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Who is your fav atheist writer?

  • 02-10-2011 11:41am
    #1
    branie
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    Mine is Richard Dawkins


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  • #2
    Dades
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    Mine is Philip Pullman.


  • #3
    Ariana Hundreds Walker
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Ariana Hundreds Walker


    I have no idea about the religious beliefs of writers I like

    I was pretty amazed to find out orson scott card was such a mormon


  • #4
    The Quadratic Equation
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    Historian Michael Grant


  • #5
    The Quadratic Equation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭The Quadratic Equation


    Dawkings, Hitchens, and Fry are good for a laugh


  • #6
    robindch
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    Edward Gibbon, Iain Banks or Carl Sagan...


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  • #7
    Kivaro
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    Mine is Father Jean Meslier


  • #8
    Kivaro
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    Dades wrote: »
    Mine is Philip Pullman.

    Never heard of the man, so I had to look into it.

    He describes himself as agnostic?


  • #9
    Elysian
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    Douglas Adams.


  • #10
    Turtwig
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    Kivaro wrote: »
    Never heard of the man
    :mad:
    You're dead to me.:mad:


  • #11
    Kivaro
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    Malty_T wrote: »
    :mad:
    You're dead to me.:mad:

    Sorry man, but over here in the States we're a bit isolated from your exotic resources.


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  • #12
    robindch
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    Kivaro wrote: »
    Sorry man, but over here in the States we're a bit isolated from your exotic resources.
    The Golden Compass made it to the USA, but made a loss :(


  • #13
    Improbable
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    Gotta go with Sagan and Asimov.


  • #14
    magicbastarder
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    atheist writers, or writers of atheist material?


  • #15
    swampgas
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    Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Terry Pratchett and Iain M Banks off the top of my head.
    bluewolf wrote: »
    I have no idea about the religious beliefs of writers I like

    I was pretty amazed to find out orson scott card was such a mormon

    I always knew Orson Scott Card was a Mormon - Ender's Game is an all time favourite of mine regardless.


  • #16
    Ariana Hundreds Walker
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Ariana Hundreds Walker


    swampgas wrote: »
    Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Terry Pratchett and Iain M Banks off the top of my head.



    I always knew Orson Scott Card was a Mormon - Ender's Game is an all time favourite of mine regardless.

    of mine too, i meant he's the only exception where i know about it.


  • #17
    alex73
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    Dades wrote: »
    Mine is Philip Pullman.

    His books are full of religious allegory... Is he Atheist? more like anti established Religion.


  • #18
    Zombrex
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    alex73 wrote: »
    His books are full of religious allegory... Is he Atheist? more like anti established Religion.
    As Laura Miller puts it

    His fundamental objection is to ideological tyranny and the rejection of this world in favor of an idealized afterlife, regardless of creed. As one of the novel’s pagan characters puts it, “Every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.”


  • #19
    Roger Hassenforder
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    Sagan, Adams, Grayling and Russell


  • #20
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Kivaro wrote: »
    Dades wrote: »
    Mine is Philip Pullman.
    Never heard of the man, so I had to look into it.

    He describes himself as agnostic?
    He's as agnostic as I am.


  • #21
    Roger Hassenforder
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    Pullmanis playing the church at their own game, (presumably without the fiddling though), targeting the children when they are young and impressionable!

    anyone read his book 'the good man Jesus and the scoundrel christ'?worth parting with my hard earned cash?

    extract here:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/27/philip-pullman-jesus-scoundrel-christ


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  • #22
    Dades
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    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    anyone read his book 'the good man Jesus and the scoundrel christ'?worth parting with my hard earned cash?
    It didn't really float my boat, tbh.


  • #23
    Roger Hassenforder
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    the extract kinda sucked all right as did his dark materials imo


  • #24
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    the extract kinda sucked all right as did his dark materials imo
    If I could put you on my ignore list I would. :pac:


  • #25
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    meanbag!:eek:


  • #26
    The Mad Hatter
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    Kivaro wrote: »
    Sorry man, but over here in the States we're a bit isolated from your exotic resources.

    Like novels?!

    (Sorry :P)

    I liked The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, though found it heavier handed than His Dark Materials, which I think is a masterpiece.


  • #27
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    i'm torn now, do i shell out and buy it or not.
    might just steal it and go to straight to confession and ask for forgiveness so it would be ok!


  • #28
    legspin
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    Fiction.

    PTerry,
    Douglas Adams,
    Iain Banks.


    Fact

    Richard Dawkins,
    Stephen Fry,
    Epicurus.


  • #29
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Dades wrote: »
    If I could put you on my ignore list I would. :pac:

    I'm sorely tempted to site ban him....


  • #30
    oldrnwisr
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    Fiction

    Terry Pratchett
    Douglas Adams
    Robert Heinlein
    Arthur C Clarke
    Joe Haldeman
    Charles Stross
    Larry Niven


    Non-fiction

    Richard Dawkins
    Stephen Hawking
    Bart Ehrman
    Matt Ridley


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  • #31
    goose2005
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    lucretian


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