US Presidential Candiates on Politics vs Religion

I was returning from a social trip to Jakarta. While at the airport, wondering how to kill time, I ran into a bookshop and spied Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion". I bought it immediately. Honestly, I did it more to dig up interesting factoids to tell my religious wife than because I thought the book would have any new perspectives for the godless geek that I am.

However, I had forgotten that Richard Dawkins writes very well, and it has been quite an entertaining read so far.

I could feel indignation bringing blood rushing to my eyes when I read chapters on how atheism is discriminated against in American politics and how the religious are blatantly lying in the press regarding the United States being founded as a Christian nation.

The chapter "Arguments for God' existence" does a very good job of summarizing the very few arguments from first principles put forward to justify the existence of God.

And the book led me to discover two blogs:

• Pharyngula, a blog about "Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal", belonging to PZ Myers, a bilogist and associate professor at the Univertisty of Minnesota.




• Atheists of Silicon Valley