| dc.description.abstract | This book, like all such books, is aimed mainly at myself. All polemical authors seek to persuade themselves above all. I hope it may also be of some value to others, perhaps to believers whose friends or family members have left Christianity, or are leaving it now, or who are enchanted by the arguments of the anti-religious intellects of our age. What I hope to do in the pages which follow is to explain first of all how I, gently brought up in a loving home and diligently instructed by conscientious teachers, should have come to reject so completely what they said. I had some good reasons for refusing some of it. My mistake was to dispense with it all, indiscriminately. For I hope to show that one of the things I was schooled in was not in fact religion but a strange and vulnerable counterfeit of it, a counterfeit that can be detected and rejected, while yet leaving the genuine truths of Christianity undamaged. That counterfeit still circulates, in several forms, especially in the United States. | en_US |
