I hope most of you guys don’t live anywhere close to the border. And by close, I mean less than 100 miles from it, because apparently, you’re in a “Constitution-Free Zone“. Do me a favor guys. Can you reclaim your country and stop eroding your wonderful founding document please? You’re making your neighbors to the north nervous here.
A few weeks ago, Penguin publishing sent me an email asking if I wanted a free copy of Andre Comte-Sponville’s “The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality”. Not being one to turn down anything that’s free (I’m poor, what can I say?), I gladly accepted. When It was finally delivered, I was anxious to see if this book would provide any new insights on the subject of atheism.
I’ve read all of the works of the four horsemen of the atheist apocalypse: Harris, Dennett, Dawkins and Hitchens. Their respective book all dealt with atheism in different ways. Harris attacked the supposed virtues of faith while Dawkins undermined the concept of God itself. Dennett book, on the other hand, was an analysis of religion as a natural phenomenon (good or bad), and Hitchens was a pure an unadulterated critic of religion itself. Each author has something unique to say, and I was pleased to find that Comte-Sponville was no exception.
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