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The God Solution – Chapter 8 – Why not rid ourselves of religion, politics and economics?

Just a reminder about The God Solution Promotion that is going on until the end of this series (until July 21 2013). Make sure you tweet your comments and feedback as soon as possible! So… Dawkins has been going on and on about how religion has been so bad and that it should be abolished […]

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Reminder about The God Solution Promotion!

Folks, Just a reminder about The God Solution promotion. The best comment, critique or response to the content from The God Solution will win a $10 gift card to the online book seller of your choice! So get commenting! I’m including my original post about this below for reference: Over the next few posts, I’ll […]

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The God Solution – Chapter 7 – The slippery slope of abortion

In chapter 8, Dawkins talks about abortion. He makes a couple of startling claims. First, he argues that religion is bad because a select few fundamentalists kill abortion doctors, and then he goes on to argue support for abortion because fetuses aren’t really human anyways. Dawkins’ logic is seriously flawed in this chapter. There are […]

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The God Solution – Chapter 6 – The problem with fundamentalism

We’re all fundamentalists in some way. I find it quite contradictory that Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and the like criticize others for being fundamentalists when they themselves are so adamant about their atheistic worldviews. Dawkins spends a fair amount of time criticizing the extremist views of some religious people. He talks about Christians […]

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The God Solution – Chapter 5 – The Historical Jesus

“Where is God in our world?” is the question that atheists often ask. To many, God does appear to be absent. Miracles don’t happen to the poor, to the oppressed, to those that lose children or loved ones. God does appear to be missing from the lives of those that are down and out. But […]