{"id":1522,"date":"2015-12-01T19:09:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2015-12-01T19:09:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:09:13","slug":"gps-reviews-everybody-is-wrong-about-god-by-james-a-lindsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2015\/12\/01\/gps-reviews-everybody-is-wrong-about-god-by-james-a-lindsay\/","title":{"rendered":"GPS Reviews…”Everybody is Wrong about God” by James A. Lindsay"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is part of an ongoing series of reviews here at GPS. These will be (to the best of my ability) spoiler-free, so as not to ruin the fiction ones I do, as well as relatively brief. If you\u2019re interested, I\u2019ve actually been tracking exactly what I\u2019ve read (book and GN-wise, anyway) for over the past four years on\u00a0LibraryThing<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

GPS Review: “Everybody is Wrong about God” by James A. Lindsay<\/strong><\/p>\n

Full disclosure: I was sent a pre-publication electronic copy of this book from the author, and provided a blurb for the book.<\/em><\/p>\n

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James A. Lindsay, Ph.D. is a physicist, mathematician, blogger<\/a>, and author<\/a> of two prior books, most recently\u00a0Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly<\/a><\/em>\"\".\u00a0His newest, just out this month, is called\u00a0Everybody is Wrong about God<\/em>\u00a0and has a forward by philosopher Peter Boghossian (author of\u00a0A Manual for Creating Atheists<\/a>\"\"<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The basic takeaway from this book is that theology is dead, God is real, atheism doesn’t make sense, and society needs to become post-theistic. While these statements initially seem at odds with each other, Lindsay expertly demonstrates how all are true, in a writing style that can best be described as writing mathematically about philosophy. For instance, drawing from large amount of the psychological and philosophical literature, he convincingly argues that “God” is indeed real, but not as operationally defined by most people. Instead, he shows “God” to be a moral and psychological construct developed to fit specific kinds of\u00a0human needs.<\/p>\n

This is not a book for the intellectually faint of heart, as Lindsay convincingly challenges both believers and non-believers to change the way they think and talk about the concept of “God.” I would highly recommended this book for those who have tired of reading the same “God isn’t real” arguments for the past few decades and want to instead understand, at least in part, why so many believers\u00a0could care less about the scientific<\/em> case against God.<\/p>\n

Buy Everybody Is Wrong About God<\/a>\"\"<\/em>\u00a0from Amazon now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In which I review a new book that argues God is real, just not in that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":1523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,12,86,149,16,14],"tags":[153,109,407,985,152,984,983,986,18],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-psychology","category-religion","category-reviews","category-science-2","category-skepticism","tag-atheism","tag-belief","tag-book","tag-everybody-is-wrong-about-god","tag-god","tag-james","tag-lindsay","tag-philosophy","tag-psychology-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}