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Books

The Case For God by Karen Armstrong

John Loftus tells us what various fundamentalists get wrong.

In this astounding book, prolific author Karen Armstrong has written an intellectual history of the notion of God, focusing on Western Christian conceptions. In many ways this book covers much of the same territory that Robert Wright did in The Evolution of God, but whereas Wright focuses on the evolution of morality in conceptions of the divine, Armstrong focuses on the practice of religion. I was astounded as time after time she got so many things right in those areas I know something about.

This is an amply-documented, massive book, and an intellectual feast. If you want to be brought up to speed on religion in the Western world, this book is what you need.

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