Richard Dawkins’ Next Book to Detail His Personal Path to Atheism
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Famed scientist Richard Dawkins isn’t shy about his non-belief. In fact, the well-known atheist has written numerous books touting it, including, “The God Delusion,“ ”The Magic of Reality“ and ”The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution,” among others. Now, he’s preparing for yet another literary project — one in which he will detail his personal path to atheism.
Atheist scientist Richard Dawkins
Of course, writing about secularism, evolution and the like is nothing new for Dawkins, who published a book aimed at children in late 2011. The project, entitled, “The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True,” attempted to poke holes in the “Judeo-Christian myth,” while also driving home themes surrounding evolution and human development.
This new undertaking, though, seems like — at least from the sparse descriptions that are being given — it will focus on Dawkins’ own, personal journey to atheism. MediaBistro’s Calley Cat blog has more about the currently untitled upcoming book:
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has landed a book deal with HarperCollins’ Ecco imprint that traces his journey to becoming an atheist. Publication is set for fall 2014.
Dawkins has written eleven books, but The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion are his most influential titles. Brockman, Inc. agent John Brockman negotiated the deal for North American rights with executive editor Hilary Redmon.
Here’s more from the publisher: “Dawkins will tell the story of his own intellectual evolution, explaining how his groundbreaking work as a scientist led to his work as an atheist.”
“We couldn’t be more excited to be working with a thinker and writer as profound and influential as Richard Dawkins,” Daniel Halpern, the publisher of of Ecco, said in a statement about the book deal. “It is truly an honor to have him at Ecco.”
As always, the book will certainly come with fanfare and a plethora of debate. If there’s one thing that the famed scientist is good at, it’s stirring up angst surrounding the subjects of atheism and religion.
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Comments (131)
Hobo Boondocks
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:52amI don’t wish this man harm for his views. For his own best interests, it would be worthwhile to examine what happened to Madeline Murray O’Hare, a well-known atheist. Did her work and foolish efforts to turn people away from belief in a creator result in any good for her or two close relatives? Some will say there was no connection between what happened to her and relatives, and what she did….I still wonder to this day. Perhaps the faulty way she reasoned things out, moved her to trust a man she should not have.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:38pmGOD is All Knowing… seing All Past & Future… and saw Richard; and wrote him out!
Report Post »Joe Bonham
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 5:26pmyour god advocates kidnap, torture, and death for all non-believers… an “all loving god” if I ever heard of one!
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:31amWhat a very Christian opinion on the tragic fate of Ms. O’Hare.
Report Post »DIR
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:51am“Richard Dawkins’ Next Book to Detail His Personal Path to Atheism”
Who is Dawkins and who the hell cares about his personal path to atheism? Who is this guy and who is trying to establish his importance? The headline might as well have read “Richard Dawkins’ Next Book Details his Personal Path to the Bathroom where he takes a huge dump (book to have detailed photos with scratch and sniff)!” In any event I’m not inspired!
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:18amTo answer your question about who cares….obviously, you do to be inspired to write in the first place and to have such vitriol against him.
Report Post »black9897
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:57amNo one. He has to prove to himself he’s right and that atheism is correct. Why else would someone who does not believe in God tell their “story” of how they came to believe in no higher being. These evangelizing atheists are interesting.
Report Post »mycomet123
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:17am“Richy” is an “intellectual superior” similar to lucifer. Richy is soooo smart that he‘s ascended into man’s intellectual realm & has reached the stupidity level. Similar to satan, satan wants to be equal to Father God, only satan has become soooo intellectual that he’s has forgot his foundation..Satan can never be equal to Father God because there is “one little problem” satan is a creature–he was created. God is the Creator!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Richy passed college with flying colors BUT unfortuantely he has forgot what he learned in pre-school.
