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Reviews
Humanism, What's That?
A Book for Curious Kids
Helen Bennett
Prometheus Books, New York (2005)
"Life is not easy for children, pressured as they
are by parents and peers. And we don’t make it easier by stuffing their
heads with lies in the guise of truth. As I’ve argued before, we should
deal with religion the same way as we deal with pornography. Acceptable
for consenting adults, but illegal for those under 18."
The Science of God
Alister McGrath
T & T Clark International, London / New York (2004)
"McGrath ignores the possibility that his God is equally fictitious. He is so busy
politely picking holes in everyone else’s arguments that he forgets to examine
the enormous abyss at the center of his."
The Twilight of Atheism
Alister McGrath
Doubleday, New York / London etc (2004)
"The fact is that, despite or because of his Oxford
professorship of historical theology, McGrath has a poor understanding
of what atheism actually is. He commits the cardinal sin of equating it with theism, even
describing it as a religion at one point (the point where this reviewer
threw up his hands in despair)."
The Passion of the Christ
dir. Mel Gibson
Icon Productions (2004)
"From the opening scene, where Jesus and the disciples are
shown in an unnaturally misty blue Garden of Gethsemane, to the final moments on the cross where Jesus is covered
in make-up that bears no resemblance to the blood, mucus and mutilated
flesh it is supposed to portray (while, incidentally, retaining unbroken teeth),
what we see is not the reality of first-century Jerusalem but
merely another made-in-the-USA film with an airbrushed view of history. "
How to know God
The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries
Deepak Chopra
Harmony Books, New York / Rider, London (2000)
"God’s timing was way off. My
soul was not inspired to get off the sofa, far less to look out its backpack
and head for the metaphysical road. By the end of the nearly three hundred pages
I had met boredom and was thoroughly acquainted with irritation, but God and I
had yet to be introduced."
After Death?
Past Beliefs and Real Possibilities
David L Edwards
Continuum / Contemporary Christian Insights, London / New York (1999 / 2001)
"After years of experience I should have learned not to judge a book by
its sub-title. But once again I let optimism triumph over experience and
I ordered After Death? from
a remainder catalog convinced it contained a serious attempt to prove the
existence of life after death."
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