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Email a friendMessy mix of atheist snips
I AM all for radical anthologies. It's good to dip into a tome for easy entertainment, but the selected items have to carry weight without reference to the surrounding prose. If we simply cite Joe Bloggs who said "religion is baloney," where does that get us?
Alas, Jack Huberman has not pulled off the trick of offering a useful or entertaining selection of quotations.
That this or that famous personage gave a one-liner hostile to religious belief doesn't get us very far. And how eager are we to be associated with the likes of Barry Goldwater or the Marquis de Sade?
The contributions are unduly disparate, with no common theme except a vague dissidence. I prefer the unportable The Portable Atheist edited by Christopher Hitchens and Lift Up Your Heads, published by The National Secular Society many years ago.
GEOFF SIMONS