- Gebundene Ausgabe: 330 Seiten
- Verlag: Prometheus Books (20. Juni 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1591020808
- ISBN-13: 978-1591020806
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,4 x 16,2 x 2,2 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.240.880 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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""We non-believers have been taking it lying down, and what this country needs is a good hot religious war, with the pen, not the sword."
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This book takes a controversial look at religion and its components, claiming that it lacks any credible evidence of existence, while calling for a wider presence of rationality and atheism.
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Militant; then again, the truth is the truth.
6. Oktober 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
S. T. Joshi is in true militant form in his new book. In the introduction, Joshi avers that religion persists in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence for one simple reason: "People are stupid" (12). The rest of the book appears to be an extended commentary on that point, taking to task a whole slew of figures the popularity of whose ideas on religion presumably can only be accounted for by human stupidity. The range Joshi covers is sweeping: William James, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, William F. Buckley Jr., Stephen L. Carter, Jerry Falwell, Reynolds Price, Anne Dillard, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Neale Donald Walsch, and Guenter Lewy. It is by no means incidental that Joshi at one point goes off on a tangent about arguments for why it might be a good thing for humanity to die out entirely.
Joshi's tone is about what you would expect: mostly entertaining if you agree with him, mostly offensive if you disagree, but over-the-top either way. However, as far as his analyses go, he always provides a fundamentally cogent critique of the ideas he is dealing with, which makes his book worthwhile even if you really wish he would please be just a little bit less combative.
Joshi's tone is about what you would expect: mostly entertaining if you agree with him, mostly offensive if you disagree, but over-the-top either way. However, as far as his analyses go, he always provides a fundamentally cogent critique of the ideas he is dealing with, which makes his book worthwhile even if you really wish he would please be just a little bit less combative.
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I've found one of the few
4. April 2008
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
"There are few more irritating writers than G. K. Chesterton."
So begins chapter 2 of the most irritating book I've read in years. Not based on the arguments of the author, but on the horrific writing of the same. This has to be one of the most porrly written books available here at Amazon. The author stabs at unknown targets like shooting gnats in the night with a shotgun. He is extremeley selective in how he quotes his targets in order to setup strawman after strawman. It's just appalling.
Believe me, I am a big fan of books that disagree with my viewpoint (and I do not hide the fact that this is one). While Richard Dawkins' books are forceful, his writing is readable. While Christopher Hitchens' books are wordy, they are almost poetic. This is a forceful and non-poetic treatment by an author with no credibility on the topic and no ability in his writing.
You can read my reviews of other books that disagree with my worldview here at Amazon and you'll see that I don't rate books poorly because they disagree with me. The book is just aweful. Have I said that enough? I think so.
So, why three stars? Simple, the author quotes so much from others that somewhere around 20 percent of the books was not written by him. That part is good.
So begins chapter 2 of the most irritating book I've read in years. Not based on the arguments of the author, but on the horrific writing of the same. This has to be one of the most porrly written books available here at Amazon. The author stabs at unknown targets like shooting gnats in the night with a shotgun. He is extremeley selective in how he quotes his targets in order to setup strawman after strawman. It's just appalling.
Believe me, I am a big fan of books that disagree with my viewpoint (and I do not hide the fact that this is one). While Richard Dawkins' books are forceful, his writing is readable. While Christopher Hitchens' books are wordy, they are almost poetic. This is a forceful and non-poetic treatment by an author with no credibility on the topic and no ability in his writing.
You can read my reviews of other books that disagree with my worldview here at Amazon and you'll see that I don't rate books poorly because they disagree with me. The book is just aweful. Have I said that enough? I think so.
So, why three stars? Simple, the author quotes so much from others that somewhere around 20 percent of the books was not written by him. That part is good.
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Religion Doesn't Add Up
13. August 2003
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This book is really smart and hard-hitting, but also can be pretty funny as the author exposes the many ways in which religion just doesn't stack up. In this book S. T. Joshi, chiefly known as a literary critic and editor, tackles some contemporary religious "thinkers" and shows that these emperors have no clothes. It is true he heaps abuse upon his victims, but only after pointing out the ways in which they deserve such attacks.
Joshi doesn't buy into the standard view that it isn't fair play to point out the problems with religion. He uses a logical approach and finds holes in religious doctrine. For instance, he talks about problems with William F. Buckley's Catholicism, T. S. Eliot's belief that religion must be the foundation of civilization, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's belief in the afterlife, and Neale Donald Walsch's multi-volume "conversations with God." Along the way, the book brings other atheistic or secular thinkers into the discussion, drawing upon the likes of Bertrand Russell, H. L. Mencken, H. P. Lovecraft, and A. J. Ayer, all of whom had similar opinions to Joshi's.
One contemporary example is about fundamentalism, and how today's fundamentalists seem to feel free to pick and chose those portions of the Bible they will adhere to, thus not truly being fundamental at all but somewhat self-serving and opportunistic. What is sad, the book finds, is where so many people allow religion to hold them back from realizing their full potential, whether artistic, intellectual, athletic, etc. If God gave man a brain, why doesn't he use it? After all, Jesus talked about being a Good Shepherd; not being a Good Sheep.
So basically this book will be a hard pill for many to swallow, but the truth can hurt sometimes. It can only be hoped that other thinkers will come forward who have the courage and boldness to confront religious quacks as candidly as Joshi has done. His final conclusion, that "religion is of no value in modern society," seems about to sum up the reality of today. We 21st-century civilized folks just need to start growing up emotionally and get on with saving the world, because no One is going to do it for us.
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