The God Delusion -

Richard Dawkins

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

2006

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-13: 9780618680009

Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin s Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world. Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly.

Resenhas (2)

4 (Muito bom)

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion."

Dawkins analisa não somente a "The God hypotesis", mas também as raízes da religião, da moral, a influência da religião na educação das crianças, citando argumentos e experimentos interessantes como "the great prayer experiement". Muito bom.