Report Post »commonsensefreethinker1
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:21pm@DIR
Report Post »WOW! that’s funny, at least he is real and exists in the here and now. I guess I could say the same about your invisible god who is he? and who cares what was written in an old book a couple thousand years ago by a bunch of crazy whacked out make believers. What a hoax! I feel so sorry for all of you who just can’t do it on your own and have to rely on a false being to help you through the day.
ginger100
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:49amSpeaking from my own personal path to believing in a supreme creator, I have to think of all the things that had to take place for me to be here on the planet. And then seeing all the chances that took place for me to meet my wife and probably the closest experience I’ll have with GOD, watching my kids being born. Too bad we can’t all experience the same thing. I believe that was the reason for a mortal experience, what a gift it is to be here.
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:58pmit’s amazing that we share so many of the same views yet have drawn opposite conclusions. i too feel how lucky we are to be here, both as people and as a person. i think of the billions of years that existed before me, and the billions that will exist after me. how very fortunate that i get to experience just a sliver of the wonders of nature, and that i have the cognitive abilities to appreciate it. and that i live in one of the very best places you can possibly be born in – America. none of this leads me to believe in a God, but that doesn‘t mean that i can’t appreciate what i’ve been blessed with.
Report Post »panick
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:42amFaith requires some belief in the unseen and the unproven. Christians have to have it, even if we are so sure of ourselves, we think we feel God beside us. Dawkins has to have an unseen belief, as well. I am a scientist and I don’t believe that Darwinian evolution is the end all to explain Creation. I have faith in a Creator because of how I perceive His creation and examine the history of the world. I think the idea of probabilistic distribution of change is but one tool the Creator has used and still uses to shape the universe according to the laws He laid down. Unfortunately, simple stochastic analysis of the biological and physical evolutionary history on earth (and in the universe) does not answer, within a reasonable range of certainty, fundamental questions of why certain physical characteristics are retained, why abrupt changes in a biological entity’s features(as seen in the fossil record) occur so sharply, or even to define what “life” really is, let alone reason and cognitive think. For one to be an adherent of a single-focus strategy of evolution still requires a belief that one really knows the answers – a faith. The Big Bang may be the initiator of all events in our current universe, but someone had to “light the fuse” !
As Blaise Pascal explained to his atheist and agnostic friends on why he believed in the Christian God: “If I am wrong, then whatever happens in the long run what have I lost? If you are wrong, you have lost all”.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:53amDon’t have to tell this man to go to hell. He’ll make it on his own.
Report Post »iampraying4u
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:00amJesus i know and Paul i know but who is richard dawkins
Report Post »castuslonginus
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:34amIamprayingforyou: Wasn’t he Newkirk on Hogans Heros.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:24amI have written a book that details why I’m no longer a christian. My name just isn’t nearly as big as his, which is why he’ll sell a lot.
Of course, I’m not an atheist, . . . . . just could no longer consider myself “a christian”, and my book explains why that is. Now, I am completely open to the fact that I misunderstood each point that I hit on, but I highly doubt I did. But the fact that I had enough material for a book [though only 158 pages], and though there were other topics that I COULD have hit on, . . . that should be enough to let people know that there WAS enough evidence from the bible [and christianity in general] that cause my “de-conversion”. If you want to read it, you can get a copy at lulu.com
My Case Against Faith
DeavonReye
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:13amI actually completed it a couple months ago. It is a critique from a person who took an honest look at a once held religious belief and who drew opposing conclusions from those past ideologies. It reads more like a journal. . . . which it started off as, actually. Personal opinions of scriptural references and doctrines. And that really is how it all started. When I was questioning my faith, church leaders told me to “read the bible sincerely and keep a journal of what speaks to you”. I don’t think they had my outcome in mind, though. :-)
Thanks for the post!
