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Title: The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
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| The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound by Nation Books Great for browsing anytime | This is a great little book. One can pick it up from time to time, flip to any page and find a funny or enlightening quote.
It also reminds us how many prominent people thruout history have been nonbelievers.
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark | | The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound by Nation Books Flawed but fun | All quotes collections are fun, and this one is no exception. The selection of quotes is pretty good, ranging mostly to things you haven't already heard a million times.
The one downside is that author Huberman insists on inserting his own snide and useless comments right inside the quotes. Although his text is fairly easy to distinguish, this practice is both confusing and annoying. Especially as the insertions gradually (and perhaps inevitably) paint a rather unflattering picture of their author. This would be a better book if Huberman had stuck to scholarly background annotations... or maybe saved the space and simply added more actual quotes.
Nonetheless, the quotes themselves do hold up well. A worthwhile book to read or browse. | | The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound by Nation Books Entertaining | | This is a fun book, providing ammunition to inflict on your more religious cohorts, should the need arise. It would make a great gift if you know your victim well enough. | | The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound by Nation Books Not what I'd hoped ... | | This is a list of quotes from notable individuals over the ages (in alphabetical order). While this is an impressive collection overall, I wonder if it wouldn't have been more interesting as a chronological list? I was disappointed by all but a few of the bios of those being quoted. The way they're presented was so dry & uninteresting, that it was sometimes hard to care what they had to say. I didn't think much of the humor interjected in the book. The tag line in the title is funnier than anything between the covers. | | The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound by Nation Books Amusing anecdotes | | This wasnt as funny as I had hoped but tehre is some humor in it. But the main goal of course is to offer non religious inspiration and short curt arguments for Atheistic inclined people to use when acosted by "others". It contains quotes from people like our founding fathers (who were NOT all christians despite the rumor they were) and Abe Licoln, to modern humorists and authors and scientists. It spans a great deal of time as well, not just ocusing on the modern age. Greek philosophers, early heretics and modern blaspemers are all taken into account. I dont know if I would sugges tthis to some one or not unelss they were already inclined to such things as it is just a book of This guy said this, this girl said this etc. but it is an interesting read. Id say spend your cash on some Carl Sagan or something before you buy this, just to stay on the more brain expanding side of the page. | | The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound by Nation Books Product Description | Surprisingly, no book of quotations on God and religion by atheists and agnostics exists. Luckily, for the millions of American nonbelievers who have quietly stewed for years as the religious right made gains in politics and culture, the wait is over. Bestselling author Jack Huberman's zeitgeist sense has honed into the backlash building against religious fundamentalism and collected a veritable treasure trove of quotes by philosophers, scientists, poets, writers, artists, entertainers, and political figures. His colorful cast of atheists includes Karen Armstrong, Lance Armstrong, Jules Feiffer, Federico Fellini, H. L. Mencken, Ian McKellen, Isaac Singer, Jonathan Swift, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf and the Marquis de Sade. |
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