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God Doesn't Believe in Atheists: Proof That the Atheist Doesn't Exist | 
 enlarge | Author: Ray Comfort
Publisher: Bridge-Logos Publishers
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Pages: 192
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ISBN: 0882709224
Dewey Decimal Number: 211
EAN: 9780882709222
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This book proves to atheists that they don't exist, reveals to agnostics their true motives, and strengthens the faith of the believers. This book answers questions such as "Who made God?" and "Where did Cain get his wife?" The book uses humor, reason, and logic to send a powerful message. Here are some reactions from atheists who read the book . . .
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 Platitudinous reassurance for believers in this time of increased scrutiny as to God's existence June 14, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Wow, this one is truly just for the believers. If you grew up on platitudinous answers and religious jargon, you'll grab this book and curl up by the fire for a wonderful evening of feel-good reading.
If, on the other hand, you're a thoughtful person who respects reason and cogent arguments, you need only open any page at random to see how ludicrous some of this book's verbiage can be. The title does offer a hint--this is a book to reassure believers that all those new books questioning God's existence are bad. This author doesn't begin to offer anything of interest to the non-believer, given it's fundamentalist pat answers that really don't make any sense to regular people.
Some examples....
True to the fundamentalist mind set, the author has no clue as to how non-believers employ reason. It's such a foreign concept that he assumes no one could possibly reject the notion of supernatural deities simply because it doesn't make sense. Quote:
"For your own sake, ask yourself what hinders you from coming to the Savior? Is it your pride? Do you prefer the praises of men to the praise of God? Do you fear man more than you fear God? Perhaps you are afraid your friends will laugh at you. ... Perhaps it's your love of money...."
Can I get an LOL? Then there's the same old unimaginative bait-and-switch about faith, suggesting faith in the supernatural is no different from "faith" in the realm of realities. It works for believers every time; it's ludicrous to the rest of us. Quote:
"If you decide to take a taxi to work, you will have to trust your life to the vehicle and the taxi driver, and trust the other drivers to stay on their side of the road. You will have to trust elevators, stairways, airplanes, the post office and banks. Believe me--we either live with faith or fall victim to paranoia. If, then, faith so evidently surrounds us, why should it be so offensive?"
Do they really see logic in that??
In responding to the atheist's question of who made God, the author says "For the answer, all I need is to be able to reason with you, and for you to be reasonable." At this point, and I am not being facetious, I laughed out loud. If there's anything this book lacks, it is reason and reasonableness.
Look, this guy asks us to believe that the Christian deity is for real, even though this deity is just like all the other pagan deities (who also had virgin births, resurrections, blood sacrifices and "bliss if you worship me - torture if you don't"). He wants us to believe some rather fantastical stuff about this pagan-like deity, and he bases it on the Bible, which he accepts as the perfect word of this perfect deity. (He criticizes the "traditional" church for not sticking to the Bible.) So let us charitably overlook the wickedness of this jealous, vindictive deity as portrayed especially in the OT, and look at only the contradictions....
In the book of Genesis, there are TWO accounts of creation, and they directly contradict each other. At least one of them has to be false. There are also two (or is it 3?) sets of "ten commandments" that contradict each other. At least one of them is false. Most Christians are completely oblivious to the fact that their perfect, holy scriptures contain more than 300 direct contradictions. Yet this author asks us to use those writings (of necessity picking and choosing among the true and false parts) as the basis for believing these amazingly fantastical tales about this particular ancient god that he's selected to believe is the one real supernatural being.
Which brings us back to the book at hand. Why doesn't this author offer anything that would convince, or even minimally appeal in some way to people outside the in-group of believers themselves? Because he can't. It would be an impossible task, given the material he has to work with.
This Book is Just Another Blunder of Ray Comfort's June 7, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought this book late last year because I was curious what Ray Comfort's reasoning was behind his claim that "god doesn't believe in atheists." I was immediately struck by the silliness of many of Ray's arguments, and his continuous use of the bible for his "proof."
Before I start to explain what I didn't like about the book, I'll tell you what I did like. I think that Ray is a good writer, and the chapters are fairly short, which make for quick and easy reading. Well, that was a short list, wasn't it?
