A Review of 'Blasphemy'

Lee Duigon / The Chalcedon Foundation:
Blasphemy: How the Religious Right Is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence by Alan Dershowitz (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007). First let's see who's really guilty of blasphemy. Quoting Thomas Paine, Dershowitz frequently calls the Bible "a pious fraud" (p. 22), belief in an afterlife "false" (p. 33), and Jesus Christ "the first Reform rabbi" (p. 35) and "a great moral teacher" (p. 58), but nothing more than that—failing to explain how anyone can be a great moral teacher while telling lies about himself being the Son of God. He lauds Thomas Jefferson for not believing in "the virgin birth or any of the other alleged miracles surrounding the birth of the very human Jesus" (p. 73).

Posted by Editor at May 10, 2008 10:07 AM