![]() The whole opening salvo is based on cherry-picked examples which, though damning, are extrapolated beyond where there is available evidence. Instead, he uses sweeping generalisations. Hitchens never attempts to define religion. ![]() This, of course, is a way of ensuring that the foundation of the book is an appeal to the argument from authority. He is keen to instil in the reader the notion that he is not an outsider looking at religion, but rather that he has had a good taster of many faiths, as well as being a regular converser with religious friends. ![]() He wastes little time in building up a head of steam, launching into an opening tirade of immense magnitude. Wright points out the existence of, though fails to detail, factual errors which Hitchens makes, particularly with relation to Anglicanism, a subject which Wright is something of an expert on. Prior to reading this, I had read a couple of reviews including this where Tom Wright talks briefly about the excerpts of the book he was given. In this, arguably his most famous book, the focus of his ire is here turned to “religion”. ![]() His death robbed the world of its most caustic critics. As you will no doubt be aware, Hitchens sadly died at the end of last year. ![]()
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