extract from another detailed review of this book:
Catherine Nixey is a journalist, not a historian, and this book is a piece of deliberate propaganda, not an attempt to present a balanced portrait of what happened in Late Antiquity. Nixey in turn vastly inflates evidence that support her 'Evil Christians' argument and ignores masses of evidence that would undermine it. This is fundamentally dishonest or just ignorant writing.
I doubt if I will find time to read this book.
I don't know how you manage to shoot yourself in the foot so often, Alan, but that you seem to do. As others have said, your quote gave no idea of its source, leaving it to others to find where it came from, not a very good idea as it has turned out.
I really didn't expect that you would read it, Alan. I thought that you might find it far too uncomfortable. At least I am willing to look at different views, and try to examine them hopefully without prejudice and with a critical eye. Indeed, I have read Lewis's 'Mere Christianity' at least twice, and, on your advice, I downloaded a copy of his 'Miracles' which I have also read.
I didn't even suggest that Catherine Nixey was right, did I? I simply suggested that it might be a worthwhile book to read(I personally think it is) because it might give some sort of balance to your very obvious biases. However, as usual, it seems that you immediately dismiss anything that goes against your heartfelt beliefs. So be it.
