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Smile UK Store - The God Delusion
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List Price: £8.99
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Manufacturer: Black Swan
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780552773317
ISBN: 055277331X
Label: Black Swan
Manufacturer: Black Swan
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2007-05-21
Publisher: Black Swan
Studio: Black Swan
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Summary: A new religion in itself
Comment: Arrogant but brilliant. Dawkins strips away the sheer lunacy of a lot of religious practises and tells the common sense version. The religious lot will hate it, the athiests applaud it. In a world where we want answers to everything - Dawkins doenst give them. But he does destory the repetitive nonsense that a lot of religious people follow without ever questionning why. If we only stopped asking why people dont follow what we do and ask ourselves why do we follow them - the world would be a better place.
I loved this book, it should form a religion of its own.
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Summary: Get it!
Comment: Let's not nitpick. This book is an absolute godsend (!) for all of us who have consistently followed a path of atheism, but have not had a cogent, readable, popular book to give to people who still toy with the "Ooh but there must be more" school of religious flabby thinking. Perhaps (though I don't underestimate humans' capacity for self-delusion) this will help build the growing movement against those whose ridiculous longing for the various 'imaginary friends' provided by religious belief has caused so much damage to human endeavour. Thank you a thousand times Professor Dawkins.
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Summary: completley gripping, the tirade of abuse makes it even more interesting! reviewers here seemed to have not really read it at all
Comment: A fantastically rational account on religion. This book has opened my eyes to the worders of science and the folly of religious conviction. In a style like Thomas Paine he smashes perceptions of relgion and makes beleivers sound as though they should be in a mental institution then again really they do! The Genius of Charles Dawin TV show involved a microcosm of what the book contains but with a few added ideas on social dawinism and the idea that "we are all winners". Starting as a wavey Agnostic I put down the book a 6.9 fully armed atheist and really allways have been just without the abilty to articultate my feelings.the danger is relgious zealots taking direct offense with the book it may have been hard for Dawkins to be carefull not to offend and underestimate quite how indoctrinated people are but really the only way to trully battle such strong convictions is to meet them head on with eaqual force and far more truth.
A true modern great.
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Summary: Loud Barking Puts Me Off...
Comment: When I saw Richard Dawkins' book on a shelf in my neighbouring bookstore I was immediately intrigued and bought it without hesitation. I was not acquainted with Mr. Dawkins' work previously but working in Psychiatry and having a big interest in religious beliefs in all forms I was attracted to its eye catching title in big bold print on this hardback book. As I sat down and read it, the further I went the more I wanted to stop reading. It wasn't because the content disagreed with my beliefs or because i wanted to argue against his logic. It was the way he put his argument forward. Angry barking at the world as if to say: "Open your eyes you fools!!". His statements are delivered with such vehemence and fervour that they ultimately are less convincing, like someone in a conversation or debate realizing he/she is losing ground on the discussion and counters by raising his/her voice. I absolutely didn't like that. If it were a calmly explained logic with which you are stimulated to discuss and provoke thought, it would have been magnificent, but this to me was similar to the fundamentalist extremist approach which he himself so harshly condemns. So when i finished the book I was only left with a sense of emptiness, not from losing my faith, but from losing time and money on waste.
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Summary: stupid.
Comment: You cant look at everything with scientific or mathematical reasoning, thats stupid. Liebniz tried to do that, it didnt work. If you try and do truth tables for whether or not God exists, it doesnt work (Trust me, if twenty-something with time on their hands, i.e TOK lessons, have failed, you're going to too).
From reviews it seems like a dumb book, designed to sell millions via its 'controversial' title and smart-aleky voice. I wont plan on reading this!
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