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Dear England: Finding Hope, Taking Heart and Changing the World
by Stephen Cottrell
challenging
medium-paced
Sections 1&3 are interesting and challenging, Section 2 is a surmon on the basics of the Chrisitan religion, so if you know or were brought up with Christianity, this is a bit tedious to read as it reeeally is basic... I'm sure useful if you don't know though.
Starts with a quote from a woman, that people are pushed away from religion by religious people that grasp their fate ultra-tight. He aims to avoid replicating their mistakes when trying to convey the reasons for Christian belief. However he later goes on to blame selfishness for all evil in the world and later than this, conveys that selfishness is routed in a disbelief in a greater cause, which is provided by God. He has thereby again fallen into equating christianity with righteousness, without acknowledging evil done under the guise of self-lessness and greater beliefs not provided by a god. Unfortunately, whilst you can, as I did, attempt to read the book with a completely open and challenable mind, it is a book that falls back into the same arguments for Christianity, that, once you can read through the new framing of such arguments become once again un-compelling.
Worth reading for new perspective and an easy one to get through quickly with short satisfying chapters
Starts with a quote from a woman, that people are pushed away from religion by religious people that grasp their fate ultra-tight. He aims to avoid replicating their mistakes when trying to convey the reasons for Christian belief. However he later goes on to blame selfishness for all evil in the world and later than this, conveys that selfishness is routed in a disbelief in a greater cause, which is provided by God. He has thereby again fallen into equating christianity with righteousness, without acknowledging evil done under the guise of self-lessness and greater beliefs not provided by a god. Unfortunately, whilst you can, as I did, attempt to read the book with a completely open and challenable mind, it is a book that falls back into the same arguments for Christianity, that, once you can read through the new framing of such arguments become once again un-compelling.
Worth reading for new perspective and an easy one to get through quickly with short satisfying chapters