Weekly Non-Fiction Reading List 3.20.23
This week, I finished two books from some amazing authors. The first one is a classic on being a decent person and getting along with others. The others is a book for atheists that many of you are probably familiar with. Enjoy!
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How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
This is a classic, and I try to read it at least once a year. This year, I decided it’d be one of the books my son and I read together, and he absolutely loved it. He’s 14, in National Junior Honor Society and was selected to go to a leadership conference this summer in Washington D.C. He learned a ton of valuable stuff from this book about getting along with others and influencing them but in a morally acceptable way.
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
I’m new to Christopher Hitchens’ work and decided to grab this one even though I knew exactly what it’d be. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fantastic book, but I just don’t get it. I’m an atheist, and whenever there are books like this, all I can think is, “Who is this book for?” Is it for atheists, so we can get dopamine hits from someone confirming what we believe? Is it to convert religious people who are most likely never going to read the book?
While I know that some religious people stumble across books like this and leave the church, I guarantee it’s extremely rare. Again, it’s a fantastic book. But if you don’t believe in God and think religion causes a lot of issues, you won’t learn much aside from what you probably already know.
Now, I just keep wondering why I continue to read books like this expecting something new.
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