Now for the problems...
There are gaping holes in every single one of Ray's arguments, and his use of the bible is nothing more than circular reasoning. I also find it odd that on the back of the book it stated that, "Contrary to popular opinion, the existence of god can be proven - absolutely, scientifically, without reference to faith or even the bible." Hmmm.... that's funny. Didn't Ray change that claim to exclude the use of the bible for his debate with the Rational Response Squad in May of '07? I sense a little deception on Ray's part there.
Another problem with Ray's arguments is he uses a lot of quotes of scientists taken out of context. One example is Ray says in his book that in a Time Magazine article "subtitled 'Geologists show that carbon dating can be way off' should show you that scientific proof isn't worthy of your trust."
This is a clear lie because I was able to go to the Time Magazine website and found this article archived. The truth is that in the article the scientists themselves rejected the Carbon-14 date and used a different, more reliable method. It's not that Carbon-14 isn't useful, as even the article said that it was a "vital tool for historians and paleontologists," it's just that some dating methods are more useful for certain periods of time and certain substances, and scientists know this, and can adjust their methods as they go.
On page 67, Ray says, "If you are a believer in evolution, answer this. Did the fish first that crawled out out the ocean to be come an animal have lungs or gills?"
I find this comment extremely ignorant because if Ray would do just some basic research he would see that some tetrapods had both lungs and gills. In fact, from Kenneth Miller's book "Finding Darwin's god," pages 124-125, it says, "In 1991, two British scientists reported on an unusually detailed skeleton of Acanthostega, a remarkably fish-like tetrapod. Paleontologists have recognized for years that the earliest tetrapods retained scores of fish-like characters, but this specimen of Acanthostega was so well preserved that it contained....internal gills. No other amphibian possesses internal gills, and the structures preserved within the fossil make it clear that Acanthostega could breathe with its gills underwater, just like a fish, and could also breathe on land, using lungs."
These are just two of the large blunders by Ray Comfort in this book.
"god Doesn't Believe in Atheists" is a very poor attempt to distort the truth, and deceive people about the science of evolution (among other things). It would take just a small amount of research to see all of the lies that Ray uses in this book, and I think that is despicable, and says a lot about his supposed 'truth.' If he did have the truth he wouldn't be forced to lie about the facts as much as he does.
I think the title of this book should be renamed "Why Atheists Don't Believe in god," because it's a picture perfect example of the many fallacies that christians use to fool themselves into believing, and atheists know the truth behind these many fallacies. These are many of the reasons "Why Atheists Don't Believe in god."
For a more detailed response you can find my chapter by chapter refutation of Ray's book on my blog called Arizona Atheist.
 What is the use of logic anyway? April 6, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
On the back of his book, Mr. Comfort promises to absolutely, scientifically, and without reference to faith or the Bible prove that God exists. He then goes on to extensively quote the Bible, while referring to faith and failing to employ science in his arguments. I guess the saying; "You can't judge a book by its cover" pertains to the back cover as well.
Recently, I had a conversation with a college student who was upset because he was required to take so many "useless" general education courses, such as History and Introducttion to Logic and Formal Reasoning.
At the time, I hadn't yet read this book. If I had, I could have used it and the quasi-arguments Mr. Comfort uses as examples of the type of rhetoric that a general education is designed to protect us from.
Although this book is not a convincing argument in support of atheism, it is clearly an embarrassment to fundamentalism (which is no small task).
Ignorant, insulting, disgraceful. August 2, 2007
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Atheists obviously exist. Additionally, evangelical Christianity is hardly the only faith. God, if there is such a being, would be absolutely aware of persons of other persuasions. The title is nonsensical, insulting and degrading not just to atheists, but to persons of other faiths and denominations. It is especially so expressed in the form of a bumper sticker on a car parked on my street every day. The Pope recently proclaimed that God disapproves of evangelicals, and evangelicals objected to that, but at least the Pope did not suggest that God questions evangelicals' right to exist.
 Great book that proves God June 28, 2007
5 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book is incredible. I take that back, Comfort just lays the truth out in the best way that it can be laid out, because athiests will always have excuses. Comfort tackles many excuses atheists use and proves them wrong.
Great book
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