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The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God
How Does an Atheist Respond to the Question, What Is the Purpose of Life?
For a Christian, it is faith that gives their life purpose. In his best-selling book The Purpose Driven™ Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?, Rick Warren says, �You must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.”
But as a non-believer, your purpose resides in yourself; it is your...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
January 25th 2011
by Ulysses Press
(first published July 1st 2010)
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I really admire Dan Barker so much and am a member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation ( www.ffrf.org ) where he is co-president with his brilliant wife Annie Laurie. His book Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
is wonderful and inspirational. Dan had been a Christian all his life and even attended seminary and became a very popular evangelist, Christian songwriter, and writer of Sunday School and Vacation Bible School programs. One day after learn...more
is wonderful and inspirational. Dan had been a Christian all his life and even attended seminary and became a very popular evangelist, Christian songwriter, and writer of Sunday School and Vacation Bible School programs. One day after learn...more
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First, I had a slight bias going into this book – I hear Dan Barker weekly on Freethought Radio, enjoyed his book Godless, and got to speak to him when he addressed the Secular Student Alliance at Farleigh Dickinson University. Very nice guy, and his story of becoming an atheist after almost two decades of being an evangelical preacher is a good one. I looked forward to reading his latest work, and he had me at the title, which is a dig at Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life. For the first 30...more
Expecting something else, this book was a huge disappointment. The first chapter is basically an opposition to the Christian book "The Purpose Driven Life", and not very good writing at that.
The ENTIRE rest of the book is comprised of quotes by other people. None of them by the author himself. Do yourself a favor and DON'T waste your time reading this book.
The ENTIRE rest of the book is comprised of quotes by other people. None of them by the author himself. Do yourself a favor and DON'T waste your time reading this book.
A brief introduction of the author about his switch from evangelicalism to atheism which he admits is a summation from his previous book. Followed by four fifths the book being a catalog of famous freethinkers throughout the years including a mix of biographies and quotes. Kind of disappointed in the book, was expecting more writing and less indexing.
This wasn't really what I was expecting. The book really should be called profiles in nonbelief because it is entirely made up of testimonials by succesful and/or well known atheists and agnostics. It is a great resource/compilation. I did not know many of the people listed were atheists. It had some great quotes!
Lively precis of god-free ethics, with capsule bio's of many notable nonbelievers whose names you'll recognize. With better copy-editing, this would be a "5".
A lot of quotes from notable atheists and agnostics. Not really anything new.
I wanted more than yet another book filled with quotes from famous people.
Meh. It's not what I expected. It was actually just loads of testimonials from famous agnostics, atheists, and the non-religious.
This book is mostly quotes from other authors.
Warren Looks even worse, so does Crusoe, doh, I should have read this earlier
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