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The Rage Against God
- Narrated by: Peter Hitchens
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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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.
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- Richard Fairley
- 16-04-23
Wonder-full!
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!
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-01-23
Hitchens - a legend of polemic prose.
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!
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- Paul
- 25-06-23
Another Fantastic Peter Hitchens book.
Easy to get stuck into this book, very wise words from Peter Hitchens, definitely worth a listen.
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- Richard Allen
- 19-07-23
A Rage indeed
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.
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- The Lost Clansman
- 03-04-24
Unbelievable
Great concept and without, true, as the push against God remains relentless. Though seems to fall short in conclusions.
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- John G
- 10-08-24
Couldn’t continue listening due to the reading by PH
I thought the reading was terrible and PH would benefit from getting someone else to read it. PH is an interesting writer and I may buy the book to read rather than listen
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