Missing The Point

I grant you that Cristina Odone picks up an error in her review of Ophelia Benson’s and Jeremy Stangroom’s book: Does God Hate Women? But then Odone plays the usual trick of "it’s not my God that you’re talking about". This is the get-out-of-jail card played by most religious apologists these days, and Odone follows the rest of the sheep. I for one am becoming heartily sick of it. The whole point is that God is a manmade construct; with the emphasis, in these matters, on "man".

 

I find it interesting that in the very same issue of the Observer is an opinion piece penned by ex-President Jimmy Carter who, in effect, supports the central thesis of Benson’s and Stangroom’s book. I simply note that it has taken him thirty years to realise the error of his ways.

 

Update: Ophelia acknowledges the error, although Jeremy insists that he share the blame for getting one name wrong in a 200-page book.