Wednesday, September 05, 2007

The God Delusion ...

by Richard Dawkins is one of four bestsellers over the past few years written by atheists for the purpose of discrediting religion. The others are: God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens, which is a more recent bestseller (Dawkins' work was published in 2006), and two books by Sam Harris. Harris' books are: Letters to a Christian Nation and The End of Faith. One of the reasons suggested for the brisk sales of these books is "opposition research" by Christians and other religious believers.

I worked a sermon around Psalm 82 with reference to The God Delusion and a critique by Alistair McGrath called The Dawkins Delusion. Reading book reviews of Dawkins' book gave additional strength to this sermon which can be viewed at sermoncentral.com.