The other day I visited a friend and found 'The God delusion' in one of his shelves. I sat down and read it and at the end of the day, I wondered why some people rated the book so highly.

Now am seeing this comment from one of Dawkins' friends:

“His treatment of philosophical ideas in The God Delusion is frequently funny and certainly good journalism,” Ruse said, “but to put it politely it is deeply uninformed.”

This article has given me a glimpse of Dawkins' life, and I wonder if this issue of atheism/theism isn't just a game people play to structure their time meaningfully while chest thumping.

http://www.theguardian.c...stroying-his-reputation

I like your thinking on this. I had similar thoughts while starting the thread.

But there's a puzzle I'm trying to resolve: Let me call it the puzzle of optimal relation. That is, if one can stop conning him/herself, how can she/he relate with others who are probably conning themselves?

Or to put it in another way, what's there to say?

tychos delusion

What is atheism?

Swenani, brother, since Tuesday I have been waiting for your follow up question in vain.

I had anticipated you would ask me what the other concept is.

I would have answered not necessarily 'christianity' as is commonly taken by the man on the street, but 'the great controversy in which there is no hope for redemption for and by oneself'.