so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

**_Zenith_** · 03-7-2015, 06:11 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

rip chooftano

**lurker** · 03-7-2015, 06:19 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

dude i'm so sorry

**V-Ormix** · 03-7-2015, 08:37 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

is it at least 2 out of 5 jesuses

**qqwref** · 03-7-2015, 09:37 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

"The God Delusion" anagrams to "Oh, Unedited Slog", "Holiest Dudgeon", and "Dongle Hideouts".

**Reincarnate** · 03-7-2015, 09:44 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

**Cold Kitten** · 03-7-2015, 09:46 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

Originally posted by qqwref

"Dongle Hideouts".

no i'm pretty sure this is the actual title right???

**Kagome** · 03-7-2015, 09:56 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

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**Arch0wl** · 03-7-2015, 10:11 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

I realize it's cool now to act jaded by people who make or have made a big deal out of atheism, but he's not wrong in any meaningful about anything he wrote in the book, and it was a much more necessary thing to say when he wrote it.

Whether it's a good read is up to you I guess, but disillusionment with atheism/agnosticism as an identity or demographic of people on the internet doesn't make the positions he's opposing more reasonable, or his arguments less sound.

What he wrote *should be* a collection of obvious inferences from a comprehensive understanding of general science, but that was not at all the case when he wrote it, and it's probably not going to be the case for a long time even though people with inane metaphysical beliefs don't dogmatically express them in public like they used to.

**qqwref** · 03-7-2015, 10:22 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

It's a good point. As much as the arguments in books like that may seem obvious and ever-present nowadays, someone did originally have to bring them to the general public, and cogently defend them in various speeches and interviews. I think there are significantly more atheists around now - at least in the US - than there were in 2006.

**Reincarnate** · 03-7-2015, 10:32 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

Reminds me of http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...nfeldIsUnfunny

**choof** · 03-7-2015, 10:35 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

Originally posted by Arch0wl

I realize it's cool now to act jaded by people who make or have made a big deal out of atheism, but he's not wrong in any meaningful about anything he wrote in the book, and it was a much more necessary thing to say when he wrote it.

Whether it's a good read is up to you I guess, but disillusionment with atheism/agnosticism as an identity or demographic of people on the internet doesn't make the positions he's opposing more reasonable, or his arguments less sound.

What he wrote *should be* a collection of obvious inferences from a comprehensive understanding of general science, but that was not at all the case when he wrote it, and it's probably not going to be the case for a long time even though people with inane metaphysical beliefs don't dogmatically express them in public like they used to.

I wouldn't say I'm jaded; I agree with nearly everything he says in the book, but I don't agree with how it's presented
his writing style just comes off as high-and-mighty, it's almost as if he was in a perpetual state of offense when writing this book and he makes it a point to iterate over and over just how toxic religion/belief in a higher power is

I get that, yeah religion is pretty awful, yeah believing in a higher power is kinda dumb, but there's gotta be a way to portray that without a scathing attitude

**choof** · 03-7-2015, 10:37 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

it's not an awful read, it's an insufferable read

**Reincarnate** · 03-7-2015, 10:45 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

Originally posted by choof

I get that, yeah religion is pretty awful, yeah believing in a higher power is kinda dumb, but there's gotta be a way to portray that without a scathing attitude

**choof** · 03-7-2015, 10:50 PM

Re: so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

yee

so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

so I finally cracked open Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

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