(March 3, 2018 at 9:43 pm)Succubus Wrote: I bought the thing in hardback when it was first released but I found it uranium heavy, I'm pretty sure I chucked it. As per your quote:
Quote:This book is not a critique of theism plus a defense of atheism: the critique of theism is the defense of atheism.
From memory the whole thing reads this way. While the prose is hardly impenetrable it certainly isn’t easy to absorb.
Well, he does consider himself a philosopher.
From the intro:
Quote:As a philosopher, I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community...
I must say that I like his prose.
