Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780552773317
ISBN: 055277331X
Label: Black Swan
Manufacturer: Black Swan
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: May 21, 2007
Publisher: Black Swan
Sales Rank: 80
Studio: Black Swan

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Rating: - The God Delusion
'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 ... Read More

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Rating: - Post-speciesist Piffle
"I do not, by nature, thrive on confrontation." Well, that's Dawkins' contention as he opens chapter 8 at least. Later on in the same section of the book, the author claims that the phrase "American Taliban" was begging to be coined. Begged by whom? The frothing at the mouth reactionaries who toss schoolyard insults at those they do not agree with?

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Rating: - Aggressively atheist and more than a little smug.
I am an Agnostic who leans towards atheism, and was recommended this book by a friend over a year ago, so I made sure it was on my Christmas list (oh, the irony).

I only read about two chapters but found the hectoring tone very off-putting, and there was a degree of smug hubris not present in the books of other science writers. Much of what I read was anecdotal and delighted in sharing oh-so-clever and bullish ripostes to religious people who took issue with his strong stance. This didn't convince ... Read More

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Rating: - Get a life
What kind of a retard would write a book like this?

Get a life Dawkins.

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Rating: - A deflating fait accompli
On Richard Dawkins's spectrum of belief, I'm a 6...that is, strongly suspecting that a supernatural God who designed and still presides over the world doesn't exist. I find much of interest and practical use in some 'religious' teaching and literature however. The God Delusion is a fait accompli - it has no reasonable counter argument. Every theist should read it and be made to either refute it or give up their Religion, or at the very least concede that their Religion should not receive special treatment or ... Read More

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