The God Delusion

pok3ypup · 04-15-2010, 01:36 AM

Anyone read it? Thoughts?

pok3ypup · 05-27-2010, 05:56 AM

Just picked it up, it's an all right read so far.

Crede777 · 05-30-2010, 01:41 AM

Dawkins is a good scientist/professor but a crappy philosopher.

pok3ypup · 06-01-2010, 08:53 PM

Yeah, I enjoyed the last few pages of that book so much it made me want to read something from him that about a scientific subject.

Any of you read his latest book?

Turb0 Negr0 · 06-01-2010, 09:16 PM

I really really really want to buy it, but I know I'll get that "son I am dissapoint" look from my parents when I bring it home

pok3ypup · 06-01-2010, 11:09 PM

Yeah my mom asked me if it was going to change me into a heathen when I told her about it. Anytime my grandma was around when I had the book out I made sure to keep the cover out of sight. Her seeing the book would probably give her a heart attack.

Crede777 · 06-06-2010, 11:29 PM

I had an incident like that when my grandfather was visiting and saw The Communist Manifesto on my desk. I had to explain that I wasn't a marxist but was reading it just so I could say I had.

pok3ypup · 06-06-2010, 11:51 PM

Haha, my grandma would prolly be convinced I was a brain washed commy if she saw that.

proudDm5Owner5 (Banned) · 06-14-2010, 10:32 PM

Just picked it up today its good so far.

lovetocheat69 · 07-05-2010, 02:56 PM

To describe it in two words; it's true.

Captain A v2.0 · 08-21-2010, 12:58 AM

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I had an incident like that when my grandfather was visiting and saw The Communist Manifesto on my desk. I had to explain that I wasn't a marxist but was reading it just so I could say I had.

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Originally Posted by pok3ypup

Haha, my grandma would prolly be convinced I was a brain washed commy if she saw that.

Random fact bump: it's required reading at my school.

ayabrae · 08-27-2010, 04:07 PM

It's okay. Kind of the same **** you always hear though.

pok3ypup · 09-17-2010, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain A v2.0

Random fact bump: it's required reading at my school.

what school you go to?

Treghc · 12-25-2010, 04:35 PM

Old thread, I know, but if you haven't read it yet, pick up God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. I enjoy Hitchens' insights and intellect over anything Dawkins.

After I finish up some of the Isaac Asimov books my father gave to me, I'm going to reading Sam Harris' The Moral Landscape. Heard great things about that as well.

eVLution9450 · 02-07-2011, 12:43 AM

Hitchens, Dawkins, Shermer, Harris, all good reads if you're into the subject

pok3ypuppy · 06-06-2011, 12:07 PM

Just picked up Sam Harris' "The End of Faith"

Anyone read this one?

Sunrise · 07-29-2011, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Turb0 Negr0

I really really really want to buy it, but I know I'll get that "son I am dissapoint" look from my parents when I bring it home

hahah these moments are funny, old people are funny about their ways. this is like the time when I went off to college and my mom found my portable atheist book behind my bed. lol your family might make you feel like its banned literature.

a friend of mine actually bought the end of faith for my birthday some years ago but I never got to it, let me know how it is.

pok3ypuppy · 07-30-2011, 09:04 PM

It was good. His views approach the topic of religion from the standpoint of human nature. He writes more eloquently than Dawkins. Overall a good read.

Captain A v2.0 · 07-30-2011, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by pok3ypup

what school you go to?

Super late response: the University of Kansas.

NEp8ntballer · 07-30-2011, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by pok3ypuppy

Just picked up Sam Harris' "The End of Faith"

Anyone read this one?

awesome book