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Book Review: The Christian Delusion ed. John W. Loftus

Pages: 422
Pub­lisher: Prometheus Books
Year: 2010
Edi­tor: John W. Loftus

This is my review of John Lof­tus’ The Chris­t­ian Delu­sion This por­tion of the review will serve as a gen­eral and very brief overview of the book, and then in sub­se­quent posts I will more crit­i­cally exam­ine a few of the claims of the book, sec­tion by sec­tion (rather than chap­ter by chap­ter). I was orig­i­nally going to do only the crit­i­cal exam­i­na­tion, but that didn’t strike me as the best ‘book review’ — so I’ll do both.

The Chris­t­ian Delu­sion (here­after TCD) is a col­lec­tion of essays, edited by John W. Lof­tus (ex-Evangelical and pri­mary con­trib­u­tor to the web­site Debunk­ing Chris­tian­ity), which attempt to show that Chris­tian­ity is a delu­sion. When I first heard of TCD my imme­di­ate thought was, ‘here we go again: another book mak­ing mas­sive claims it won’t be able to ful­fill’. That this turned … (Read more)