Peter Hitchens is the brother of the late Christopher Hitchens. Christopher was famous in the latter years of his life as, essentially, a professional atheist. Peter Hitchens’s book begins as an attempt to round out his arguments in the one debate on the subject he had with Christopher (available on youtube) because he, Peter, felt […]
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Review: Bad Religion, How We Became a Nation of Heretics, by Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat’s thesis is that Christian orthodoxy is in decline in the United States. His is not the familiar story of irreligion replacing religion, however. Instead, he posits a culture in which many declare themselves to be Christian, but actually hold a set of beliefs not recognizable as such. To say that heresy has taken […]
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