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    Cover of Outgrowing God

    Outgrowing God

    Richard Dawkins · 2019

    Religion & Spirituality
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
    1recommend
    3mentions
    2people
    2019–2026years
    67% recommend33% critical

    Mentions per year

    20192020202120222023202420252026

    What Hacker News says

    1. chistevOct 2026
      1. Animal Farm by George Orwell

      2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes [1]

      3. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

      4. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy

      5. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

      6. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [2]

      7. Cosmos by Carl Sagan

      8. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins [3]

      9. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

      10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander [4]

      11. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

      12. Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan [5][6][7]

      13. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism by Richard Dawkins

      [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076596

      [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452253

      [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326741

      [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539535

      [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751771

      [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740712

      [7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739256

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    2. chistevSep 2026
      Thanks for this question!

      I'm not reading anything at the moment since I'm taking a break and watching season one of Deadwood and also re-watching season one of Boston Legal.

      But when I'm done, I plan to re-read "The Cold War A Very Short Introduction" by Robert J. McMahon. I read it about five years ago and it's time to read it again.

      Having said that, I can't pass on this opportunity to share the books I've read (some are re-reads) thus far this year that I recommend. I'll just list them while saying that they all come highly recommended by me.

      In the famous words of Frank Zappa - So many books, so little time.

      1. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris

      2. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

      3. Lying by Sam Harris

      4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

      5. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

      6. Cosmos by Carl Sagan.

      7. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

      8. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

      9. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

      10. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

      11. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling

      12. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

      13. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

      14. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

      15. Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan

      16. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism by Richard Dawkins

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    3. tyri_kai_psomiSep 2019
      Add to this Richard Dawkins new book, "Outgrowing God" which is rife with inaccuracies, baseless conjecture about the motivations behind some of the ancients civilizations he talks about (an assyriologist posted a pretty pointed takedown of some of the inaccuracies on twitter https://twitter.com/GHeathWhyte/status/1175081067943997440), and theology so bad you would question whether or not he himself has ever actually opened up a Bible.
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