The Sceptic Blog

On 1 December the Jewish Chronicle very kindly carried a review of my book of annotated blog posts by Dr Harris Bor.  The review was extremely fair and I enjoyed it very much.  He finishes with the devastatingly fair point that my thesis that we shouldn’t do anything we might be ashamed of after death perhaps sits oddly with my advocacy for theological intolerance, particularly where it calls for rituals that may impact on other people (circumcision being the most extreme example).  Rather a good point, I thought, and certainly one that significantly modifies (although I do not think it destroys) the fundamental thesis.  He is kind enough to find some of the posts thought-provoking, and I am pleased to have found his review the same.  The book is available on Amazon, from Joseph’s Bookstore in Temple Fortune or direct from me.