Comments on: Spiritual Summer Reading

By: Friendly Atheist » Newspaper Roundtrip Addition

Friendly Atheist » Newspaper Roundtrip Addition — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:19:26 +0000

[...] similar to David Crumm’s brief writeup of the book in the Detroit Free Press a couple months ago: “I Sold My [...]

By: Friendly Atheist » Atheist Book on Religious Reading List

Friendly Atheist » Atheist Book on Religious Reading List — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:10:26 +0000

[...] Last week, I mentioned that Detroit Free Press religion writer David Crumm made his suggestions for the Top 10 Books for Spiritual Summer Reading. [...]

By: Kim G

Kim G — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:59:49 +0000

Sorry this is late, but I recommend the Pulitzer Prize winning “On Human Nature” by Edward O. Wilson. It’s next on my list.

By: Patti Miller

Patti Miller — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:45:20 +0000

Listen to Snakes and Arrows by Rush…

it’s Dawkin’s The God Delusion set to music….

By: Spin Sycle

Spin Sycle — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:50:51 +0000

Personally, I’m into Gora right now….so I’d suggest anything by him.

By: olvlzl, no ism, no ist

olvlzl, no ism, no ist — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:09:18 +0000

Miko, I’d suggest, given his career as a backstabber of those for whom Hitchens has no further use that his resurgent career in anti-religion is most probably evidence of him realizing that the Iraq invasion which he favored cannot be seen as anything but one of the stupidest and most criminal acts in the post-war era. He’s a rat leaving a sinking ship. Look at what he said about The Nation, which built a good part of his career, as he saw more lucrative opportunities supporting the Bush junta.

I’ve got to stop coming here after Atheist Ethicist. My sentences are twice as long a half hour after that.

By: Miko

Miko — Mon, 28 May 2007 05:44:27 +0000

Just because you disagree with some one does not make them a swine , isn’t that one thing Hemant has taught us?

Doesn’t necessarily make him not a swine either. At some point, we need to start wondering whether Hitchens is just trying to be controversial and intentionally divisive.

By: Logos

Logos — Mon, 28 May 2007 05:26:59 +0000

If you’ve read Hitchens book, I’d suggest looking up his articles and statements in support of the invasion of Iraq, cluster bombs, impeachment, etc. Hitchens isn’t great, he’s a swine.

Just because you disagree with some one does not make them a swine , isn’t that one thing Hemant has taught us?

By: olvlzl, no ism, no ist

olvlzl, no ism, no ist — Mon, 28 May 2007 03:26:28 +0000

A whole class on C.S.Lewis. How neat, did they talk about his spanking fetish?

Show me an English Public School boy without a spanking fetish. How else would you explain Maggie Thatcher? Actually, no. I’d rather not think about that.

You know, this really is the best atheist blog I’ve yet seen.

By: olvlzl, no ism, no ist

olvlzl, no ism, no ist — Mon, 28 May 2007 03:23:35 +0000

If you’ve read Hitchens book, I’d suggest looking up his articles and statements in support of the invasion of Iraq, cluster bombs, impeachment, etc. Hitchens isn’t great, he’s a swine.

I’d suggest reading up on Cavarka, to see that nothing is new. This extract is pretty skimpy but it will give you an idea.
http://www.humanistictexts.org/carvaka.htm
It’s a lot better than the pop-atheism around today.

Then there is The Woman’s Bible, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al. You can find that online too.

But best of all, Mindfulness in Plain English, also available on line.

http://www.budsas.org/ebud/mfneng/mind0.htm

If you’re like me and have bad allergy problems, it might be better to try mindfulness of walking so you don’t have to think about your sinuses.

Or you could just read Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools, the greatest novel written by an American to date. Get in on the ground floor of that literary heresy I’m trying to start.