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Why Our Children Will Be Atheists: The Last 100 Years of Religion and the Dawn of a World without...

Albert Williams

Start date: December 20, 2012

Finish date: January 10, 2014

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Why we're reading this: The world is changing religion will disappear in the next 100 years
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Jul 12, 2014 Bakari rated it it was amazing

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The author makes a pretty huge claim in the title of his book, but by the time I finished reading it, I would agree that religion as we know it will possibly fade away over the next hundred years. (I just hope religious fanatics won't kill more and more people in the process.)

Williams argues his claim by first describing the origins of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, which serves to remind us just how archaic and irrational these religions have been, and they in the long run hold back our greates The author makes a pretty huge claim in the title of his book, but by the time I finished reading it, I would agree that religion as we know it will possibly fade away over the next hundred years. (I just hope religious fanatics won't kill more and more people in the process.)

Williams argues his claim by first describing the origins of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, which serves to remind us just how archaic and irrational these religions have been, and they in the long run hold back our greatest potential as human beings. With the emergence of science, and rational and critical thinking, these religions will not be able to withstand the forces of modernity. As Williams says in his book "Our gods have never appeared to us and never will. We have fooled ourselves into creating and believing in them. It is time to propose formally the next day of our spiritual[?] and cultural development."

Quite frankly in order for us to survive and persevere, humanity will have to move past outdated religious beliefs, and use the guiding principles of humanism to fashion a better world. In the second part of the book he explains evolution — i.e. the origins of life, and the origins of us Homo sapiens sapiens. His descriptions of religion and evolution are clear and easy to read. One of the necessary ways that we move away from a dependence upon religious myths is that we become more scientifically literate about the origins of life and the nature of the universe, and that we better understand our human psychology.

Future generations will increasingly see that the claims of religion have no evidence, and ultimately religious practices and institutions have not and will not solve most of the worlds problems. This is why the claims of this book point to the type of knowledge and confidence we need to ensure that our children and future generations are not shackled by religious dogma and confusion.

"Why Our Children Will Be Atheists" is fairly short, and most descriptive, but it's well the worth the read for getting a framework about how world is chaining without the need for gods and mythical beliefs. ...more

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Mar 04, 2015 Laura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Well done and well written. A history of the the "Big Three," Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Our lessening need for supernatural beings to hold responsible for our lives and choices; our changing attitudes toward the proof that science can offer us as opposed to religion which has not, and likely will not provide even a modicum of proof. A history of who wrote about whom and when. It's hard to reconcile people writing about Jesus and his quoted words when they'd never been close enough to actu ...more

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