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The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens (Hardcover)

by Vox Day (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Benbella Books (Feb 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1933771364
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933771366
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars David slays Goliath, 1 Jul 2008
By D. M. Ohara "Dan O'Hara" (Cleveland, UK) - See all my reviews
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Vox Day is the blogonym of Theodore Beale, a successful rock musician, sci-fi novelist, computer games designer, internet entrepreneur, social commentator and syndicated columnist. This is his first non-fiction book.

He is also a multi-linguist, extremely well read in world history, a very sharp thinker and formidable in unpicking fashionable nonsense, be it political, philosophical or pseudo-scientific.

He describes himself as a Libertarian and an Undenominational Evangelical Christian, who has left the `frozen tundra' of his native Minnesota for the balmier climes of the Mediterranean. It was entirely appropriate that he should use the name by which he has become so well-known from his award-winning Blog, Vox Popoli, in authoring this amazing, erudite, logical and no-holds-barred criticism of the `Unholy Trinity' of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens. In passing, his guns are also sometimes turned on Daniel Dennett, for whom- unlike the other three - he has some respect. And there is also a chapter on the French Post-Modernist `Philosopher' and Prophet of Hedonism, Michael Onfray, who really deserves no respect whatever.

One thing which makes this work both refreshing and surprising is that here is someone without scientific or academic credentials who nevertheless manages to demolish the New Atheists on their own turf. It is like watching little David with his sling and pebbles face up to Goliath, the Champion of the Philistines, and bring him down with a well-aimed blow. Day succeeds where so many others, ostensibly better qualified, have failed. "This is the Lord's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes."

After a very thorough exposure of the lies, ignorance, illogicality and bad faith of the New Atheists, Vox Day has a paragraph [page 265] which I simply must quote in full:

"Predicated on an unreliable human attribute that may not even exist, rejecting the foundation of Man's most successful civilization, trusting a notoriously quixotic institution for a miracle as a means of replacing that foundation and refusing to learn from its past disasters, atheism is not so much a basis for an irrational philosophy as for an insane one. Attempting to build a society on reason is like waging a war on terror; the effort is doomed to failure because it's a category error. There is no evidence, scientific or historical, that any human society can survive its establishment on an atheist foundation, let alone thrive, and a fair amount of evidence to the contrary."

Richard Dawkins sometime ago urged those who have rejected religion to sign-up as `Brights'. A number of those in thrall to `scientism' have done just that in an orgy of self-congratulatory hubris. Vox Day shows them up as really rather dim - and, of far more importance, potentially sinister and dangerous. PZ Myers is incandescent with rage about this book. The tenured professor of biology fits the `Bright' profile so perfectly that Dawkins made it known he wanted him to succeed to the Charles Simonyi Chair at Oxford, soon to become vacant on the age-related retirement of Dawkins himself. You should see what Myers has to say about Vox Day on his Blog - it is venomous, barely coherent personal invective with no argument that is not an ad hominem. But as Day has responded on his own Blog:

"For all that he comes off as an egregious buffoon most of the time, PZ Myers is strategically correct to stick to the petty name-calling that is the entirety of his method of argument relating to anything outside of his narrow field of science; attempting more would banish the illusion of his intellectual expertise and reveal the paucity of both his knowledge and his intelligence."

If anyone deserves the epithet `Bright', in its original meaning, it is the author of this marvellous book.

News Update: 28 Oct 08

"Professor Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, has been appointed to the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science."

We can perhaps be grateful that the crass Host-desecrater, PZ Myers, was in the event nowhere in the running.

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42 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars I like it!, 12 Mar 2008
Like the first reviewer (David Groom) I also downloaded Vox Day's book - the cost of buying one of the North American copies on Amazon UK is way beyond me, but I will gladly pay up when it is published reasonably here because it is just what I have been waiting for (and many others too based on a trawl of websites) - a book that shows how inadequate Dawkins & Co's attacks on religion are dealing with the facts, the arguments, the logic - taking the 'new atheists' on where it hurts. The going does get rough at times, and you may not like some of his views or tactics, but I also found it very funny in a nice sort of way. Some of us (Christians) have, perhaps, been taking these guys too seriously and the books so far written in response have fallen into the trap of allowing them to set the agenda. They just aren't interested in serious biblical or theological discussions and unless you can justify your belief in God scientifically (!) you might as well give in. So why bother wasting paper on that approach, instead Vox has been focussing on his better strategy for some time now and enjoying himself at their expense. This book allows us to get an overall picture of what he thinks is wrong with the new atheists' thinking. If that is what you are interested in then buy it when the price is right - or dowload it first and see if you agree.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Oh dear, 22 Jan 2009
By MD Wilkins "Tilda" (Basel, CH) - See all my reviews
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He might be 'well read' but the man is foolish. This book is not logical and its starts from the cover.
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