StarAstrologer - Books : The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
from: Phoenix Audio
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 211.8
EAN: 9781597771979
Format: Audiobook, CD
ISBN: 159777197X
Label: Phoenix Audio
Manufacturer: Phoenix Audio
Number Of Items: 9
Publication Date: January 01, 2008
Publisher: Phoenix Audio
Sales Rank: 627528
Studio: Phoenix Audio
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Christopher Hitchens, the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of God Is Not Great, selects and introduces an illuminating collection of the most essential and influential writings for the non-believer. Includes selections from Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, Richard Dawkins, H.L.Mencken, Sam Harris, and more.
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"The Portable Atheist": what a wonderful read! It challenges, it amuses but, most of all, it has no time for the sheer and utter nonsense that is religion. And here, religion means all religions and not certain select ones.
Christopher Hitchens has compiled a thought provoking grab bag of readings from across the ages and across the planet. He begins with Lucretius and Thomas Hobbes and finishes with Sam Harris and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. In between, the reader is confronted by Mark Twain, ... Read More
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Your thirst for answers can only truly be quenched within the Bible. God's inspired, infalliable, and inerrant Word holds answers to scientific questions throughout. Besides creation, the Bible explains truths from the sciences of genetics, isotasy, agriculture, astronomy, paleontology anatomy, medicine, and many more! All of them thousands of years before man discovered them on their own.
The Bible tells us that we were created to give praise to our Heavenly Father. Once you realize that ... Read More
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So much of this book is moving, personal and witty. It includes a brilliant article by Michael Shermer www.michaelshermer.com about how God made it look like evolution happened in such a convincing way to test our faith. Daniel Dennett wrote about how an accident left him close to death (obviously, he recovered, thanks to a caring medical staff) and what this says about human goodness. Old and unexpected writers, such as Mark Twain and Omar Khayyam, are fascinating reading. These present facets of atheism ... Read More
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Christopher Hitchens is a formidable writer who has dared to enmesh himself in the business of religion and politics, and has plenty of polemic writings suited for criticisms or apologetics (depending on one's worldview,) but his choices for this anthology are priceless. Living in the heartland of the Bible Belt, I find it difficult to sport mixed company in my home and have this title on my bookshelf, but I will nonetheless do precisely that because far from betraying some "fundamentalism" of non-belief, ... Read More
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Just like the Bible can also be appreciated by non-believers, due to its impact on world history, it is not required to be an atheist to appreciate this anti-religious anthology.
First of all, what I liked about it was that it was actually of a less polemical nature than Hitchens' own writings. Sure, there are polemics in it, but there are also several more personal - vulnerable, if you will - accounts of struggles with belief and unbelief, such as the excerpt from Darwin's autobiography, or James ... Read More
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