--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > Another very negative review of Hitchens, also > > from a nonbeliever: > > > > http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/05/10/hitchens_god/ > > > > (You'll need to watch a brief ad to get access > > if you aren't a subscriber.) > > > > I haven't read the book but I did see Hitchens on Charlie Rose this > week and another venue (which I can't remember...C-SPAN?). Anyway, > the crux of what he seems to be saying is: religion causes war, > death and suffering.
The Salon reviewer gives a marvelous quote from Iris Murdoch, another atheist: "God does not and cannot exist. But what led us to conceive of him does exist and is constantly pictured. That is, it is real as an Idea, and also incarnate in knowledge and work and love."
