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I am here 1000% here for LGBT dark academia. SIGN ME UP. The logic is generally agreeable, and the conclusions he comes to I generally agree with. The tone he writes with is just insufferable. I found it extremely hard to enjoy. It is also extremely redundant, and it diverges for chapters at a time, to prove points that don't really seem relevant to the matter at hand. De esos libros que no te enseñan nada nuevo, pero te dan nuevos puntos de vista. Sus "argumentos" sólo son pura lógica. Aunque bueno, por momentos Dawkins se emociona (como siempre...) y se le va un poco... Notable quotes: "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." --Robert M. Pirsig During the Danish Muhammad cartoon fiasco: "Demonstators were photographed in Britain bearing banners saying 'Slay those who insult Islam', 'Butcher those who mock Islam', 'Europe you will pay: Demolition is on its way' and, apparently without irony, 'Behead those who say Islam is a violent religion'." After the London Underground bombings: "Everyone is being blamed, from the obvious villainous duo of George W. Bush and Tony Blair, to the inaction of Muslim 'communities'. But it has never been clearer that there is only one place to lay the blame and it has ever been thus. The cause of all this misery, mayhem, violence, terror and ignorance is of course religion itself, and if it seems ludicrous to have to state such an obvious reality, the fact is that the government and the media are doing a pretty good job of pretending that it isn't so." --Muriel Gray I think this is worth a read for athiests and thiests alike. It rambles a bit and I considered putting it down about halfway through because I got bored, but I'm glad I finished. If you're a thiest, it will only provide you insight into how somebody could be an athiest and raise tough questions for you on why you believe that you can mull over. It won't be easy work, but it is important work. If you're an athiest, you'll be relieved to hear that you're not alone and that the feeling that your non-belief is unwelcome to society is a whole is true. It'll also give you arguments back to those inevitable discussions you'll have with passionate believers that fear for your soul.
That was the first time I had ever considered, even in my own thoughts to myself, that I could be an atheist. I was 36. My husband was down with this—he told me he was an atheist, too. I felt it was weird we were finally having a conversation about this after being married for six years, but maybe we intrinsically knew all along. In The God Delusion, Dawkins argues that evolution has removed the need for a God hypothesis to explain life, and advances in physics may soon do the same for the universe. Further, the existence of God is a proper question for science, and the answer is no. Despite the many flashes of brilliance in this book, Dawkins’s failure to appreciate just how hard philosophical questions about religion can be makes reading it an intellectually frustrating experience. Creationists and believers in God are right to see him as their arch-enemy. In The God Delusion he displays what a formidable adversary he is. It is a spirited and exhilarating read. In the current climate of papal/Islamic stand-off, it is timely too. Belongs to Publisher SeriesUllstein Taschenbuch (37232) Is replied to in
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