Author Topic: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Dan Dennett  (Read 1184 times)

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That's my current reading. Has anyone else on here read this book?

It is pretty interesting. I picked it up yesterday afternoon and found it so good I couldn't put it down until I had read over 100 pages. Unlike the books of Harris, Dawkins, and Hitchens (which are also brilliant), this isn't a debunking or "ownage" of religion, only a scientific look at how the religious instinct comes about.

Religious folks: don't let the author's atheist credentials fool you. If you like a well-reasoned perspective on religious instinct (all of it, not just monotheism) from an evolutionary perspective (going back long before the founding of today's complex religions to simple, primitive faiths of early mankind), read this book!!!