Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850 Book

There are 180 reviews of this book on Goodreads. Most of them are highly informative and to the point. Please read them'read them all! And then, read the book. It is a MUST-READ.

I do not see any reason to repeat what other reviewers have said, so this review will be very short:

I didn't like Chris Hedges' run-on writing style. Yet this is not important. The well-researched contents of this book are so alarming that the poor writing style matters no more than an unattractive color matters on a road sign reading: "Danger Abyss".

I'll finish this mini-review with my personal religious confession:

Rating this book 4 stars (5 for the contents, 3 for the writing style), it should be rather clear that I don't believe in what any of these evangelical churches are teaching.

So what do I believe?

Do I believe that it is dangerous to combine state and religion?'Yes, I do.

Do I believe in God?'Let's say, I assume that there is a higher entity, usually called God, who is responsible for the Big Bang.

Do I believe in Jesus?'I believe in the historical Jesus, not in the fairy-tale Jesus that Christian Churches have invented.

Do I believe in the bible?'No, I don't; at least, I do not take it literally. (Instead, I believe the historical facts about how the bible came to be, and I draw my conclusions from them. Please see "Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible & the Revolution it Inspired". Here is the link: )

Do I believe in hell?'Hell, yes, I do! Hell would be sitting helplessly in a nursing home and having the peace of my last days disturbed not only by busy-body nurses dragging me into the shower at un-Christian hours but also by intruding religious fundamentalists, trying to stuff the gospel down my throat and proselytize me to a religion that should have been done and over with along with the Dark Ages.


P.S. If you think Chris Hedges is exaggerating, just check out hate-spewing, Holocaust-denying Pastor Steven Anderson:



And there are others like him.


P.P.S. This review was written some time in 2015 and was last edited on July 10, 2016.