenager in the 1960s. They feared the constraints of their parents' lifestyle - post-war rationing coupled to the limitations of life in the suburbs.

Mark Vernon, The Guardian
A response to [Hitchens'] brother's and Richard Dawkins' 'rage' against those who can be so stupid to believe in God and so irresponsible as to attempt to encourage others.

The Methodist Recorder