“The Christian Delusion”

Posted by on July 21, 2010

First it was Dawkins’ The God Delu­sion, now it is John F. Lof­tus’ (gen­eral edi­tor; you know, the guy who’s always com­plain­ing that William Lane Craig won’t debate him) The Chris­t­ian Delu­sion. Another book writ­ten with the express inter­est of destroy­ing Chris­t­ian the­ism in 500 pages or less. Read­ing the blurbs for the book, you’d think more peo­ple would be impressed. Not the guys at Tri­ablogue, who have writ­ten an almost 200 page cri­tique of The Chris­t­ian Delu­sion, call­ing it — per­haps uno­rig­i­nally — The Infi­del Delu­sion.

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2 Responses to ““The Christian Delusion””
  1. Exposing Loftus says:
    July 23, 2010 at 11:50 am

    As if the name of John’s book was orig­i­nal? He ripped it right off of Dawkins, TGD.

  2. Jeremy says:
    July 23, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    Per­haps. I imag­ine, how­ever, that the name has to do a lot with mar­ket­ing, even with Lof­tus’ OTF/B. Whether it’s “The God Delu­sion,” “god is not Great: How reli­gion poi­sons every­thing” (Hitchens has com­mented on the title being influ­enced by the pub­lisher” or Triablogue’s response, “The Infi­del Delu­sion”, the name isn’t really all that impor­tant, while the con­tent is.