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In reply to the discussion: Feisty entry into contentious field of atheist manifestos [View all]struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)9. It seems to include many now-familiar rhetorical themes and salutes others who advance them:
... The book is really two books .. the first of which sets out to demolish any faith you might have had ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9885308/Review-AC-Graylings-latest-attack-on-faith-is-smug-glib-and-lamentable.html
... by the second chapter, he is already .. making .. inevitable comparisons with tooth fairies and Father Christmas ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/17/god-argument-ac-grayling-review
... You surely do not believe that fairies paint the flowers while you are asleep, he says: why then imagine that you can catch a glimpse of divinity in the beauties of nature? If you are prepared to accept the existence of God without conclusive evidence, why not stand up for "green cheese beneath the surface of the moon" as well? ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/07/god-argument-humanism-grayling-review
... This seems to be an attempt to delegitimise all religious discourse. Atheism, Grayling writes, is to theism as not stamp-collecting is to stamp-collecting ...
http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/02/apocalypse-now
... it is full of arguments in one sense: what philosophers call ad hominem ones directed at religious apologists ...
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/the-god-argument-the-case-against-religion-and-for-humanism-by-ac-grayling/2002605.article
... These arguments have been rehearsed on many occasions, particularly by the likes of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, saluted in the introduction for their advancing of "the task" and "the cause" ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-god-argument-by-ac-grayling-8524807.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9885308/Review-AC-Graylings-latest-attack-on-faith-is-smug-glib-and-lamentable.html
... by the second chapter, he is already .. making .. inevitable comparisons with tooth fairies and Father Christmas ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/17/god-argument-ac-grayling-review
... You surely do not believe that fairies paint the flowers while you are asleep, he says: why then imagine that you can catch a glimpse of divinity in the beauties of nature? If you are prepared to accept the existence of God without conclusive evidence, why not stand up for "green cheese beneath the surface of the moon" as well? ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/07/god-argument-humanism-grayling-review
... This seems to be an attempt to delegitimise all religious discourse. Atheism, Grayling writes, is to theism as not stamp-collecting is to stamp-collecting ...
http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/02/apocalypse-now
... it is full of arguments in one sense: what philosophers call ad hominem ones directed at religious apologists ...
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/the-god-argument-the-case-against-religion-and-for-humanism-by-ac-grayling/2002605.article
... These arguments have been rehearsed on many occasions, particularly by the likes of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, saluted in the introduction for their advancing of "the task" and "the cause" ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-god-argument-by-ac-grayling-8524807.html
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It seems to include many now-familiar rhetorical themes and salutes others who advance them:
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#9
I already have stacks and stacks of stuff to read, stuff that actually challenges me
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#23
Exactly so. There's nothing inherent in atheism that lends itself to any particular
Joseph Ledger
Apr 2013
#10
He does seem to have lit a fuse with out local religiously inflicted cohorts.
Warren Stupidity
Apr 2013
#16
The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by AC Grayling – review
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#3
The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#4
contemporary physicists might be pretty embarrassed by the outmoded opinions of revered patriarchs?
dimbear
Apr 2013
#21
"In the regions of interplanetary space the density of the aether is therefore very great compared
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#24
"Newton believed that ancient Greek and Roman mythology contained hidden alchemical secrets"
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#25
The Principia was published when he was about 45, which is not generally regarded
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#29
Maxwell's demon isn't snide: it's a useful thermodynamic thought experiment
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#32
The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and For Humanism by A. C. Grayling
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#5
Review: AC Grayling's latest attack on faith is smug, glib and lamentable
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#7
And, in fact, some atheists are so full of faith in their atheism, that atheism might indeed
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#26