The God desire /
by Baddiel, David.
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BookPublisher: London : TLS Books, 2023Description: 112 pages ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780008550288 (hbk.) :; 000855028X (hbk.) :.Classification number: 211 BADSubject(s): Baddiel, David -- Religion | God | Atheism | Religion | Religion | Religion & beliefs | Humanist & secular alternatives to religion | Agnosticism & atheism | Sociology & anthropology | HumourSummary: David Baddiel would love there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fantasising about how much better life would be if there actually was such a thing as a Superhero Dad who chased off Death. Unfortunately for him, there isn't. Or at least, that is Baddiel's view in this book, which argues that it is indeed the very intensity of his, and everyone else's, desire for God to exist that proves His non-existence. Anything so deeply wished - for we will, considers Baddiel, make real. The admission of his own divine yearnings makes for a book that is more vulnerable - and more understanding of the value and power of religion - than most atheist polemics.
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| 206.57 SAN The interior silence : 10 lessons from monastic life / | 21 Dornoch & Alness, Invergogdon & Tain | 211 ARM The case for God: | 211 BAD The God desire / | 211.3 AND Who made God?: searching for a theory of everything | 211.4 RUS What I believe / | 211.8 DAW Outgrowing God : a beginner's guide / |
David Baddiel would love there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fantasising about how much better life would be if there actually was such a thing as a Superhero Dad who chased off Death. Unfortunately for him, there isn't. Or at least, that is Baddiel's view in this book, which argues that it is indeed the very intensity of his, and everyone else's, desire for God to exist that proves His non-existence. Anything so deeply wished - for we will, considers Baddiel, make real. The admission of his own divine yearnings makes for a book that is more vulnerable - and more understanding of the value and power of religion - than most atheist polemics.
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