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:44amthe outcome isn’t as important as the journey. at least you took an honest look into such things. that’s more than a lot of people ever do.
in fact, it’s more than i ever did. i lost my faith quite naturally, and while i was young. i probably would have ignored the subject forever, but my last name sounds Jewish and i have had to address that question time and time again over my life. my response has always been “i’m not Jewish, and i was raised Catholic, but i’m an Atheist.” until a few years ago this wasn’t even an issue for me. something has changed, and i‘m not sure if whether it’s the current political climate or just me, but i care more about my lack of faith now than ever before.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:27pmI see your point. As of now, no one asks me about my beliefs. Having a Jewish name really CAN complicate things a bit, I guess. :-) Not a comfortable topic at times as people can be “overly bold in their faith” in trying to get you to see it their way.
Realistically, people believe they’re right because it was a learned behavior. Many people are susceptable to believing . . . . . and normally, children are genetically apt to “believe an adult” because in the past, it was important to believe that “the fire will burn you”. Just a simplistic example and not all encompassing, of course. Some have difficulty with it, though, . . .such as you. As a child, I “fully believed what was told to me”, . . . . . but often wondered why I wasn’t experiencing what the other kids were. That was a common theme well into my 30′s. Believing, but not experiencing though I was often “desperate for it”. Many times, down at the alter, trying to receive “the holy spirit”, etc, . . . walking back to my seat unchanged, though it was my whole hearted desire.
Not to prolong this post, . . . I realized why it wasn’t true. ;-)
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:54pminteresting. i’ve often wondered why it is that not believing came so easy to me. CCD was a big reason. it was the only time when i learned what Catholic teachings were. you don’t actually learn anything during mass. when i had classes to prepare for my Confirmation, we got into the true stuff, and all it did for me was bring up questions. much if not all of it seemed incredibly silly, and the teacher had no answers. i thought she was just stupid, but when i had different teachers it was the same thing. on the day of my Confirmation i decided that none of this was for me, and i openly made fun of the Bishop who was the emcee for the ceremony. (not overtly, just to my friends who i was near) that was the day i became an Atheist. i’ll never forget it.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:55pmNoticed that your post [with link to my book] was deleted.
Nice that people are afraid of the truth. *sarcasm*
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:13pmi didn’t notice that. i guess b/c it linked to a site where you can buy it. oh well.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:28pmYeah. Capatolism is okay if you [in this case, theblaze] benefit I guess.
Anyway, interesting story about your catholic upbringing and how they operate [in the dark] for the first part of a kid’s life. Yeah, the bible often brings up questions that either can’t be answered or are answered with some non-credible apologetic.
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:11amYes, there is “evolution” – the variety in the dog species demonstrates how resourceful a _species_ can be but when one looks deeper into the design – the complexities and “miracle” of conception and the numerous changes that occur the female body to nurture that child during and after pregnancy – and the timing (a sexually functioning, compatible male and female needed to “evolve” at precisely the same time) proves the Darwinian theory flawed, especially when you expand that over the expanse of creation… YES: CREATION!
I appreciate a good, reusable design. An example: the rib cage, found in dogs, humans, horses, birds…. If it works, why design something else without reason? (And there were other reasons found: exoskeletons of bugs and little to none for squid and jellyfish.) Each creature performs similar functions: digestion; filtering and removal of waste; metabolism stabilization, to name a few. While higher animals have similar organs – stomach, heart, liver, intestine, kidney, lung/gill – each is specialized for that organism and what is nourishment to on could be indigestible, even poisonous, to another. When one considers the statistical odds against these mostly sexually reproduced creatures occurring together on the timeline, evolution requires more “faith” than believing that there was a creator over it all. I admire Dawkin’s immense faith, misguided as it seems to be.
Report Post »themachinist239
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:41am“When one considers the statistical odds against these mostly sexually reproduced creatures occurring together on the timeline, evolution requires more “faith” than believing that there was a creator over it all.”
–That’s where you abandon all rationality. You can‘t take shots in the dark and make guesses as to the ’statistical odds‘ when it’s convenient because that’s not how science works. You can’t cherry-pick scientific facts to come to a scientific conclusion. The scientists who discovered the methodology behind reproduction and evolution did not choose the facts that they wanted and discarded the ones they didn’t want to hear. They took verified information from other scientists and built on human knowledge because science isn’t about taking guesses and running with them without due diligence and peer review.
