John gray blames Christianity for peddling fantasies of freedom which mislead humans into multiple forms of intolerance. “All modern philosophies in which history is seen as a process of human emancipation”, he writes, “are garbled versions of [the] Christian narrative, itself a garbled version of the original message of Jesus.” Though “we” in the enlightened West now accept that there is no God, pulling the strings behind the scenes to ensure a happy ending, we have merely traded one fantasy for another. We have shifted to the belief that salvation lies in scientific knowledge. The Gnosticism that Christianity displaced has returned in post-Christian form to conquer the world. Gray insists, however, that the future does not belong to the scientific Gno