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 One for the Ages- Atheist Bible? I read the God Delusion with an open mind, as everyone should. The book, though, does a great job in arguing Dawkin's case for atheism better than any other book I have read. It is the culmination of his previous work, including the Blind Watchmaker and Devil's Champlain. He is effective to prove his point because he addresses all criticism and counter-arguments, from Thomas Hume to Jerry Falwell. One way he succeeds is by taking all the cliche religious arguments and explaing how they fail. He also addresses arguments against atheism, in which people think atheism eqauls immorality. He has a section dedicated to this and his argument is astounding and eye-opening. This book will raise the conscienciousness of anyone who reads it. Even if one does not agree with Dawkins, one must admire the vast amount of knowledge he has presented in this book. Unlike most books, you actually come out smarter than going in. This will be, no doubt, the atheist bible, if you will. For atheists, this provides a defense to the religious sect and arguments to counter with. Explore and reflect on your beliefs and faith Whilst Dawkins normally writes excellent books for the general reader on evolution and the wonder of scientific discovery, this book explores a new line of thought. Clearly concerned by the assumptions that underpin and promote Intelligent Design, Dawkins challenges and pushes back on religion trying to over-write and undermine discoveries made about the origin of the species on Earth. This book really made me think hard about the thoughts and ideas I had grown up and encouraged me to read further around this topic, such as Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. I liked reading about Gould's non-overlapping magisteria and the fatal mistake made by Intelligent Design advocates that made this book essential. Read it, discuss it, think about it, it is not often something so provocative comes along. My favourite Dawkins is Unweaving the Rainbow on the sheer beauty of all that surrounds us, when seen through different eyes. The Definitive Book to End All Arguments Every school in the free world should make Richard Dawkin's book become part of their curriculum. Every religious organization should open their eyes to Dawkins prose which he so delicously spills out in thought provoking ease and unescapable truths. Every clergy should read this, every agnostic, every jew, everyone involved in the brutal world of Islam. Every social worker should read this, every rehab counselor, every one of those pompous, cretin like guidance counselors and elitist corporate titans. I have bought this book ten times ten to share with everyone from my childhood priest, to the kids that I mentor. My own children will read this, so they themselves can decide what is the truth or what is science fiction. Perhaps this book, above almost all others, is the most important work of writing in the past twenty or thirty years, and its accolades are deserved and warranted. I wish in my teenage years a book of this magnitude and voice was available for youth who were brainwashed from jumpstreet by ignorant parents and the like; these youth never being able to question what they were born into and why things had to be a certain way, because the good book said so. In closing, I would like to quote one passage in which Dawkins has guided me into believing, quite reasonably, why he is one of the most important people on the planet. His book could bring peace, hope, ambition and understanding to a world that is blinded by intolerant religious fanatics and mass hatred. "Admittedly, people of a theological bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they'd like to be true. But, for a more sophisticated believer in some kind of supernatural intelligence, it is childishly easy to overcome the problem of evil. Simply postulate a nasty god - such as the one who stalks every page of the Old Testament. Or, if you dont like that, invent a seperate evil god, call him Satan, and blame his cosmic battle against the good god for the evil in the world. Or - a more sophisticated solution - postulate a god with grander things to do than fuss about human distress. Or a god who is not indifferent to suffering but regards it as the price that has to be paid for free will in an orderly, lawful cosmos..." That should be the preamble to any prayer or homeroom attendance. Clearly, if you are a rational person with any form of higher intelligence, you can't not agree that that excerpt alone, says mountains of things to the world and it's widening problem with religion and its fallacies. Here's to your health Richard Dawkins. I thank you for this, absolutely stunning. Fantastic Book - It's time atheists come out of the closet This is pretty well written and entertaining. I have the book-on-disk version and, I have to say, hearing it read by the author probably adds quite a bit to the experience. I found quite a lot to agree with. Of course, in this case, Dawkins is "preaching to the choir". [sic] A few minor things I disagreed with: - dismissing Buddhism as not really a religion but more of a philosophy...well, there are many kinds of Buddhism and for sure the ones I am most familiar with involve praying to the Buddha and belief in reincarnation. This sounds like religion to me. - Dawkins focusses more on "belief in god" whereas to me the real meat of religion is "belief in a soul" (Dualism). If Dualism is an accurate belief (which I seriously doubt), then it seems to make the existence of a God-force more likely. - the multi-verse stuff seems like more religion to me. There is no evidence. Well, I'm not finished with the book yet...maybe there's something I haven't seen yet. In any case, the most relavent thing to me was the discussion of anti-atheism which is as bad as racism in America. I have to agree. | |||||||||||||
