The recent thread about book recommendations on the main site left me wondering whether Bertrand Russell's Why I am not a Christian shouldn't be included. It does rather epitomise (IMHO) where we are coming from regarding critique of traditional irrational religions.
By the same token, Ibn Warraq's book WHY I AM NOT A MUSLIM, the title of which is a homage to Bertrand Russell, and the publication of which earned this courageous freethinker a death fatwa, should be likewise included.
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« Reply #2 on: 2003-08-12 15:09:15 »
Yes, that had occurred to me but had slipped my mind when posting. I don't think it is a work of quite the same stature but it is nonetheless important to be ecumenical in such matters :-)
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« Reply #3 on: 2003-08-13 16:43:49 »
Have any of you read Alan Watts? What do you think of him? I was told he also wrote a book called Why I am not a Christian, though my source may have been mistaken and was talking about Russell's book. However, I do have his book The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, which basically has pantheistic themes. He has a humorous writing style, I find it unique.
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