The Economist’s reviewer seems to have lost the plot:
What is missing from the book is much sense of what a world without religion, or one that had not had religion in it, might look like. Lots of the principles that Mr Hitchens holds dear, like tolerance and justice, are secularised versions of religious ideas.
Secularised versions of religious ideas? This is the cart before the evolutionary horse, surely. Humanity strived to make sense of the world, and made religion to stake its claim on the parts unknown… Simple survival of the fittest makes tolerance and justice simply good ideas. Anything else is just lace frills on the dresses (sorry, robes) of Catholic Cardinals.
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