A review by karathagan
Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto by Lesley Hazleton

3.0

I have intended to read this for months. Happy to make it my 150th, goal-making book of the year. It was shorter than it looked because of wide margins and line spacing. Pretty easy to read. She embraces the idea of uncertainty, doubt, and not knowing, as well as the inevitability of death. In many ways this was a refreshing perspective. I too have been frustrated with stringent dichotomies, especially in the realm of religion and belief.  There were a lot of interesting quotes sprinkled throughout, borrowed a lot from philosophy. But there were also a couple issues with reasoning that bothered me. Like reducing any set of high/low pairs to heaven/hell. Like high & low IQ and high road vs. low road, looking up to or down on people...ridiculous. Utterly absurd.