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Regardless of your religious beliefs, I urge you to read this book.
When others throw such words as "god" or "spiritual" or "soul" into their conversation I must ask them what they're talking about unless the context is clear. Unchurched, when I was a kid I thought they all meant something, something obscure to me, but still significant. Feeling ignorant and ashamed of this, I generally would let such remarks pass, but they haunted me.The study of Latin in high school was a start in unpacking such nebulous words via etymology. I was lousy at Latin, good at effor...
TWO RANTS FOR THE PRICE OF ONENow, here's the thing about this author : With friends like Richard Dawkins, who needs enemies?Okay, i said it. Whew, I feel better. He's just so annoying, even when you agree with him. Grr. Okay, well, so, some time ago I watched Richard's two documentaries "The Enemies of Reason" and "The Root of all Evil" so I should get round to this book at some point, but really, it's so hard to make any kind of sense of this debate. Right now, I kind of know what the Bible me...
[Original review, Jan 19 2016]I must admit that I was somewhat taken aback when Donald Trump suggested the US should deny entry to Muslims and require them all to carry ID cards. But having had time to get over the initial shock and consider it on its merits, the idea has definitely started to look more attractive. The only problem is that Trump doesn't go far enough.Come on, we need to be realistic here: half-measures won't help. We simply have to face up to the fact that monotheists are extrem...
Ok, we get it. Religion is bad. Christianity is evil, Islam is maniacal, and all other religious zealots are out of their mind. I guess Dawkins is right...public hospitals, orphanages (both Christian inventions in the West), as well as communal values all have destroyed Occidental culture. I wish we still practiced 'exposing' infants (i.e. literally throwing out unwanted babies, as made popular by the ancients). Although there seems to be correlation between violence, homocide, and arrogance wit...
This book was a dramatic disappointment that did not live up to the "finally someone has proven religion is poppycock" hype it received. Dawkins fails utterly to tear down any meaningful experience of religion, instead he merely reinforces the petty grudges that some atheists have against religion, grudges that betray one's own lack of spiritual maturity and suggest a deeper ailment at work. It's a shame. I saved up my energy to read the radical atheism espoused in Richard Dawkins' The GOD Delus...
If you want to read my choice of the best review of The God Delusion, it's right here.:P I cannot pretend to be a student of philosophy. Much of what I've researched has not been within my grasp, unless it's about an easy to understand proponent. . Ever since the heat of science has caused the separation of theology and philosophy, people have been aware that religion has been hobbled, at least in developing countries. People like Dawkins, who can multitask easily, have gained fame with their st...
The God Delusion - Why there almost certainly is no God?I have been a big fan of Dawkins from the time I read The Selfish Gene. This book does nothing to damage that, even though it is not as logically cohesive as The Selfish Gene. The God Delusion is easier to argue with and maybe even win, if only in my mind. Dawkins argues mostly against the Christian God that created earth and knows nothing of the vast universe beyond. He remains silent about the God hypothesis that can arise from new physic...
