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Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off The Godless (2012)

by Greta Christina(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

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History & Biography

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Dirty Heathen Publishing

review 1: This is a terrible book. Written in the style that is much more suited to ranty blog posts and responses to commenters, the entire book belongs on the internet, not in print. I identify as both a feminist and an atheist, but this is the sort of ranty feminist manifesto that makes me wish I was neither. The author is clearly intelligent, but the entire book comes off as petty and pointless. I suspect that the first chapter, in which the author lays out 99 reasons why she's pissed off, is the original blog post. Each of the chapters that follow strike me as responses she has developed in arguments on and offline. I didn't find many pearls of wisdom in this book, and I wouldn't recommend this to either atheists or those who are curious about why atheists feel the way they do.... more She certainly doesn't speak to me, and there are much more well-reasoned books out there.
review 2: Not a lot new on the Atheist front from Greta Christina, although apparently it is at least OK to be pissed off, which is comforting. She does encourage the godless to take a more militant stance, but I'm left with the nagging sense that a long list of grievances against religious injustice is the easy way out of the argument. The hard question and the one atheists and believers both need to figure out is why do people believe in the seemingly unreasonable? I love reason, but reason tells me that I'm missing something as to why the believer's blinders choose to limit the data. Believers work from a premise of evidence based on their subjective experience, rather than the objective. This is why belief so often fails the classic you can swing your fist as long as it doesn't hit my nose, because belief in a flawed subjective reality tends to hit on our collective objective real world and that pisses off Greta, along with the rest of us. less

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