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Category Name : Science & Nature
Author Name : The God Delusion
Publisher Name : 'The God Delusion' - perhaps the clue is in the title. Opening this book and finding the author happily concluding that religious belief is reasonable would come as something of a surprise. 'You are all quite right to believe as you do' would be a dull book. We should as adults be able to differentiate between the question of ultimate causes (which is marvellously contradictory) and the origins, influences, aims and claims of Abrahamic prophets and sects now and throughout a couple of thousand years of recent history. Any number of books on geology, physics, dinosaurs, the universe, or the history of peoples, science and the planet can be had for beans in an open society and it is not unreasonable for people expressing strict views based in their religion to be familiar with and open to the achievements of better minds than our own (unless free will is itself an illusion based on dogma, that is). We should regardless be able to distinguish between the fate of millions of our fellow beings and the pomp, comfort and status enjoyed by corporate religious leaders within their various establishments. It is not always helpful though to approach these questions from a position of high intellect and knowledge. No amount of sophisticated argument and learning is relevant when the appeal of still largely coercive or child indoctrinating sectarian and divisive religion is simplicity allied with whereabouts of birth and to whom we are born (we exist in a hard to fathom circumstance, what does this mean, need it have any meaning, surely it must have, anyway let's hope so, there is a personal and decent God looking over my shoulder who is going to make all this grief up to me when I die and reach paradise, but you lot are apparently all doomed). 'The God Delusion' unfortunately often prefers the esoteric and the involved without (of course) resolving imponderables or being ordered so that the reader can find bite sized and digestible facts and arguments presented not as absolutes but as reasonable grounds for scepticism applicable to the major world faiths. Very few of us after all were taught the entirety of the relevant religious texts or invited to pull the same apart - as adults we should object to being treated like children. Still, a book is a book, the world progresses when questions are put and answered, to oppose Dawkins without refuting him is an unwitting confirmation of his central theses, and you still know what you're getting when you buy a book by a famous atheist entitled 'The God Delusion'.
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Category Name : Science & Nature
Author Name : The God Delusion
Publisher Name : 'The God Delusion' - perhaps the clue is in the title. Opening this book and finding the author happily concluding that religious belief is reasonable would come as something of a surprise. 'You are all quite right to believe as you do' would be a dull book. We should as adults be able to differentiate between the question of ultimate causes (which is marvellously contradictory) and the origins, influences, aims and claims of Abrahamic prophets and sects now and throughout a couple of thousand years of recent history. Any number of books on geology, physics, dinosaurs, the universe, or the history of peoples, science and the planet can be had for beans in an open society and it is not unreasonable for people expressing strict views based in their religion to be familiar with and open to the achievements of better minds than our own (unless free will is itself an illusion based on dogma, that is). We should regardless be able to distinguish between the fate of millions of our fellow beings and the pomp, comfort and status enjoyed by corporate religious leaders within their various establishments. It is not always helpful though to approach these questions from a position of high intellect and knowledge. No amount of sophisticated argument and learning is relevant when the appeal of still largely coercive or child indoctrinating sectarian and divisive religion is simplicity allied with whereabouts of birth and to whom we are born (we exist in a hard to fathom circumstance, what does this mean, need it have any meaning, surely it must have, anyway let's hope so, there is a personal and decent God looking over my shoulder who is going to make all this grief up to me when I die and reach paradise, but you lot are apparently all doomed). 'The God Delusion' unfortunately often prefers the esoteric and the involved without (of course) resolving imponderables or being ordered so that the reader can find bite sized and digestible facts and arguments presented not as absolutes but as reasonable grounds for scepticism applicable to the major world faiths. Very few of us after all were taught the entirety of the relevant religious texts or invited to pull the same apart - as adults we should object to being treated like children. Still, a book is a book, the world progresses when questions are put and answered, to oppose Dawkins without refuting him is an unwitting confirmation of his central theses, and you still know what you're getting when you buy a book by a famous atheist entitled 'The God Delusion'.
Minimum Price : £ 5.49
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