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Originally Posted by kennyc
I've almost bought "God is Not Great" a couple of times. Thanks for the input on it, may read it at some point. "Breaking the Spell" (in paperback) is right here on my desk at the moment.  I've only read the first chapter so far.
The Atheist Manifesto has been mentioned to me several time. I'm going to go find it right now.
Thanks Neil!
P.S. just ordered "The Atheist Manifesto" used in paper...no ebook available that I could find. |
I read Hitchens'
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything as an audiobook download from iTunes and it's really
really good.
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris is good also, but as Neil indicated, it seems that at times Harris skates uncomfortable close to La-La land with his talk of spirituality. Still, it is worthwhile reading.
When was the last time that someone was criticized for not “respecting” another person’s unfounded beliefs about physics or history? The same rules should apply to ethical, spiritual, and religious beliefs as well. Credit goes to Christopher Hitchens for distilling, in a single phrase, a principle of discourse that could well arrest our slide toward the abyss: “what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
—Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.