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13.7.
Hitchcockin ylivoimaisesti paskin elokuva. Tiettävästi ohjaaja itse oli näihin aikoihin kehittänyt jonkinasteisen riippuvuuden kuplivaan ja siitäkös se idea elokuvaan sitten syntyikin.
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Pt. 1 (165 books items)
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Boring novel, the story is all over the place. I've enjoyed some of the author's other works, but this is a pure failure.
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11.7.
Surprisingly solid counter-argumentation against Dawkins. Still, it's way too vague and misses way too many obvious points. Too much moralizing.
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11.7.
So... that was it? The holy bible of atheism is quite an underwhelming experience. Few thoughts:
1. Mr. Dawkins aims to destroy the concepts of god and religion, but only talks about one or two and generalizes their special properties to every religion imaginable. The author doesn't even bother to explain why he thinks this is appropriate.
2. Mr. Dawkins LOVES to moralize and judge historical events and people by our standards.
3. Every single bad thing done by religious people are caused by religion and religious beliefs without question, but you can't prove these atrocities of self-proclaimed atheists are actually caused by atheism itself.
4. Didn't bother to specify which school of thought he's actually criticizing, christian is just christian, Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Extreme-UFO-Christian cults and all, it's all the same right? It's all over the place.
5. Sheer arrogance and bad habit of passing valid counter-criticism without actually bothering to answer it at all, just whine and claim his own opinion is the best. Uses David Hume to back his own claims, but doesn't bother to mention that his philosophical thinking leads to more diplomatic solution to the question of the relation between religion and science. Mr. Dawkins doesn't want anything else than black and white.
6. Talking about large scale impact of religion without using any statistics or empirical data to back his claims. This stuff is everywhere nowadays, everything even remotely related to this subject matter has been studied for ages.
7. Dawkins boasts that his book has been popular in some third world countries and naively claims this as a success in spreading his atheistic ideology, when in fact these countries are well known for the persecution of certain religious minorities and his book can be used to promote this way of genocidal backwards thinking since he only attacks these few chosen religions, not all of them. Mein Kampf is also bestseller in these very same countries for the very same reason.
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