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2000 Years of Disbelief
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The jacket copy describes this work "as a powerful weapon against religious conformists, dogmatists, and others who would roll back the clock on the teaching of evolution and who are working to tear down the wall of separation between church and state." This agenda does not bode well for any sense of balance or objectivity in presentation. In fact, author James Haught has penned a shallow reference work in lieu of engaging and refuting the positions of those with whom he disagrees. "The purpose of this book is to assure thinking people that they needn't apologize if they can't believe mystical claims. They are in the company of giants." By presenting "renowned people, past and present, who have challenged religion," he seems to imply that doubt of the supernatural is a credible position simply because many famous people have done so.
Chapters present short biographical introductions to a number of famous philosophers, literary figures, historians, politicians, and artists (e.g., Locke, Shakespeare, Gibbon, Jefferson, Bertrand Russell), focusing more on their detractors and the problems these individuals encountered as a result of their disbelief rather than articulating their views and placing them in their historical context. A black-and-white portrait is provided for each person. The biographical sketch is followed by a selection of quotations from the person. However, passages from an individual's writings, taken in isolation and, thus, out of context, cannot give an accurate account of the person's thought on a subject. Haught also fails to supply complete bibliographic information for the works from which the quotations are drawn. A far better source is The Encyclopedia of Unbelief (Prometheus, 1986). While sharing the same doubts about religious belief as Haught's work, it nevertheless remains both balanced and scholarly in its presentation.
In discussing the advance of Western civilization, Haught claims, "Much of the progress was impelled by men and women who didn't pray, didn't kneel at altars, didn't make pilgrimages, didn't recite creeds." His view, with its implicit disdain for people of faith, ignores the role religion has played in the development of the positive aspects of Western culture. Haught could have authored a work that presented the contributions of the nonreligious to the Western intellectual tradition. This work is vitriol, masquerading as a collection of antireligious quotations. Not recommended.
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Society rarely acknowledges the many and varied gifts that disbelievers give to the world. Churchmen generally contend that great figures in history, such as America's founders, were conventional believers. That isn't true, and this insightful, witty collection sets the record straight! This collection chronicles dozens of famous people such as Isaac Asimov, W E B DuBois, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Omar Khayyam, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, John Stuart Mill, Ayn Rand, Gene Roddenberry, Margaret Sanger, George Bernard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Voltaire, with many quotes that reveal their rejection of the supernatural.
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I love this book! This is a book to be read slowly, like a delicious ice cream. I have great admiration for those men who riskied their lives to confront the power of the ignorance, stupidity and wrath of religion. The human beings who like to think, those who have their own opinions, who think for themselves, instead of repeating old ridiculous stories as if they were true, should like this book. I admire immensely all those men described here. The quotes are witty, scornful, intelligent. The humanity should never forget those heroes of the past, who tried to free the minds and bodies of men from the claws of religion and supertition. Go running and get your copy. If you are free to think, you will enjoy it!
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The perfect place for the budding atheist to start his library. It gives fuel to the atheist debater on the quotes of many of history's most prominent figures in the world of free-thought: Voltaire, Paine, Ingersoll, Russell, Sartre, Einstein, Sagan, and many, many others. I HIGHLY recommend this book as a tool for the atheist in constant debate with the crazies of the world.
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This book is very good. It is chronologically ordered, so that one can read what various freethinkers throughout history thought of religion, often at the threat of social disdain (at the very least) or death. Although a great many ancient minds thought the Earth was flat and posessed by various gods of a Draconian religion, there were those precious few that were surprisingly ahead of their time. This book chronicles this nicely.
Even theists that have the slightest bit of doubt will enjoy this book, perhaps unwittingly. There are some great minds listed throughout such as: Voltaire, Copernicus, Magellan, Einstein, Freud, Mark Twain, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Darwin, Ayn Rand, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison, and lots more.
Also littered throughout the book are various snippets of historic events, such as atheists who were murdered for their beliefs. Makes one realize how serious people were and are about their pet mythologies.
This book is a must have for the atheist seeking some fun arguments by authority or for the theist who is impressed by such. In any event, it is VERY insightful!
Dan The Burke
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Good book, on great people, but so what?
I enjoyed this book, it was well written and picked some of the great atheists of the last 2000 years - though there were some major omissions. But I ask who cares? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. April 2000 veröffentlicht
An interesting reference work
The Booklist review suggests this book lacks "balance" because it doesn't offer the "positive aspects of Western culture" wrought by religion. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Januar 1999 von William J. Stanley
The Ultimate in Freedom : The Liberation of the Mind
Sir Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." In terms of being able to think freely and hold an honest opinion without... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
An intellectually stimulating review
It is perhaps more important to critique the author of the Booklist review who states that Haught "seems to imply that doubt of the supernatural is a credible position... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. September 1998 von hummer@cablelan.net
This was one of the most enlightening books I've read.
2000 years of disbelief is a brilliant compilation of the many voices in our history who spoke the truth as they saw it and risked much in the task. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. September 1998 veröffentlicht
reasonable people at one with the great human minds
Those who'd like to challenge the founding fathers as to religion, - maintaining that they were Christians , would do well to read this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
An excellent start...
While it is quite true that Haught's book does not present a formal refutation of the main tenets of organized religion, it does provide an excellent sampling of the theistic,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
What Great Unbelievers Have Thought and Said
Sir Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." In terms of being able to think freely and hold an honest opinion without... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Januar 1998 veröffentlicht
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