(August 16, 2019 at 6:38 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Has anyone read this book? I'm halfway through finally, and it's actually not bad from a philosophical angle. If you thought Hitchens' "God is not Great", Dawkins' "The God Delusion", and Harris' "The End of Faith" were rather unfulfilling in this respect, give this book a read. Though a little outdated now and not in tune with the latest discoveries of modern science, and though Smith is very aggressively anti-theist, he nevertheless takes the arguments made by theists seriously and provides precise and perhaps very pedantic counters to the arguments (without going over the top with flowery language). It's not the most entertaining read, though, but it's got value.
When I was Vice-Director of the Connecticut Chapter of American Atheists during the 1980's I used to pass out free copies of this book to new members.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
