Dave Snowdon

I enjoyed reading this book - Hitchens does reasonable job of debunking some of the major tenets of the major religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism. He is pretty even handed they all get a pounding.

However, the book does come across as somewhat mean-spirited: figures such as Mother Theresa and the Dalai Llama who most people would consider highly moral, peaceful and caring irrespective of their religion get their share of abuse too. On one hand you can’t accuse Hitchens of pulling his punches on the other I wonder if such an approach is likely to alienate people.

Like Richard Dawkins appears to have become, Hitchens seems just as rabid in his hatred of religion as any of the worst sort of religious fanatic - in my opinion he’s not doing himself any favours in this regard.

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