By collecting the wise words, beautiful and true, of all sorts of people from any time or place, and then packaging them in a way transparently “biblical,” the atheist philosopher A. C. Grayling reveals not only an indebtedness to religion but also a propensity to trip in the same pitfalls as the religious people he so doggedly criticizes. 
That’s what Rabbi Brad Hirschfield recently observed, and I have to agree (though Hirschfield’s opening paragraph begs for nuance — gets my “bible-scholar” knickers all in a twist). I also agree that Grayling’s book has its own merits. Who doesn’t love a lofty quote?! though you may have to do your own scouting to get to the source, NYT‘s Mark Oppenheimer notes.
