The Rage Against God

by Hitchens, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780310335092
• ISBN10: 0310335094
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-13
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

What if notorious atheist Christopher Hitchens, bestselling author of God Is Not Great, had a Christian brother? He does. Peter Hitchens details a very personal story of how he left the faith but dramatically returned. And like many of the Old Testament saints whose personal lives were intertwined with the life of their nation, so Peter's story is also the story of modern England and its sad spiritual decline.Peter brings his work as an international journalist to bear as he documents firsthand accounts of atheistic societies, specifically in Communist Russia, where he lived in Moscow during the collapse of the Soviet Union. He shows that the world's bloodiest century, the 20th, entailed nothing short of atheism's own version of the Crusades and the Inquisition. The path to a secular utopia, pursued by numerous modern tyrants, is truly paved with more violence than has been witnessed in any era in history.Hitchens provides hope for all believers whose friends or family members have left Christianity or who are enchanted by the arguments of the anti-religious intellects of our age.

Author Biography

Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author, and broadcaster. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea, Burma, The Congo, and China. A former revolutionary, he attributes his return to faith largely to his experience of socialism in practice, which he witnessed during his many years reporting in Eastern Europe and his nearly three years as a resident correspondent in Moscow during the collapse of the Soviet Union. He lived and worked in the United States from 1993 to 1995. Hitchens lives in Oxford with his wife, Eve. They have three children.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
A Personal Journey through Atheism
The Generation Who Were Too Clever to Believe	p. 17
A Loss of Confidence	p. 31
The Seeds of Atheism	p. 41
The Last Battleships	p. 53
Britain's Pseudo-Religion and the Cult of Winston Churchill	p. 63
Homo Sovieticus	p. 81
Rediscovering Faith	p. 99
The Decline of Christianity	p. 115
Addressing the Three Failed Arguments of Atheism
"Are Conflicts Fought in the Name of Religion Conflicts about Religion?"	p. 127
"Is It Possible to Determine What Is Right and What Is Wrong without God?"	p. 141
"Are Atheist States Not Actually Atheist?"	p. 153
The League of the Militant Godless
Fake Miracles and Grotesque Relics	p. 165
Provoking a Bloody War with the Church	p. 179
The Great Debate	p. 193
Epilogue	p. 215
Acknowledgments	p. 220
Index	p. 221
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