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PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional

ISBN-101441105727

ISBN-139781441105721

eBay Product ID (ePID)92898179

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Number of Pages184 Pages

Publication NameRage Against God : Why Faith Is the Foundation of Civilisation

LanguageEnglish

SubjectFaith, Religion, Politics & State, Sociology of Religion

Publication Year2010

TypeTextbook

AuthorPeter Hitchens

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal231.042

Table Of ContentIntroduction \ 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

SynopsisPeter 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.

LC Classification NumberBT50