Atheists which one of these books do you consider better?

Question

1)"the God Delusion"
2)"Letter to a Christian Nation"

for Maggie E. Bang the author of "a Letter to a Christian Nation" is Sam Harris

Answer 1

Hmmmm... hard call...

For christians... #2
For beginning atheists #1

My fav is "Like Rolling Uphill: The Honesty of Atheism" it's a good book for everyone.

Answer 2

1

Answer 3

Professor Antony Flew the former atheist (30+ years of speaking as an atheist) that had debated men such as C.S. Lewis recently said that the latest biological research "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved." and has said that Dawkins has yet to come up with a workable theory for the creation of life... so why would you want to read his book? He is a deist and not a Christian but atleast he is looking! C.S. Lewis, Alister MacGrath and Lee Stroebel were all atheists too until they started looking at the evidence. Prof. Flew is still looking hopefully!

The Dawkins Delusion by Alister McGrath is one I would recommend.

Regarding Richard Dawkins Alister McGrath states:
“Such is Dawkins’s unruffled scientific impartiality that in a book of almost four hundred pages, he can scarcely bring himself to concede that a single human benefit has flowed from religious faith, a view which is as a priori improbable as it is empirically false.”
"Atheism must indeed be in a sorry state if its leading contemporary defender has to depend so heavily – and so obviously – on the improbable and the false to bolster his case."

There is a debate with Alister Macgrath and Dawkins you can listen to on http://www.rzim.org/resources/

So given that 1 is obviously prejudiced and untenable then I pick 2.

Answer 4

You know, I actually went and got me a copy of "The God Delusion", just to see if he had anything real to say.
He didn't.
You can hear all the same guff right here, on our own beloved R&S, from atheists every single day.
My guess is, if it weren't for the controversial subject matter, the book would have fallen flat on it's face. It's trite, it's repetitive, and it's boring.

I know you weren't interested in hearing a Christian's pov, but, as you guys keep pointing out to us, this is an open forum.

Answer 5

I really hope to read the God Delusion.
I am borrowing it from a friend soon, reading it... and buying it if I like it.

Letter to a Christian Nation... Who is the author of that? I'm interested...

This answer isn't much of an answer... my apologies.
But to be fair, I'm also not an Athiest. I'm a Satanist (as in Church of Satan... not devil-worship o_0... I've gotten a lot of e-mails concerning "devil worship" lately. -_-)

Answer 6

haven't read either of them, you're probably better to ask people on the fence than atheists anyway.

'Antony Flew' the 'former atheist' - why is it that these phrases always go together? one might think that flew is the only living former atheist. now flew says he is a deist - hardly a ringing endorsement of theism.

Answer 7

"The God Delusion" is the only one out of the two that I've read, so if I were to voice my answer in that direction it would be purely out of bias.

Answer 8

I like the book "The Best of the Family Guy"

Answer 9

I only read Dawkin's book, but I thought it was very cogent and well-written.

Answer 10

Bleah, neither... and yes, I'm essentially atheist as a Buddhist.

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