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Liked It “As a Christian, I found this book very challenging and would recommend it to any believer who is ready to face some tough questions. Unlike some of the derisive works by other "new atheists" Loftus' book has an almost pastoral tone. For that reason, I think all but the most thin-skinned people...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“I'm a Christian and love/believe in God. I'm just interested in understand how one can go from preaching the gospel to denial, so I ordered the book to read his journey.”
Turner T wrote this review Tuesday, October 13 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“As a Christian, I found this book very challenging and would recommend it to any believer who is ready to face some tough questions. Unlike some of the derisive works by other "new atheists" Loftus' book has an almost pastoral tone. For that reason, I think all but the most thin-skinned people of faith could read it with equanimity.
Larry S wrote this review Thursday, August 6 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Unfortunately, the book does have a flaw: The writing just isn't up to the standard set by the likes of Dawkins, Barker and Hitchens. The occasional awkward or unclear sentence, as well as Loftus' tendency to use contractions in unexpected places, distract from an otherwise fine work.”
“Great book. But very heavy going. The exhaustive treatments on several minor topics are required because of Christian apologetics repeated use of such examples to bolster their claim about the Bible. These minor topics are usually not covered by authors such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris or Christopher Hitchens.
NJ Wong wrote this review Sunday, June 28 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Loftus writing style is however not as good as the 3 authors above. ”
“Not a light-hearted humorous toned book, but a good in depth look at one man's path to Atheism and the arguments that swayed him. While I've read some criticism that he doesn't cover all of his arguments as in depth as they could be, what he has is a very good overview of a large number of the arguments in the God vs No God debates. The details are not entirely cursory (hence it took me so long to finish the book) and he references more in depth works on each point he makes.
Charles P wrote this review Monday, March 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
If you're an atheist looking for a way to get your head around the why's of what you don't believe, this is for you. Likewise if you're making a claim as a spiritual leader (pastor, elder, evangelist, etc) then you owe it to yourself and the people you encounter to read and gain an understanding of the debate from somebody who has been on both sides.
Loftus obviously has a point of view, but he doesn't seem to suffer from the living in an echo chamber effect of most people on both sides of the debate and does the admirable thing when he acknowledges "we don't know this" and "we can't know this" while giving good solid reasons for his decisions on why he sides one way or the other.”
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