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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.
Contents
Introduction
PART 1: A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH ATHEISM
1. The Generation Who Were Too Clever to Believe
2. A Loss of Confidence
3. The Seeds of Atheism
4. The Last Battleships
5. Britain's Pseudo-Religion and the Cult of Winston Churchill
6. Homo Sovieticus
7. A Rediscovery of Lost Faith
8. The Decline of Christianity
PART 2: ADDRESSING ATHEISM: THREE FAILED ARGUMENTS
9. Are Conflicts fought in the name of religion conflicts about religion?
10. Is It Possible to Determine What Is Right and What Is Wrong without God?
11. Are Atheist states not actually Atheist?
PART 3: THE LEAGUE OF THE MILITANT GODLESS
12. Fake Miracles and Grotesque Relics
13. Provoking a Bloody War with the Church
14. The Great Debate
Epilogue
Index
