re: #765 Mencius

My son has been complaining about the increasing number of guys he runs into who have turned into pompus a88holes after reading The God Delusion. Evidently C6 is a good example of the type. The arguments are all lifted from there.

There have been many such books written recently. Here is an (incomplete) list:

Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker

The End Of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation, both by Sam Harris

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer

God - The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist by Victor R. Stenger

Would you, if you had the power, mandate that all these books and their authors be burned? I don’t think that any believers secure in their faith would agree.