However, i'll take the chance to write that this is cultural-- the love-hate relationship the French have for the US. This is something that is often difficult for Americans in the States to understand. Expats sometimes have a better shot at it. I've been living in Europe for over ten years now - a...

your mention of the idea of a protestant atheism is interesting and not too far off. Hitchens makes some allusion to the idea that christian religion, at least, has "progressed" from its dark ages, in the form of structural and popular re-inventions of its code of beliefs. He returns again...

Dwill - I read this book some time past, and admit to being so eager to "join" this book club that feel compelled to write something quickly, so I hope I am not completely out of order in my response. Paraphrasing you, you stated that "modern" religion, with the exception of Isla...