atheism converts

[Iti oj]

what Author helped you decide and/or reaffirmed your atheism?

Mine was Victor J. Stenger with God: The Failed Hypothesis. Richard Dawkins reaffirmed and expanded it the most. Have to thank Darwin as well.

 

[Skwim]

 

[Iti oj]

have you read Letters to a Christian Nation?

 

[Skwim]

No I haven't. I assume it's more recent than old, and I haven't read any anti-christian or even anti-theism literature in some time.

 

[Iti oj]

Letter to A Christian Nation : Sam Harris

 

[Revoltingest]

what Author helped you decide and/or reaffirmed your atheism?

No one.
Every book I've ever read delivered an equal amount of lack of evidence for gods.

 

[Iti oj]

No one.
Every book I've ever read delivered an equal amount of lack of evidence for gods.

isn't that a good thing?

 

[Revoltingest]

isn't that a good thing?

Neither good nor bad...just what happened.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

what Author helped you decide and/or reaffirmed your atheism?

Mine was Victor J. Stenger with God: The Failed Hypothesis. Richard Dawkins reaffirmed and expanded it the most. Have to thank Darwin as well.

The Bible, Koran, Torah, Vedas and any other theistic book.

 

[Iti oj]

The Bible, Koran, Torah, Vedas and any other theistic book.

Ironic! nice.

 

[Falvlun]

I didn't read anything that caused my atheism, but I have read things since that have helped me better understand it.

Dawkins, both "Climbing Mount Improbable" and "God Delusion". It helped to read all these arguments laid out in a coherent, ordered fashion.

Also, Stephen Jay Gould's essays on natural history. He doesn't talk too much about god and religion (though some of his essays do cover those topics), but in general, he just makes the rational, scientific approach to understanding the universe and everything in it seems so reasonable, desirable, and wondrous. Why do you need to look for the supernatural when the natural is already so super?

 

[Iti oj]

I didn't read anything that caused my atheism, but I have read things since that have helped me better understand it.

Dawkins, both "Climbing Mount Improbable" and "God Delusion". It helped to read all these arguments laid out in a coherent, ordered fashion.

Also, Stephen Jay Gould's essays on natural history. He doesn't talk too much about god and religion (though some of his essays do cover those topics), but in general, he just makes the rational, scientific approach to understanding the universe and everything in it seems so reasonable, desirable, and wondrous. Why do you need to look for the supernatural when the natural is already so super?

I like that. I don't think I have read much Gould yet.

 

[Viker]

The Bible. And some how George Orwell's The Road To Wigan Pier, I don't know how or why either - it just did.

 

[cablescavenger]

what Author helped you decide and/or reaffirmed your atheism?

Mine was Victor J. Stenger with God: The Failed Hypothesis. Richard Dawkins reaffirmed and expanded it the most. Have to thank Darwin as well.

I came to my own conclusions, but my parents were catholic and protestant, and their arguing helped me realise how nonsensical and futile religion was.

Pretty much the same as I have seen since joining this forum.

 

[cablescavenger]

The Bible, Koran, Torah, Vedas and any other theistic book.

Good point.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

If I had to draw a connection, the closest ones would probably be Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut.

 

[Revoltingest]

Kilgore Trout reads Kurt Vonnegut?
That's like a snake eating its own tail!

 

[Iti oj]

My dad said adams gave him pause for doubt.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Kilgore Trout reads Kurt Vonnegut?
That's like a snake eating its own tail!

I've just always found it amusing that he thought I was the fictional one.

 

[Majikthise]

what Author helped you decide and/or reaffirmed your atheism?

Mine was Victor J. Stenger with God: The Failed Hypothesis. Richard Dawkins reaffirmed and expanded it the most. Have to thank Darwin as well.

None really. Maybe Douglas Adams.