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Should Christians buy Books by Atheist Authors?
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<blockquote data-quote="Captivated" data-source="post: 54424455" data-attributes="member: 144363"><p>Perhaps we need to distinguish between atheist authors writing fiction and specifically atheist books, such as 'The God Delusion' for instance. I certainly don't have the time or inclination to check out the belief system of every author I read, and even if I did know that they were an atheist it wouldn't stop me reading their work. I'd probably have missed out on a lot of great reading that way. But when it comes to something like 'The God Delusion' - a very specifically anti-Christian work - I was much happier getting it from a charity shop and passing it back there when I no longer needed it. (TBH, I probably wouldn't have read it at all if it wasn't part of a course I was taking. I know enough about Richard Dawkins to know that it wasn't likely to be my kind of book. And it wasn't.) I guess some people would suggest that I destroyed it rather than pass it back into potential circulation but destroying books goes against the grain, IMO.</p><p></p><p>So, atheist authors: yes. Atheist books: not usually.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Captivated, post: 54424455, member: 144363"] Perhaps we need to distinguish between atheist authors writing fiction and specifically atheist books, such as 'The God Delusion' for instance. I certainly don't have the time or inclination to check out the belief system of every author I read, and even if I did know that they were an atheist it wouldn't stop me reading their work. I'd probably have missed out on a lot of great reading that way. But when it comes to something like 'The God Delusion' - a very specifically anti-Christian work - I was much happier getting it from a charity shop and passing it back there when I no longer needed it. (TBH, I probably wouldn't have read it at all if it wasn't part of a course I was taking. I know enough about Richard Dawkins to know that it wasn't likely to be my kind of book. And it wasn't.) I guess some people would suggest that I destroyed it rather than pass it back into potential circulation but destroying books goes against the grain, IMO. So, atheist authors: yes. Atheist books: not usually. [/QUOTE]
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