[Silver]

http://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446579807/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7030705-0627940?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179022022&sr=8-1

Saw this pimped on Bill Maher's show last night. Anyone read it yet? Opinions?

I've got it on order, but in this case I'm (metaphorically, of course) a member of the choir...

 

[JRogers]

Yeah, I see how you might be a member of the choir, based on other threads, haha.

I've read a bit about it and saw him on the Daily Show. I think he's mostly a tool and his book is probably "not great." That's just me, though. :biggrin:

 

[Silver]

He's also a drunk. Having said that, he is nothing if not an amazing writer (something which being a drunk seems to help with, actually.)

"The Missionary Position" should be what the dictionary definition of polemic points to...

 

[stevew]

Outside of my relatives, he is my favorite drunk.

 

[kidwoo]

Mine came with complimentary wine stains.


That really does sound a title one might come up with when a little drunk and sassy.

 

[MikeD]

I do like Hitchens, but I always find him to be a little problematic. He's as full of crap sometimes as the people he attacks. But I like reading him, all the same.

Gonna skip this book, though. Sounds like he's just collected the obvious arguments about religion that any pissed-off high school kid in a trenchcoat would write in the back of his notebook during study hall. (Not that I'd know, of course.)

 

[kidwoo]

Sounds like he's just collected the obvious arguments about religion that any pissed-off high school kid in a trenchcoat would write in the back of his notebook during study hall. (Not that I'd know, of course.)

Give me that back you fag!

 

[Old Man G Funk]

Gonna skip this book, though. Sounds like he's just collected the obvious arguments about religion that any pissed-off high school kid in a trenchcoat would write in the back of his notebook during study hall. (Not that I'd know, of course.)

Are there any arguments for religion that aren't high school level though?