The Rage Against God

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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.

Critics Review

  • 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.

    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.

    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

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