Darrel W. Ray Speaks Out!
Here’s another ally in our efforts to educate the masses:
The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives And Culture (Darrel W. Ray/IPC Press/243 pages; Dec 2009)
Amazon Product Description: What makes religion so powerful? How does it weave its way into our political system? Why do people believe and follow obvious religious charlatans? What makes [...]
The Second Best Book Of The Year?
Ok, probably not.
But it still looks like an interesting read if you’re into “Dumb/Deluded Theist” stories.
God Made Me Do It: True Stories Of The Worst Advice The Lord Has Ever Given His Followers (Marc Hartzman/Sourcebooks; 288 pages; Mar 1)
Amazon Product Description: Does God, in His infinite wisdom, convince people to get rid of their [...]
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 [...]
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