I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying because the title implies that if you don't believe in what I believe then you are 'deluded.' That, I think, is a dangerous concept and one that is unlikely to win hearts and minds.
Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.
My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.
Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for proof of God's existence.