(June 12, 2013 at 4:07 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:(June 12, 2013 at 3:51 pm)Brian37 Wrote: 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.
While it's not technically what I would consider an atheist book The Greatest Show on Earth was one of my favorite reads in recent years, I loved every page of it and found every excuse to carry it around with me and read bits of it at every opportunity I could manage. When I finished it I wanted to immediately start it over again. Then again, though, I enjoy Dawkin's writing style and the subject matter; I liked The God Delusion, too.
Harris, for me, is better when I listen to him on youtube videos rather than read his books, I find them very dense and somewhat dry and have a hard time maintaining interest/focus while reading them sometimes. Is Hitchens more or less dense than Harris?
I'm reading Dennett's Breaking the Spell right now and am enjoying it and am planning on reading Proving History by Richard Carrier next.
I love Harris, his "Letter To a Christian Nation, is a tie with "The End Of Faith", but as I have conveyed before, when he talks about "spirituality" and Buddhism, I get the same lip twitch knowing that Newton got physics right but also postulated alchemy.
Victor Stenger in "The New Atheism" I read after Harris. But was pleased to see that Victor had the same objections I did with the false analogy of "I am smart and educated, so therefor I am on to something". I love Harris but it frustrates me that his own woo is no different than Newton pining after alchemy working.
SAM SAM SAM, I love you. But please, whatever humans do, is not a patent or woo.
