| The God Delusion | | Date Created: Oct 30, 2006, 09:01 AM |
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I mentioned Richard Dawkins's new book, The God Delusion, in my "interview" with Jason. I've read two right on reviews that will help you get a feel for it. The first is Gary Wolf's article in Wired on the New Atheism, which concludes:
"Even those of us who sympathize intellectually have good reasons to wish that the New Atheists continue to seem absurd."
The second, which I discovered via Maggie Dawn's blog, is in the London Review of Books review by Terry Eagleton and it's even more aggressive:
"Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.... If they [atheists like Dawkins] were asked to pass judgment on phenomenology or the geopolitics of South Asia, they would no doubt bone up on the question as assiduously as they could. When it comes to theology, however, any shoddy old travesty will pass muster."
It's only fair to note that Eagleton winds up agreeing with Dawkins's work as a critique of fundamentalism -- his problem is that Dawkins deliberately refuses to distinguish. But I'm not sure even Eagleton would judge a guy like me to be on the "right side" of that line. |
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