Best book to open a Christians mind?
December 29, 2009 at 10:55 pm
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2009 at 10:57 pm by Zhalentine.)
My mom keeps throwing books and articles at me showing proof that God exists. All these articles are full of logical fallacies; the main ones being "god of the gaps" and "arguments from ignorance."
She keeps saying that I need to look at this from a Christian point of view and I told her that I have and asked her to look at this from an atheist point of view and she absolutely refuses to. I'm slowly working my way to getting her to read an atheist book. She has gone from absolutely rejecting the idea to saying "I wouldn't understand everything in it," so she is slowly coming around to the idea of reading one.
My main question is what book would be the best book to read if a person was only going to read one atheist book? She has no background in science so I don't want to hand her a book full of science terms that she will have no clue what they mean. She probably won't read the whole thing and I'll end up reading it after she is finished with it so I was thinking the God Delusion. I've never read the God Delusion and I plan on reading it, but is it the best book for a believer to read? Also, is the God Delusion full of science jargon or terms an the ordinarym non-scientific person can understand?
She keeps saying that I need to look at this from a Christian point of view and I told her that I have and asked her to look at this from an atheist point of view and she absolutely refuses to. I'm slowly working my way to getting her to read an atheist book. She has gone from absolutely rejecting the idea to saying "I wouldn't understand everything in it," so she is slowly coming around to the idea of reading one.
My main question is what book would be the best book to read if a person was only going to read one atheist book? She has no background in science so I don't want to hand her a book full of science terms that she will have no clue what they mean. She probably won't read the whole thing and I'll end up reading it after she is finished with it so I was thinking the God Delusion. I've never read the God Delusion and I plan on reading it, but is it the best book for a believer to read? Also, is the God Delusion full of science jargon or terms an the ordinarym non-scientific person can understand?
