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The Rage Against God

By: Peter Hitchens
Narrated by: Peter Hitchens
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Summary

 Bloomsbury presents The Rage Against God written and read by Peter Hitchens.

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.(P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Biographies Christianity Religious Studies Law
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Critic reviews

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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, Volume 293 No. 1703)
"[The Rage Against God] offers insights on the current secular disregard for freedom of belief of expression."Jersey Evening Post, 25th June 2010
Review in the Times Literary Supplement
No. 5 on The Good Book Stall website Top Ten Recommended Books as chosen by Wesley Owen.
'The Rage Against God is eminently readable book that not only delivers the case against atheism, but delivers it with style' Christianity, September 2010
Reviewed in the Good Book Guide, 1st September ‘It is heart-warming and deeply human, although Hitchens has little truck with the modernizing faction within the Anglican Church'
"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." Michael Gove, Mail on Sunday, 5th December 2010 (one of the Books of the Year)
"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." Mark Vernon, The Guardian, 27th April 2010.
"A responce to is [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, 27th May 2010
Review in Morning Star, 2nd June 2010
"This book is not meant to be a rebuttal of the contemporary atheist polemicists. it has the more modest aim of influencing atheists "to hesitate over their choice"."The Irish Catholic
"A deeply affecting story of a journey to faith, interwoven with moral and spiritual history of the 20th century." The Church Times, 18th June 2010
"Top class stuff!" The Good Bookstall website
"This book is a rattling good read...As we face the General Election, this is perhaps the most important reason for reading it." Standpoint, April 2010
"Agreed mortality lives on borrowed time...As Peter Hitchens observes, God offers authoritative moral laws, and judgement upon those who knowingly break them." Christopher Howse, Telegraph, March 2010
All stars
Most relevant
A wonderfully written argument regarding the spiritual wilderness that is modern British culture (and the West more generally). As our Lord once prayed - 'Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven' - Matthew 6.10.

Thank you, Peter, for your devotion to Christ, and illuminating the folly of self worship in its varying forms. Bravo!

Hitchens - a legend of polemic prose.

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Inevitably, this is truly excellent given the author/ narrator who is surely a prophet in our time. Succinctly and clearly, Peter Hitchens lays low the would-be lofty disdain of the often very uninformed for Christianity and their dismissal of this cornerstone of western civilization. The accounts of life in states of enforced atheism - not least the former Soviet Union - are both moving and profound. Very highly recommended!

Wonder-full!

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Easy to get stuck into this book, very wise words from Peter Hitchens, definitely worth a listen.

Another Fantastic Peter Hitchens book.

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I have never read anything by Peter Hitchens, or indeed his brother, Christopher who he mentions on several occasions throughout this book. Hitchens is a natural debater and offers up an interesting narrative concerning the breakdown of the Church. Is God required in the 21st century, or for that matter any religion? Has society become lost with the increase of western secularism? Is Christianity being replaced by Islam and/or atheism in the West? These are all questions Hitchens challenges.

A Rage indeed

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This is a fantastic read I think I have all Peter’s books on audible I enjoy the authors thought process. His Soviet chapter sticks out the most “if it has democratic in the name of the country then it certainly isn’t”

Peter the National Treasure.

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