Why I am not a Christian - Bertrand Russell

• Phaze

  7 Jun 07, 14:06

  On March 6, 1927, Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, delivered a lecture to the National Secular Society, South London Branch, at Battersea Town Hall.
  
  The text of the lecture can be found here:
  
  http://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html
• january

  7 Jun 07, 15:25

  i saw a few of his books in Kinokuniya. read about him before in wikipedia.
  famous philosopher who has past away.
  
  he also wrote another book about how to achieve happiness.
  
  other atheist popular books titles are
  1- losing faith in faith
  2- letter to something something
  3- the god delusion
  
  sometimes it funny how book stores in singapore have books that have opposing view in their beliefs.
  
  i wonder what are the majority of government official beliefs and whether they do try to influence the types of books available.
• Phaze

  7 Jun 07, 15:39

  Originally posted by january:

  i saw a few of his books in Kinokuniya. read about him before in wikipedia.
  famous philosopher who has past away.
  
  he also wrote another book about how to achieve happiness.
  
  other atheist popular books titles are
  1- losing faith in faith
  2- letter to something something
  3- the god delusion
  
  sometimes it funny how book stores in singapore have books that have opposing view in their beliefs.
  
  i wonder what are the majority of government official beliefs and whether they do try to influence the types of books available.

  Why would you be surprised that bookstores have books about opposing beliefs? Bookstores stock books that people want to buy. They don't really care about the content of the books they carry.
  
  The government does regulate what books can be sold. For example, you can't buy the Jehovah Witness' version of the Bible. Books about politics in Singapore are also carefully regulated.
  
  I think some bookstores may give Lee Kuan Yew's book more prominent placing on shelves, but in general, a bookstore is just a retail business and retail businesses stock what sells.
• Phaze

  7 Jun 07, 15:45

  Originally posted by january:

  i saw a few of his books in Kinokuniya. read about him before in wikipedia.
  famous philosopher who has past away.
  
  he also wrote another book about how to achieve happiness.
  
  other atheist popular books titles are
  1- losing faith in faith
  2- letter to something something
  3- the god delusion
  
  sometimes it funny how book stores in singapore have books that have opposing view in their beliefs.
  
  i wonder what are the majority of government official beliefs and whether they do try to influence the types of books available.

  Losing Faith in Faith is by Dan Barker. He's the Minister turned Atheist that was mentioned in another post.
  
  The letter to something something is Sam Harris' Letter to a Christian Nation. It's a short book and it's quite militant. Probably Christians will find this offensive.
  
  The God Delusion is of course by Richard Dawkins. Dawkins is very eloquent and I think he makes good arguments though of cousre some people find him offensive as well. I'm a big fan of Dawkins. He also has a nice british accent that makes him very easy to listen to.