![]() ![]() 199), and blatant sensationalism like “Hindu child brides in India are flogged and sometimes burned alive,” (p.51), this is one of the most eloquent, powerful and (by and large) intelligent articulations of the atheist’s manifesto on religion. I am unhappy that it ignores many other matters about religions.Ĭontents and title: Leaving aside minor mistakes like the alleged assassination of “the elected president of India” (p. I agree with much of what it says about religions. So I praise this book, and I also criticize it. It is worst in its inability to see anything good whatever in religious traditions. It is best in its merciless flogging of all that is bad in religions. That is why, borrowing a Dickensian phrase, I will say that this is the best of books, this is the worst of books (on religion). Regrettably, this book which is so insightfully eloquent in condemning religions falls into that same ancient trap. ![]() Preamble: If you find my reflections on this book to be somewhat perplexing, it will be because I don’t subscribe to the ancient view that categorizes everything in the world into Good and Evil. ![]()
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