There aren't any Amazon reviews of this book yet, so I don't know if it's any good, but I like the premise. A book like this might have gotten me out of my agnostic phase sooner.
Author Helps Science-Minded Skeptics Discover Well-Reasoned Faith
By Jim Brown
June 8, 2004
(AgapePress) – A new book written by a Texas Technological University professor trained in empirical science targets the strong-willed, spiritually-challenged person who has a hard time arriving at faith.
I wonder what color the sky is in this nut’s fantasy world.
‘Da
Vinci Code’ Author Left Out Material
Wed May 19, 3:34 PM ET
By KATE McCANN, Associated Press Writer
“CONCORD, N.H. – Though ‘The Da Vinci Code’ was contentious enough to produce
10 books attempting to discredit it, its author said he left out what likely would
have been the most controversial part.”
I'm not sure I'm sold on the tastefulness, appropriateness, or usefulness of this service, but I'm certain that the party crashers were out of line. Don't atheists, pagans, and satanists have better things to do with their time?
Virtual Devils Curse Internet Church
Wed May 19,10:05 AM ET
By Jason Hopps
"LONDON (Reuters) – The world's first Internet church has fallen victim to a plague of virtual demons, some of whom have been logging on as Satan and unleashing strings of expletives during sermons."
At Camp Quest, free inquiry and skepticism rule
"’Being an atheist is only natural’, said Edwin Kagin, a Union, Ky., attorney who founded Camp Quest in 1996 in conjunction with the Free Inquiry Group of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. ‘Everyone is born an atheist,’ said Kagin, a South Carolina native whose father was a Presbyterian minister. ‘They may not think they are, but they are. They’re not born with any notion of a god.’"
Is Organized Religion the Enemy?
by Orson Scott Card
For about a year, people have been telling me that the Next Big Thing after Harry Potter was Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials,” a young-adult fantasy trilogy consisting of “The Golden Compass,” “The Subtle Knife,” and “The Amber Spyglass.”
Now, this is definitely not a book review column, but I must say right up front that everything everyone says in praise of these books is true. Well, almost everything — it’s not perfect, and not as good as the Harry Potter stories, in part because neither the trilogy nor any individual volume ever achieves a sense of wholeness, and the characters are not deep or even, ultimately, very interesting.
Still, it’s a rip-roaring adventure and it’s well told and I wish I could recommend it to you.
I can’t.