God Doesn't Believe in Atheists

Winston Smith (Amazon reviewer, London)

Is New Atheism a religion?

In I Don't Believe in Atheists, Chris Hedges claims that the New Atheists are mistaken in thinking that human nature is perfectible and that a Utopian future is possible in which rationality and science can replace religious thought.

He says that we should acknowledge that human nature is intrinsically flawed and can never be perfected. He claims that the New Atheists are blaming religion for the problems in the world and that this can lead to a belief that to rid the world of its problems and achieve a Utopian future, we must rid the world of religion.

This way of thinking, he says, has dangerous precedents. Hedges believes that there is place for religious thought in helping us understand the non-rational aspects of existence: Not everything can be explained by science; the meaning of human existence is ambiguous and ultimately unknowable. [This is the sort of agnosticism Vincent Bugliosi champions in The Divinity of Doubt.]

I'm an atheist, and I agree with him. Unfortunately, to make this important point, I think he's attributed opinions to people -- [famous atheists] Dawkins, Harris, Dennet, Hitchens -- that they don't necessarily hold.

There are parts of the book that appear to be non-sequitur arguments [which Bugliosi says is the biggest flaw in the New Atheism]. However, this book is still well worth reading. It's the third five star book of his I've read (the other two being Empire of Illusion and American Fascists). Source

Devin's advocate (chud.com)

Divinity of Doubt: The God Question

The author has been making the rounds on L.A. radio. Today he visited Vromans (independent) Bookstore in Pasadena, the city he did his research in. He was cogent, hilarious, and drew the largest crowd we at Wisdom Quarterly have ever seen for an author signing.

In his most controversial book yet, famed prosecutor of murderers Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, George W. Bush, and Lee Harvey Oswald, attorney Vincent Bugliosi turns his critical eye on both religious believers and the atheists who reflexively oppose them.

The fearless attorney who most memorably prosecuted Manson indicts both camps, calling them out for the intellectual shortcuts each takes to arrive at their convenient conclusions.

In the process, he argues lucidly and persuasively why agnosticism (not knowing or asserting that some things are not knowable) -- and a healthy skepticism toward certainty of all kinds -- is the most responsible position to take with regard to such eternal questions as the existence of God.

With his trademark wit and humor, Bugliosi sets a new path that urges us to recognize the limits of what we know and what we cannot know about the ineffable mysteries of existence.

Roswell reveals US human experimentation

Bill Weir is a hack who probably did not read the book. Reader Mike (UFOgeek.com) says only about 1% of the book speaks of the new Roswell theory, whereas 99% contains other information concerning what went on in Area 51 including the men, atomic bombs, spy planes, and other things, some brought to light for the very first time. Annie Jacobsen did a wonderful job on this book regardless of Weir's dissembling.

ROSWELL, New Mexico (AP) – The world famous Roswell "incident" was no UFO. Rather [the latest deceptive claim is that it was] a Russian spacecraft with "grotesque, child-size aviators" developed in human experiments by infamous Nazi doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele, according to a theory floated by investigative journalist [and Area 51 author] Annie Jacobsen. [She is only reporting misinformation from her officially placed anonymous source.]

Is it true Roswell UFO was actually a Russian craft?


July 1947, then German designers of stealth technology the Horton Brothers were hunted down all under the purview and direction of American Nazi sympathizer V. Bush (from the famous Bush dynasty).

Jacobsen's book, Area 51: An Uncensored History Of America’s Top Secret Military Base, is about the secretive Nevada base called Area 51. One chapter offers the new Roswell theory, citing an anonymous source who says Joseph Stalin recruited Mengele and sent the craft into US air space in 1947 to spark public hysteria [as happened during the War of the Worlds radio incident].

Like past theories, Jacobsen writes that the US government was involved in a cover-up of the UFO report, which has spawned space alien legend and turned this southern New Mexico town into a tourist attraction. Bill Lyne, who self-published a book called Space Aliens From The Pentagon in 1993, agrees that the Roswell incident was faked. But he thinks the hoax was perpetrated by the US government -- not the Russians.

Roswell UFOs were originally reported to the media then denied ever after with cover story after cover story as suits the Pentagon and US clandestine services.

"They’re just saying what I’ve been saying all along, that it was a hoax," he told the Santa Fe New Mexican. "But that Mengele stuff is a bunch of hogwash because Mengele was recruited by the CIA (rather than the Russians), and he was actually brought to Albuquerque."

Clifford Clift of the Mutual UFO Network (Mufon) in Greeley, Colorado, said he has not seen Jacobsen’s book but has read other articles that suggest the Roswell incident involved German technology. "After researching the claim, I found little truth in this theory," he said.

"It is a stretch. One of my concerns is if they wanted to create panic, why in New Mexico and not New York where there are more people to panic? I would suggest it is another conspiracy theory and, heavens, Mufon knows about conspiracy theories. They do sell books."

The US recruited Mengele for Human Experimentation
Annie Jacobsen appeared on Coast to Coast on Sunday, May 30, 2011 to discuss her book and facts not revealed by Terri Gross on NPR's "Fresh Air." While the entire story is specious, it led to the revelation that Nazi doctor Mengele was recruited by the US as well as working for Russia. His human experimentation not only involved eugenics but the creation of atrocities from dwarves and others the Nazis regarded as "subhuman." She went on to reveal the existence of DUMBs (deep underground military bases) in the form of tunnels that extend nearly a mile down; she was not able to substantiate the presence of vast bases in the area. However, she concluded that every famous myth is at least rooted in truth.

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