Terry Eagleton is a very clever literary critics and theorist, currently a prof in Manchester and formerly of Oxford where I heard him lecture during my brief spell as an English undergraduate. Here, in the London Review of Books, he takes on Richard Dawkins's latest hysterical production, The God Delusion beautifully. It is hilarious and pointed as well as right on the money theologically. Eagleton is a kind of erstwhile Marxist Catholic.
My favourite line: "The central doctrine of Christianity, then, is not that God is a bastard. It is, in the words of the late Dominican theologian Herbert McCabe, that if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you."
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