RE: favorite atheist book
June 12, 2013 at 3:51 pm
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2013 at 4:00 pm by Brian37.)
(June 12, 2013 at 3:36 pm)Rationalman Wrote: I've only read The God Delusion, but if you think Harris' book is good i may give it a go, right after i finish cloud atlas
Read them all don't stop at one or two. I will say that "The Greatest Show on Earth was over my head, I am sure I could find evolution for dummies though.
(June 12, 2013 at 2:13 pm)Tonus Wrote: I enjoyed Dawkins' The God Delusion, but I think people make way too much of it. I am currently reading Harris' The End of Faith which I think is excellent so far (about 3/4 of the way through it now). I read Penn Jilette's God, No! and was underwhelmed. There are a few good points scattered near the beginning of the book, but I think it wanders too much and never really seems to focus on the topic.
What? That may be your opinion, but I was glued to every page from beginning to end. I have more of a problem with some of Hitchens books because he name drops and uses way too many 50 letter words.
"God Is Not Great" was Hitchens easiest read for me and that too, was a book I was glued to every page on.
(June 12, 2013 at 3:51 pm)Rahul Wrote:(June 12, 2013 at 2:13 pm)Tonus Wrote: I am currently reading Harris' The End of Faith which I think is excellent so far (about 3/4 of the way through it now).
I've read The End of Faith as well and enjoyed it. When it came out I was a mod on another atheist forum and a lot of people were bitching about the ending to the book though.
Harris goes in spiritualism pretty thoroughly there and it ticked off a lot of atheists. It didn't bother me though.
I tried reading The God Delusion but I didn't care for Dawkins' writing style in it. I've read The Ancestors Tale by Dawkins and that was written fine for me.
The beginning of "End Of Faith" was brilliant describing the thoughts of a suicide bomber. But Harris does bother me with trying to compete with religion by trying to borrow "spirituality" from theism. I simply call it "sense of awe" not "spirituality". I wish he would drop that tactic and also his predilections to Buddhism woo.
