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Pile of crap

Revisado: 01-05-18

I expected a book about history, not advocacy of stupid believes. A philosophy is not automatically wise because it is ancient. It comes from a time when humanity knew close to nothing.

If you have half a brain or more, stay away from this trash.

I would have noted zero stars if I could.

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God is everywhere

Revisado: 05-20-17

Mots of what the author says make sense but why does she equates faith with family values? I am strongly atheist but that does not prevent me to feel the inequity and the bitterness of feminists. Nor

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A lesson for believers

Revisado: 03-14-16

A very lucid reading of the Bible. I wish all believers had the intellectual honesty to listen to that book for it does not say anything untrue about the god depicted in the scriptures. But boy, is He evil!
Very enjoyable listening.

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Aren't you forgetting something?

Revisado: 08-23-15

Something like including a chapter where the main character understands that her ways are wrong? No? Ok then...

What is this? A hymn to self-justice? If someone does you harm, you're allowed to get even with him in a manner YOU consider fair? You, the victim? There is a reason why the victims don't get to determine the sentence of the criminals: that's because it would be DISPROPORTIONATE MOST OF THE TIME. Sure, the system doesn't work right. But the solution is not to allow the existence of a parallel system, the solution is CHANGING the system to make it work correctly.
In addition, the author is plainly lying on numerous occasions. I can't count the times when a character says that crime rates would fall if justice was administered in the stone age way advocated by this book. Nearly every single study from every country in the world, including USA, show that there is NO LINK between the severity of a punishment and violent crime rates.
Really it's a shame that an admittedly gifted author wastes her talent proposing and defending such antiquated and potentially harmful views.

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Cool but...

Revisado: 07-12-15

The content is great but Neil should not try to be funny. He sounds artificial.

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Disappointed

Revisado: 04-28-15

Less interesting and a lot less funny than their previous book - Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. Probably because I don't live in the USA. But the narrator is really excellent.

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Worst performance ever

Revisado: 04-24-15

Very interesting book given the period when it was written. Unfortunately the narrator is so bad that it ruins almost entirely the pleasure of listening to this audiobook. We suffer with her when she struggles with words in foreign languages - and there are many since the book deals biblical quotes and the works of philosophers from all over the world - and even english words with too many syllables. Each time she says "anthropomorphic", I thought her jaw was about to dislocate. And if it was not enough, the sound editing seems to have been entirely forgotten. Often times, she stumbles over a word and she repeats the sentence over and over until she gets it right. I even heard her say a frustrated "For goodness sake" after a mistake. Please, for her own good, don't hire that person again. And fire the sound editor too.

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Brilliant but too long introduction

Revisado: 03-15-15

Too cautious to foresee all the possible objections that believers may have, the author introduces his subject on at least four chapters before actually addressing it. They are four very interesting chapters, though.

Save that little critique, Dennett makes a very good case for the scientific study of religion as a phenomenon.

A must for every intellectually honnest citizen of the world.

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