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[LabTech Deusy]

Okay, so I do need a tiny bit of help can any of you recomend and good books on Atheism, I have one so far its by Richard Dawkins but I need to write a very lenthy paper on Atheism for my English Class and any other books would be of great value.

I will mainly be talking about Hard and Soft Atheism to narrow the over all subject down (and I dont know how to put "Christianity" in it since its for a Christian School, something I will figuer out in due time.)
*Note: I didnt think this would be a Q &A I hope I am not wrong.

 

[Baron von Turkeypants]

You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue; you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb...

The Stranger

...and all the dead will know: this is Hector, fool who thought he killed Achilles.

 

[AnonymouZ]

"2000 years of disbelief." Is another one that comes to mind. It's just quotes... but some intros ... and the quotes themselves are pretty freaking good.  

[LabTech Deusy]

Thank you and Thank you, I do see the Lit. thread so I am going to look at that but any other's that come to mind please let me know. Another thing are there any books on Occam's Razor?

 

[Baron von Turkeypants]

You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue; you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb...

Contact by Carl Sagan refers to Occam's Razor frequently.

...and all the dead will know: this is Hector, fool who thought he killed Achilles.

 

[LabTech Deusy]

Okay good, I read Stranger the ending was mehish and it made Atheist's look like jerks. But over all it was a good book.

 

[Baron von Turkeypants]

Deus Vivit

Okay good, I read Stranger the ending was mehish and it made Atheist's look like jerks. But over all it was a good book.

You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue; you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb...

Wow, someone shares my viewpoint! heart

...and all the dead will know: this is Hector, fool who thought he killed Achilles.

 

[LabTech Deusy]

Baron von Turkeypants

Deus Vivit

Okay good, I read Stranger the ending was mehish and it made Atheist's look like jerks. But over all it was a good book.

You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue; you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb...

Wow, someone shares my viewpoint! heart

...and all the dead will know: this is Hector, fool who thought he killed Achilles.

Ooo, glad I am not alone on that. I just picked up the book Contact so I will read that one. I got another one by Dawkins and others. Does any one know of a non-fiction one on Occam's Razor? I found a fiction one but no luck with a non-fiction.

 

[Theophrastus]

The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation come highly recommended. I've not read them, but from what I know they may not be 100% directly related to your inquest, but are rather short and regarded as easily digestible.

Hope that helps.  

[ProjectOmicron88]

I read a bit of The God Delusion over the past month or so, and although it showed me a lot about thinking outside the box in philosophical debate, a lot of it dealt with things I was already familiar with. Granted, the book was addressing the religious individual with doubts on faith, and not the atheist who already knows most of what Dawkins talks about, but I thought I'd check it out anyway. I didn't bother to finish it for the reason above, but don't let that stop any of you.  

[Baron von Turkeypants]

You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue; you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb...

There's an awesome part in the God Delusion (near the end?) about a woman who, as a child, had frequent hallucinations about a purple man. I suggest at least getting to that.

...and all the dead will know: this is Hector, fool who thought he killed Achilles.

 

[_C r y s t a l_RB]

Baron von Turkeypants

You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue; you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb...

There's an awesome part in the God Delusion (near the end?) about a woman who, as a child, had frequent hallucinations about a purple man. I suggest at least getting to that.

...and all the dead will know: this is Hector, fool who thought he killed Achilles.

I had hallucinations of a man in my bedroom pointing two guns at me. Just like Dawkins said in his book. The mind is a powerful thing, and it can see things that aren't really there. So if you want to see ghosts and god, your mind can provide that for you. I didn't believe it, until my meds starting acting up a few weeks ago and I'd see something that wasn't really there almost nightly.