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Amazon Review:
This book is quite dated now obviously, nearly 35 years, so I can be sure no one will ever read this review!! [and yet I did – Fr. S!]
Nevertheless I thought I’d write it. Don’t be fooled by the misleading title as this book doesn’t present a case against God. Priestland simply travelled around the globe interviewing witnesses (philosophers, artists, physicists etc) who were either for or against God. It is a collection of these personal testimonies. While some of this is interesting, neither side is able to win the day.
However to my mind what we believe is less important than whom we serve. Thousands of people believe in God, yet still serve the devil. And don’t forget that even the devil himself believes in God, so to believe in Him is not to serve Him. Likewise even the most strident atheist can and sometimes will, unwittingly, serve God.
This is why being a Christian doesn’t automatically make you good, or being an atheist automatically make you bad, it is who you serve that counts. I think that is the fundamental difference between the atheist and the Christian. Atheists seek to serve man…they trust in man’s achievements, in science and human efforts to bring about a better future. Whereas we Christians seek to serve God and by following His instructions seek to make the world a better place than it would otherwise be. My view is that despite all its shortcomings, Christianity is more altruistic and beneficial than atheism and that it is better to trust in God than in man.
