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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-08 09:07 AM
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Xian "writers" should thank their non-existent god for us...
Edited on Mon Dec-08-08 09:09 AM by onager
I was just browsing the Books-A-Million website. In a few days I'm leaving Egypt for 2 weeks to visit my mother/relatives in South Carolina, so I wanted to check out what's available. Books-A-Million has several stores in the area.

Naturally I entered "atheism" in the Search engine, then "dawkins."

Great googly-moogly!

The Dawkins Delusion? : Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (Hardcover) by Alister E. McGrath, Joanna Collicutt Mcgrath

The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail : The Misguided Quest to Destroy Your Faith (Hardcover) by Becky Garrison

The Delusion of Disbelief : Why the New Atheism Is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness (Hardcover) by David Aikman

The Devil's Delusion : Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions (Hardcover) by David Berlinski

The Truth Behind the New Atheism : Responding to the Emerging Challenges to God and Christianity (Paperback) by David Marshall

God is No Delusion : A Refutation of Richard Dawkins (Paperback) by Thomas Crean

God and the New Atheism : A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens (Paperback) by John F. Haught

Why Monkeys Are Monkeys and People Are People : The Case Against Dawkins, Hitchens and Hawking (Hardcover) by John Schroeder, Ph. D. E. R. Healan

Nothing : A View Through the Eyes of the Dead: Debating Dawkins' and McGrath's Delusion (Hardcover) by Dr Imad Hassan

Why There Almost Certainly Is a God : Doubting Dawkins (Paperback) by Keith Ward

Atheism Is False : Richard Dawkins and the Improbability of God Delusion (Paperback) by David Reuben Stone

The God Reality : A Critique of Richard Dawkins the God Delusion (Paperback) by Robert Slane

Answering the New Atheism : Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God (Paperback) by Scott Hahn, Benjamin Wiker

The Irrational Atheist : Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens (Hardcover) by Vox Day
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-08 12:51 PM
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1. The human race is doomed
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-08 01:06 PM
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2. You see books. I see tantrums. -nt
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-08 01:20 PM
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3. And vanity publishing, I suspect n/t
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cosmik debris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-08 01:21 PM
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4. It's sad, but I am actually tempted to read some of those.
Especially Why Monkeys Are Monkeys and People Are People.

That's got to be hilarious.
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-08 06:48 PM
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8. It's hugh!
The Books-a-Million blurb says:

Schroeder puts evolutionary research in layman's terms to prove, once and forall, that Darwinism is no more than human suppositions.

Biologists must be feeling pretty silly right now!
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cosmik debris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-08 07:47 PM
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9. No Kidding!
Can you imagine basing a belief on suppositions? That could really blow up in your face, couldn't it?
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Evoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-08 12:38 AM
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12. Heh...I'd be more impressed if Shroeder put evolutionary research in technical terms to prove
once and for all, that Darwinism is no more than human supposition.

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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-08 06:21 AM
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13. That's worked so well for the Discovery Institute, hasn't it?
Juvenile that I am, I want to refer to Shroeder's "suppository beliefs", but that's 180 degrees wrong.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-08 03:47 PM
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5. "The Misguided Quest to Destroy Your Faith"
That shit always killed me. If your faith is so strong, how am I a threat to it? Kind of like worrying about gay men making me gay. When you are back, see if you can see Bill Maher's "Religulous". It is pretty good.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-08 04:01 PM
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6. Somewhere, someone has just finished that book and is thinking...
..."Wow, that really made perfect sense!"

It's very sad.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-08 04:19 PM
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7. Very sad, for sure...
don't they know that we are too busy waging war on christmas and straight marraige to be worried about destroying their faith :)
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-08 08:42 AM
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16. Priorities!
It IS the holidays....

we can get back to destroying their faith
after New Year's.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-08 09:27 AM
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17. I am in the babble belt...
the war on christmas is extremely rough. I need at least a months R&R before engage on the Fight Against Faith :) Seriously, though, I was taking a smoke break with one of the women in the office, and I started talking about other religions who used the Jesus theme long before christianity arrived on the scene. I swear, she acted like lightning was gonna come out of the sky and strike her just for listening to me. It was quite amusing to me, but then, I am sick that way.
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 10:51 PM
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10. What the hell is the "new atheism"?
I haven't signed up for any "new" atheism...

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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-08 12:11 AM
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11. The new atheism
is made up of us militant type who are waging the war on Christmas. Come, join us. We have good cookies :)
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-08 07:21 AM
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15. Doubt/Atheism has been around for as long as religion....
The Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus, along with others questioned the existence of the gawd(s). Evolution was also first brought up by the ancient Greeks, Darwin was not the first..
http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/evolutio.htm

There is no 'new' atheism, it has not changed or had been recently hatched.
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-08 07:11 AM
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14. Those people are all hacks...
They have no bases for an argument, because they have ZERO evidence to support their claims.

They can write all the books they want, but without evidence, they ain't got jack.

gawd is just pretend and 'faith' proves absolutely nothing.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-08 09:29 AM
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18. Faith does prove on thing...
the lack of intellectual curiosity of the person having it.
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Synnical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-08 12:42 AM
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19. Touche! n/t
-Cindy
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