"extremely thorough .. explication of
the fundamental irrationality of scientific materialism.
..The vaguely self-helpish title doesn't do it justice "
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"a book for both a certain type of atheist and a certain type of evangelical.
Unfortunately neither one probably has enough capacity for expansion of mind
to be willing or able to hear it. ( / )
..[Hart] says, “Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy” ...
Atheism is an opiate for the consumerism." -- ('Aeisele')
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"..difficulty is that what Hart describes as classical theism is a mash-up of
Sufi mysticism, Muslim philosophy, Hindu wisdom, Platonism, and Gregory of Nyssa.
An entire book about experiencing God, by a Christian,
and I am not sure that Jesus was even mentioned once. "

(omtaler via Goodreads)

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..no accident that such a demi-urgic God should become the straw man
(or Straw God) of what he calls their “naturalist fundamentalism”

in the same time frame (post 9/11) in which one witnesses a steep cultural
rise in religious fundamentalisms
which themselves promote a very unsophisticated ( demi-urgic ) understanding
of God,
largely because they themselves are .. bound to the mechanistic
understanding of nature which still dominates the modern world.

Ultimately, says Hart, what on the surface appears to be a raging cultural
debate between theism and atheism ends up being little more than a debate
between two differing expressions of atheism:

one that believes that there is an eternal and causally-first brute being
among beings existing somewhere outside the natural (mechanical) universe,
and one that believes that there is not such a being

( fra ganske solid omtale, nedlastbar i fulltekst )

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