{"id":969,"date":"2013-11-04T19:29:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T08:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=969"},"modified":"2013-11-04T19:29:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T08:29:38","slug":"susan-k-perry-reviews-50-great-myths-about-atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/11\/04\/susan-k-perry-reviews-50-great-myths-about-atheism\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan K. Perry reviews 50 Great Myths About Atheism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on her blog at Patheos, Susan K. Perry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/creativeatheist\/2013\/11\/three-of-my-favorite-atheist-myths\/\">has published a nice review <\/a>of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0470674059\/ref=s9_simh_bw_p14_d1_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-7&amp;pf_rd_r=0KT84SRV535ZP51WDEF8&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1616703582&amp;pf_rd_i=283155\"><em>50 Great Myths About Atheism<\/em><\/a>. Sample (from the end):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After Blackford and Sch\u00fcklenk dispense with all those myths, they provide a brief history (under 40 pages out of 274) and discussion of the rise of modern atheism. I doubt that anyone whose mind is made up and who believes deeply in the supernatural will suddenly acknowledge the inevitable reasonableness of atheism. Still, it\u2019s nice to have the arguments set out succinctly and appealingly on the page.<\/p>\n<p>The same pair of authors wrote the enlightening <a title=\"50 Voices of Disbelief\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1405190469?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1405190469&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=bunn0b-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>50 Voices of Disbelief<\/em><\/a>, about which I posted previously elsewhere as \u201c<a title=\"Why Atheists Stop Believing post\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.the-brights.net\/2013\/03\/26\/why-atheists-stop-believing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Atheists Stop Believing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This elegantly written book deserves a wide readership. A bonus is the inclusion of comics from <a title=\"Jesus and Mo site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusandmo.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cJesus and Mo.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on her blog at Patheos, Susan K. Perry has published a nice review of 50 Great Myths About Atheism. Sample (from the end): After Blackford and Sch\u00fcklenk dispense with all those myths, they provide a brief history (under 40 pages out of 274) and discussion of the rise of modern atheism. I doubt that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,6,11,13],"tags":[248,339],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","category-personal","category-philosophy","category-religion","tag-50-great-myths-about-atheism","tag-susan-k-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}