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... me personally. I don't care if anyone believes or not. Generally, if it makes them happy, I'm happy (Dennett speaks, in Breaking the Spell, of our reluctance to bring Granny down.) The people who used to come to my door for an argument* were only a minor annoyance. Some atheists think it is ... ... a source for it. This is exactly the kind of strawman I was talking about in post #7.
#56: Haven't read it, but Dennet's Breaking the Spell seems to be very 'soft'. Plenty of sales too.
#60: It is not just a community/rituals/etc. Religion tends to go along with rather specific claims ... ... of the soul might be appropriate. Consciousness Explained and, more specific to an evaluation of religion and the soul, Breaking the Spell.
As a spoiler, although an unsurprising one, Dennett finds no support for the idea of a soul, and certainly no consciousness that survives the death ... ... on the basis of the reviews I have read, to be pretty bigoted and foolish, and have no interest to me. The Dennett book, Breaking the Spell, is perhaps more interesting, as it gives a naturalistic explanation as to why religious belief should be common. Then there are books about the nature ... ... (Skeptic's Bookshelf)
5. Reasons to believe : one man's journey among the Evangelicals and the faith he left behind
6. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
7. Slaying the dragon : mythmaking in the biblical tradition
8. God's problem : how the Bible fails to answer our ... Gap fillers from my TBR pile:
210 Natural theology
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
211 Concepts of God
The God Delusion
274 Christian church in Europe
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
277 Christian ... The God Delusion and Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon have both been recommended to me, but I have not read them myself yet.
Sam Harris has a list of recommended books here: http://www.samharris.org/site/book_reading_list/ 888 Challenge
Most of these I’ll read in an attempt to whittle down my Library of Congress and Dewey Challenges. Remember, these are goals. I tend to be a bit more eclectic in my readings-this is exacerbated by the fact that I'm a librarian and have constant access to new books in all these ... ... am fully satisfied by this. I have seen a couple of op-ed type pieces by him and they were definitely more strident than Breaking the Spell--and I would definitely agree that that would have been better had it been more fierce. My main complaint with Breaking the Spell is that he spent so ... ... books would really matter, and I mean that as a respectful compliment.
Re: Dennett.
Hmm. Dry and prickly stuff in Breaking the Spell. A pretty good sermon to the choir, as per the current atheist hymnal-in-progress we're inundated with. I'll take Consciousness Explained and Darwin' ... nperrin:
Yes, good point. Breaking the Spell isn't as fierce as his reputation. (As you might agree, I think it would have been a stronger and more interesting effort if it had been more fierce.) I think his fierceness comes across a little in his published scholarly work on evolution, ... ... but I have to ask as I have never been able to get an answer on this. Do you really think Dennett is that "fierce"? I read Breaking the Spell and I felt like he was apologizing on every other page for possibly suggesting that revealed religions weren't actually revealed. Maybe it's all in his ... ... as I said in a previous post, the only reference to Stark that I have seen in a recent book is Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell, which, though Dennett is a fierce atheist Bright, etc., is favorable to Stark’s thesis in One True God. That also doesn't necessarily verify Stark, ... ... “the market for gods.” Interestingly, the anti-Christian Daniel Dennett sympathetically cites this theory in his Breaking the Spell, though, I think, he then goes on to forget some of it’s corollaries—all religions are not the same in terms of what they give to (or demand ... ... Ancestor's Tale
The book your church doesn't want you to read
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The New Joy of Sex
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Democracy in America
Living with Darwin
Monkey Girl
The Red Queen no particular order:
Enduring Love
Infinite Jest
Team of Rivals
In Search of Memory
Breaking the Spell
hated:
The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable Did anyone find Dennett's Breaking the Spell confrontational? I don't believe I did. I'd go with Dennett's Breaking the Spell. Probably off topic, but I remember reading and enjoying Burkert. Years ago, he wrote a study of sacrifice in early Greek religion, Homo Necans. Today PBS sent me Breaking the Spell and from BookMooch I got Emily Climbs. ... of Philosophy
192 Modern Western philosophy British Isles – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
200 Religion – Breaking the Spell
201 Religious mythology, general classes of religion, interreligious relations and attitudes, social theology – A Short History of Myth
210 Natural ... Right now, it is just an accident of finances that I have not purchased God is not great. I have read God delusion and Breaking the spell and End of Faith, but I do not think I have entered all 3 into LibraryThing yet.
Often, I am a little slow in absorbing what I read. I feel a fairly ... Breaking the Spell by Daniel C. Dennett and loving it. I've also just started The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. ... of the planet, uncovering the forces and constraints that have generated the glorious array of things we treasure.
Breaking The Spell - Daniel C. Dennett ... ors.
The only book of Dennet's that I own is Consciousness Explained, which I have not yet read. Maybe I'll try to read Breaking the Spell, but descriptions of extraordinary claims like "This is definitely a heritable trait, because it is the way nearly all human brains work, and it is the ... ... having no way to get home until he woke up several hours later, i picked up the daniel dennett book he's reading atm - breaking the spell. i'm curious if anyone's read this, and what they might think about it. i got through the first two chapters before my friend woke up, and while i was ... ... pretty good, as is Doubt: A History
by Jennifer Michael Hecht . I've also been meaning to read Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell, but I'll need to clear some headspace first.
The problem with a lot of these apologias for atheism is that the arguments are simply repeated. That's ... ... Dawkins The God Delusion, Sam Harris The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, Daniel Dennett Breaking the Spell, etc.). They believe that it is wrong to perpetuate a belief that has no basis in science, especially if that belief can cause real harm (i.e. Harris’ ... ... particularly good
Thank You, Jeeves (more Wodehouse) - fun as always
Right now I'm in the middle of The Gun Seller, Breaking the Spell, and The Courtier and the Heretic, all of which are pretty good, but I'm in the mood for something new. Must...finish...half-read...books...before I'm ... A lot of negative reviews seem to be cookie-cutter: quick pass over The End of Faith and Breaking the Spell, then longer criticism of The God Delusion for not being The Miracle of Theism, but without actually mentioning Mackie. ... Cardinal Ratzinger, and Paris Hilton
"Daniel C. Dennett, who took on Cardinal Ratzinger in his book Breaking the Spell, had hoped some day to confront him personally on his own turf, but due to a sudden promotion, Ratzinger was unavailable and sent his deputy, Monsignor Sa ... ... of Atheism, including his new The God Delusion and Sam Harris' Letter to a Christian Nation. I've just started Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett, which is more about whether or not we should study religion scientifically.
All those have generally convinced me to move from ... A couple of thoughts.
First, I strongly recommend Daniel Dennett's book Breaking the Spell, which considers many of the same issues, not *quite* overlapping but close, and does so in an elegant and intellectual manner.
Second, I saw Dawkins speak last night in a milieu in which he was ... Dear ELW, I just started reading a new book, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Daniel C. Dennett. Have you seen it? I've only just started it as I said, but it looks very interesting and unusual. Dennett is a philosophy professor. ... and Religion by Donald M. Broom, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris, and The Go ... ... I again suggest that it's very much worth reading.
And just to clairify the preceding exchange: gabriel was referring to Breaking the Spell as antireligious. I haven't read it.
I read a rather vicious review of Breaking the Spell in the NY Times a few months ago, but haven't read the book itself. In fact, the only one of Dennet's books I've read is Darwin's Dangerous Idea. It's not my favorite book, but there were parts of it I liked very much. I haven't read Darwin's cathedral, but Daniel Dennett in Breaking the spell criticized this idea that groups evolve in much the same way as individual organisms.
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