The God Delusion in Atheists and Skeptics

Feb 24, 2008 Mark Gowan rated it really liked it

Shelves: atheism, the-detriment-of-religion

This book presents religion in a social and moral context. Socially, religion is presented as both an enigma and an antiquated form of explaining the world and the universe. Morally, religion is presented as being unjustified. A short section on the different (but well worn) arguments for the existence of God is offered, but the main point of his book seems to be that society will be a much better place both psychologically and morally without religion. Dawkins laid to rest in this book his past ...more

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Apr 08, 2008 Aaron rated it really liked it

Shelves: faith-and-lack-thereof

I enjoyed the majority of this book... the latter half much more than the former. Although I'm a strong atheist myself, I'm not quite sold on Dawkin's argument against the probability of God. It is solid reasoning, of course, and he does a great job of destroying any logical argument for god in general, and for the God of Christianity/Judaism/Islam in particular. For those with faith, however, reason doesn't matter, and possibly never will. I don't get it, myself, but I understand that a lot of ...more

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Mar 26, 2008 Michael rated it it was amazing

Shelves: non-fiction

This was a great book. He shows how religion isn't about higher values, science is rooted in reason and evidence, religion is about myths and superstitions and how religion plays apart in our society that is just weird. One example is that smoking pot for medicinal purposes is still illegal yet the Supreme Court allowed this church to use hallicuogens for religious purposes. This book will be in my top five that actually changed mt life! This guy as an avowed atheist, however, he knows the Bible ...more

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Jan 21, 2008 Paul rated it really liked it

I'm giving this a good review on general principles, but I did have problems with some of his ideas. For example the idea that religion might be the side effect of some other neurological process, like a moth's suicidal tendencies around candles are a result of a mechanism that allows it to orient flight using a light source as a landmark. I think that religion has served significant purpose in the development of culture over thousands of years. But this doesn't necessarily mean that it's still ...more

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Mar 13, 2008 Koe rated it liked it

Good book covers all the esentials but if you're already familiar with the arguments it doesn't add a whole lot new.

I'd recommend this more to people who are personally conflicted with religion than those who have already cast it off. ...more

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