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Book Reviews*
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Books by non-believers

The Atheist's Way
Eric Maisel
New World Library (2009)


So, you’ve come to the reluctant conclusion that you’re an atheist. The stories about God no longer make sense. The afterlife is an illusion. What You See is What You Get. Not very uplifting is it? Didn’t life feel better, more reassuring when you were a believer?


The Atheist's Introduction to the New Testament
Mike Davis
Outskirts Books (2008)


While Luke tells us (6:37) "those who forgive and neither judge nor condemn will be forgiven and neither", John (6:44, 6:65, 12:40) states that we are saved or condemned by God's arbitrary decision.


Don't Sleep There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

Daniel Everett
Profile Books (2008)


The Pirahã have no Creation Myth, Everett notes - the world for them has always existed - and no word for God. They are the happiest people he has known.


Humanism, What's That?
A Book for Curious Kids

Helen Bennett
Prometheus Books, New York (2005)


"Life is not easy for children, pressured as they are by parents and peers. And we don’t make it easier by stuffing their heads with lies in the guise of truth. As I’ve argued before, we should deal with religion the same way as we deal with pornography. Acceptable for consenting adults, but illegal for those under 18."


Books by believers

The Dawkins Delusion
A with J McGrath
SPCK (2007)


Dawkins' failings do not prove McGrath's point. When it comes to the basic question - does God exist? - McGrath's arguments consistently fall short.


The Science of God
Alister McGrath
T & T Clark Intntl (2004)


McGrath is so busy politely picking holes in everyone else’s arguments that he forgets to examine the enormous abyss at the center of his.


The Twilight of Atheism
Alister McGrath
Doubleday (2004)


Despite, or because of, his Oxford professorship of historical theology, McGrath has a poor understanding of what atheism actually is.


How to know God
Deepak Chopra
Harmony Books / Rider (2000)


By the end of the nearly three hundred pages I had met boredom and was thoroughly acquainted with irritation, but God and I had yet to be introduced.


After Death?
David L Edwards
Continuum / CCI (1999/2001)


I let optimism triumph over experience, ordering After Death? from a remainder catalog, convinced it contained a serious attempt to prove the existence of life after death.


The Passion of the Christ
dir. Mel Gibson
Icon Productions (2004)


What we see is not the reality of first-century Jerusalem but merely another made-in-the-USA film with an airbrushed view of history.






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If God existed, he would...

admire the beauty of a universe that he did not create

recognize that eternity is meaningless

deny both heaven and hell

disown all men and women who speak in his name

denounce the harm caused by religious "morality"

help the human race to thrive without him

If God existed, he would be an atheist.



What is the difference between science and faith?

science is certain of nothing and requires proof of everything

faith is certain of everything and requires proof of nothing

Which do you trust?


"I know there is no God"
or
"I believe there is no God"
???


Check the answer





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