mondojohnson

I’ve always enjoyed Christopher Hitchens. Even in my deepest disagreement with him (re: W’s war), the man never fails to construct nearly impregnable arguments, and he does so with the tartest tongue in the living English language.

I’ve read Hitchens on the subject of religion many times before, so I went into this book with low expectations — I sort of figured it would be like eating some nice microwaved leftovers. Pleasant, but nothing new.

I was wrong, though. His previous writings on theism and religion were skillfully placed banderillas; with this book, Hitchens slays the bull. I thought, as a long-time infidel, that I had figured out all of the anti-god / anti-religion arguments. But this book lays out a few that hadn’t occurred to me, and it breathed some ferocious new life into some of the standard ones (e.g. the easy demolition of the “argument from design”).

Read the book, if only for the forceful and elegant use of the English language.