Review of THE GOD DELUSION


	Review of THE GOD DELUSION

sl0wdjin

6-10-2007 8:39 PM

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6-14-2007 9:17 PM

AcesLucky

"...'when asked whether I am an atheist to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon-Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.'..."

But...but...my god is real...the others aren't. Can't you see that?

Heh, heh.

6-14-2007 10:02 PM

sl0wdjin

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. -- Henny Youngman

Katha Pollitt, an unabashedly liberal columnist for The Nation who says she is listed in the "Who's Who in Hell," admits she used to feel more strongly about arguing against religion than she does today.
"I'm anticlerical, not antireligion," she says. "If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers."
Or, as Tom Eisner, a neurobiologi...
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