Can the R&S misotheists (atheists) recommend any books to "enlighten me"?

Question

I am reading Dawkins right now, but he is dated... but, in general, I am sure I have read more books than misotheist's ancestors have burned.

I read a lot of case books and horn books.

Ideas? (I'll give you a second to look up misotheism.)

poseidon: school? You mean like Law school?

Answer 1

I wouldn't call all atheists misotheists, but Dawkins certainly is.

Answer 2

I'll look up the word in a minute but I'm reading a Dawkin's book right now. Dated, as far as I know, means old and I really don't see why an older person writing a book makes the book unrealistic. Actually, I would think an older person has put more time and thought into the subject.
The book I like the most is 'The Jesus Mysteries' but if your going to read it with a closed mind, the reasoning in it will pass you by.
(IE-a ques I saw previously asked about a verse in Matthew that says a few things happened after Jesus' death, part of which was an earthquake and the dead rose from their grave and walked into 'the nearest holy city'. There was a response from a person that gave a long answer, explaining that the original word for 'rose' in Greek was blah, blah, blah and it could have been the same as saying the body of the deceased was thrown out of his grave during a violent earthquake. Almost made sense since the verse does include an earthquake but, despite his study into the subject, he completely skipped over the part OF THE SENTENCE where they walk into the nearest holy city...If you don't get it, whenever you read something with an already formed opinion, yoiur mind will probabvly play tricks on you)
Edit: Misotheist-lol I get it and gotta agree with the others-you can't hate what doesn't exist :-)
Oh, and the burning thing-Other than the church, I believe the only incidents involving book burning were for political reasons (IE-Hitler, Stalin (?))

Answer 3

misotheism? are you serious? how can you hate something that you do not believe exists? Do you believe unicorns exist? Do you hate them knowing that they do not exist? Would that make you a misounicornist?

Just when you think that there couldn't possibly be any other "holier than thou" people on Y!A who are worse than the previous.... some @sshole rears his ugly head and proves you wrong. Congratulations, you've won the douchebag of the week award.

Answer 4

Misotheism and atheism are not the same thing, by any stretch of the imagination.

We atheists cannot "hate" something that doesn't even exist -- that would just be psychotic.

Answer 5

Read anything and everything. Atheism isn't a claim of enlightenment, and neither is it a 'hatred' of 'gods.' How can one hate something one has no belief in? Why do you seek to redefine something for the sake of a strawman argument?


Try studying science if you want something other than superstition.

Answer 6

The belief in 'god' is a personal thing and I for one will not try to push my beliefs and I suggest you go back to your knees and stop trying to rile people like this

Answer 7

Who cares what an atheist would recommend.
To get enlightened, do this:

Create Your Relationship with Our Creator
and have UnConditional Love and Peace in Your Life.

Answer 8

I don't need to look it up. I already know what "misogyny" means, and it's the same prefix. "Miso" means "hatred."

So it looks to me as if you're just trying to bait nonbelievers. If you weren't, you'd realize that nonbelievers don't hate something that they don't even believe in.

Oh, by the way, we don't burn books. People afraid of knowledge and new ideas do that. You know, religious nuts.

Answer 9

As a deist, I recommend the Gospel of Mary Magdalen.

Answer 10

Considering you do not know the difference between hatred of something and disbelief in something:

No.

Save your money. You may read but I doubt that you bother to comprehend.