senjuah's review
5.0
Uma ótima leitura, com exceção da propaganda capitalista. Em algumas partes dá pra ver claramente que uma "alternativa comunista" não rola, digamos assim.
Levei um tempo pra ler, devo estar enferrujada, mas ainda valeu a pena. Para alguém que está começando a ler sobre ateísmo, não recomendo ler esse aqui primeiramente. "Deus não é Grande" é uma leitura mais suave e menos científica.
"Deus, um Delírio" é bem científico e explicativo, perfeito para quem já entende o lado social/filosófico do ateísmo e procura ver o ateísmo pelo lado científico. Gosto muito de como o Dawkins tem um grande amor e fascínio pelo universo, além do enorme conhecimento sobre como ele funciona.
5/5 por enriquecer o leitor.
Levei um tempo pra ler, devo estar enferrujada, mas ainda valeu a pena. Para alguém que está começando a ler sobre ateísmo, não recomendo ler esse aqui primeiramente. "Deus não é Grande" é uma leitura mais suave e menos científica.
"Deus, um Delírio" é bem científico e explicativo, perfeito para quem já entende o lado social/filosófico do ateísmo e procura ver o ateísmo pelo lado científico. Gosto muito de como o Dawkins tem um grande amor e fascínio pelo universo, além do enorme conhecimento sobre como ele funciona.
5/5 por enriquecer o leitor.
mgalvan's review
4.0
Reading this book is like waking up, reading the paper, lighting a cigarette, and having some coffee.
P.S. Nice sarcasm, Richard.
P.S. Nice sarcasm, Richard.
randomprogrammer's review against another edition
3.0
fun to read if you are already part of the flock, but pretty terrible to recommend to someone curious about atheism
nys311's review
2.0
Okay, I couldn't actually get through this whole book. I found the author really off-putting, possibly because his attitude about atheism and those who don't share his beliefs seemed not-that-dissimilar to the same attitude I've seen from many evangelical Christians about their own faith and their contempt towards those who don't share it.
shayluan's review
5.0
This is the point of view of someone who has been seeking answers. After reading books/articles on both sides of the camp, Dawkins' "The God Delusion" settles it once and for all.
In this book, Dawkins employs logical thinking to dismantle any argument coming from religiosity: from its quote-on-quote benefits to its unquestionable necessity, everything gets broken down into pieces.
One major greatness of this book is that it's extremely well vulgarized. All philosophical/scientific evidence are explained in simple words to avoid confusion and ambiguity.
Dawkins is known for having a special tone and this book makes no exception. He is sarcastic, cynical, brutally honest, savage, confident and knowledgeable. Every word in this book is a spear pierced into religion's very core.
This is a great discovery and read for an agnostic person having doubts; same for an atheist seeking to fortify his/her beliefs, but most importantly, it is also fantastic for any religious person who's open minded enough to explore another possibility.
In this book, Dawkins employs logical thinking to dismantle any argument coming from religiosity: from its quote-on-quote benefits to its unquestionable necessity, everything gets broken down into pieces.
One major greatness of this book is that it's extremely well vulgarized. All philosophical/scientific evidence are explained in simple words to avoid confusion and ambiguity.
Dawkins is known for having a special tone and this book makes no exception. He is sarcastic, cynical, brutally honest, savage, confident and knowledgeable. Every word in this book is a spear pierced into religion's very core.
This is a great discovery and read for an agnostic person having doubts; same for an atheist seeking to fortify his/her beliefs, but most importantly, it is also fantastic for any religious person who's open minded enough to explore another possibility.
amandatastic's review
5.0
Really enjoyed this. Dawkins isn't necessarily an easy read... not because of heady topics or needlessly difficult language, but because every word is intended to make you truly stop and think about what is being said. I loved the references to comedians and other works, as well as the thought-provoking quotes at the beginning of each chapter.
But, to borrow from another reviewer:
"The lamentable truth is that The God Delusion is unlikely to reach those who could most benefit from it- even if they were to actually read it. Faith that allows reason is weak in the knees."
But, to borrow from another reviewer:
"The lamentable truth is that The God Delusion is unlikely to reach those who could most benefit from it- even if they were to actually read it. Faith that allows reason is weak in the knees."
ombudsman's review
1.0
a truly terrible book, consistently taking evidence out of context (e.g. when he talks about horrendous acts committed in the book of judges without alerting his audience to the fact that judges has a cyclical cycle where the israelites fall into immorality before a judge comes to save them) or misinterpreting evidence (e.g. his misinterpretation of aquinas' argument from motion to be using our normative sense of motion rather than the medieval sense of ontological motion [change]) or telling us someone is lying when they say they are religious (e.g. einstein, mlk and freeman dyson are all interested in "the wrong parts of religion", so dawkins informs us that evidently they are not religious and none of their work is religious, despite their own words to the contrary).