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| Why I am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Routledge Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 14524
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0415325102
Dewey Decimal Number: 210
EAN: 9780415325103
ASIN: 0415325102
Publication Date: February 2, 2004
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 NOTHING NEW October 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yeah, whatever. Preaching to the choir innit. Sure it was more controversial at the time. Now, it's just like reading the views of a similar-minded person. One or two good points I hadn't considered, but nothing that's going to change your world, whichever side of heaven's gate you're on.
Sensible arguements by a logical thinker July 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A whole variety of essays put together in this interesting book. Russells clear thinking is as some others have said 'A breath of fresh air'. Never was it more so than in the transcript of the televised arguement of 1948 with Bishop Copeland. I could barely understand what the erudite bishop was talking about but Russell kept his calm and politely put him in his place on several occasions - oh to see this for myself, it sounds hilarious.
Russell was a champion of womens rights during some fairly sexist years. I like many of his thoughts on this matter ie. Girls should not consider having children before the age of 20, people in their 20s should be free to go in and out of relationships without hangups as long as children are not involved, thereby learning what they really want and that money and relashionships should not be mixed. It all makes a lot of sense to me though of course this is contrary to much religeous thinking where in many places women are virtually owned by men. What a shame BR is no longer around, what would he think of the present days? I hope he would be pleased that some progress is being made, in Uk at least we live in a secular state where there is much freedom, people do not feel the need to marry unless they really want to and the likes of Bishop Copeland with his convoluted thinking would be largely ignored.
 A most important book July 17, 2007
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I read this book at Loughborough University in 1967. A friend (Andy) suggested I read it. I got it from the university library and was amazed. It changed my life. No more did I feel I was alone in my beliefs. From then on I read like a mad person. My most recent hero is of course Richard Dawkins, but it was Russell who first introduced me to atheism in this wonderful but very naughty book. If everyone read it, the world would be a safer place.
Lucid, provocative and utterly sensible May 30, 2006
43 out of 50 found this review helpful
Bertrand Russell's greatest skill was to communicate complex and provocative ideas with clarity and logic. Why I Am Not A Christian includes a variety of essays, some more immediately accessible than others, but the title work is as calm and reasonable dismantling of Christianity as could possibly be written. There is no point me reiterating his arguments here, but Russell makes so persuasive a case that the only conclusion is thus: if you believe Christianity is what it claims to be, you clearly haven't given the subject proper consideration
A Breath of Fresh Air March 15, 2005
52 out of 60 found this review helpful
A compilation of lectures and essays dating back to the 1920s, the contents of this book is liberating for any inquiring person feeling trapped in the nonsense of religious superstition. Years ago while attending college in the U.S., I came across this book and was captured by this quotation on the back cover:"Religion, since it has its source in terror, has dignified certain kinds of fear and made people think them not disgraceful. In this it has done mankind a great disservice: all fear is bad..." This book stripped the blindfold of religion from my eyes and opened the way toward rational thought. I never looked back. It's a good starting point for anybody wanting to step free of the muck that clutters too many minds, whether Christian or any other religion. Beyond this book are several others on a variety of subjects displaying Russell's compelling clarity of thought. The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell is certainly one I can recommend. Give it a shot; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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