Essay on The Rage Against God Report

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Book Report I – The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens
“Down with it, down with it, even to the ground.”
This excerpt from the 137th Psalm is how author Peter Hitchens (Christian brother of the late atheist advocate, Christopher Hitchens) begins detailing his journey from Christianity to atheism, and back to Christianity in his 2010 book, The Rage Against God: how atheism led me to faith.
Peter grew up in (as he put it) “the generation who were too clever to believe”, and he followed the path of this generation for many years. However, he began to see the outcome of a society that throws off God not only in the Soviet Union (he lived there as a foreign correspondent for some time), but also in his own home country of Britain. And, frankly, he didn’t like what he saw. Since I am trying to encourage you to read the book, I won’t retell it for you. But suffice it to say that he did eventually return to Christianity (Of course he did, that’s the whole point of the book!).
However, this book is much more than the story of Peter’s conversion. It is an effort to reach his brother and anyone else who will give its message some unbiased thought, and therefore it contains three separate parts which deal with three separate (yet closely knit) subjects. The first details the reasons (personal, familial, and cultural) for his revolution against his Christian faith, his journey through atheism, and his transition of thought and return to faith. The second is concerned with refuting the

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