(June 1, 2021 at 10:19 am)johndoe122931 Wrote:(June 1, 2021 at 10:00 am)Brian37 Wrote: If you have not read, you should, "God Is Not Great" by Christopher Hitchens.
No, I have not. I am adding it to my cart now. Thank you!
(June 1, 2021 at 10:11 am)arewethereyet Wrote: @johndoe122931 Please don't that Bel speaks for Bel and not the rest of us...though he would argue that, surely.
I am taking everything everybody says as their individual comments, thoughts, and ideas. This is why I want everybody to speak for themselves because everybody is different and has different outlooks on everything. I respect each person's comments as their own. I respect what Bel says just as much as I respect what you say. I will try my best to not assume or have any biased towards anybody here, well as best as I can. Please feel free to correct me if I do. Thank you!
Other books,
Richard Dawkins, "The God Delusion."
But two of my personal favorites that greatly influenced me are by the same Author, especially the second one.
1. "God The Failed Hypothesis" Victor Stenger (More of an analytical refutation).
2. My favorite "The New Atheism" Victor Stenger (A mix of science and comparison of word religions.)
In one of his later chapters of "The New Atheism", he compares the world's religions and shows that while one can find motifs of empathy and kindness in all of them, they also can be used to justify harm and tribalism, and basically shows that morality isn't divinely handed down to humans but our behaviors are in us, good or bad.
^^^^^ It is because of reading that, I have basically came up with my own quote basically arguing the same thing. " There is not one nation on the face of the planet that does not have hospitals or prisons."
And Jefferson, while he believed in Jesus, just not a magic man, and was a deist more than anything, said this about atheists.
https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/50...ut-atheist
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