Reply #146: The NA books are not about existence, or contingency [View All]

[muriel_volestrangler]

They are about whether gods exist, religious claims about gods, and how religion influences people's behaviour (they do tend to concentrate on monotheistic religions). Look at the titles:

The God Delusion
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

And the book that Hart was criticising is "50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists". So, again, the subject is disbelief in gods. It's perfectly reasonable to not follow Hart's red herring about arguments on existence. Part of his review complains that the book doesn't go into any arguments about existence, but since that isn't atheism, it seems to show his reviewing skills aren't very good - he's tryign to introduce his own pet topic.