Book Review : The God Delusion By Richard Dawkins

The book In a Rocket Made of Ice, by Gail Gutradt, has many examples of the characters’ views on religion. All the characters in the book have a place in their lives for religion, whether they make it obvious or show little effort about it. The main people working at Wat Opot try to share a connection in making the children find their own way. They do not want to force them one way or the other when it comes to religion. They want them to figure it out for themselves. They want them to be able to make decisions for themselves about which religion they want to go with. The head people of the community try to make a difference in the children’s life.

Atheist Delusions gives an analysis of history with the revolutionary power of Jesus Christ at the forefront. David Bentley Hart tells the story of how the early church was formed after late antiquity. He argues that radicalness of the Gospels was the key to liberation and how secular society has formed around that liberation. The development of Christianity, was the largest political, social, spiritual, and material revolution of Western civilization. It has played such a crucial role in the way our society operations, and in which our ethics are built.

The process of the secularization is epitomized on the cover of Steve Bruce’s book God is Dead. The cover depicts a British church converted to a discount warehouse store called Mike’s Carpets. It can similarly be seen at the converted church hostel that our History of Christianity class stayed. There is noticeable evidence all around us that religion has a declining influence. We know fewer people around us that get married in a church or regularly attend church. Christmas and Easter (Christian holidays) have lost much of their religious meaning. The holidays are now an excuse to have a break from work and indulge in food and drink. For many Christian holidays are a cultural rather than a religious affair. It may seem like common knowledge

Brown, Neil. "The New Atheism and The Existence of God.” Compass, 46, no. 3, 2-5. Kensington, Australia: Compass, Spring 2012.

One comment I would make in response to this article is: Religion is either good or

In the Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials, Frances Hill, write the time period there were accusations that lead to the witch trials and executions in Salem Valley. “By studying what happen in Salem in detail, we can learn some valuable but painful lessons about the darkness and perversity of the human heart, and about some of the articular dilemmas that continued to afflict the Western spirt.”

Dinner With Skeptics Defending God in the world that Makes No Sense, by Jeff, Joplin: College Press, 2008. 221 pages. Reviewed by Josiah R. Boyle

I understand why the congregant worry Dawkins’s view when she read the book of Joshua. When I read the story of holy war, I could not dispute Dawkins’s description. However, I realized that I read the Bible outwardly. It is easy to make mistake to interpret God when we read the Bible only following the words. However, if we read the book of Joshua with the historical side and the real meaning of the words in the Bible, we can see God differently unlike Dawkins’s perspective. I would like to say that Dawkins interpret God in the only one side. Since Dawkins see God as the side of victor or oppressor, he does only see God as what he describes.

The purpose of the article is to persuade the readers that atheism can be considered as a source of morality and spirituality. Since the Nation Framework of Religious Education (RE) has approved to include atheism in the curriculum of primary and secondary school levels, Watson argues that “children and young people can learn from atheistic beliefs and values for their spiritual and moral development.” Watson begins her (article) with refuting religious objections of the Association of Christian Teachers (ACT) in introducing atheism to the curriculum of RE. One of the main objections of ACT was the threat atheism can impose on religion. On the other hand, Watson points out that the ACT would not feel threatened or worried, if they were confident

What Richard Dawkins is trying to say in this piece of superb rhetoric is that if you’ve read the Old Testament that god is a horrendous monster. He regards the god of the Old Testament as the “worst character in all fiction” and when he says fiction it is an statement to show that he himself does not believe in a god. Dawkins says this as a way of introducing the point that he will be attacking the god of the Old Testament. If you look back in the bible God is directly responsible for many mass-murders. God orders the killing of innocent people like in the story of Noah’s ark even after the Ten Commandments says “Thou shall not kill”. Christians today are quick

Later on, writers such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, raised during the baby boom, would come to popularize a new movement of atheists starting in the early 2000’s. “One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns—about ethics, spiritual experiences, and the inevitability of human suffering—in ways that are not flagrantly irrational,” writes Sam Harris, popular New Atheist writer. “Nothing stands in the way of this project more than the respect we accord religious faith.” New Atheism would become interested in rationality and free-will, and would heavily criticize religious practitioners and the church at large. These are just a handful of reconstructions

In his book The God Delusion (2006), British evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins asserts that if the entire evidence in the world favored creationism, he would immediately recognize and shift his stance on the issue. However, he also notes that as of now, the immense amount of accessible evidence supports the theory of evolution. Dawkins establishes his stance on the creation of the universe based on the side that has provides the most evidence. This reflects the basis on which science relies on evidence along with the fact that the acceptance or rejection of a scientific idea depends upon the evidence relevant to it (B.A. Robinsion). In science, ideas that are not supported by evidence are immediately rejected as sides in an argument

What if there is no heaven? What if there is no hell? John Lennon speculated on this in his song “Imagine”, and many other men in history have produced thought-provoking and controversial works in regards to religious beliefs. We know so little about the world, but yet humans have killed each other in the name of religion. Karl Marx went as far to say that religion is an “opiate of the masses”. In addition to Marx’s statement, Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion raises consciousness at the price of controversy. On one hand, one may be enlightened by a different way of thinking than what is the norm. On the other, people may be inclined to reject the book before they even pick it up simply based on the title. This is the confirmation bias.

In the book, The Evidence For God, Paul K. Moser develops an ideology that proves God’s existence. However, there are other perspectives that try to prove God existence, also. With that being said, I shall argue that kardiatheology is the most concrete position of God’s existence because a person just needs to be “willing” to distribute unselfish love to everyone. I am going to accomplish this by first defining what kardiatheology is then transition to the reason why this theology is concrete.

In his book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens dissects and criticizes the various claims of religions and the tragic events that have been caused by various religions. The title of the book sums up the arguments of Hitchens in this book in the fact that he makes many arguments of why “religion poisons everything.” The majority of the chapters in this book discuss why he believes religion to be a manmade notion that has led to more trouble than anything else in the world. Most of his focus is on the three Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism but he does fit in criticism of other religions as well. The topics he chooses to discuss range from the sketchy origins of Mormonism to the