The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins

The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | Thank you Richard Dawkins for writing this Book!

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The God Delusion

	The God Delusion Richard Dawkins Mariner Books, 2008 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 1250 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Lesson To All

I have enjoyed this book, as well as Dawkin's similar work, very much. I find him enlightened and a great communicator of valuable life-affirming ideas. He longs for people to think for themsleves and as such, he argues succsessfully, make the world a more harmonious and tolerant place.

On a personal level i'd like to say that after digesting Mr Dawkin's comments, i generally feel inspired to adpot a more outwards and vocal approach to my own entirely atheistic views. Not to necessarily enforce my views on people face to face (this kind of thing is annoying when unsolicited), but to do more in the way of joining organizations and becoming invloved in internet communities and so forth actively promoting scientific facts and the challenging of ignorance.

The problem, however, is that i love my wife.

She is a serious-mided Catholic who was brought up in an almost exclusively Catholic community in Poland - a predominantly Catholic country.

Now, i have always been an atheist and if pushed will maintain with, i think, solid reasoning that religion is merely a human concept (not a divine one) that does us more harm than good and is at best quaint in it's more minor traditions and at worst the epitome of stupidity and danger.

What to do?

I love my wife dearly and i say this in all honesty, she is a very honest and lovely person. She is kind, considerate and liked by everyone she meets. As much as i disagree with religious convictions, she says the church for her is very important and for me... that really is that. I respect her for her loving personality and as decent a person. We naturally have some differences of opinion, for instance, will our children be brought up Catholic? This is not a prospect i look forward to, but relationships (human relationships) are all about compromise and respect. And so, i think constructively how our children may be very fortunate in having two parents who dissagree on major issues in life, but still get on very well and love each other.

This has been a lesson to me.

I thank Richard Dawkins immensely for his valuable work and i do think it's important to redress certain problems of ignorance and coercion in our societies, BUT... i implore everyone to see the human being there first, before the religion of the person.

I have to dissagree with Mr Dawkins on just one point. When he says "it is time to stop being so damn respectful", i contest that it is NOT time to stop being respectful, but it's time to promote the overwhelming benefits of scientific enquiry whilst being very careful that we don't forget that there are many decent people in this world who happen to believe in God and also in love.

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Thank you Richard Dawkins for writing this Book!

You've helped me break free from the religion of my ancestors (Christianity). Now I'm in a whole new world and it's exciting. My natural curiousity for science/history/humann behavior/psychology was fed up with the dogmatic views of Christianity. The church was so certain about its views about the world when there really wasn't any justification, just a dusty old book written thousands of years ago with many different/plausible interpretations out there. After becoming an atheist I felt alone. I thank Mr. Dawkins for writing this book and I ask more scientists to help theists ask critical/thoughtful questions about their beliefts, don't just hide in the shawdows assuming that religion is good for the masses, it's not! National Academy of Science members and Fellows of the Royal Society.. Please Please! do more to help out the average Joes out there see the truth. Just assuming there is a God and that he is the answer to anything science hasn't yet explained isn't a very smart thing to do. I challenege everyone who disagrees with this book to do some indepedent reading on evolution (even the apples/strawberries/cashew nuts you consume were not made that way by God) Farmers used selection to cultivate most of the thing we eat (Guns, Germs and Steel; Jared Diamond).. this of course isn't really evolution... but you might start getting the picture that God really didn't create a perfect garden of eden for us to enjoy the fruits of. It's ridiculous to think that in our modern day of science that over half the population holds unto the mystisims and narrow dogmatic views of the past. Reminds me of thos who would point to the sun and say "look at that beautiful sun rising every morning, what could make that possible other than God!" Now science knows what make sthe sun rise so theists have moved unto other subjects.. and will keep on moving until there is nothing left for them to hold unto (I Hope)

Richard Dawkins Keep up the Good Fight! (as the apostle Paul would say)
I am with you, even to the very end (as Jesus said... haha)

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Clear, concise and accurate

My title really says it all, but a few specifics.
This book touches on many things that have been left out of other books about the lack of belief.
One is how it is immoral to label Children before they have the chance to think and decide for themselves.
The second is the true historical background of religion and, finally, a cross-referencing of many scientific fields in regards to unsubstantiated belief and how it affects us as a thinking animal.

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