The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound

The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
by Jack Huberman

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Author: Jack Huberman
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-20
ISBN: 1560259698
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Nation Books
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Book Review: Entertaining but not very useful
Summary: 2 Stars

Fun to read, but not very useful. If you intend to use any of the quotes in this book in a serious discussion you are faced with the problem of attribution. You can't go around quoting people and not give a reference to where the quote can be found. It would probably have made the book twice as long, but ten times more useful to have included citations as to where the quotes could be documented.

And a bit sloppy as well. The quote from St. Augustine about not trusting mathematicians is generally regarded as a mistranslation; "mathematici" referred to astrologists, not mathematicians as we know them. Use that quote and you'd be embarrassed.

Summary of The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound

Surprisingly, no book of quotations on God and religion by atheists and agnostics exists. Luckily, for the millions of American nonbelievers who have quietly stewed for years as the religious right made gains in politics and culture, the wait is over. Bestselling author Jack Huberman's zeitgeist sense has honed into the backlash building against religious fundamentalism and collected a veritable treasure trove of quotes by philosophers, scientists, poets, writers, artists, entertainers, and political figures. His colorful cast of atheists includes Karen Armstrong, Lance Armstrong, Jules Feiffer, Federico Fellini, H. L. Mencken, Ian McKellen, Isaac Singer, Jonathan Swift, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf and the Marquis de Sade.

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