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George H. Smith õ 6 Summary Free read ´ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB õ George H. Smith Review í Atheism The Case Against God 106 Does a god exist This uestion has undoubtedly been asked in one form or another since man has had the ability to communicate Thousands of volumes have been written on the subject of a god and the vast majority have answered the uestions with a resounding 'Yes' You are about to read a minority viewpointWith this intriguing introduction George H Smith sets out to demolish what he considers. This book is a mindfuck and a halfHaving gotten that out of the way let me explain why You know how LEGO toys have these convenient age rangessuggestions on their boxes This book should most definitely have an I sticker on it saying 120 or above You see I used to consider myself a bright guy I did Not an intellectual by any stretch of the imagination but let s say nine times out of ten I could tell clay and toffee apart But this book was meant for a far educated or to put it in simple terms SMARTER reader than me When I picked it up I was under the wrong impression that this will be something like the Zeitgeist movie only without the bullshit I though it would be this entertaining little book debunking the Bible and Christianity concentrating on the flawed facts or lack thereof in The Book You know the fun stuff like a 600 year old man building an ark a talking serpent the immaculate conception and so on The hits so to speak Nope The literal content of the Bible was hardly even touched on in this book instead it dug into the roots of Christianity A very philosophical book that I was completely unprepared for I never even read a Philosophy for Dummies for starters not to mention a real philosophical book up to this point in my life The arguments presented in this book were so well crafted and perfectly worded that I had to hold this book in one hand and a dictionary in the other Moreover I caught myself re reading many paragraphs and passages over and over again to understand at least the gist of it On several occasions I had to stop reading altogether for a minute or two to give my Pentium III of a head time to process the information I was ambushed withSeveral years down the road when I am no longer a manchild I will be sure to take another shot a this book because after reading it this first time I feel like I took away only a fraction of it s content First though me getz me some BRAINZ

George H. Smith õ 6 Summary Free read ´ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB õ George H. Smith Review í Atheism The Case Against God 106 The most widespread and destructive of all the myths devised by man the concept of a supreme being With painstaking scholarship and rigorous arguments Mr Smith examines dissects and refutes the myriad proofs offered by theists the defenses of sophisticated professional theologians as well as the average religious layman He explores the historical and psychological havoc wrought by religio. More than 30 years before Dawkins penned his own bestseller Atheism The Case Against God was first published and went on to become one of the biggest selling atheist books of the twentieth century uite right too as this excellent critiue of theism is a magnificent testament to the power of logic It s somewhat surprising to learn that author George H Smith was still in his early 20s when he wrote it Concentrating on the philosophical arguments against God s existence the deep intellectual passion on display here is wonderful Meticulously cutting through all the theological double talk with his fine scalpel of a mind Smith exposes the glaring contradictions and absurdities of theism and in so doing makes the single most convincing case for atheism I ve yet read From the outset Smith explains that if a person is not a theist then they are an atheist Agnosticism simply refers to the unknowability of a god and is a separate matter that can co exist with either position His pursuit of and for reason is relentless This is no bandwagon book of smug posturing and pithy retorts Smith makes a real effort to present the best arguments of his opponents often exhaustively so before proceeding to dismantle each one with devastating precision While I found myself uestioning his train of thought on a couple of points the book is nevertheless hugely and enjoyably successful in what it sets out to do More philosophically in depth than many of the recent crop of atheist titles I really think this one deserves much wider recognition today than it currently receives Mythical Monsters uite right too as this excellent critiue of theism is a magnificent testament to the power of logic It s somewhat surprising to learn that author George H Smith was still in his early 20s when he wrote it Concentrating on the philosophical arguments against God s existence the deep intellectual passion on display here is wonderful Meticulously cutting through all the theological double talk with his fine scalpel of a mind Smith exposes the glaring contradictions and absurdities of theism and in so doing makes the single most convincing case for atheism I ve yet read From the outset Smith explains that if a person is not a theist then they are an atheist Agnosticism simply refers to the Lauter schwierige Patienten unknowability of a god and is a separate matter that can co exist with either position His pursuit of and for reason is relentless This is no bandwagon book of smug posturing and pithy retorts Smith makes a real effort to present the best arguments of his opponents often exhaustively so before proceeding to dismantle each one with devastating precision While I found myself Fracture Management for the Small Animal Practitioner uestioning his train of thought on a couple of points the book is nevertheless hugely and enjoyably successful in what it sets out to do More philosophically in depth than many of the recent crop of atheist titles I really think this one deserves much wider recognition today than it currently receives

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George H. Smith õ 6 Summary Free read ´ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB õ George H. Smith Review í Atheism The Case Against God 106 N in general and concludes that religious belief cannot have any place in the life of modern rational manIt is not my purpose to convert people to atheism but to demonstrate that the belief in God is irrational to the point of absurdity If a person wishes to continue believing in a god that is his prerogative but he can no longer excuse his belief in the name of reason and moral necessity. George H Smith s Atheism The Case Against God purports to be a book showing the irrationality of Theism Full of critical arguments some of which are valid it seems to be a very scholarly text to be taken seriously There is one major flaw however for anyone who has even the most basic philosophical training Smith claims that Atheism is not the absence of belief in God plus certain positive beliefs atheism is the absence of belief in God If we can show theism to be unsupported false or nonsensical then we have simultaneously established the validity of atheism pg 18 For Smith a positive beliefclaim is an assertion which one claims to be true pg 15 He also claims that the most prominent form of atheism Critical Atheism contends that the belief in god is irrational and should therefore be rejected pg 17 So in order for Smith to even make the claim that Atheism has no positive beliefs or that theism is irrational he has to admit that these are truth claims positive beliefs For anyone that can see the contradiction you ll notice then that Smith undermines the entire thesis of his work And that s the book in a nutshell