The God Delusion

I'm reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins right now. Just started. It was recommended by one of my PBL tutors, and i've heard about it, so away i went to search for it (except, the library doesn't like me [apparently, my library card doesn't work? serves me right for not going to the library since gr.2]).

Anyway, here are some interesting tidbits i found out from the book:

"If by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity." Carl Sagan

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George Bush Senior's answer when Robert Sherman asked him whether he recognized the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists: "No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

Except...
"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..." (treaty with Tripoli; drafted in 1796 under George Washington, and signed by John Adams in 1797)

hmmm... the US is not supposed to be a Christian nation.... so wtf went wrong? oh right, idiots *cough* i mean politicians, like Bush - both of them.
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From the book: "The journalist Andrew Mueller is of the opinion that pledging yourself to any particular religion 'is no more or less weird than choosing to believe that the world is rhombus-shaped, and borne through the cosmos in the pincers of two enormous green lobsters called Esmerelda and Keith'" ... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Also from the book: "I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further." ... DANG, good strategy! i'm gonna try that next time someone asks me that question!