Andy Eninger, head of the writing program at Second City Training Center, tests his faith with:
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything I just finished Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Halfway through, I lost the book—was it God’s revenge? Hitchens would argue that it was not. I bought a second copy and good-Christian-soldiered on. Hitchens stomps through all the tenets of the big religions to debunk myths and scold repression. Strangely, the book had an unexpected effect on me: I started going to church more than I had in years. I suddenly missed the easy comfort of a good old Lutheran service, even as I was reading about Christianity’s sketchy origins. The more I read about the questionable circumstances, the more I craved the pomp. The quivering hymns, easy sermons, and earnest handshakes. It’s like finishing Fast Food Nation and craving a burger: knowing that the meat is ground from horrible things doesn’t change the fact that it tastes damn good sometimes.
