false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166659877m/14743.jpg 14743 23 Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly. Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of "intelligent design," or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East—or Middle America. 3044365 18 9 2006 The God Delusion total:9273|5:3231|4:3474|3:1740|2:580|1:248| 9273 36679 15562 1717 2 69 false false Fri Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Sep 29 23:42:40 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 30 20:49:00 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 49 false false Thu Dec 20 14:06:11 -0800 2007 Mon Sep 24 13:51:41 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 20 14:03:48 -0800 2007
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Until I come across books like this one. ...more...]]> 5 22 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Nov 02 11:28:10 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 06 23:25:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 15 false false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 09:15:10 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 12:29:37 -0700 2008 The God Delusion took a while, but not because it’s long or somehow difficult. It is a jaunty text, in fact, and I found myself often stopping to ponder and/or revel in Richard Dawkins’ happy heathen insights. Also, I do much of my reading on the bus, and you never know when some surly...more...]]> 5 15 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 19 04:49:42 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 07:55:09 -0700 2007
Richard Dawkins is not an easy read. He never pulls a punch, and if any of the beliefs he is attacking in his book are yours then this is going to get your back up. Not for nothing was he passed ov...more...]]> 4 14 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Nov 22 07:40:59 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 05 13:26:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 9 false false Sun Sep 09 13:49:01 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 24 18:47:54 -0700 2007 Thu May 03 07:52:09 -0700 2007 Although I don't like his derisive approach, and feel that he should have put the last chapters first (and done away with some of the opening pages), I have to say that I agree with his basic points. Where does this put me? In an interesting place to t...more...]]> 1 17 false false Sat Mar 24 12:41:50 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 24 12:55:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 8 false false Thu Jan 03 12:18:47 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 23:47:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 9 false false Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 05:25:10 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 15:36:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 12 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 00:45:08 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 20:23:20 -0700 2007 5 7 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 25 13:58:34 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 17 15:10:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 12 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 18:53:46 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 19:24:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 5 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Dec 07 03:57:31 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 07 04:39:37 -0800 2007 The Selfish Gene, mostly because I think it tries to explain things on the wrong scale. I quite like his meme metaphor, but think people like Dennett take it too far by forgetting it is a metaphor. The Blind...more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 00:11:46 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 01:08:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 6 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 20:49:22 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 19 15:02:00 -0800 2008
Even so, his book did not sway me towards the atheist worldview, at all. Which surprised me. I expected at least a bit of a philosophical struggle to work through. Instead I found c...more...]]> 1 9 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 02 07:32:14 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 13:36:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 5 false false Sun Jan 04 09:02:32 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 05:55:16 -0800 2009 - The fundamentali...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=14743