The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism

✍ Scribed by A. C. Grayling

• Book ID: 107904138
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 146 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781408837429

✦ Synopsis

There have in recent years been a number of books - notably those by Christopher Hitchens, Richards Dawkins and Sam Harris - that have taken issue with religion and argued against it. Both sides in the debate have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake. The God Argument thoroughly and calmly examines all the arguments and associated considerations offered in support of religious belief, and does so fully aware of the reasons people have for subscribing to religion, and the needs they seek to satisfy by doing so. And because it takes account of all the issues, its solutions carry great weight. In the first part of the book, Grayling asks: What are the arguments for and against religion and religious belief right across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious, and do they stand up to scrutiny? Can there be a clear, full statement of these arguments which once and for all will show what is at stake in this...

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