There is no faith involved with science. Faith by definition is to believe something without proof. People like you who use phrases like “you put your faith in science” or “you put your faith in man” are ridiculous because you have the luxury of ignorance. It is astounding to me how people can say something so foolish while greedily benefiting from scientific human accomplishment every day of their lives. Someday I hope religious people will begin to shed their superstitious tendencies and embrace science rather than demonstrate a misunderstanding/skepticism of it.
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:26amEvolution violates the Laws of Thermodynamics, attempting to move from an unordered state (primordial ooze) to a very ordered state of information (the DNA code). I had the “honor” of programming with card decks in college… ever drop one and then try to compile a working program?
Evolution is a theory and not a “law” as many would like to make it. There are too many voids in the fossil record with no transitional states. There are also plausible alternative explanations to that record – competing theories. You would expect an enormous number of transitions if evolution as the root causation were true; they’re just not there.
And I repeat: sexual reproduction requires the whole system to work correctly the first time or the creatures won’t reproduce to evolve further. Male and female HAD to occur at the same point on the timeline. That event becomes statistically significant. As far as “pick and choose”? We’re dealing 1500 character statements here. There’s also solar output and magnetic field trends that could be extrapolated back implying a young earth, but climate and geological records indicate significant changes over time – we can’t assume linearity. Again, it requires a great deal of faith to believe in evolution… I admit I don’t have it; I’ll go with the easier conclusion that there was a designer, thanks.
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:43am“There is no faith involved with science. Faith by definition is to believe something without proof.”
Agreed, but science is open to interpretation. Our scientific understanding and conclusions are in a constant state of flux. It wasn’t that long ago that the atom was believed to be the smallest elemental particle. And I agree with your definition of “faith” and that is why I specifically used that word. It seems too many times people claim “science” because the moral – and it can be argued, spiritual – consequences of allowing for a creator opens a door they don’t want to pass through. Evolution is, therefore, as much a religious as it is a scientific belief.
Report Post »puravida56
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:06amIve read the bible (Old testament 3 times, new testament 10-15 times) and I have read The God Delusion.
At first,I didnt think I would buy this book because I couldn’t see how he could write a better book than The God Delusion. When I say better, I dont mean that the God Delusion was my favorite book. I mean that he makes his case in the God Delusion extremely eloquently and thoroughly; and, I cant seem him making a better argument. However I am curious how his personal journey relates to mine.
Like him or hate him, he has an absolutely brilliant mind.
Report Post »azghost
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:53amHe’s allowed to speak his mind now, but at the white throne judgement seat he will be silent unable to speak and God will explain to him why he will be placed where he will never know God and his mercy. In darkness and consumed by the spiritual fire for ever!
Report Post »1592
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:08amIt’s much harder to believe that everything came from NOTHING than it came for a GOD.
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puravida56
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:11amDawkins is not very different from you. There are literally hundreds of gods worshiped around the world. You do not believe in the vast majority of them. Neither does Dawkins. You two have the same belief when it comes to 99.9% of the gods worshiped today.
Report Post »Truthnotpolitics
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:29amJudge not, lest you be judged…didn’t Jesus say Those without sin cast the first stone? Remove the log from your own eye, before you remove the splinter from your brother. All of you self righteous people who claim to be Christians with the holier than thou attitudes. Church is not a haven for the saints, but a hospital for the sinners. I’ve met very few real Christians in my life. Most don’t live by Jesuses teachings of loving one another, but choose to be selective and full of vitriol. Live by example, not words. Many will say in the last days…..oh Lord….Lord…but the Lord didn’t know you. There are many false prophets… I’ve read the Bible, and studied it. Knowledge is the best defense from the holier than thou types. I’ve completely disarmed holier than thou types into shocked silence…”oh yes, I don’t go to church, but I know the Bible….and I know a hypocrite when I see one”.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:36amYes, AZGhost. . . . . give a person absolutely NO evidence that you’re actually real, . . .and when they live a life of honest reflection, after death, they are surprised by a “god” who will point a finger, maybe laugh in haughty derision, and send that person to hell FOR their honesty. Great “god” you have there.
