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joel
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Hey, so I just read your comment and conversation with Matt about ‘God is not Great.’ I was wondering if you finished it yet. I am curious if you felt authentically challenged in your faith with anything he said in there.
ummm...to be honest, a little. it got me thinking a lot about life after death. i actually had a tough couple days while i read the book. but as far as my beliefs in the bible and jesus etc. he didn't really challenge me at all. i didn't find his arguments to be well rounded enough. he just kept taking one side of an argument and calling it truth when i knew it wasn't, so it was hard to take him seriously most of the time. and so it didn't really challenge me at all.
I found Sam Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation" a lot more interesting. It is quite short as well. He is a lot less forward in his style and just puts his ideas out there. Have you considered reading Dawkings "God Delusion"? What made you read Hitchens in the first place?
i actually have considered reading the god delusion but thought i would take a break after god is not great. from what i have heard i think the former is supposed to be better. but i'm not sure. i will definately give letters to a christian nation a try. i haven't heard of it before. what's it about? i read him because i was talking a lot to an agnostic at work about what i believe and what he believes. he was reading hitchens and i was interested. but then the guy quit and i wasn't able to talk to him about the book. but i don't regret reading it. it was definitely worth the read.
don't read God delusion. If you didn't find Hitchens compelling, Dawkins is more of the same.
'Letter to a Christian Nation' is better. By far. It's not dealing with atheism though, just denouncing North American evangelical Christianity.
And Bertrand Russell's 'Why I Am Not a Christian' is the best defense of Atheism I have encountered. His arguments are clear, and he doesn't get sidetracked by politics and issues-of-the-day the way Hitchens constantly does.
Okay, no more God talk for a week.
Sorry about all the recommendations. I'll never do it again. I promise.
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Hey, so I just read your comment and conversation with Matt about ‘God is not Great.’ I was wondering if you finished it yet. I am curious if you felt authentically challenged in your faith with anything he said in there.
ummm...to be honest, a little. it got me thinking a lot about life after death. i actually had a tough couple days while i read the book. but as far as my beliefs in the bible and jesus etc. he didn't really challenge me at all. i didn't find his arguments to be well rounded enough. he just kept taking one side of an argument and calling it truth when i knew it wasn't, so it was hard to take him seriously most of the time. and so it didn't really challenge me at all.
I found Sam Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation" a lot more interesting. It is quite short as well. He is a lot less forward in his style and just puts his ideas out there. Have you considered reading Dawkings "God Delusion"? What made you read Hitchens in the first place?
i actually have considered reading the god delusion but thought i would take a break after god is not great. from what i have heard i think the former is supposed to be better. but i'm not sure. i will definately give letters to a christian nation a try. i haven't heard of it before. what's it about? i read him because i was talking a lot to an agnostic at work about what i believe and what he believes. he was reading hitchens and i was interested. but then the guy quit and i wasn't able to talk to him about the book. but i don't regret reading it. it was definitely worth the read.
don't read God delusion. If you didn't find Hitchens compelling, Dawkins is more of the same.
'Letter to a Christian Nation' is better. By far. It's not dealing with atheism though, just denouncing North American evangelical Christianity.
And Bertrand Russell's 'Why I Am Not a Christian' is the best defense of Atheism I have encountered. His arguments are clear, and he doesn't get sidetracked by politics and issues-of-the-day the way Hitchens constantly does.
Okay, no more God talk for a week.
Sorry about all the recommendations. I'll never do it again. I promise.
Your insecurity is annoying
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