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The God Delusion |  | Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Mariner Books
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ISBN: 0618918248
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Publication Date: January 16, 2008
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A hard-hitting, impassioned, but humorous rebuttal of religious belief. French flaps. 463pp. Index. Notes. List of books cited and recommended.
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 As good as it gets September 4, 2010
Anthony A. Gainey (Prescott, AZ)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it.
"The God Delusion" has it all: history, science and blistering rhetoric (in the real sense of the term). Some complain that this book is a bit hard to read in places, but Dawkins writes for an educated audience. Others have chided Dawkins for being too scathing. All I can say about this accusation is that those reviewers must never have tried to live openly on this planet as an atheist, or they'd know precisely where he's coming from.
I recommend this book without reservation.
The Rant Delusion September 2, 2010
Ryan Callahan
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Before you read this book, you should understand that Richard Dawkins has a sense of humor, and is also very polite. I've seen him speak in California, and of course it was as usual impossible for him to avoid the flocks of haters who run to spit on him as he receives any sort of accolade. I believe this time it was an honorary doctorate. Anyway, the man can be cheeky, but he's decent to everyone, and acknowledges that not all religious people are idiots. Unfortunately, the many who are idiots are often so sensitive that the mere statement of a differing opinion is enough to offend them. God forbid that you make a joke at their expense.
There are a lot of very powerful people who believe that we are "in the end times." These are people who could have their fingers on the proverbial button someday. This is serious, and yet Dawkins is kind enough to smile about it. He takes the kid gloves off just enough to get his message across, and then pulls them back on in quite a gentlemanly fashion.
If you want to read a book that really viciously mocks the opinions of religious people, this is not the book you should read. I recommend Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin. Here's a sample: "I believed we came about through a random process, but were created by God." She uses the past tense because she's talking about 2008... it could be that her analytical skills have since improved.
Excellent book. September 2, 2010
Powertrash
The truth about the imaginary being we were always taught to be afraid of. Very liberating to know that the questions I always had have only absurd answers. A must-read for anyone who has ever questioned religion or the existence of a god.
 150 Years Too Late! September 1, 2010
Rune Rindel Hansen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In this book Richard Dawkins is an advocate of evolutionary biology as opposed to creationism. The problem is that Dawkins' subject matter is hopelessly passé. I mean it's 150 years ago that Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" in 1859 and Christianity as a religion in the western world is, save for a few mentally disturbed people, pretty dead! Actually Dawkins appear to me to be a little stupid. Personally I suspect that religions are made in the image of man. And man can actually be something a bit more wonderous than Dawkins can probe with his scientific instruments. Dawkins is a hot house plant playing his own little intellectual game, quite ignorant and blind to the traits of the world developing right now.
Funny and profound and liberating. August 28, 2010
rewt (MA, USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm on page 283 and after a lot of laughing decided that I have to air how much I love this book. I find there are some 1500 comments on it already, but who cares, here's another reason why you should absolutely read this book:
Have you ever wondered, believers and not quite sure half believers, why Richard Dawkins has not yet been struck by lighting, spontaneous combustion or a mysterious mushroom growing in his groins? I think I know: If there's a god he/she/it just simply didn't have the heart to strike - because this British gentleman is just so hilarious, profound and daring at the same time that I am sure god would protect him because: without Dawkins, Heaven is the most boring place on Earth.
Besides being brilliantly researched and written, this book is truly liberating. There is a lot of courage in that he really counts on humanity to one day liberating itself from religion. This guy truly is a humanist and believes in the better of humankind and inspires this optimism in the reader. It is usually believed that religion is such a strong force that there is no way to ever overcome it, and everyone is tip-toeing around the Eminences and Holinesses and Gurus. That it is so deeply engrained in our culture, and as Dawkins himself describes, a by-product and result of our adaptations for survival. I also believe that it will take many centuries more, and that there can be big backlashes on the way. But if you read this book you may also realize that things may not be as scary as they are made to look. No one should ever fear to mount resistance and speak up against the reactionaries; we should no longer accept and excuse the anti-democratic and repressive propagandists of the now international Christian Right, or their Jewish friends, or their Muslim evil twins, and forget about all the other self-declared Holinesses. This idea I get from reading this book: The only way we can chase these demons away is with a lot of laughter, fresh air and education. It is a book similar to the ones that you may want to give a child to overcome the fear of monsters, though this is written for adults. I'm loving it.
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