The Best Book Of The Year?
Ok, so the year is young and a lot can happen between now and next January.
Still, I learned about the following book for the first time yesterday and it sure sounds like it’s gonna be a top contender for My Favorite Read of 2010.
If you get a chance to read it first, please be sure [...]
Have YOU Seen Jesus’s Missing Naughty Bits?
It seems that every single day I learn about at least one wildly bizarre element of theism and/or religion that I’d never heard of before.
Every. Single. Day.
Here’s the most bizarre thing I’ve come across thus far today (thanks to a book club catalog that came in the mail):
An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s [...]
Atheist Personality Disorder?
The claim that religious belief might be associated with forms of mental illness at worse or are delusional at best are, of course, well trotted out. However, I have never, until now, heard the claim that atheism is a mental disorder. It does, of course, seem counterintuitive. Why would not believing in gods be a [...]
Victor Stenger Speaks Out!
The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason (Victor J. Stenger/Prometheus Books/Amazon.com; 282 pages; published Sept 22, 2009)
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: In recent years a number of bestselling books have forcefully argued that belief in God can no longer be defended on rational or empirical grounds, and that the scientific worldview has rendered [...]
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
A review of Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2009).
At the end of the Monty Python movie, The Life of Brian, the main character is sentenced to death by crucifixion – a truly deplorable means of execution. Understandably, Brian is a bit [...]
Richard Dawkins on The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins talks about why it’s time for a book setting out the evidence for evolution, when calling someone ignorant isn’t an insult, and how the media have made him into a militant atheist:
Click here to see a video of Dawkins reading from and discussing his new book.
The Uncertain Believer
The Uncertain Believer: Reconciling God and Science by Edward Correia (June 2009)
There are a lot of books aiming to reconcile all or part of science with all or part of religion. Thus, when I picked up Edward Correia’s new book, The Uncertain Believer, my first thought was, ‘What new insights does this book offer that [...]
X Marks the Christ
I went into a bookstore this weekend and came back out with a book informing me that “ain’t” ain’t such a bad word, that it’s OK to masterfully split an infinitive, and that a preposition is a fine word to end a sentence with. The book, Origin of the Specious, authored by Patricia T. O’Conner [...]
James Hider Speaks Out!
The Spiders of Allah: Travels of an Unbeliever on the Frontline of Holy War St. Martin’s Griffin (June 23, 2009)
—– The Spiders Of Allah: Travels Of An Unbeliever On The Frontline Of Holy War (Amazon.com)
Product Description
In his fascinating, terrifying and often very funny book, James Hider takes his doubts about religious beliefs straight into the [...]
Before I Leave Leaving the Fold…
I need to take Babinski’s Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists back to the library soon, but before I do here are a few more tempting quotes from it:
“The [Christian] zealots for conversion took to the streets or criss-crossed the countryside, destroying no doubt more of the [pagan] architectural and artistic treasures of their [...]
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