I finally picked up the book Saturday night. I’m on Chapter 5. So far it’s amazing. Then again what did I expect from a genius.
Here are three of my favorite quotes from the book.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
The book provides a good introduction to atheism and religious criticism. While most of it was not new or otherwise self-evident to me, Dawkins does provide some interesting and original material with regards to his ‘improbability argument’ (original as far as I can tell) and his discussion on religion as a form of child abuse. I think that the latter – criticizing how children are indoctrinated by their parents – might just be the next big taboo that we will have to break through. You can find some of my own efforts on my blog (see my conversation on religious indoctrination).
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I picked up the book awhile back, and I’ve found a lot of truth in it; frankly, more truth than I ever found in religion.
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I’m a bad atheist. I’ve never read anything by Dawkins. I really have to remedy that soon. It seems I’d agree with Dawkins, too. Because I firmly believe that indoctrinating a child into fairy tale beliefs, teaching them NOT to think… that’s definitely child abuse of a sort.
There’s no truth in religion. At least I can’t say that I’ve ever found any. 
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