...clearly...

A little update:

Finishe reading or had already read:
Cry, The Beloved Country
Farenheit 451 (I never knew who Gui Montag was before this >.>)
Mere Christianity
A Letter to a Christian Nation
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Started reading, haven't finished:
The Qu'ran
The God Delusion
Catch-22

My progress hasn't been as rapid as I expected, but I'll keep chugging along.

Thoughts:
Cry, The Beloved Country was very well written and quite eye opening. Farenheit 451 was an interesting look at modern society, considering how similiar the world has become to it in many regards. Mere Christianity is excellent. A Letter to a Christian Nation was poorly argued and suggested nothing new to me, so I found it uninteresting. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I had already read, I quite enjoyed it, though. It proposed some interesting thoughts about humanity and self.

The Qu'ran is rather tedious to read; I may have to get my hands on a commentary of some sort to make it more understandable and less confusing. The God Delusion called me stupid in the foreword and almost immediately explained to me why Ohman is Ohman ; I plan on completing it, even though a look at the table of contents didn't show any new propositions to me. Catch-22 had a mildly confusing writing style, 'hectic' might be the word. I may not complete it, as it so far has nothing of much interest in it. We'll see, though.

I'd have to dig into my Amazon account to get the full list, but stuff on my Kindle right now:

White Fang, Jack London
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Killer, James L. Swanson
The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder and at the Fair that Changed America, Eric Larson
The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe
The Masque of Red Death, Edgar Allen Poe

Physical books on my stack:
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (never got around to reading it)
Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catch 22, Joseph Heller

I've read almost all of those, but thanks anyway.

On my reading list at the moment are the "Bhagavad-Gita As It Is" by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and "Wholeness and the Implicate Order" by David Bohm. Check them out if you're interested in that kind of stuff.

So you like the books telling you you're right, but not the ones telling you you're wrong...

interesting...

There is a difference between telling someone they are wrong and insulting them. (I have not read the book in question, but I am assuming that Jack is describing the foreword of The God Delusion accurately.)

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I read "Letter to a Christian Nation" and I concur that the tone was rather harsh. Personally I did not receive much for it, because as the person who suggested to me stated it was really meant for a much different demographic. He slighted me sometimes, and it was annoying, but I was clearly not the intended audience. From what I've read of other books dealing with the problems with religion, many of them are very very blunt and sometimes rude. It does not surprise me that Jack interpreted the books as such, especially as:

is most likely true, and that is a personal insult, not an argument.