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Posted by archivist on May 06, 2003 at 17:34:40

Here is Phillip Lynch's website.

Below is a review on the book from the India Telegraph, in Calcutta. Nice to see that some people recognize it for the tripe it is. Notice the recycling of Berg's pyramid scheme.

"god on god (Penguin, Rs 195) by Scott MacGregor collects a series of in-depth interviews with god on just about everything upheld by a conservative, god-fearing Christian society. Justifying the ways of god to man has occasionally produced great epics. But MacGregor is not quite a Milton, and ends up writing a series of happy-clappy “Jehovah’s Witnesses” type catechisms with a god who is anti-abortion, approves of sex only when it is practised by a man and a woman within wedlock, and would thoroughly endorse Operation Enduring Freedom or Infinite Justice or Smoke ’Em Out or whatever it is called at the moment. The Devil must be fought, and laws may be broken in order to do so. There is a description of heaven which reminds one of the futuristic glass pyramid at the Louvre: “It is huge — almost unimaginably huge. It is in the shape of a pyramid, with a base of nearly six million square kilometres and an apex over 2000 kilometres high...there is a lot of open parkland.” Penguin could perhaps rein in a bit when it comes to such epiphanies."