Mark Overstreet

In this article, Peter Hitchens takes on his own brother, Christopher, who recently released the May 1 hater, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Peter unleashes on his brother:

Christopher is an atheist. I am a believer. He once said in public: “The real difference between Peter and myself is the belief in the supernatural. “I’m a materialist and he attributes his presence here to a divine plan. I can’t stand anyone who believes in God, who invokes the divinity or who is a person of faith.”

Peter speaks with a much more pleasant tone: I don’t feel the same way. I like atheists and enjoy their company, because they agree with me that religion is important. I liked and enjoyed this book, and recommend it to anybody who is interested in the subject. Like everything Christopher writes, it is often elegant, frequently witty and never stupid or boring. I also think it is wrong, mostly in the way that it blames faith for so many bad things and gives it no credit for any of the good it may have done. I think it misunderstands religious people and their aims and desires. And I think it asserts a number of things as true and obvious that are nothing of the sort.

Read the article here.