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Silver
05-12-2007, 09:09 PM
http://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446579807/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7030705-0627940?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179022022&sr=8-1

Saw this pimped on Bill Maher's show last night. Anyone read it yet? Opinions?

I've got it on order, but in this case I'm (metaphorically, of course) a member of the choir...
JRogers
05-12-2007, 11:10 PM
Yeah, I see how you might be a member of the choir, based on other threads, haha.

I've read a bit about it and saw him on the Daily Show. I think he's mostly a tool and his book is probably "not great." That's just me, though. :biggrin:
Silver
05-13-2007, 12:18 AM
He's also a drunk. Having said that, he is nothing if not an amazing writer (something which being a drunk seems to help with, actually.)

"The Missionary Position" should be what the dictionary definition of polemic points to...
stevew
05-13-2007, 01:53 AM
Outside of my relatives, he is my favorite drunk.
kidwoo
05-14-2007, 01:26 PM
Mine came with complimentary wine stains.


That really does sound a title one might come up with when a little drunk and sassy.
MikeD
05-14-2007, 02:08 PM
I do like Hitchens, but I always find him to be a little problematic. He's as full of crap sometimes as the people he attacks. But I like reading him, all the same.

Gonna skip this book, though. Sounds like he's just collected the obvious arguments about religion that any pissed-off high school kid in a trenchcoat would write in the back of his notebook during study hall. (Not that I'd know, of course.)
kidwoo
05-14-2007, 05:14 PM
Sounds like he's just collected the obvious arguments about religion that any pissed-off high school kid in a trenchcoat would write in the back of his notebook during study hall. (Not that I'd know, of course.)

Give me that back you fag!
Old Man G Funk
05-17-2007, 06:59 PM
Gonna skip this book, though. Sounds like he's just collected the obvious arguments about religion that any pissed-off high school kid in a trenchcoat would write in the back of his notebook during study hall. (Not that I'd know, of course.)

Are there any arguments for religion that aren't high school level though?