Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Stephen Law

Do you want to nail your theist friends to the cross? Read this book and start destroying their belief system, one argument after another. Everybody believes in something: from ghosts to aliens, from the almighty God to the Loch Ness monster; but this doesn't mean it's not complete and utter bullshit.

I am going to state from the beginning that in a way this book is very offensive because it attacks the belief in the supernatural. "Believing bullshit" is a hard book due to the fact that it does require a certain amount of intellect, education and open-mindedness to be understood at its true value. It is very entertaining and gives some pertinent arguments in the fight with the bullshitters.

Law seems to be an atheist and in this book you get the feeling that he preaches exactly that. At the beginning of the book he mentions the fact that he doesn't dismiss the existence of a higher power and that he only wants to make you aware of the theists' tactics of forcing their beliefs on you. The so-called "intellectual black holes" are ways of explaining something completely ludicrous by claiming it to be a mystery of the supernatural, hence no matter how many scientific arguments you throw at the believer, he will always find an counterargument.

The moral of this book? Keep an open mind, think for yourself and don't follow James 1:6 - "But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt." In my first review I had mentioned the next book that I was going to read simply because I had my mind set on it. Afterwards I had realized that I'd rather not mention the next title because I might change my mind  after the post.  Who knows what interesting book might drop into my clutches?!