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The book did help me a lot in improving me as a Skeptic. Rating this book as high has nothing to do with my bias as I don't possess any burden of proof (May get to know when you get to read it). It's a good work of several decades of research (his own and others) by the author.
The first part deals with examples of two real life characters tending to believe in their unique convictions and their possible causes of beliefs, one of whom is a real famous scientist. The part also includes the author's own journey of becoming a Skeptic Nontheist from a Ardent Ecclesiastic believer.
Second Part covers the psychological cognitive processes involved in our brains that ultimately makes us believing in stuffs. The phenomena and various tendencies and the author's rationalisation is more than convincing.
Third part deals with People believing in stuffs like God, Afterlife, Aliens and Conspiracy theories like Fake Landings on Moon, 9/11, Chemtrails.. Before starting this book, I've read a lot of reviews in which almost half of the reviewers are not okay only with the this half of the book because of its conflict with some of the People's comfortable beliefs. These Things are deserved to be analysed and understood out of respect for our human intellect.
"Knowledge brings Stability, Ignorance brings Chaos."
The last part of the book deals with the geopolitical and cosmological dogmas and delusions we previously had because of our various biases and stereotypes. The last part may not be interesting to many people but for curious amateurs fans of Polictics, Astronomy and especially Skeptical.
I would recommend this work for everyone who have courage to face the hard truth than comforting beliefs in critical issues.
This is one of my favourites,
"In any case, if there is an afterlife and a God who resides over it, I intend to make my case along these lines:
Lord, I did the best I could with the tools you granted me. You gave me a brain to think
skeptically and I used it accordingly. You gave me the capacity to reason and I applied it to all
claims, including that of your existence. You gave me a moral sense and I felt the pangs of guilt and the joys of pride for the bad and good things I chose to do. I tried to do unto others as I would have them do unto me, and although I fell far short of this ideal far too many times, I tried to apply your foundational principle whenever I could. Whatever the nature of your immortal and infinite spiritual essence actually is, as a mortal finite corporeal being I cannot possibly fathom it despite my best efforts, and so do with me what you will."
The first part deals with examples of two real life characters tending to believe in their unique convictions and their possible causes of beliefs, one of whom is a real famous scientist. The part also includes the author's own journey of becoming a Skeptic Nontheist from a Ardent Ecclesiastic believer.
Second Part covers the psychological cognitive processes involved in our brains that ultimately makes us believing in stuffs. The phenomena and various tendencies and the author's rationalisation is more than convincing.
Third part deals with People believing in stuffs like God, Afterlife, Aliens and Conspiracy theories like Fake Landings on Moon, 9/11, Chemtrails.. Before starting this book, I've read a lot of reviews in which almost half of the reviewers are not okay only with the this half of the book because of its conflict with some of the People's comfortable beliefs. These Things are deserved to be analysed and understood out of respect for our human intellect.
"Knowledge brings Stability, Ignorance brings Chaos."
The last part of the book deals with the geopolitical and cosmological dogmas and delusions we previously had because of our various biases and stereotypes. The last part may not be interesting to many people but for curious amateurs fans of Polictics, Astronomy and especially Skeptical.
I would recommend this work for everyone who have courage to face the hard truth than comforting beliefs in critical issues.
This is one of my favourites,
"In any case, if there is an afterlife and a God who resides over it, I intend to make my case along these lines:
Lord, I did the best I could with the tools you granted me. You gave me a brain to think
skeptically and I used it accordingly. You gave me the capacity to reason and I applied it to all
claims, including that of your existence. You gave me a moral sense and I felt the pangs of guilt and the joys of pride for the bad and good things I chose to do. I tried to do unto others as I would have them do unto me, and although I fell far short of this ideal far too many times, I tried to apply your foundational principle whenever I could. Whatever the nature of your immortal and infinite spiritual essence actually is, as a mortal finite corporeal being I cannot possibly fathom it despite my best efforts, and so do with me what you will."