Edited sentence: " He was tough on facts but careless with their proper interpretation.Augstein at the end of his life proudly stated to be a cynic; on his death bed he refused even to consider an afterlife with the words: "I only believe in what I know.Having read this book Augstein changed his magazine's policy on religion.While having reported until then from a rather christian-friendly perspective, Der Spiegel evolved into an explicitly anti-christian voice (the cover story of the Christmas issue of 1996 read: "God is dead, Satan lives" (However, this was clearly a report about the reception of evil in society)).While in prison for the alleged high treason, he read an anti-christian pamphlet by Albert Schweitzer which summed up all 19th-century "historical" literature on the Gospels