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Fiction, Religion, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

January 24, 2025November 5, 2024

The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell

There seems to be a lot of weird overlap between science-fiction and religion. I don’t think it always ends well though

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Comics, Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

January 26, 2024September 24, 2023

Sacrament, vol 1 – Peter Milligan and Marcelo Frusin

Sometimes you have a lot of hope for things, and your hope is wasted

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Atheism, Comics, Fiction, Humour, Religion  0 Comments

June 2, 2023May 10, 2023

Preti: Il mistero della fede – Astutillo Smeriglia

More satire from Smeriglia, but this time just pointed at the church

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Atheism, Counter Apologetics, Essays, Non-Fiction, Religion, Reviews that are really about something else  0 Comments

July 15, 2022August 25, 2021

50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God – Guy P. Harrison

This is an excellent book on counter-apologetics. It is, however, the last book on the subject I may ever read.

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Fiction, Novel, Religion  1 Comment

August 20, 2021March 26, 2021

The Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac

Sometimes I wonder why I bother. There is a legitimate fear in me that I no longer have the brain

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Atheism, Biography, Christianity, Counter Apologetics, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Religion, Scepticism  0 Comments

February 19, 2021February 8, 2021

Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason – Seth Andrews

There are a lot of books I can throw into the ‘read for the wrong reason’ category. This is one

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Non-Fiction, Religion, Science, Sociology  0 Comments

December 11, 2020November 9, 2020

McMindfullness – Ronald E. Purser

It isn’t enough to have just a valid point. You also need to have a sound argument.

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Atheism, Evolutionary Psychology, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Religion  0 Comments

September 4, 2020September 1, 2020

Alpha God – Hector A. Garcia

I don’t normally go too much into myself in these reviews, but I think in this case it may be

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Atheism, Culture, Humanism, Non-Fiction, Politics, Religion  0 Comments

July 26, 2019January 29, 2019

What is Secular Humanism? – Paul Kurtz

I’ve noticed a problem; anyone can join a movement. People nowadays seem to be big on labels, and the problem

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Atheism, Christianity, Counter Apologetics, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Religion  0 Comments

April 5, 2019December 3, 2018

Godless – Dan Barker

This book is part memoir, part counter apologetics, and a pretty good tool to understand why atheists don’t believe.

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