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A review by starringskie
Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide by Richard Dawkins
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A beginner's guide? More like a kiddie guide, with annoyingly juvenile writing, simplistic argumentation, and repetitiveness. Really, I thought about starting a drinking game every time Dawkins wrote "We'll come back to that later", but then I'd need a new liver, and humans haven't evolved to do that yet.
It's funny to read things like "And that's precisely why we shouldn't be getting our morals, our 'right and wrong', our 'do and don't' from the Bible" (p. 81) and "Our modern morality, whether we are religious or not, is very different from biblical morality. Our Quranic morality. Thank goodness" (p. 99) from someone who has come out as culturally Christian.
While I'm thankful for what Dawkins and the new atheists did to bring the conversation about god's existence to the forefront of our debates, this kind of writing is something we have moved past, and so should most of these people. After all, while Dawkins is a believer in science, he can only accept what our society already does and cannot understand simple things like transgender people existing.
If you want to learn about atheism, read Hitchens. If you want to learn about evolution, read Darwin. If you don't want to read braindead takes from an old guy who had his moment to shine and cannot let go of the spotlight, block Dawkins on Twitter.
It's funny to read things like "And that's precisely why we shouldn't be getting our morals, our 'right and wrong', our 'do and don't' from the Bible" (p. 81) and "Our modern morality, whether we are religious or not, is very different from biblical morality. Our Quranic morality. Thank goodness" (p. 99) from someone who has come out as culturally Christian.
While I'm thankful for what Dawkins and the new atheists did to bring the conversation about god's existence to the forefront of our debates, this kind of writing is something we have moved past, and so should most of these people. After all, while Dawkins is a believer in science, he can only accept what our society already does and cannot understand simple things like transgender people existing.
If you want to learn about atheism, read Hitchens. If you want to learn about evolution, read Darwin. If you don't want to read braindead takes from an old guy who had his moment to shine and cannot let go of the spotlight, block Dawkins on Twitter.