Reddit reviews The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins

I really enjoyed Sapiens, and I'm picking up some more of the author's books soon. Fascinating theories on why humans developed language, money, art, religion... All of it. Well worth your time.

Becoming Who We Need To Be was a good (short) read. I'm a fan of the author's work already (particularly his podcast), and the book is a thought-provoking look at a wide variety of topics. More a collection of essays than anything.

Jordan Peterson gets a fair bit of stick, but I found 12 Rules for Life to be quite a powerful read. I don't agree with all of what he writes, but there are some very good lessons in here for sorting one's shit out. A lot of it very obvious now that I've read it, but sometimes you need things spelling out for you.

Religious or not, I would encourage anyone to read The God Delusion. Dawkins is quite militant in his atheism, but it does present a lot of good arguments as to why religion isn't necessary for a person to act morally.

How To Be Miserable resonated with me quite a lot. Bits of it are in a similar vein to 12 Rules for Life, but essentially it's a self-help book that's approaching the matter from the slightly tongue-in-cheek perspective of wanting to make yourself as miserable as possible (ie. don't do these things). Another fairly short, but quite enjoyable read.

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Bonus fiction recommendation:

The Way of Kings. I just got finished reading this last night, and oh boy was it good. It's an absolute tome at 1200 pages, but it's a proper un-put-down-able. Really great work of fantasy, with some outstanding worldbuilding, fascinating characters, and one of the best climaxes I've read in years.

This is a man who wrote a book called The God Delusion where the centeral thesis is a delusional belief of God and you think that it is merely a side effect?

It should be clear to all but the most self-deluded that his wish to prove religion wrong came before the means (some pseudo social evolutionary psychology).

Sam Harris - The End of Faith

Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great

Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

The way in which you have written the first part of this reply is completely grammatically incorrect for a start. I shall provide one example as I don't really find that you are making too much sense and I really couldn't be bothered arguing with anybody on the internet.

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And quote the name of his best selling book too "The God Delusion" This is simply making Athiests look like stuck up dickheads- Just because others do not have the same beliefs as us does not mean that you have to try to correct them for that. That makes you just as bad as the Religious themselves.