BOOK REVIEW

Another audiobook Half-wracked prejudice has knocked off in the early hours of this morning, in the darkest hour, before the rooster crows at break of day. 

There is a God

by Antony Flew

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My review, quote:

Whether one identifies as an atheist or as a theist i.e., a disbeliever or  believer - is a matter of choice these days. 

We in the West are living in the age of identity politics. 

Our identity is derived from our psychology or “who we feel we are” - as opposed to an identity defined by external factors. 

(This generalized belief is derived from Carl R Trueman’s massive tome “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” - another audiobook on Scribd). 

Thus, I have listened to this remarkable audiobook by contemporary philosopher Antony Flew not once, but twice, because I want to identify as a theist, a believer in God. 

I cannot bring myself to identify as an atheist because it is subconsciously an absurd position and renders life and logic incomprehensible.  

Rather than make comments here on the content of this audiobook, that other readers have done so thoughtfully and well, I have simply alluded to my motivation for reading the book. 

That’s something I understand. 

I read the book to strengthen my confirmation bias, deliberately. 

On the other side of the coin, this is why some of my friends who identify as atheist read authors like Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens. They want to bolster their fragile identity as atheists.

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Scribd's book description

About the book

In There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a belief in God as Creator. This is a compelling and refreshingly open-minded argument that will forever change the atheism debate.

About the author

Philosopher and former atheist Antony Flew set the agenda for modern atheism with his 1950 essay "Theology and Falsification," which became the most widely reprinted philosophical publication of the last half century.

Flew has published over thirty books, including God and Philosophy, The Presumption of Atheism, and How to Think Straight.

He spent twenty years as professor of philosophy at the University of Keele and has also held positions at Oxford, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Reading. He now lives in Reading, England.

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