Report Post »Truthnotpolitics
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:37amAnother thing that really is amazing are the “Christians” that think they know how God thinks, and have an inside track to the Almighty. Which of course gives them the right to think they know how everything is going to be played out. Do you even realize how hypocritical this is of you? Like you’re going to be there right beside God on Judgement day looking over his shoulder and saying “told ya so?
Report Post »SLOWBIDEN
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:26am@truthnotjustice – you said judge lest not you be judged yourself. Then you went on to judge people in your posts. Now WHO is the hypocrit?
Report Post »mycomet123
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:24am@1592, That’s atheism–they deny the supernatual & cling to the impossible!! What they fail to realize is that actually the impossible is a subset of the supernatural because nothing is impossible with God!
Report Post »Truthnotpolitics
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:30pm@slowbiden. There’s a difference between judging, and an observation. There was nothing hypocritical…I’m far from a holier than thou type…just trying to be a good person treating people the same as I would like to treated…
Report Post »commonsensefreethinker1
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:26pm@15 going on 92
Report Post »I have never heard an athiest say we came from nothing, that is you christians putting words in the mouths of us who say we just don’t believe in your version of the story. No, adam and eve were not the first humans on earth and they were definitely not planted her by your invisible being.
GodFearingAtheist
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:46amI’m a little dissapointed at the vitriol hatred in some of the comments, Geez. Not very Christian like.
I will read his book because I’m not afraid of a reading a different point of view. It doesn’t mean I will believe every word he writes as if he is the Atheist spokesman. Aren’t you at least curious?
Nemo: “Atheism is for a closed mind”. It would seem that he has spent a lifetime exploring the possibilities without a religion telling him what he can read. How can that be close minded?
BTW – I am a TP Conservative Navy Vet. And an atheist that appreciates Christian American values.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:38amGosh Richard, I just don’t care enough about you to read about your ”evolution’.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:48amDitto
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:34amThe amusing thing here is that he has to write a book about his silly journey. Shouldn’t he be content to simply exist in his great nothingness? Oh wait, he is a liberal whacko… They are not happy unless they consume all others with their insanity, either by ruse or by force, and always at others expense, haha…
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:06amShouldn’t you be content to simply live in your faith?
Why is it you and other Christians are allowed to speak on your beliefs, but if Dawkins’ does it, he is a liberal-wacko trying to shove his beliefs down your throat?
He wrote a book, you don’t have to read it. You are demanding he be silent. Who is trying to shove their beliefs down who’s throat again?
Report Post »SLOWBIDEN
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:31amAtheist constantly try to shove their belief in nothing down peoples throats. They claim “seperation of church and state” and don’t even understand the origin of the phrase. ( oh by the way it’s NOT in the constitution – Danbury letters from Thomas Jefferson)
Report Post »cariboodragon
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:28pmYou are describing an intolerant evangelical christian perfectly NEMO13 keep up the good work
Report Post »georgepatton
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:34amHope you have your red union suit ready when your time is up!
Report Post »Fonz777
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:32amAtheists attack faith in God and God’s Word, Jesus and His Atoning death on the cross and His Resurrection – the faith which busts through doubts, questionings, unknowns through faith in the Word of God. This is the faith which enables a man to be born into the abundant life which is in Christ and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit – that fire which burns brighter and brighter, applying the Word of God to our hearts and enabling us to know God and Jesus (Who IS eternal life) now and live in the presence of God – here and now.
The atheists have their wrecking bar and wield it with delight, using what they have not made to tear down (in their eyes) what they do not know. But when pressed they have no substance.
