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Antonio A
Maryhead
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 Posted - Dec 21 2007 : 12:45:48 AM
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It was really a pleasure for me to read this book review,
The Apologia of an Atheist Mammal
December 2007By Anne Barbeau Gardiner
Anne Barbeau Gardiner, a Contributing Editor of the NOR, is Professor Emerita of English at John Jay College of the City University of New York. She has published on Dryden, Milton, and Swift, as well as on Catholics of the 17th century.
god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. By Christopher Hitchens. Twelve (an imprint of Warner Books). 307 pages. $24.95.
In the title and throughout his book god is not Great, neoconservative Christopher Hitchens uses the lower case "g" for God. Not surprisingly, Jupiter, Isis, Krishna, and Buddha, et al. get a capital letter. Silly, yes, but it is a sign of his hostility toward, and his desire to disparage God. Hitchens caricatures the worship of the Almighty as squirming in miserable consciousness of one's sins and of contemplating life as only a short interval before eternity. No Christian Church could exist, he declares, if "human mammals" (he loves to call us "mammals") had not been fearful of "the weather, the dark, the plague, the eclipse, and all manner of other things now easily explicable." Hitchens claims that religion arose during our prehistory to meet an infantile need for reassurance.
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/reviews.jsp?did=1207-gardiner
Antonio A. Obregón
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