The Making of An Atheist by Jason Spiegel

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The Making of An Atheist by Jason Spiegel

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Matt DeStefano is unswayed by an argument explaining atheism by immorality.

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Strikes me as an odd place to start a discussion on the existence of an entity; by the discussion of a moral thought structure that only requires human involvement.
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Reading that review, the book doesn't even sound like something a philosophy magazine should bother with. It sounds like unresearched, armchair pop-psychological twaddle. It doesn't sound particularly philosophical.

The author of the book is a philosophy professor, on the other hand, but at a evangelical Christian college. I wonder if he's ever published anything in a peer-reviewed, non-Christian philosophical journal.
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