Peter C. Meilaender on Orwell Daily

Thanks for posting an excerpt from this interesting essay. I read this with a group of students last fall (we were working our way through Orwell's journalism) and was especially brought up by this sentence: "The real problem is how to restore the religious attitude while accepting death as final." In general I think Orwell has a bit of a tin ear on the subject of religion and typically offers a rather crudely oversimplified interpretation of Christianity. So I found that comment quite interesting, because it is one of only a handful of places where Orwell expresses the need for that "religious attitude," even though he finds religion itself no longer possible to believe in.