" The celebrated “new atheists” – foremost among them Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great) and Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) – have led a boisterous charge against religious faith. Remarkably few defenders of faith, however, have effectively engaged them. In David Brog, the atheists meet a worthy protagonist.

Mr. Brog, in his In Defense of Faith: The Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity, concedes that Christians have committed horrendous crimes in the name of theology but sets out to prove that Judeo-Christian beliefs gave the Western and, ultimately, entire world its most important spiritual value: an obligatory reverence for life. "

This would probably make an interesting read... From what I can gather so far, the real question that the author may be missing is "is morality the exclusive province of the Judeo-Christian system of beliefs?". That's a big question, to be sure, and one that I would have to answer in the negative.... URL:  www.theglobeandmail.com