Recommended Reading-A little brain food!
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:24 pm
Greetings,
I began this year with a goal to educate myself more on religion. I mentioned this to Darrel or Doug and found out that each of them had written a books. I have read Doug's book once and I am working my way through it a second time within the last 2 months. Darrel's book I started and then my wife took off with it and I have not seen it since.
"What is Atheism, A Short Introduction" is an excellent book. I was actually on a trip working and at the end of each day I looked forward to get back to my hotel to read. But for me his book cleared up and made me understand what I already knew and put it in a nice logical order. By reading some of my post you will see that I may not be the most articulate person that ever walked the earth but I do understand most things that are presented to me.
I have been a full blown atheist for several years now and even before I declared myself an atheist I knew it was all a bunch of bull full of condridictions. But what I found over the years that when I would descuss my atheism with religionist I always felt that I was struggling with explaining why I was an atheist. All of the ideas tha Doug presented in his book are ideas that I have thought of in the past but I was unable to articulate those thoughts very well. His "eight questions" about the existance of god is well thought out with examples and quotes from the bible.
Doug, thanks for a great book and I would recommend this book to anyone as a good starting point on atheism. Sorry that the book review is not very articulate but that is why I work on machines and not write for a living.
James
Is there a spell check some place I can use on my post?[/u]
I began this year with a goal to educate myself more on religion. I mentioned this to Darrel or Doug and found out that each of them had written a books. I have read Doug's book once and I am working my way through it a second time within the last 2 months. Darrel's book I started and then my wife took off with it and I have not seen it since.
"What is Atheism, A Short Introduction" is an excellent book. I was actually on a trip working and at the end of each day I looked forward to get back to my hotel to read. But for me his book cleared up and made me understand what I already knew and put it in a nice logical order. By reading some of my post you will see that I may not be the most articulate person that ever walked the earth but I do understand most things that are presented to me.
I have been a full blown atheist for several years now and even before I declared myself an atheist I knew it was all a bunch of bull full of condridictions. But what I found over the years that when I would descuss my atheism with religionist I always felt that I was struggling with explaining why I was an atheist. All of the ideas tha Doug presented in his book are ideas that I have thought of in the past but I was unable to articulate those thoughts very well. His "eight questions" about the existance of god is well thought out with examples and quotes from the bible.
Doug, thanks for a great book and I would recommend this book to anyone as a good starting point on atheism. Sorry that the book review is not very articulate but that is why I work on machines and not write for a living.
James
Is there a spell check some place I can use on my post?[/u]