Where Is Your God?

The God Delusion

Posted by Brandon On November - 10 - 2008

Today is just a quick post on a very renowned book from Richard Dawkins. I’m sure both atheists and Christians alike have heard of The God Delusion.

It is a wonderful book and I recommend it to anyone religious or not. The book was made to go into more detail, topics that were raised in Dawkins “The Root of All Evil?” a documentary which I also highly recommend and is broken into two parts: “The God Delusion” and “The Virus of Faith”.

Dawkins writes that The God Delusion contains four “consciousness-raising” messages:

Atheists can be happy, balanced, moral, and intellectually fulfilled.
Natural Selection and similar scientific theories are superior to a “God hypothesis” — the illusion of intelligent design — in explaining the living world and the cosmos.
Children should not be labelled by their parents’ religion. Terms like “Catholic child” or “Muslim child” should make people flinch.
Atheists should be proud, not apologetic, because atheism is evidence of a healthy, independent mind.

This book is quite a bit more personal with me. My next article will be about my transformation into atheism but suffice to say that this is the book that took me from a frightened agnostic to an unapologetic atheist and is so well written and put together that I wish more fledgling agnostics read it to commit themselves fully to atheism.

That’s it for now, be ready for my next article “A Reasonable Transformation” where I discuss my change from Christian to agnostic and then finally to atheist and all the inner turmoil and fear that went along with it. And be sure to check out The God Delusion (The book) as well as the “The Root of All Evil?” documentary.