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The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, And Hitchens Paperback – December 2, 2014

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On one side of the argument is a collection of godless academics with doctorates from the finest universities in England, France, and the United States. On the other is Irrational Atheist author Vox Day, armed with nothing more than historical and statistical facts. Presenting a compelling argument (but not for the side one might expect), Day strips away the pseudo-scientific pretentions of New Atheism with his intelligent application of logic, history, military science, political economy, and well-documented research. The arguments of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Michel Onfray are all methodically exposed and discredited as Day provides extensive evidence proving, among other things, that:

More than 93 percent of all the wars in human history had no relation to religion
The Spanish Inquisition had no jurisdiction over professing Jews, Muslims, or atheists, and executed fewer people on an annual basis than the state of Texas
Atheists are 3.84 times more likely to be imprisoned than Christians
“Red” state crime is primarily in “blue” counties
Sexually abused girls are 55 times more likely to commit suicide than girls raised Catholic

In the twentieth century, atheistic regimes killed three times more people in peacetime than those killed in all the wars and individual crimes combined. The Irrational Atheist provides the rational thinker with empirical proof that atheism’s claims against religion are unfounded in logic, fact, and science.

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Vox Day is a game design expert and libertarian opinion columnist. He left the frozen tundra of Minnesota for the sunny shores of the Mediterranean more than a decade ago, speaks three languages, and is a member of the SFWA, IGDA, and Mensa.

He is the author of numerous games, books, and graphic novels in the science fiction genres and is the inventor of the WarMouse™. For more information about Vox Day, join the spirited discussion that takes place daily at his blog, Vox Popoli, at voxday.blogspot.com.

Paperback: 305 pages
Publisher: BenBella Books (December 2, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1941631622
ISBN-13: 978-1941631621
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Customer Reviews: 159 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #101 in Atheism (Books)

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Peter Paetzold

A Refreshing Rebuttal to the Atheist Onslaught

December 7, 2018

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I decided to pick up Vox Day's fantastic "The Irrational Atheist" after rekindling my interest in Christianity from watching his Darkstreams on YouTube. Having been raised Christian, I'd mostly stepped away from it for the past 10 years or so and really had no intentions of returning. Vox Day's take on many different aspects of Christianity that I personally struggled with over the years both surprised and encouraged me to revisit it.

I cannot recommend this book enough. Having personally taken the bait before from Dawkins, Harris (somewhat), and Hitchens, Vox Day does not disappoint in roundly destroying their arguments. There is no shortage of evidence to point out their logical fallacies, shocking ignorance, misdirection, and sometimes outright lies of historical events. It is clear Vox Day is an intelligent man and he has a deep foundation and understanding of the Christian faith. He is not afraid to show it. There is also something very appealing about someone who is unafraid to call out others and who is willing to stand up and defend their convictions so openly. If you enjoy Nassim Nicholas Taleb's style of doing this you will not be disappointed in Vox Day's.

Pick it up. Whether you are an atheist or religious it is worth it to challenge your worldview.

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J Person

A careful critique of the new atheists

December 12, 2018

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Vox tears apart the dishonesty of the new atheists and their dishonest rhetoric. He makes a strong case, and while I don't agree with him on every critique, his work is a clean and honest rebuttal of the modern atheist perspective. Vox talks consistently from a scientific and scholarly perspective and the new atheists really can't hold up as well as I would have thought.

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Excellent

June 18, 2018

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He details the threat of modern atheism in a distinctive way. A must for anyone concerned about losing their freedom of thought.

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Wolfgang

A Lot of good Points

January 10, 2019

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Vox Day surprised me here by posing questions that counter the atheist arguments quite well. He also shows where the historical claims made by the new atheists are just flat wrong being based on a broad understanding rather than a deep or in depth one. There's actually quite a lot of history in the book overall as well, which is always interesting.

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Ben

Fantastic Even Years After it Was Written

September 3, 2018

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The arguments and their deconstruction are still relevant all these years later. I would recommend this book to anyone who is searching for God, wants to understand how to structure a rational argument or is looking for a reasoned deconstruction of new atheist thinking.

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M. C. Morison

The 'Brights' are a bit dull after all

April 12, 2016

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This is a romp. For someone who has had a sneaking feeling that Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and others of the Bright New Atheists, claim the high ground of reason, when in effect they are the priests of the High Church of Atheism, it is like water in the desert, profoundly refreshing. And this is because Vox Day has read the leaders of this new militant church with care and bothered to check on the 'facts' they so confidently present.

He proceeds to demolish their premises, fallacy by fallacy. His taking apart of Sam Harris mostly on the basis that Harris quite demonstrably gets his facts wrong, is cringe making it is so complete. That an academic could be quite so shoddy in his arguments comes as a surprise. The often quoted idea that religions are the main cause of conflict and war, is demonstrated beyond doubt, to be entirely wrong. The writing is clear and crisp and - if you are one of those who finds the in-your-face atheism of the evangelical kind both unphilosophical and crass in its portrayal of religious mysticism, this book is for you.

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Branden B Scott

Five Stars

June 25, 2018

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Excellent

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Aaron

Interesting. Day does not attempt an attack on atheism ...

June 6, 2018

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Interesting. Day does not attempt an attack on atheism per se, nor an over all defense of faith although he is a christian himself, he points out how the "new atheists" chiefly represented by Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris at the time failed to make a rational case for their atheism.

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