Dan Riley

Shirked duties this morning to finish. A collection of essays with familiar faces to anyone who's read anything online in the atheist/freethought movement (BlagHag and the Friendly Atheist! J.T. Eberhard and Jessica Ahlquist!), these stories mostly detailed the coming out stories of young under-30s adults, leaving a diverse background of Jainism, Mormonism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, etc. A couple commonalities: [b:The God Delusion|14743|The God Delusion|Richard Dawkins|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347220693s/14743.jpg|3044365] frequently plays a role (as does [a:Sam Harris|16593|Sam Harris|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1274184541p2/16593.jpg] and [a:Christopher Hitchens|3956|Christopher Hitchens|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1434046956p2/3956.jpg]). Even though this book is only three years old, I do wonder about where the authors are now- I know in the case of Jen, she stopped blogging at BlagHag and took a brief hiatus after the internet hate machine reacted violently against the suggestion of a more inclusive, ethical atheism in Atheism Plus. She's since moved to the Jenome and still writes).

I read the Kindle version, and weirdly, it didn't list page numbers but instead had "Location 3611" etc. that seemed very inconsistent. I only felt comfortable that things weren't out of order by the percentage progress in the lower right hand portion. A quick read.… (mehr)