(January 21, 2015 at 11:40 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(January 21, 2015 at 10:59 pm)Esquilax Wrote: I think it's a pretty good book, nothing mind blowing or anything, but then, I read it as someone without a history of believing god claims. Who knows how it might seem to someone inured in a religion?
It's not as good as anything by Hitchens, whom I think is just the stronger writer of the two. That's why I find all those shrill christians going on about the God Delusion to be so funny; ultimately they're getting so worked up about a book that's only okay.
Are you nuts? Dawkins doesn't speak in $50 dollar dog whistle code. Hitchins "God Is Not Great" and "The Portable Atheist" were his easiest reads for me. All the other stuff like Hitch 22 he spends too much time name dropping historical figures no one has ever heard of. Not knocking his education, but most of his books were written for PHD historians and not a general public.
The God Delusion is an awesome book. And an easy read for a layperson.
I disagree.
