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All worldviews, including atheism, require faith. I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist argues that Christianity requires the least faith of all because it is the most reasonable. The authors lay out the evidence for truth, God, and the Bible in logical order and in a readable, non-technical, engaging style. A valuable aid to those interested in examining the reasonableness of the Christian faith, Geisler and Turek provide a firm challenge to the previous … More >>
I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
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When one considers that the deity worshipped by the followers of all three of the occidental religions wasn’t the first god or the only god. Even if the scientific evidence leads to a sentient creator, it need not be anthropomorphic, Christian, Jewish, or whatever. As far as I am concerned, all religions and their gods are the creations of man.
Rating: 2 / 5
…to a certain degree. I have never met one single person who believes in any or all gods. A Christian who does not believe in a Pagan god could be said to be an atheist, and vice versa. The only difference between real atheists and these phony atheists, who call themselves theists simply because they typically reject all gods except the one they personally find fitting, is the number of gods they believe in – zero vs. one. Big deal. When theists realize that they use similar logic to reject other gods, then they will know why atheists reject their god. Christians in particular like to assume that they know the truth, blindly dismissing all other religions, beliefs, and gods, so certain that they are correct. This book does nothing to dispel this truth, and it does nothing to show how Christians can comfortably and logically reject other religions, yet follow so blindingly faithful to their own. Christian can’t prove they are right any more than a Buddhist can. Once you state there is an absolute truth you have prove it.
Rating: 1 / 5
A collection of failed arguments presented in a dishonest way to reach a presupposed conclusion. This book is valuable only in so much as it shows the flawed reasoning and blind disregard for intellectual honesty required to maintain religious faith. It’s convincing only if you have never previously considered any of the issues the authors present and are willing to be led down a biased path of foregone conclusions. For instance, the authors ask how the Universe could have possibly come from nothing, yet remain suspiciously silent about the fact that Quantum Mechanics has proved that matter pops into and out of existence every nanosecond. It’s hard not to question an author’s integrity when all known facts that would weaken the argument being made is categorically expunged.
God is an easy an convenient answer to fill in the gaps of human understanding, but the idea was, is, and shall forever remain an argument from ignorance. This book is nothing new in that regard. It gives you just enough science to appear rational, and a heavy dose of misdirection and omission to convince the reader that religion is not the absurd post ad hoc explanation it is.
Rating: 1 / 5
Although Geisler & Turek correctly acknowledge the primacy of reason over faith, their book betrays reason. The book is full of half-truths and deception. The authors indulge in false dichotomy, false analogy, strawmen, faulty logic, equivocation, and other fallacies. I can support my position, but it would take more space than I have here. To see my expose of this book, enter “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be a Christian, by Kyle Williams” in your web browser.
Rating: 1 / 5
Actually, as a Christian, you should see such a book as a compelling reason to convert to atheism, for didn’t Jesus say:
“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you. – Luke 17:6
See, if it takes more faith to be an atheist than a Christian, and faith is the only way to God and heaven, wouldn’t it be your most intellegent action to convert to an antheist?
Rating: 2 / 5