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The Deluded Atheist: A Response To Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion (2008)

by Douglas Wilson(Favorite Author)

3.09 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0915815591 (ISBN13: 9780915815593)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

The American Vision, Inc

review 1: The worst part of this is just how damned pleased-with-himself he is. The grin that he had on his face whilst writing is palpable even now, as he gleefully spews out his jokes. I can almost hear him high-fiving himself in the background. That wouldn't be so bad, but I am about a third of the way through this and have yet anything to find anything satisfying me as being a functional argument. Wilson keeps bringing up things that Dawkins said, and then in place of a rebuttal, veers off wildly into irrelevancy.This is deeply disappointing - but it's so short I'm going to persist.
review 2: This is Doug WIlson's response to RIchard Dawkin's "The God Delusion". As in his other books responding to the New Atheists ("Letter from a Christian Citizen" and "God Is"), thi... mores book is well written for indeed WIlson's advocacy for a Christian Classical education bleeds over in how he writes. Though it is a short work, I find Wilson's work hard hitting and does pose serious challenges to Dawkin's atheism. Readers will find Wilson engaging with Wilson's insights, ability to point out the flaws in Dawkin's worldview and even humor! Having read Dawkin's "The God Delusion" and taken notes from it, I found Wilson was still able to point out something I miss of the irony of one of Dawkin's chapter on teaching theism as child abuse, and the chapter's opening introduction of the emotional story of a Jewish child baptized and then taken away to be raised Catholic during the middle Age in Europe. Ironically, Dawkins wish to do the same with taking away a child from the parents of those who bring them according to faith! Though overall it was a good book, the ending of the book was rather strange and perhaps it has something to do with his Federal Vision seeping in: Wilson speculates that Dawkin's Anglican infant baptism has probably an effect on him today. Coming from a Reformed Baptist mindset it seem rather odd and while Wilson states that that doesn't mean necessarily Dawkins was going to heaven, Wilson didn't deny that the atheist Dawkins at his current state was going to hell either. less

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