Atheist Delusions
The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
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Ralph Morocco
About this listen
In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious "histories" offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism. David Bentley Hart provides a bold correction of the New Atheists’s misrepresentations of the Christian past, countering their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of Western history.
Hart outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism, conferring great dignity on human beings, subverting the cruelest aspects of pagan society, and elevating charity above all virtues. He then argues that what we term the "Age of Reason" was in fact the beginning of the eclipse of reason’s authority as a cultural value. Hart closes the book in the present, delineating the ominous consequences of the decline of Christendom in a culture that is built upon its moral and spiritual values.
©2009 David Bentley Hart (P)2014 Audible, Inc.What listeners say about Atheist Delusions
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- playtime
- 11-12-2016
History of Christianity
Would you consider the audio edition of Atheist Delusions to be better than the print version?
A lot of the debate leaves out history and the sources are not very good. Otherwise it is well written and humorous in parts.
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No change would have made it more enjoyable.
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The speaker did a good job on diffiicult wording
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No it needed time to ponder it.
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- Al Gonzales
- 05-03-2023
A deep intellectual analysis
This was a deep intellectual analysis of the topic. I enjoyed the historical analysis and how that ties in to the current secularism movement. A very enlightening listen.
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- 19-08-2018
Very poor narrator
It had the worst narrator I have ever heard in my life. I assume it was computer generated. Unable to finish.
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- 05-04-2017
Without doubt the biggest waste of $14 ever.
Such utter drivel, I challenge anyone listening to this audio book to stay awake for more than 10 minutes at a time. I expected great insights, I got a never ending example of eloquent special pleading. Talk about overrated - This is the epitome of overrated.
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- Julie Smith
- 01-08-2020
Great for a sleep
The reader has a monotone voice akin to taking a sleeping draught. The book itself is academic and dry so the combination is dangerous if you’re listening while driving. Do not operate heavy machinery listening to this production!
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