The God Delusion - Did you read it?

[JeffreyLloyd]

Anyone read the book? A friend gave it to me to read and it's a monster, I don't know if I should waste me time. I do however like to read what the other side is saying...

 

[krstlros]

Nope, haven't read it, yet.

Didn't know such a book exsisted.

 

[JeffreyLloyd]

it's a book by atheist Richard Dawkins.

 

[krstlros]

"when one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."

Considering how many religions there are in the world, there must be a lot of delusional people.

BTW, isn't Zen considered a religion stemming from the Buddhist?

 

[MoNiCa4316]

I didn't read the whole thing, but I did come across some quotes from the book... the author sounds VERY angry.

I once attended a speech about this book by a Christian apologist, which was very good

 

[geocajun]

I haven't read it yet. I rarely take time to read non work related books anymore, but I intend to make time for that one. I do like his premise, which is that religion is often taken as an answer to material problems and it stifles research into the material answer.

 

[MoNiCa4316]

When I read Dawkins (and I haven't read much of his work), I get the impression that he's saying.. here are the things that are wrong with religion today...therefore, there is no God. I find that..illogical.. I don't know if he's actually saying that, that's just the impression I got.

 

[Michie]

Anyone read the book? A friend gave it to me to read and it's a monster, I don't know if I should waste me time. I do however like to read what the other side is saying...

No I didn't read it. I've read enough review both pro & con to know its not anything I haven't heard before. Just not my thing. I'm in the middle of reading some books Karin sent me that are much more uplifting.

 

[BAFRIEND]

it's a book by atheist Richard Dawkins.

I have seen it and flipped through it- thing could kill you from boredom.

 

[D'Ann]

Jeff,

For me, I wouldn't read it. There are sooo many other GREAT Catholic books to read and wonderful inspirational books to read and Saints to learn about. I understand your curiosity though.

God Bless

 

[wiggsfly]

There is/was a good thread in the books forum on the topic.

 

[Virgil the Roman]

I'm currently reading: Philothea, or Introduction to the Devout Life by: Saint Frances De Sales.

 

[Dominus Fidelis]

I haven't read it yet. I rarely take time to read non work related books anymore, but I intend to make time for that one. I do like his premise, which is that religion is often taken as an answer to material problems and it stifles research into the material answer.

I had that premise before I was religious. Its an easy assumption to make.

However, as you once quoted St Aquinas... "Human salvation requires the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."

So now I know better.

 

[InTheCloud]

Not Dawkins bet effort, better stick to his science/science books like the Selffish Gene or the Blindwathmaker, or the upcomming Evolution, is just a theory? (working title based ironically on Jesuit Teilhard De Chardin answer, evolution is not just a theory).
He just rehashes every atheist straw man against religion since the XVIII century and add the idea, that must be loved by fundies but I find entirely ilogical, that evolutionary biology precludes a God (I answer is evolution is neutral). No wonder fundies do quote him a lot.
What the read atheist books, go for Bertrand Russel "Why I'm not a Christian?".
Of the new atheist Sam Harris is the better in my opinion. Richard Dorkins should stick to science.

 

[IgnatiusOfAntioch]

Anyone read the book? A friend gave it to me to read and it's a monster, I don't know if I should waste me time. I do however like to read what the other side is saying...

I'd suggest reading the Dawkins' delusion instead. It summarizes and refutes the most egregious errors and falsehoods.

 

[Gwendolyn]

Haha, Richard Dawkins. If he is anything at all, he is a very fierce atheist.

I haven't read the book. Unless you have a rather comfortable grounding in philosophy, I'm not sure it would make much sense.

 

[Michie]

An interesting article about those that continually use the same acusations towards Christianity. It's a series about talking with atheists.

Myth No. 4: Jesus Didn’t Found the Church

BY FATHER THOMAS WILLIAMS, LC

Though the neo-atheist authors such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins take issue with God himself and religion in general, they devote dozens of pages to criticizing Christianity in particular.

They attack the foundations of Christianity as well as its doctrines, in an attempt to undermine both its historical roots and its internal consistency.

To begin with, the atheists question the historical existence of Jesus Christ himself. Next they cast doubt on the reliability of the New Testament texts as a historical document. The issue that concerns us here, however, is the atheists’ claim regarding the founding of the Christian Church.

They claim that even if Jesus did exist, he certainly never intended to found a church. This latter innovation — they assert — would be the work of the generations that came after him and twisted his original intention.

Legionary Father Thomas Williams is Vatican analyst for CBS News. His new book is Greater Than You Think: A Theologian Answers the Atheists About God
(New York: Hachette, June 2008). twilliams@legionaries.org.

Continued- http://ncregister.com/site/article/15289/