The Case for God

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• In defence of the true God

  Karen Armstrong is one of the handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion who has become distressed by the tone of recent discussions of the subject. Her targets are religious fundamentalism on the one hand and militant atheism ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• All quiet on the God front

  This is an eloquent and interesting book, although you do not quite get what it says on the tin. Karen Armstrong takes the reader through a history of religious practice in many different cultures, arguing that in the good old days and purest forms t ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

1 Review

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  I wanted to love it, but...

  I'll start this review out with the context that while I am not a particularly religious person, I have some warped fascination with "things religious." I have no particular axe to grind regarding the existence or non-existence of the Almighty - I'm a live and let live type of guy.

  The additional ... (continue)

  I'll start this review out with the context that while I am not a particularly religious person, I have some warped fascination with "things religious." I have no particular axe to grind regarding the existence or non-existence of the Almighty - I'm a live and let live type of guy.

  The additional piece of context I'll add is that I don't consider myself a dummy when it comes to complex and nuanced topics, but I must confess I didn't understand much of what this book was trying to get across. At the 1/3 point of The Case for God, I realized I had basically no idea what I had just read, and I found I did not enjoy the thought of picking the book up again. At that point I abandoned it. Normally I'm a glutton for punishment, and will slog through a difficult read, but what was the point if I wasn't retaining anything?

  A word for those getting ready to comment, "How the heck can you review a book - giving it 1 star - when you didn't even read it?!?" That's really the point of the review - I just didn't get it. Had I read the entire thing, I'd have been no more enlightened for it. I enjoyed Ms Armstrong's The History of God. While the writing in that book was similarly over my head, I was able to take away her key points. In this work, I could barely figure out what they were.

  I wanted to love The Case for God; most of the other low-rating reviews compliment Ms Armstrong's writing, but I just couldn't follow it.

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• English Books
• Others 406 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0307269183
• ISBN-13: 9780307269188
• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Pub date: Sep 29, 2009
• Also available as: eBook

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