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A review by rgo
The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
4.0
On the one hand, it’s the same ideas regurgitated in eleventeen different ways. On the other, the essays are all excellent and give the reader insight into the minds of a bevy of wonderful thinkers through history. And the introductions to each essay add just enough color to make the whole book cogent.
One idea that seems to have fallen out of favor but is especially prevalent in this book: the impossibility of miracles. Seems to almost be an ontological argument – if a miracle happened it was naturally possible and thus wasn’t a miracle! But interesting nonetheless.
One idea that seems to have fallen out of favor but is especially prevalent in this book: the impossibility of miracles. Seems to almost be an ontological argument – if a miracle happened it was naturally possible and thus wasn’t a miracle! But interesting nonetheless.