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A review by mesy_mark
Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World by Cara Santa Maria, David Silverman
5.0
Wow, for David Silverman's first book, it is quite an easy enjoyable read. It uses plain language that isn't complex but it doesn't dumb things down nor does it feel condescending. In fact, I can probably imagine that he enjoyed writing 'dick' s many times. And reading that I've been called a dick or act dick-ish was also fun to read cause it is such a good phrase because it made the text feel like a friendly conversation rather than a formal read.
Silverman encourages us, atheist, to love as an open atheist and it changed my mind on some things. One to live a more open atheist life. Asked and it will be answered: I am an atheist. Another is to work on getting out of religious rituals that family engages in that I do not want to participate in (and find ridiculous) like pray before eating dinner (and sometimes lunch like my nephew insists on doing).
The pros of this book are the ability to feel at home with the text. It personable and is just plain friendly while also getting the message across.n Yet there is a con to this book that doesn't have to do with the text itself- just with the size. The graphs are rather small and even though I am used to reading micro pint in part because of my handwriting, the graphs are just hard to appreciate due to size. Maybe if Silverman just blew up each graph to be a page each it would have been a better way to understanding the points Silverman made within the text.
Silverman encourages us, atheist, to love as an open atheist and it changed my mind on some things. One to live a more open atheist life. Asked and it will be answered: I am an atheist. Another is to work on getting out of religious rituals that family engages in that I do not want to participate in (and find ridiculous) like pray before eating dinner (and sometimes lunch like my nephew insists on doing).
The pros of this book are the ability to feel at home with the text. It personable and is just plain friendly while also getting the message across.n Yet there is a con to this book that doesn't have to do with the text itself- just with the size. The graphs are rather small and even though I am used to reading micro pint in part because of my handwriting, the graphs are just hard to appreciate due to size. Maybe if Silverman just blew up each graph to be a page each it would have been a better way to understanding the points Silverman made within the text.