I have been blocked from the Rational Response Squad discussion forum. (Atheist versus deist/ “IT WORKS FOR ME”)
I pressed them for atheist substance with over 3500 exchanges and they could not produce. They could only block me, which they have.
Report Post »AllLost
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:26amI hope for an honest tale of his conversion. It is probably simple. I believed in God, but then I went to college and the professors laughed at me. I wanted to be a professor…..so I stopped believing in God.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:58amMore likely it has something to do with his work as a scientist, wouldn’t you think?
Report Post »puravida56
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:13amRead his book- he has thought this out at a level much more in depth than you give him credit for.
Report Post »lgccac
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:24amSome day when Richard Dawkins stands before Jesus, he can feel free to express his views.
Report Post »puravida56
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:14amUntil then he has no right to freedom of speech here! Stupid athiest.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:31amLG, what’s your point? IF that does happen, it will ALL be on “Jesus” for not making himself actually real in a way that Dawkins would have recognized. . . . . not Dawkins fault. And please spare me the “without faith it is impossible to please god” verse. That is just a verse they had to add becaue they probabably KNEW none of it were true, . . . . . . .AND if it actually IS true, it is highly unethical/immoral to damn a person for “a thought crime of not believing the ‘correct ONE’ of the all the thousands of religions and deities when all you have is the word of aother person”.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:03amprobabably???? . . . . . wow, me. :-/
Report Post »cariboodragon
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:36pmAnd GOD if there is one will accept him with open arms, if you think GOD will cast anyone into HELL for having an OPEN mind and needing more proof than a book full of plagerized allegorical stories written by fallible humans then you truly do not understand the concept of GOD.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:06pmVery true! :-)
Report Post »MicahJank
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:22amHmmm….could be an interesting read. I might pick it up if i ever happen to see it around Barnes and Noble.
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:07amAtheism is for a closed mind. It is so easy to explain away things or hide behind limited science (science after all is only as correct as the latest discovery) For those with true intelligence and wisdom, the more you look to not find God, the more he is there waiting for you.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:27amSo far, that has been FAR from the truth. I have been completely open to finding “god/dess” for many years now. Nothing. For me, the silence was most uncomforting.
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:08amNEMO — let’s get this straight. If he is an atheist, he is closed-minded and only those who reach the same conclusion as you are opened minded?
Report Post »Fight_Ignorance
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:06pmI love how people who believe in talking snakes try to try to discredit one of the leading scientists in the world. Mr. Dawkins is Amazing but I‘m not sure I’m interested In this book. My deconversion from Christianity was just from never getting a good answer. They always felt contrived, even when I was a child I could feel this. Well, “The Lord works In mysterious ways”. Really? complete Cop-Out answer.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:56amHis next book…
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Meyvn
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:46amHow touching.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:39amWhat a narcissist.
Report Post »Aquinas
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:39amAny cursory view of this man will provide all one needs to know about fallen man. His faith is in himself, what a God that is! Oh the horror that will prevail on him at the judgement.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:33amRichard Dawkins’ own, personal journey to atheism…wow…what a gripping tale…can’t wait to start turning pages. Egomaniacal?
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:32amWon’t bother to read it. This is a sick, tired, bitter man. All those brains, but no humility. Without true humility it’s tough to find a path to our true Creator.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:30amHe should name his book THE GREAT DECEIVER
Report Post »CougarNick78
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:14amYou guys wanna buy this shill’s book, go ahead. Your money. Your loss. But, if you can get a bundle deal, make sure you get Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, and Mao’s Little Red Book in that package, also!
Report Post »DoseofReality
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:05amRight, becasue you cant possibly be for small government and be an atheist at the same time. You small minded imbecile…..
Report Post »CougarNick78
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:04am@ Dose— Oh cry me a river, you atheist D-Bag. It’s atheists like you, that smear the name of conservative leaning secularists. Sod off, you turd.
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