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| What's So Great About Christianity | 
 enlarge | Author: Dinesh D'souza
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (131 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1633
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 348
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 1596985178
Dewey Decimal Number: 230
EAN: 9781596985179
ASIN: 1596985178
Publication Date: October 16, 2007
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Today, more than ever, Christianity is under attack. In his new book, bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza takes on the leading critics of Christianity, from E. O. Wilson to Richard Dawkins. D'Souza shows that, against all expectations, Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world and that secularism and atheism are on the decline. This, D'Souza contends, explains the panicky efforts by atheists to discredit Christianity, exclude it from the public sphere, and indoctrinate schoolchildren in atheist doctrine masquerading as science.
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A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing October 6, 2008
The book is essentially a book on fundamental theology, formerly called apologetics. Unfortunately, apologetics uses arguments from history, science, metaphysics, and psychology. One person can't be an expert in all these fields. For example, Dinesh doesn't understand the metaphysical proof of God's existence. Also, he never states explictly that human beings are embodied spirits which is obvious from the indefinability of human rationality. He talks about the human spiritual soul without explaining what it is.
The best part of the book was his explanation of the motives of atheists. I always knew Lee M. Silver (a nonfamous biologist and author) thought human free will was an illusion, but it was great to learn that E.O. Wilson and Francis Crick say the same thing. There are similar inanities from Carl Sagen, Steve Pinker, Stephen Hawking, and Steven Weinberg. Dinesh failed to mention that they say these things against the spirituality of human beings only in philosophical conversations. They live their lives as if they had free will: they feel guilty when they do something wrong, they apologize, and they promise not to do it again.
Dinesh also didn't mention that Stephen J. Gould, an anti-religious fanatic, admitted that the science of evolution only concerned the bodies of human beings and that the souls of human beings were created by God.
His idea that Christianity superceded Judaism is predjudiced. A better way to put it is that there is a disagreement about theology.
He also claims that Christianity gave us Western Civilization. Russia is not part of the West and shares with non-Western countries their lack of capitalism and democracy. It is rather the Catholic Church that is responsible for Western exceptionalism. After the Roman Empire fell in the West in was replaced by the Catholic Church, which evolved into Western civilization.
 Great read for all who search September 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book very well researched and very well written. It is not written like a textbook but it has answers to many questions that arise in a complex world where Christians, atheists and everyone in between need to try to understand one another. To live together in todays society is a challenge for those who have faith and want to hold true to it in the barrage of opinions. Thank you Mr. D'Souza for sharing your knowledge, your research and your own faith.
Encompasses modern thought September 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is an eye opener for me. I didn't know that the Christian church did not beleive that the earth was flat. And that so many scientists have been Christians.
I did not realize that Darwinism and evolutionism are two different things.
I'm really apprieciating the education I'm getting from this book.
 Nice try August 27, 2008
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
As a clever argument and a compelling agreeable read for Christians, this book is great. As an argument that completely disproves atheist belief(or lack thereof), this book fails. D'Souza constantly contradicts himself and his analysis of atheist arguments is shallow.
I had to read this book for a college theology course and frankly, I found it offensive and frustrating. D'Souza wrongly uses witty prose and assumptions about atheist beliefs to bolster his argument that atheists are responsible for corrupting young believers, causing mass murders, and are generally the scum and bane of society.
If you are a Christian wanting to reaffirm your belief that yours is the best religion in the world, then this book of lies and misleading arguments is the one for you. If you believe any differently then chances are you will at the least be frustrated with D'Souza and his close-minded take on his religion and the beliefs of others.
I plan on burning my copy.
 D'Souza misses, and hits the mark August 23, 2008
Dinesh D'Souza is a compelling apologist for Christianity in many ways. Much of what is contained in this work is valuable information for the Christian, and a powerful rebuttal to much of what modern atheists are saying. He defends the actions and motivations of the Christian church over recorded history, correcting quite a number of revisionist ideas perpetrated by critics.
Ultimately though, Mr. D'Souza wants it both ways. My impression was that he is deeply interested in being in the majority on both sides of the issue. He wants Christians to accept him for his defense of the faith, while courting majority opinion on natural science. He is a theistic evolutionist (or one of its derivatives) who believes that a four-and-a-half billion year old earth and Darwinian evolution can be married with the tenets of Christianity. He repeats the common arguments often found among those of this inclination, most of which have been either effectively refuted or shown to be weak. In a few cases, he weakens his whole dissertation by stating opinions about natural history as if they were actually facts. His research on natural history and the recent discoveries of creation science is weak, or perhaps he is fully aware of it but ignores it because it doesn't fit with his world view.
Sadly, being seen as a bright intellectual by both camps is more important to Mr. D'Souza than accepting and believing, with good reason, what God has said.
Ignoring D'Souza's compromise with popular secular opinion, I enjoyed the book quite a bit. I recommend it for Christians who are strong enough in their faith to ignore the evolution nonsense. It's actually not a main theme nor a large portion of the book.
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